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The Electric Educator: Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom's Taxonomy
"So, what is a "Google-proof question?" It is a question that can not be directly answered via Google (or any other search engine) because it requires, analysis, interpretation, and investigation. Writing such questions can be challenging."
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The Bamboo Project Blog: 10 Questions for Your Reflective Practice
"Meredith Levinson has posted a series of 6 excellent questions to identify change agents and innovators during a job interview that she got from Amanda Hite, founder and president of recruiting and HR consulting firm Talent Revolution. It occurs to me that these six questions would also be great thought starters for both individual and organizational reflective practice."
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How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia
"When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation." This works for ALL students, even college students!
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From SMCEDU: 5 Steps to Make the Social Web Work for Higher Ed
"One of the questions posed was how those in academia can best put the social web to work for themselves. Far beyond Facebook and LinkedIn, how can this community harness the Internet to be smarter, more efficient, and more productive? Read on for our top five ideas."
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Top 20 Teacher Blogs | Scholastic.com
"Below are 20 blogs that have taught us a few things, made us laugh, made us cry, and reminded us that we are not alone in this sometimes stress-inducing, always awe-inspiring profession."
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A GeekyMomma's Blog: A PLN School
I'm feeling very discouraged with not only what I can NOT accomplish with my own students but also because I'm not seeing much potential for a PLN in my school building. I've often thought about how great it would be if my online PLN created it's own district and/or school.
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Free as in Freedom: Tips for handling Q&A in the classroom
"Questions are a great tool to facilitate discussion in a classroom. In today's blog post, I want to touch upon the various things one should take care of, when dealing with QnA in a group setting."
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Public Relations Matters » Blog Archive » Survive, and Maybe Even Thrive, in a Group Project
"In today’s PR Research class, we collaborated, using Google Docs, on tips for how to survive a group project. Here’s a summary of what our class recommended:"
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Five Issues To Consider (By Jen Wagner)
presenters could be more aware of 5 issues which might keep those teachers exactly where they were the moment before they entered the conference……
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Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching |
The Guidelines are a set of 16 statements. These statements outline a basis for the development of activities that are likely to enhance student learning - that is, they are guidelines that could inform our teaching.
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Online Class Icebreakers
In an online environment, human interaction does not just happen naturally. Your online students need a way to get to know you, the instructor, and others. There are several ways to encourage your students to interact with each other. The idea is to be creative and set several guidelines for students to follow in order to stimulate asynchronous discussions.
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Guiding Principles for New Teachers : Stager-to-Go
I recently began teaching two new “methods” classes for preservice educators after a teacher-education hiatus of about a decade. While creating my syllabi, I decided to express some of the principles that I believe should guide excellent teaching. Here is that list of guiding principles.
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Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally, Andrew Churches
The elements cover many of the activities and objectives but they do not address the new objectives presented by the emergence and integration of Information and Communication Technologies into the classroom and the lives of our students.
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100 Incredibly Inspiring Blog Posts for Educators - Learn-gasm
Blogs offer an excellent way for communities to come together over a common interest despite physical location. Educators can take advantage of this shared pool of knowledge to find inspiration, enhance their teaching, and help students learn more. The following blog posts come from a variety of bloggers sharing their passion and insight.
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Seven skills students desperately need
Teaching to the test is a mistake, Harvard's Tony Wagner reminded the audience of his Nov. 18 keynote address to the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), because it interferes with transmitting the seven "survival skills" every student should acquire before graduating.
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A Vision of Students Today (& What Teachers Must Do)
Texting, web-surfing, and iPods are just new versions of passing notes in class, reading novels under the desk, and surreptitiously listening to Walkmans. They are not the problem. They are just the new forms in which we see it. Fortunately, they allow us to see the problem in a new way, and more clearly than ever, if we are willing to pay attention to what they are really saying.
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JakesOnline!-Collections
This section of my Web site contains collections of information on topics essential to understanding instructional technology and its application to teaching and learning.
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The Social Media Classroom: A New Web 2.0 Platform For Education - ReadWriteWeb
The Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom.
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Is College Necessary in a Knowledge-Drenched World?
If we are considering only the learning value of higher education institutions, and not the developmental life-transition value, the list of unique opportunities for learning that higher education offers seems to have shrunk in the past few years.
