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20 Jul 09
Lesson Plans on Promethean Planet
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u're looking for inspiration while developing your own lessons, or want a flipchart that you can use immediately in your Activclassroom, you've come to the right place! An
06 Jul 09
How blogs changed everything | Salon Books
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Add Sticky NoteDid someone tell Kinsley that he needed to read all those blogs?
- That's exactly it. The multiplication of something that takes up no physical space doesn't create a problem in the way that, say, the Blob, might. - on 2009-07-06
02 Jul 09
Catalyst Notebook Blog :: Layoffs in central office begin today, will reach nearly 1,000 by end of summer
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- How does cutting support staff *not* touch the classroom? - on 2009-07-02
18 Jun 09
Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com
- Recognizing the difficulty of the task is the first step towards actually meaningfully addressing it. - budtheteacher on 2009-06-18
- That assumption - that academic writing is the only writing worth studying - is an example of the paradigm problem - assuming that we want students to all succeed at our task, and not their own. We'd better define our, and their tasks, and study both of them. (Or all of them - both is a limiting word.) - budtheteacher on 2009-06-18
24 Feb 09
Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist | Mail Online
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She pointed out that autistic people, who usually find it hard to communicate, were particularly comfortable using computers.
'Of course, we do not know whether the current increase in autism is due more to increased awareness and diagnosis of autism, or whether it can - if there is a true increase - be in any way linked to an increased prevalence among people of spending time in screen relationships. Surely it is a point worth considering,' she added.
- Having a little trouble with the cause/effect here. - on 2009-02-24
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Add Sticky NotePsychologists have also argued that digital technology is changing the way we think. They point out that students no longer need to plan essays before starting to write - thanks to word processors they can edit as they go along.
- What a stupid thing to say. Because we *can* write without planning, doesn't mean that we always *should*. - on 2009-02-24
16 Jan 09
Close Reading, Associative Thinking, and Zones of Proximal Development in Hypertext | Academic Commons
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“cursory” rather than close reading of texts by college students.
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a more concerted kind of reading through engagement, productive puzzling, and contention produces a more effective approach for understanding.
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30 Dec 08
ESP vol. 15 n.1 Follow Through: Why didn't we?
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Follow Through demonstrated that public policy is based
on public support, not on empirical evidence.
16 Jul 08
Interactive White Board (IWB) Resources - List | Diigo
List of resources for interactive whiteboards (IWB). Discovered via Plurk.
15 Jul 08
The 140 Character Lesson at Newly Ancient
I have had the growing suspicion for sometime now that many of the adult edu-bloggers that I know and read — both those I agree with and disagree with — are failing to have honest conversations about the roles our own philosophical belief systems and professional/edu-political stances are having on the lives and reputations of the very children we blog with and about.
23 Jun 08
Interactive Excel Spreadsheets
Excelets are interactive Excel spreadsheets or simulations of mathematical models. The user changes a variable and the spreadsheet changes in numerical, graphical, and/or even symbolic form (equations). Through the use of numerical experimentation and "what if" scenarios, we have a powerful learning tool for students using readily available off-the-shelf software. All of this is done computationally with no use of programming, no macros or Visual Basics for Applications, VBA. The use of VBA adds another level of sophistication via programming and also possible security concerns. An Excelet with or without VBA resembles a "Javaless" applet. It is assumed that users of this guide are experienced with the use of Excel. If you need to gain this experience, see Using Excel for Handling, Graphing, and Analyzing Scientific Data: A Resource for Science and Mathematics Students to get started.
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The material presented in the following pages are for middle school students, high school students, college students, and all who are interested in mathematics. You will find interactive programs that you can manipulate and a lot of animation that helps you to grasp the meaning of mathematical ideas.
Interactivate: Activities
A collection of free animation/activities.
Sandra Day O'Connor: Game Designer | Game | Life from Wired.com
Delivering the keynote address Wednesday at the annual Games For Change conference at Parsons The New School For Design, O'Connor detailed a project she is spearheading called Our Courts, which she described as an "online, interactive civic education project for seventh- and eighth-graders" that familiarizes students with the legal system. O'Connor believes that America's youth aren't learning enough about civics, and thinks that the educational power of videogames is just the thing to change that.
Gaming | School Library System of Genesee Valley BOCES
Discussion and research around educational games.
15 May 08
ivan krstić · code culture » Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi
The core mistake of the present Sugar approach is that it couples phenomenally powerful ideas about learning — that it should be shared, collaborative, peer to peer, and open — with the notion that these ideas must come presented in an entirely new graphical paradigm. We reject this coupling as untenable.
10 May 08
What People Say When They Tweet - ReadWriteWeb
What People Say When They Tweet
Written by Josh Catone / May 9, 2008 12:54 PM / 3 Comments
Everyone is talking about Twitter (to the consternation of many of our readers, I'm sure), but what are people talking about on Twitter? It is really just a flood of inane status updates and fragmented chat, or are people actually talking about things that matter to them via the service? We've talked about Twitter as a platform for serious discussion, but is anyone really using it that way? We teamed up with Summize to take a closer look about what people are talking about in the Twitosphere.
Summize looked at about 4 million Twitter status update messages (tweets) collected from the public time line over a seven day period running from April 27 - May 3.
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