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Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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"I'm not that outspoken in class, so I would never ask a question out loud to the professor. But you can type it in as anonymous, so nobody really knows if what you're asking is a dumb question."
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I asked him if he thinks the system shifts too much control to students. He said students in class are online or texting on their phones anyway, so why not try to channel that energy to class discussion? "To force them to behave in a certain way is not respect," he said. "If you want respect, you have to earn it. To mandate respect is stupid."
Award Winning Fiction in 140 Characters
"Being constrained to exactly 140 characters will spark your creative juices and force you to focus stringently on word choice, sentence structure, and even punctuation,"
A Better Safety Net: It's time to get smart about online safety - 11/1/2009 - School Library Journal
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Online safety must be relevant to youth, or we’re talking to ourselves. It must accommodate the growing body of research on youth risk and what kids themselves say about how they use digital media, and it must be respectful—of both young people and the new media conditions they’re ably exploiting.
Objective: Stop bullying - Lowell Sun Online
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Technology obliterates the boundary between home and
school
Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughters Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence, speaks at the 14th annual School Safety Summit at Nashoba Tech's Performing Arts Center in Westford. The forum was co-sponsored by the Middlesex District Attorney's Office and Middlesex Partnership for Youth Inc. SUN PHOTOS/DAVID H. BROW
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What children do online impacts their personal lives."
The Power of "Why?" by Andrea Batista Schlesinger — YES! Magazine
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Schools increasingly focus more on the answer than the question. Teachers are deemed successful if their students answer exam questions correctly, not if they can think critically. Science, civics, art, and other inquiry-based subjects get pushed aside in favor of subjects that are quantifiable. This is a profound irony, considering that what society needs from citizens, and what businesses need from workers, is the ability to inquire, analyze, and discern.
MathEd.net
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Students understand how technology increases their power and access socially, and expect technology to increase their power and access, educationally, too. Schools need to rethink their policies, such as described by Will Richardson in his post, "Don't, Don't, Don't vs. Do, Do, Do." So with less restrictive access, how do we encourage effective and productive uses of technology? We teach. We teach students how to search, how to judge the quality of information, how to avoid distraction, and how to give back to that great body of knowledge that is the internet.
Memorable Math With Ms. Napolitano - Welcome
An example of a maths classroom site (weebly)
Patterns, Algebra, and Functions
This site has got interactive applets that makes it great to use with IWB's. Covers most of the basic concepts.
The big ideas of algebraic thinking involve representation, proportional reasoning, balance, meaning of variable, patterns and functions, inductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning. Greenes and Findell (1998):
Calculus mobi Test
A calculus test accessible from your cellphone
10 Ideas for Engaging Learners with Cell Phones Even in Districts that Ban Them by Lisa Nielsen
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His attitude is that kids are on this stuff all day anyway, so why not put them to educational use?
Community Radio Handbook - UNESCO
This Community Radio Handbook aims to show that ordinary people, even non-technical rural folk, can plan, set up, manage and produce radio programmes by themselves with a minimum of dependence on outside help, whether for technical advice and training or for funds and equipment.
The POD’s are Coming! I think all educators need to hear this
Go through the slideshare and read the FEAR part especially!!!
ChangeThis :: Habitudes in the Classroom: Teaching the Habits and Attitudes Our Students Need in the 21st Century
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The 21st century world needs learners to BE critical, BE creative, and BE strategic. The 21st century world demands learners to DO their own thinking, rather than relying on someone else to think for them. The 21st century world expects learners to HAVE the endurance, fortitude, and courage to brave through each new challenge with confidence and competence.”
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