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Press release about Skype in the classroom
in list: Educational Technology
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Skype in the classroom strives to enrich students' learning experiences to discover new cultures, languages and ideas without leaving the classroom.
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Skype in the classroom strives to enrich students' learning experiences to discover new cultures, languages and ideas without leaving the classroom. Skype in the classroom now features each individual organization's dynamic content, projects and available guest speakers
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"a free public service to teach children to read with phonics" pointed out by Ken Bain (2012)
in list: Young Learners
Partanen, Anu. (2011). What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success. <i>The Atlantic</i>. Retrieved January 9, 2012, from http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/
in list: Global Education
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As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs. "There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
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The main driver of education policy is not competition between teachers and between schools, but cooperation.
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"...[H]ere are eight ways you can use Wordles in your class to help learners learn" (¶4, 2011.12.09).
in list: Educational Technology
Coiro, Julie. (2005). Making sense of online text. <i>Educational Leadership 62</i>(2), 30-35. Retrieved September 21, 2011, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct05/vol63/num02/Making-Sense-of-Online-Text.aspx
"Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here ... [Coiro] pose[s] each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge" (A New Kind of Literacy, ¶3).
in list: Information Literacy, Teacher Education
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Four challenges face students as they use Internet technologies to search for, navigate, critically evaluate, and synthesize information. Here I pose each challenge as a question and suggest a corresponding activity that models effective strategies to help students meet that challenge.
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The following strategy lesson invites students to stop, think, and anticipate where important information about a Web site's content might be found
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"This site is for the support of the Moodle Reader Module, a module that provides quizzes on over 1600 graded readers and books for young readers, so that teachers can have a simple way to assess their students' work" (¶1, retrieved 2011.08.29).
in list: Reading Resources
"Claims that tablets will revolutionize the learning experience often go hand-in-hand with a push for more digital textbooks, but the Pearson survey showed that students don't often link the two. While most students perceived an educational value to tablets, only 35 percent said they preferred digital editions to print editions, and only about half of those preferred tablets to other digital devices" (Keving Kiley, 2011.05.25, ¶8, retrieved 2011.05.30).
in list: Educational Technology
Resource "links for students to use" as they move from traditional reading, to critical reading, and on to critical literacy
in list: Global Education
Catalog of links to online reading collections including Rob Waring's extensive reading links and the Project Gutenberg libraray
in list: Reading Resources
"The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA ) is an internationally standardised assessment that was jointly developed by participating countries and administered to 15-year-olds in schools. PISA assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society" (¶1, retrieved 2011.04.15).
in list: Global Education
Site offering activities and stories in various thematic groups: Animals and Nature, Everyday Life, Seasonal, Fairy Tales, Poems and Rhymes, World Stories, and Colour in Stories (2011.03.15)
in list: Reading Resources
"Free Downloadable Audio Books ... [:] fairy tales, classics[,] and poems for children" (headline and tagline, 2011.03.15)
in list: Reading Resources
Menu of online reading collections: Three Little Plays, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Comics, Folk Tales, Greek Myths, and Chinese Fables (2011.03.15)
in list: Reading Resources
"Not-the-usual tips, advice and resources for expats living in Japan" (Bio, ¶1, 2011.03.15).
in list: Noteworthy Twitter Feeds
"Tokyo restaurants, bars, fashion, music, film, art and relaxation. Time Out Tokyo: Know more, do more" (Bio, ¶1, 2011.03.15).
in list: Noteworthy Twitter Feeds
"News from The Daily Yomiuri, the English-language sister publication of Japan's largest daily newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun" (Bio, ¶1, 2011.03.15).
"From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books... " (retrieved 2010.05.10).
in list: Reading Resources
"poetic manuscripts ... available for ... free download", a counterpart of "Pay to Print" and "Print & Listen" collections from the Poets' Coop.
in list: Reading Resources
Easy to use tool for speed reading practice, with bookmarklet that automatically opens spreeder with any text you've selected in your browser
in list: Information Literacy
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