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100 Terrific Cheat Sheets for K-12 Teachers | Teaching Degree.org
From Kelly Hines. Covers all kinds of topics.
Songs for Teaching: Educational Children's Music Downloads/CDs
Not a new site, but new to me. Playing a snippet or two of a song would be so easy!
Bridging Differences
This is a blog that is set up as a conversation between Diane Ravitch and Deborah Meier. They debate current education issues. In this week's postings, they discuss the recently released and controversial McKinsey report.
Teaching English with Technology
Nice overview site. Lots here, good jumping off place for ideas.
100+ Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks | Teaching Tips
Most sites and suggestions for site types to use rather than a textbook.
Building Learning Communities Conference Blog : The Myth of the Digital Native
If you are within 10 years of retirement, maybe it doesn't matter. Otherwise, teaching will look different in the future. Teachers have never had competition. Schools maybe, but not teachers. Will teachers be needed? How can we make sure that we are important to children's lives?
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he was only driving a taxi until he could find something that paid better. He explained that he had lost two careers
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I suggested there were lots of opportunities to learn a new career with online courses. He said he could never take a course online. He needed a teacher.
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U.S. Professors of the Year
Michael Wesch is brilliant!
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start by getting students to ask better questions
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Oftentimes, the answer to a good question is irrelevant—the question is an insight in itself.
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Multiple Intelligences -- Assessment
Assessment of learning styles. Not exactly new, but easy to take and score.
School Change Consulting - Beyond Testing
The whole site is really interesting, I like this article. The author, Tony Wagner, has a new book out about what he calls "The Global Achievement Gap" and what to do about it.
100 Awesome Blogs for History Junkies | Best Colleges Online
I would like to have students follow one of these blogs for a while, then respond.
Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project
More John Gotto--his speech as he accepted the Teacher of the Year award. Written in 1990, but spot on today.
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The world's narcotic economy is based
upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many
powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an
important sales outlet. -
Senator Ted Kennedy's office
released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory
education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never
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Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle and High School age kids in the surrounding communities of Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Lafayette, Pittsburg, Antioch. Children experience Democracy, Freedom &
Interesting. John Taylor Gotto on education and the value of less rather than more school. He mentions that the best programmers are self-taught.
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I heard a
vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign
the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country
became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action
of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers
who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none
of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach
computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of
leading the world in this literacy. -
In modern society,
said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by
their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who
read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately
empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they
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The LoTi Connection - LoTi Services
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The LoTi Classroom Teacher represents a series of online courses designed for classroom educators, mentors, and building administrators to improve and refine the manner in which learning technologies are used to promote student engagement and achievement. The LoTi Classroom Teacher series explores the concepts of higher order thinking skills, differentiation, collaboration, and the use of technology to build effective communities of inquiry that help students develop 21st Century Skills as articulated by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
TeacherTube - Pay Attention
Teacher tube version--not blocked in as many schools as the YouTube. Same video.
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