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09 Apr 09

9NEWS.com | Colorado's Online News Leader | Education Secretary says kids need more school

  • Duncan said American schools should be open six days a week, at least 11 months a year, to improve student performance.
02 Apr 09

3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction : April 2009 : THE Journal

  • wikis can provide an effective context within which higher-level thinking skills and collective learning can take place, but not without careful planning on the part of the teacher. Control must be let go so that students are empowered to explore and discover and to work together toward a solution

3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction : April 2009 : THE Journal

  • rather than simply an argument or debate, a paper, or a project, a wiki --based assignment can illustrate stages of development in thinking, collaboration, synthesis and application. This helps to contextualize the learning that has taken place for immediate benefit to students and for future use in learning.

3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction : April 2009 : THE Journal

    • when designing an effective assignment for a wiki, make sure that:


      • The Assignments Is Moving and Not Closed (Dynamic, Not Static)
  • The Assignment Requires Participation
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3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction : April 2009 : THE Journal

  • There is a temptation with using a tool like the wiki for teachers to simply introduce the tool and ask the students to use it, and then watch to see what happens. That usually occurs because teachers themselves are unfamiliar with the actual potential of the tool to the process of teaching and learning.

    • This frustrates students and usually results in lack of motivation and participation on their part. Well designed assignments are clearly based on the learning outcomes of a course and also present meaningful purposes for students in their completion. That is, students are further in their learning process after an assignment than they were before it.



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31 Mar 09

Google Reader (5)

  • students can use to learn to locate numbers and sequence numbers. The numberline presents the student with a number to locate within a range. Once the correct range of numbers is selected, the student then has to select a smaller range in which to place the given number. This process goes on until the student has a range of less than five numbers.
19 Jan 09

The Semantic Web in Education | Educationload.com

  • he semantic web makes information more meaningful to people by making it more understandable to machines.
  • Consider a simple example. If you want to know my mailing address, currently you need to go to my web page and root around until you find it.
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19 Dec 08

Cell phone use in local schools an ‘endless battle’ - Salem News

  • However, Mook is anything but anti-cell phone and hopes to one day incorporate the communication devices into the classroom to enhance learning.
  • "As we come along, we'll have to find a way to adapt," he said. "We'll have to find a way to positively incorporate them into the classroom."
10 Dec 08

Philly-Microsoft's High School of the Future | Computerworld Blogs

  • having teachers assign cross-disciplinary projects rather than the same old English, Math and Science curriculums may mimic real life better, but it initially created problems such as how to enter grades into the central database, which would've hurt students' chances of getting into good colleges.
  • "Our kids use MySpace and FaceBook," she said. But using a content filter or firewall to block pornography, besides presenting a tempting target for hackers, would've interfered with students downloading and using JPEGs for class projects, she said. So the School is instead looking at technology that will let teachers view Web traffic in real-time instead.
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08 Dec 08

New Teacher Resources and Training: Educational CyberPlayGround™

  • Homework {1} - too much homework brings diminishing returns. Cooper's analysis of dozens of studies found that kids who do some homework in middle and high school score somewhat better on standardized tests, but doing more than 60 to 90 min. a night in middle school and more than 2 hr. in high school is associated with lower scores.
01 Dec 08

Techlearning > > Aligning Research with Classroom Practice: Internet, Student Achievement and Cell Phones > December 1, 2008

  • Since cell phones saturate our society, should they also permeate our schools? Should we regulate their use?

Techlearning > > Aligning Research with Classroom Practice: Internet, Student Achievement and Cell Phones > December 1, 2008

  • Making informed decisions in isolation is difficult; therefore, we often seek guidance from competent professionals, close confidents or other trusted advisors.
  • "the Internet is the most important source for many facing important decisions" according to this research
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