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"This web quest will ask students to read and think critically about some of the media sources they are familiar with. Students will look closely at the purposes of the different kinds of media, look at the techniques used to create the different types of media and their messages. Students will also examine different written conventions for different types of media."
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First Indiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Minnesota. As reported by Education Week, State Online Testing Problems Continue to Raise Concerns. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/05/03/30testing.h32.html?r=946252590 Now Virginia! The Washington Post reports that Fairfax County Schools (Virginia) acknowledged “significant problems” administering the state standards of learning tests. In one of the nation's largest school districts, thousands of the 41,975 tests administered on Thursday alone are affected and results called into question.
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Picture Match is a matching game that reinforces the concept of beginning-letter and short- and long-vowel sounds.
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I get asked this question often every spring, so I'd thought I'd offer a few thoughts here on the blog. This list sticks to the (relatively) current, the books I've read or encountered since last M...
"During the digital age, the potential for technology tools to help change the products generated during class work are unparalleled. The SAMR framework helps to flesh out a pragmatic definition of how technology changes learning. Many programs are starting to implement tablet or BYOD initiatives with exciting, transformative results. This wonderful article from Jeff Dunn at Edudemic also highlights how an iPad game can promote competition and collaboration with the use of mobile devices; generating real-time data to help teachers with instruction."
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Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner.
Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences). The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency...
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According to a new study, we really don't have to worry too much about the nearly 1 in 4 children without access to FarmVille at home.
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Guest Post by Karl Gude
Infographics: Inform, Illuminate
What makes infographics cool is...
"Having essential questions drive curriculum and learning has become core to many educators' instructional practices. Grant Wiggins, in his work on Understanding By Design, describes an essential quetion as: A meaning of “essential” involves important questions that recur throughout one’s life. Such questions are broad in scope and timeless by nature. They are perpetually arguable – What is justice? Is art a matter of taste or principles? How far should we tamper with our own biology and chemistry? Is science compatible with religion? Is an author’s view privileged in determining the meaning of a text? We may arrive at or be helped to grasp understandings for these questions, but we soon learn that answers to them are invariably provisional..."
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He has the most viewed TED Talk of all time. Now, Sir Ken Robinson talks with us about creativity and finding your “Element.”
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Starting with a topic that you feel passionate about, you can change the world one PSA at a time. Watch this quick video to get the best tips and guidelines on how to begin! Find out the guidelines and best tips to make a memorable PSA.
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Google has made it possible for us to have instant information gratification. Just start typing the first letters of your search word and the site intuits your question and offers you the smartest choice of answers.
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Many educators are explicitly teaching online research skills, such as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines.
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There is a strong chance you will wind up miserable with no sense of purpose if you don't figure out one very important thing.
On this short video you will see a group of 3 years old children doing the thinking routine "step inside" A routine for learning to see things from different...
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Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends.
Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends. Key findings include: Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006: - 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006. - 71% post their school name, up from 49%. - 71% post the city or town where they live, up from 61%. - 53% post their email address, up from 29%. - 20% post their cell phone number, up from 2%.
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The Facebook generation is fed up with Facebook. That's according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 802 teens between the ages of 12 and 17 last September to produce a 107-page report on their online habits.
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