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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from Designing Minds onto Technology in Art And Education |
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Using Internet tools and resources in our classrooms in ways that will benefit students and teachers - in ways that are truly worth the time, effort, energy, and expense - call upon us to function more as instructional designers ...
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Visual learning is not just a learning style, but a way of seeing the world. This post offers up 50 ideas & resources for visual learning in your classroom. Delete the scoop?
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Wes Freyer's awesome interactive resource for product-based learning.
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Great examples how one can use 21st Century tools in the classroom while every part is well described with "Definition", *Workflow", *Tools", "Workshop Description"... This is how it should be, take it as a very good practice example!
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Read more, a MUST: http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/
Via Lisa Johnson , Nusa Ouis, juandoming, Gust MEES, Cyndi Danner-Kuhn 
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January 11, 11:22 AM
¿No estaremos hablando de una Educación Transmedia? De mejorar la experiencia del usuario universitario, combinar conocimientos y TIC`s en la construcción del conocimiento en el aula... 
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"Como educadores do século 21, devemos oferecer oportunidades para que os alunos demonstrem o domínio e compreensão do currículo, não só com texto, mas também com imagens, áudio e vídeo".Wesley Fryer. Website muito interessante que disponibiliza : definições, video exemplos, WORKFLOW, Ferramentas e tutoriais (Mapa de médias para o currículo)
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I’ve said it before – I love using QR codes in my classroom! There are a lot of reasons: Takes students directly to a website you have chosen Eliminates frustration of typing in long we... Via Gust MEES, Jamie Forshey 
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January 1, 10:30 AM
Check out ALSO my curation about QR-Codes here:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/qr-code-and-its-applications
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Today, no longer is having a high school diploma is enough to land a good job and support family. College is key today, but finding the funds to pay for it can be tricky. Brick and mortar institutions cost a fortune, and most have to work while going to school. But for those who can't juggle both, online learning can be a great option.
We know what that you may think this avenue is for slackers, but have a look at our infographic below, and your opinion may just change.
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The Emotional Cycle of Digital Interactivity Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Jack Patterson, Dennis T OConnor, Gust MEES, Gianfranco D'Aversa, Louise Robinson-Lay, Rosário Durão, Fred Zimny, janlgordon Delete the scoop?
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from Eclectic Technology |
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A look at what hapened at Plymouth South High School last year when one class "attempted to transform the traditional research process to a completely paperless one using a fresh cart of iPads."
A number of goals were "outlined prior to the research process" and included (quoting from the post):
* Students will crowd-source their research to a collective research group.
* Students will incorporate varied media types into their research: web based text, traditional text, audio and video.
* Students will work collaboratively with their teacher and classmates on their research and writing process.
* Students will become proficient researching and writing in a digital environment.
The post alos discusses the process of going paperlesand "moving forward and going paperless."
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from Eclectic Technology |
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What should the goals of gifted education be?
Perhaps the goals of all education forall children...
“Rather than portray the needs of gifted students as being unique, we suggest weaving them into the general education tapestry. To accomplish this, we would revise the chief goal of gifted education to be the chief goal of all education: to ensure that all students receive the education appropriate for them at any given time by maximizing the match between individual students’ educational experiences with their individual educational needs.”
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from Eclectic Technology |
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A high school student's plate isn't just filled with classes, but also tons of extracurriculars. Turn to your phone or tablet to manage the load.
Here are ten apps that might help a high school student with homework and studying. Not all are free but all have value.
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from Eclectic Technology |
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Google and 3M give their employees sizeable chunks of time to work on their own projects with intriguing results... could the same idea work in schools?
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from 21st Century Tools for Teaching-People and Learners |
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Google Forms just got a nice little refresh and now allows you to build questionnaires and collect the data in a Google Drive spreadsheet a bit easier.
I've used Google Forms before and found them a bit counter-intuitive. This refresh should help.
I use google forms a lot, and any featuers to add for ease of use will he helpful.
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from 21st Century Tools for Teaching-People and Learners |
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I often receive a lot of questions about how to make online quizzes for free. Here is a collection of 12 free online quiz making applications I collect after
Des applications pratiques pour des évaluations rapides.
De quoi faire donc...moi j'aime bien Google. Et vous?
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from Eclectic Technology |
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Fine article from Dr. Peter Grey that ask us to think about what education is truly about and rethink the current trend toward teaching for testing success. Wasn't sure if this didn't better fit under my austerity topic rather than education..
Today our schools are "obsessed with measurement." We take many hours of each school year testing our students. This post questions the value of this "obsession" noting that "children have become pawns in contests that pit parent against parent, teacher against teacher, school against school, and nation against nation in the struggle to see who can squeeze the highest test scores out of their kids."
It explores the questions "What is education? What is its purpose" and "Is it quantifiable?" by looking at the roots of education and how education has changed. If you want some food for thought on these issues this is a great post to read.
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Thinking..is there enough thinking by students, teachers, administrators and policy makers in education? Grant Wiggins states "We know more but are oddly increasingly? - thoughtless. Why?"
The post makes it clear that how we understand definitions of a number of terms is critical. After a discussion on words thoughtful and thoughtless the post is split into the following sections:
* What is Thoughtfulness?
* A Common Thoughtless Comment
* Thinking About Our Continued Thoughtlessness
This article was the first of three posts. The second post can be found at
http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/thoughtlessness-part-2/. The third post in the series may be accessed at Wiggins website. It is called Grit, character and academic success: thoughtlessness, part 3.
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from Professional development of Librarians |
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"Findings from Softlink’s annual Australian School Library Survey have revealed a positive link between literacy results and school library resourcing levels. The 2012 survey found schools with higher than the national average NAPLAN reading literacy scores received above average levels of library funding and staffing.
A comparable result was identified between schools with low NAPLAN scores and low funding levels, with the relationship’s significance increasing from primary to secondary school. These results were echoed in the 2010 and 2011 surveys."
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Rescooped by Monica S Mcfeeters from Eclectic Technology |
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Today the U.S. is polarized, yet this post by John Merrow states "I have found something that unites Republicans and Democrats: neither party talks about poverty, despite our current epidemic of child poverty and its consequences for the life chances of millions of children."
Merrow continues to discuss poverty, and what he describes as its "evil twin, greed" stating that "we cannot solve on in isolation."
He provides a number of statistics from the National Center for Children in Poverty, including:
* 31% of white children - 12.1 million - live in low-income families.
* 64% of black children - 6.5 million - live in low-income families.
* 31% of Asian children - 1.0 million - live in low-income families.
* 63% of Hispanic children - 10.7 million - live in low-income families.
When you add in American Indian and children of other races, 30 million children live in poverty.
For more information on this and to learn more about "deep poverty" and "normal poverty" as well as a look at salary differentials between the typical CEO and the typical worker click through to the article. Merrow suggest that "if we backed away from greed, we would be more open to recognize the scourge of poverty and the long term threat it poses to our nation."
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A short clip from "the new HBO series The Newsroom...three minutes on education in the United States."
Be aware that this clip contains some curse words, and notice the shift at about 2:10.
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The United States provides free education to every one of its citizens. This is an amazing right. Young people and parents in some third world countries fight for this right. So when did education become more about the test scores than about the learners’ passions? (Read on for additional questions that are raised providing opportunities for one to think and question about what education could be.)
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Linking a couple of ‘riffs’ from previous posts — education + technology — this post ponders whether Finland’s remarkable educational achievements over the last 40 years have any relationship to the use of technology.
In a recent presentation at the Houses of Parliament, Dr Pasi Salhberg shared “Finnish Lessons”, demonstrating the success of an education path diametrically different from that being taken in the UK…goodness, they abolished the schools inspectorate! And rather than taking the road of competition and standardised testing, they’ve taken the road of parity. Now Finland tops the international league tables.
And what part has technology played in this?
One of the 5 key Finnish Lessons was that we need “greater emphasis on pedagogy and less on technology.”
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