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40 Video Comprehension Strategies
Scroll down to get to the strategies for how to help students better comprehend videos.
- There is much, much more to it than this. Videos are meant to be consumed in short bursts, while literature, for example, is meant to be “sat with.” Videos are (often manic) sprints, while texts are (often meandering) walks.
- KWL chart
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Teachers: Math in Videogames ~ Activities : Get The Math
- She uses functions to control objects by assigning a number, or input, to a variable that results in a specific output or movement, producing the action that you see in a videogame. She also uses algebraic reasoning, coordinate graphing, linear equations and rate of change or slope to create her games.)
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/01/2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/31/2015
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Audio editor
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An Introduction to Google's Dyslexia Resources | Articles | Noodle
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12 Google Search Tricks You Probably Didn't Know | The Gooru
Some useful ideas in here on how to use the search bar.
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12 Ways to Avoid Student Humiliation | Edutopia
Very tangible suggestions here.
- When is it OK to humiliate students? Never.
- Many of us can recall a situation when we were humiliated by a teacher. If you close your eyes and recall it, it still has the power to make you cringe. And also for many of us, if we never resolved our feelings with those teachers, we still haven't forgiven them
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How the learning environment affects learning.
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The future of Schools — The Learner's Way
- The modern classroom is a space full of light and colour, with flexible furnishings and a degree of comfort not present in the classrooms many adults recall. Students are encouraged to take charge of the space and arrange its physicality to meet their needs. Design decisions are based around engagement, creativity, expression, imagination and an understanding of education as an active process that the student chooses to engage with. So important is the physical space that authors and architects for education OWP/P published a book titled ‘The Third Teacher’ as a tome for anyone wishing to enhance the effectiveness of their learning spaces.
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Homage or Theft? A Closer Look at the ‘Blurred Lines’ Verdict - Law Blog - WSJ
Lesson for digital citizenship that fair use has major implications. Thicke and Williams had to pay $7.4 million to Marvin Gaye for his song.
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Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous - The Washington Post
The article states why the humanities are still important to developing a well rounded work force. Especially interesting are the test stats vs. the innovation within a given nation. They seem to run contrary.
- A broad general education helps foster critical thinking and creativity. Exposure to a variety of fields produces synergy and cross fertilization. Yes, science and technology are crucial components of this education, but so are English and philosophy.
- Innovation is not simply a technical matter but rather one of understanding how people and societies work, what they need and want.
- the American economy historically changed so quickly that the nature of work and the requirements for success tended to shift from one generation to the next. People didn’t want to lock themselves into one professional guild or learn one specific skill for life.
- In truth, though, the United States has never done well on international tests, and they are not good predictors of our national success. Since 1964, when the first such exam was administered to 13-year-olds in 12 countries, America has lagged behind its peers, rarely rising above the middle of the pack and doing particularly poorly in science and math. And yet over these past five decades, that same laggard country has dominated the world of science, technology, research and innovation.
- Consider the same pattern in two other highly innovative countries, Sweden and Israel. Israel ranks first in the world in venture-capital investments as a percentage of GDP; the United States ranks second, and Sweden is sixth, ahead of Great Britain and Germany. These nations do well by most measures of innovation, such as research and development spending and the number of high-tech companies as a share of all public companies. Yet all three countries fare surprisingly poorly in the OECD test rankings. Sweden and Israel performed even worse than the United States on the 2012 assessment, landing overall at 28th and 29th, respectively, among the 34 most-developed economies.
- “This country is a lot better at teaching self-esteem than it is at teaching math.” It’s a funny line, but there is actually something powerful in the plucky confidence of American, Swedish and Israeli students. It allows them to challenge their elders, start companies, persist when others think they are wrong and pick themselves up when they fail. Too much confidence runs the risk of self-delusion, but the trait is an essential ingredient for entrepreneurship.
- technical chops are just one ingredient needed for innovation and economic success.
- America overcomes its disadvantage — a less-technically-trained workforce — with other advantages such as creativity, critical thinking and an optimistic outlook.
- Jack Ma, the founder of China’s Internet behemoth Alibaba, recently hypothesized in a speech that the Chinese are not as innovative as Westerners because China’s educational system, which teaches the basics very well, does not nourish a student’s complete intelligence, allowing her to range freely, experiment and enjoy herself while learning
- Mark Zuckerberg was a classic liberal arts student who also happened to be passionately interested in computers. He studied ancient Greek intensively in high school and majored in psychology while he attended college. And Facebook’s innovations have a lot to do with psychology.
- Tasks that have proved most vexing to automate are those that demand flexibility, judgment, and common sense — skills that we understand only tacitly — for example, developing a hypothesis or organizing a closet.”
- This doesn’t in any way detract from the need for training in technology, but it does suggest that as we work with computers (which is really the future of all work), the most valuable skills will be the ones that are uniquely human, that computers cannot quite figure out — yet.
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Try these 5 undiscovered Google Drive tricks | PCWorld
Work offline is a good setting to know about as well as linking within a doc.
- Google Drive has an “offline” mode that lets you create, view, or edit documents in these situations.
- A little known feature of Google Drive is its web clipboard, which lets you copy and paste data across Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Unlike your operating system’s clipboard, it can hold multiple items at once, and because it’s associated with your Google account, its contents are accessible across all your devices.
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WeVideo Academy | Online video tutorials and training
WeVideo is a web-based video editing platform whereby students can share videos with teachers. What this means is that teachers can monitor students' progress while they are working on a video. However, it is not like Google Docs where students can collaborate with one another in real time. Still, students can do work on video together, just at separate times.
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Personalizing Social Emotional Learning with Google Forms | EdSurge News
Tangible ideas for how to use Google Forms to check in with students about their social-emotional wellbeing.
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Paly school board rep: 'The sorrows of young Palo Altans' | News | Palo Alto Online |
How competitive high schools are crushing students souls.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/27/2015
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Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding | Edutopia
This article describes the merits of formative assessment and offers over 50 suggestions for such assessments.
- What strategy can double student learning gains? According to 250 empirical studies, the answer is formative assessment, defined by Bill Younglove as "the frequent, interactive checking of student progress and understanding in order to identify learning needs and adjust teaching appropriately."
- Alternative formative assessment (AFA) strategies can be as simple (and important) as checking the oil in your car -- hence the name "dipsticks." They're especially effective when students are given tactical feedback, immediately followed by time to practice the skill.
- Pre-planning methodical observations allow instructors to efficiently and effectively intervene when it counts most -- the instant students start down the wrong path
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New to Alternative Formative Assessment? Start Slow
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having learners use their own vernacular to articulate why they are stuck can be profoundly useful for identifying where to target support.
- The biggest benefit of integrating AFAs into your practice is that students will internalize the habit of monitoring their understanding and adjusting accordingly.
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Parenting With Dignity - Reasons why punishment doesn't work
Another take on parenting and punishment
- Punishment will be considered to be any artificially created consequence for a given behavior.
- Any time that one attempts to change a child's behavior the child will resist.
- Add punishment and you will insure more resistance to change.)
- When a parent resorts to punishment both the parent and the child begin to pay attention to the punishment
- the child is not engaged in creating a new thought process that will bring about better decisions and outcomes next time.
- A child sent to his/her room will seldom or never think about how to behave properly but rather will think about how unfair his/her parents are or some equally negative idea.
- It becomes a game of not getting caught.
- Punishment traps the "punisher" into maintaining the punishment schedule. "You made the rules, now you must enforce them."
- Punishment does not teach accountability.
- As parents we need to point out the negative consequences inherent in their negative behavior, we do not need to create new ones.
- We can serve as a big help to our children if we help them foresee potential problems and the natural consequences of some of their possible decisions.
- The error comes when we think that the punishment has taught the child what to do in the next situation.
- It has taught the kid NOT to do something… but it has not taught them what to do! That is our job as parents… teach them what to do and how to decide to do it!
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This book excerpt puts an interesting spin on punishing children.
- Punishment proved to be counterproductive regardless of whether the parents were using it to stop aggression, excessive dependence, bed-wetting, or something else. The researchers consistently found that punishment was “ineffectual over the long term as a technique for eliminating the kind of behavior toward which it is directed.”
- parents who “punish[ed] rule-breaking behavior in their children at home often had children who demonstrated higher levels of rule-breaking when away from home.”[3]
- Hitting children clearly “teaches them a lesson” – and the lesson is that you can get your way with people who are weaker than you are by hurting them.
- Announcing how we plan to punish children (“Remember: if you do x, then I’ll do y to you”) may salve our conscience because we gave them fair warning, but all we’ve really done is threaten them.
- This communicates a message of distrust (“I don’t think you’ll do the right thing without the fear of punishment”), leads kids to think of themselves as complying for extrinsic reasons, and emphasizes their powerlessness.
- Sometimes parents are advised to use a time-out instead of spanking their kids -- as though these were the only two options available. The reality, as we saw in an earlier chapter, is that both of these tactics are punitive. They differ only with respect to whether children will be made to suffer by physical or emotional means.
- “When you stand by and let bad things happen, your child experiences the twin disappointments that something went wrong and you did not seem to care enough about her to lift a finger to help prevent the mishap. The ‘natural consequences’ approach is really a form of punishment.”[7]
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/26/2015
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Few Winners In Anonymous Social Networking, And Secret’s Not One Of Them | TechCrunch
This article describes how anonymous social media apps decline in use once they are mandated to sanitize their content, ie- nor more anonymous cyberbullying.
- Actually, what anonymous social networking for the most part offered was yet another reminder that when people no longer have to stand behind their words, they can say some pretty terrible things.
- Anonymous features in Ask.fm, for example, were referenced as being directly contributing to a good handful of teen suicides, and following its revamp toward more “safe” networking policies, newcomer Yik Yak appeared to be ready to pick up the slack as one of the top mobile-first anonymous networks
- On Yik Yak, which combines anonymity with location-based networking, cyberbullying became so bad this year that the company had to implement technology to block the app on school grounds around the U.S
- In short: when the trash talk dropped, so did the app’s popularity
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/25/2015
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5 Tech Implementation Challenges for Teachers | Edudemic
I plan to apply this to our maker initiative.
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5 Ways to Make Professional Looking Google Documents | Teacher Tech
Monday, March 23, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/24/2015
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5 Fantastic, Fast, Formative Assessment Tools | Edutopia
- Formative assessment is done as students are learning. Summative assessment is at the end (like a test).
- Good teachers in every subject will adjust their teaching based upon what students know at each point. Good formative assessment removes the embarrassment of public hand raising and gives teachers feedback that impacts how they're teaching at that moment. Instant feedback.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Two New Apps That Are Great for Recording Audio Interviews
Story Corps looks to be the most promising given that it feeds questions to the interviewer based on the relationship between the two people in the interview.
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App for interviewing purposes. Students can see the questions on their tablet or phone as they are recording. The questions are suggested based on the relationship between the two people.
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ePals Challenges | - ePals Global Community
Think about a real world problem and come up with a solution.
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Top education nation is shaking up how school is taught.
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http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7095.pdf
7 Things you should know about makerspaces
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/19/2015
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Educational Mashups Mozilla Popcorn Maker 2014 Tutorial - YouTube
Eleven minute tutorial that takes you through all of the features of Mozilla Popcorn Maker. Consider using it to teach a lesson on fair use. Better alternative to iMovie.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/17/2015
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Dam and Reservoir Career Day Display - Album on Imgur
This is inspiration for a possible STEAM project, could be tied into an ancient history unit.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Ways Students Can Share Videos Without YouTube
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See weather as it's happening around the world.
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Math and Science Apps and Extentions
These apps and extensions work with Google Chrome for enhanced lessons in the math and science classroom.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/14/2015
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A First-Time Parent's Guide to Digital Life | Common Sense Media
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Should I be concerned about my teen's constant multitasking during homework?
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Math game aligned to Common Core standards for grades 1-5.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/11/2015
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The Maker’s Playlist: 10 TED Talks to feed your tinkering habit | TEDActive Blog
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Shows search trends for the day or year. Sortable by country.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/08/2015
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Meet the woman throwing a huge party for the bodyshamed dancing man
Great story to show how to stand up against bullying and use social media for good.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Monday, March 2, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/03/2015
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Lesson plans for Common Core Math and Next Generation Science Standards.
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