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- The brain can get by on less energy when you overlearn a task
- Decades of research have shown that superior performance requires practicing beyond the point of mastery.
- Whenever we learn to make a new movement, Ahmed explains, we form and then update an internal model—a “sensorimotor map”—which our nervous system uses to predict our muscles’ motions and the resistance they will encounter. As that internal model is refined over time, we’re able to cut down on unnecessary movements and eliminate wasted energy.
- Energy expenditures continued to decrease even after the decline in muscle activity had stabilized
- even after participants had fine-tuned their muscle movements, the neural processes controlling the movements continued to grow more efficient. The brain uses up energy, too, and through overlearning it can get by on less. These gains in mental efficiency free up resources for other tasks:
- Less effort in one domain means more energy available to others.
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There are useful apps in here for both teachers and non-teachers.
Showing posts with label edtech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label edtech. Show all posts
Monday, June 16, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 06/17/2014
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/29/2014
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These are great tech tools that can really enhance a classroom. GAFE could certainly replace some of them, but I believe many of them hold up well against comparable Google tools.
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Think of this as a "make your own Wheel of Fortune". It would be great for creating a review game or choosing what to read next.
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This site offers data files from UNdata to overlay on Google Earth. Imagine looking at statistics laid out on a globe.
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Find tons of great museums from all over the world listed here.
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- Many teachers I encounter have decided that they need to crack down on — if not entirely eradicate — screen distractions in their classrooms. (A minority of teachers accept it as a form of 21st century doodling.)
- If the activity is engaging and challenging, there is an authentic audience, and prescribed time limits, students won’t mess around.
- The more time I spend “teaching” teachers something from the front of the room, the more inclined they are to check email, Facebook, or whatever.
- Add in the possibility that they they’ll have to present to the entire class, or post their creation online, and they’re even more focused
- the activities are challenging and expectations high
- it’s more like: “This is hard. And I’m not going to show you how to do it. But I expect what you create will be excellent.
- Tell students you’re going to present their work at a conference, or submit it to a state publication, and then watch the heightened focus in their eyes
- Teacher lectures impart useful information and explanations, and they can be lively and engaging.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/28/2014
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Use this tool to create a lesson plan in a creative manner than can be easily understood by other teachers.
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This article offers up suggestions on how to use Evernote, Three Ring, Google Sites, and Kidblog to create digital portfolios.
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- Did I refer to the class as our class or my class?
- 8. If our class were a company, would it be out-of-business now?
- 9. Did students create and experience a great class or simply take a class and get credit?
- 15. Did I take advantage of spontaneous learning opportunities when students’ interests had obviously shifted, or did I maintain an inflexible mindset and vow to never deviate from an archaic lesson plan?
- 17. Was our class set up to promote creativity and collaboration or memorization and silence?
- 19. Were 21st Century skills embedded within daily assignments?
- 22. Did I gain professional wisdom by speaking to my collegial mentor?
- 24. Was the technology in my classroom used in an authentic manner? (Shannon Reed)
- 25. Did I avoid professional negativity by declining to gossip at work?
- 26. Did I manage my stress level by enjoying time with my family and friends, by exercising several times a week, by zoning out while engaged in a hobby, and by simply chilling out every once in a while?
- 28. Did I laugh often with students and colleagues?
- 31. Did I allow students to co-write their own project-based, learning contracts?
- 34. How many colleagues did I observe in-action in their classrooms this past school year?
- did I remember the names of all co-workers?
- 39. How balanced were the assignments this year in terms of requiring creativity, practical thinking, and analysis? (Adam Johnson)
- 40. Did I participate in a professional learning community outside of my school via Twitter?
- 46. Did I consistently blog as a form of professional self-reflection?
- 47. Am I a stronger teacher today than when I first stepped into the classroom at the beginning of the school year?
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This article provides three good tech tools for teachers who want to try a back channel chat and nearly a half dozen ideas for incorporating this type of technology into the curriculum. There are even suggestions for how to use it with students as young as 6 years old.
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- Diigo provides a free, efficient, effective and reliable way to save and organize your favorite websites, online articles, blog posts, images and other media found online.
- Diigo provides a lists feature that allows you to share carefully selected bookmarked websites with your students.
- Adding bookmarks to lists is easy. When you save the bookmark, you are able to allocate it to any list you have already created, or create a new list as you go.
- Diigo has tools that encourage students to collaborate with others to analyze, critique, and evaluate websites.
- Diigo provides opportunities for students to apply higher level thinking skills while researching and gathering information.
- Diigo allows you to gain access to the ‘collective intelligence’ of the internet.
- Use Diigo to provide visual access to websites you have collected using the built-in program ‘webslides’.
- Use Diigo’s advanced tools to link its power to blogs and RSS. Lists of similar websites that you have created can easily be posted onto a blog by using the ‘post to blog’ button.
- Use Diigo tools to enhance professional reading and save time creating summaries of online posts.
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- Access your information from any computer, or even your iPhone or iPad!
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/17/2014
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Chrome extension that would likely support English teachers as they develop curriculum based on literature and writing.
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Million Dollar Scholar is an open online platform that teaches high school and college students how to find and win scholarships for school.
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Animated science mysteries for middle school students.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/01/2014
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- Find this free five-part Series, Twitter 101: An eCourse for Educators and Parents, here (8). Below is an overview of what participants can expect to learn.
Part 1: The Basics (9)
Part 2: The Language of Twitter (10)
Part 3: Registration & Interface Overview (11)
Part 4: Sending a Tweet (12)
Part 5: Finding People & Resources, Taking Control of Your Own Development
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/20/2014
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An approach to organizing research that's an alternative to note cards.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/19/2014
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Become a Google Educator by completing these lessons and passing the exams.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/15/2014
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Twitter on the whiteboard for elementary school.
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Interactive human body.
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A round up of digital citizenship resources and stats.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/12/2014
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Good language in here for writing rubrics.
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Sparticl is a new web and mobile service for teens, a collection of the very best the web has to offer in science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM.
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How to use Kodable in class.
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Using crafts with younger students to inspire them to learn coding.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/07/2014
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- This article explains how teachers can leverage student feedback to help with lesson design.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/08/2014
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This is a plug-in for Google Earth and a way to look at historical maps.
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How to use Autocrat to create a mail merge in Google Docs.
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Possible lessons to use as Chandler implements GAFE.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/04/2014
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Find information related to lessons on PBL, STEM, Interdisciplinary, Inquiry, Place-based, Multiage.
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Good collection of writing tech tools in here.
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Good ways for students to collaborate on note taking simultaneously.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 01/18/2014
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Great way to spark a conversation! Good for advisory.
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Support for teachers who use GeoGebra.
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Able to build interactive worksheets.
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- Angela Duckworth (1), an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, studied (among others) the performance of West Point cadets during basic training. She discovered that the most powerful predictor of success -- acceptance into the academy -- was grit. Duckworth calls grit "the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals."
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 01/15/2014
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Physics game using magnets and angles.
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Great infographic on how three different generations interact with technology.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 01/11/2014
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Links to digital citizenship resources.
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Simple idea. Wait for at least five seconds for the room to become completely silent, then give your instructions. If you try to talk over people, you only perpetuate more talking because individuals miss what you said originally and then end up asking their neighbor for the information.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/21/2013
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Suggested apps and web tools as they apply to Bloom's taxonomy.
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