Saturday, February 28, 2009
Free Microsoft curriculum encourages students to be good 'digital citizens'
http://digitalcitizenshiped.com/
Friday, February 27, 2009
WI Schools Ban Facebook, IM Fraternizing Between Staff, Students
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Code of silence: students who alert teachers of student behavious
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Bullying among young children
Bullying Among Young Children - A Guide for Teachers and Carers - PDF
The guides provide useful advice to parents, teachers and other carers on recognising changes in moods and behaviours that are associated with bullying. They also provide strategies to help children who bully and those who are bullied.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Quote for the day
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Resources for teachers
Teachnology - providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students.
FREE access to 28,500 lesson plans, Teaching tips and themes, 7,500 free printable worksheets, games and donload, read-to-use rubrics, reviews sites, printable genertors and webquests.
Friday, February 20, 2009
AASL Releases 'Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action'
For those of you wondering how the American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) new learning standards are being incorporated into school library programs, the wait is over.
AASL has just released Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action, which takes an in-depth look at Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and examines how the skills in it relate to each other.
Accompanied by colorful pages and graphics, the publication provides benchmarks along with examples that show how to put the learning standards into action at different grade levels.
A glossary is also provided to define key concepts found throughout the book.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
John Butler - fun page
http://www.johnbutlerart.com/pages/fun.asp
Children's illustrator and writer John Butler provides two interactive stories for very young children: Whose nose and toes? and Whose baby am I? Children move the mouse to find the matching animal. The simple easy to read text is displayed alongside.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Disrupting the educational status quo
"How do we move to a student centric system?" asked Michael Horn : http://maestro.sevenstaracademy.org/aventacontent/Video/2009-01-14%2016.03%20Coming%20Changes%20in%20Education_%20Implications%20for%20Christian%20School%20Leaders.wmv
A Vision of Students today - a Michael Wesch update
How did institutions designed for learning become so widely hated by people who love learning?
The video seemed to represent what so many were already feeling, and it became the focal point for many theories. While some simply blamed the problems on the students themselves, others recognized a broader pattern. Most blamed technology, though for very different reasons. Some simply suggested that new technologies are too distracting and superficial and that they should be banned from the classroom. Others suggested that students are now “wired” differently. Created in the image of these technologies, luddites imagine students to be distracted and superficial while techno-optimists see a new generation of hyper-thinkers bored with old school ways.
LBJ & Gene Simmons of Kiss? (Ten Teachers Who Made a Mark in Another Field)
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Video - The Road to Meaning
The process of reading is very like that of driving a car. As readers, it is our charge to "navigate" our way to meaning as we enter nonfiction texts and tasks. For students the, road to meaning in informational text is one paved with challenge and complexity. This presentation explores what great "drivers" need to do before, during, and after reading to successfully arrive at their final destination...UNDERSTANDING THE BIG IDEA!
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Quotation for the week
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
More quotations about education and teaching ...
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Graphic Novels Come Out From Under the Desk at Fordham University
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Impatience with Bad Teaching
That’s what a young woman said to me the other day as I sat with her in her art class.
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Friday, February 06, 2009
Lincoln - resources
Share the resources, the activities and lesson plans with children and students and encourage them to evaluate Lincoln.
Visit the booklist and let the kids learn about who Lincoln was, his ideas, his influences and his life. There is values education here as well as history lessons, and research skills development.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The Digital Library for Earth System Education
The Digital Library for Earth System Education Provides Individualized Reports for Teachers on the Effectiveness of Educational Resources in Their Own Classrooms
Abstract
We have developed and tested a system in which teachers and their students who have used an educational resource in the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) both submit on-line reviews of that resource using DLESE's Community Review System.
We aggregate the students' reviews and generate an individualized report for the instructor on how his or her own students view the resource. The report for science teachers is formatted to show how well, on several dimensions, the resource worked.
The report for science education professors is formatted to highlight how well students reflect on their own learning processes and identify what makes an educational resource effective.