Ponder This
Situations and Information you may not have thought about
"Changing student behavior happens by changing adult behavior"
Five Steps to Vanquish Any Problem
Fairly Assessing Group Work
TED Video-Motivation
What Schools are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media
Apple Unveils E-Textbook Strategy for K-12
How You Can Avoid Being a Great Educator
Tips and Success Stories for Effective Mobile Learning
Teachers As Brain-Changers: Neuroscience and Learning
10 Priceless Gifts Teachers Can Give Their Students
What is Culturally Responsive Pedagogy?
Study: Middle-Class Students Are Better at Asking for Academic Help
What happens when we shower children with undue praise to boost their self-confidence?
21 signs you're a 21st century principal
Building a Better System
September 2012 - The Differences Between Boys and Girls
To assist boys, have them draw a picture before they write.
Encourage blood flow to the brain with Brain Breaks!
Brain Breaks LiveBinder
Maltreated children show same pattern of brain activity as combat soldiers
Gurian Institute
"In this room, we don't do easy. We make easy happen through hard work!"
Infusing Disability Awareness in the Curriclum
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What Really Motivates Us
As Judy Willis, MD explains in How Your Child Learns Best, a part of the brain called the reticular activating system (RAS) filters incoming stimuli, deciding which information to trust to autopilot and what deserves our full attention. Surprise and novelty are the attention-grabbers. In the classroom, this means that changing routines, asking students to consider similarities and differences, field trips, and guest visitors all help to keep learning fresh.
Boost your Body Image
Afraid to try (fail)
Digital Citizenship
Themistocles: Current structure of schools took hold in Post-WWII America, but there is a disconnect now.
The Flipped Classroom
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On-line tools-helpers for flipping
Five minute primer: Flipped classes
Prezi-the flipped classroom
Flipping for Beginners
Flipped Learning with Atomic Learning
http://www.schooltechnology.org/2011/11/28/differentiated-tech-instruction-by-flipping-my-classroom/
A blog from a teacher who flipped her classroom
Top 10 Reasons Blended Learning is Worth the Hype
Resources for Flipping
Here's a middle school starting to "flip" their math dept. Created an online class to organize their videos.
Khan Academy
With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 268 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
Set up a coach account using Google or FB
Students earn motivating badges
Provides detailed formative assessments (data)
Consider using a contract with students about acceptable use and how you will be using it in class.
Students earn motivating badges
Provides detailed formative assessments (data)
Consider using a contract with students about acceptable use and how you will be using it in class.
KHAN Academy on a Stick-flashdrive
15 Schools using the flipped model
Atomic Learning
Blended Learning Toolkit
A Whitepaper on Blended Learning
What Is a White Paper
Necessary contents:
- Summaries – both Executive and Concluding
- Introduction – bringing the reader up to speed on high level issues that form a foundation for issue presentation.
- Challenge Presentation – addressing specific business problems that the solution is designed to address.
- Solution Presentation – the manner in which a solution solves the afore mentioned business challenges.
- Case Study (optional) - a ‘real-life’ example of how a business had challenges and addressed them using the prescribed solution. http://clickdocuments.com/connectthedocs/16/What-Is-a-White-Paper
When we don't incorporate the tech students know from daily lives, we are going to have a disconnect.-EdWeek
Gallegher: #Hybrid learning allows me to color-code students and materials to provide appropriate level work.
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10 things coming to a HS near you
Different kinds of experiences lead to different brain structures.
-Dr. Bruce D. Berry, Baylor College of Medicine
-Dr. Bruce D. Berry, Baylor College of Medicine
Skills and consequences
"Only four to eight minutes of pure factual lecture can be tolerated before the brain seeks other stimuli, either internal (e.g., daydreaming) or external (Who is that walking down the hall?). If the teacher is not providing that novelty, the brain will go elsewhere," -Edutopia
Amy Morales
The Brain-Cool Video!
Looking for a local way to give back?
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It's great to see teachers becoming techies. One principal tells her teachers, "you are the [technology] coordinators." http://bit.ly/tOFnGW
(Columbiana Exempted Village schools are sited in this article.)
(Columbiana Exempted Village schools are sited in this article.)
Become a Viral Educator
"Lurk and Share"
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Checklist for for building an effective learning community
Never tried Twitter. Twitter is a great way to start your PLN. Type in #edchat to the link below to see what Twitter can do for you.
If you can't explain something simply, you may not know it well. Twitter strengthens that skill. @Tom Whitby
http://tweetchat.co_m/_
http://twitterfountain.com/
http://twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/
http://www.grouptweet.com/
http://twitterfountain.com/
http://twitterforteachers.wetpaint.com/
http://www.grouptweet.com/
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Twimbow-organize social media by colors
Tweepsmap-where are your followers from?
Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher
Twitter LiveBinder for Administrators and Teachers
Professional Development
4 C's of #OnlinePD: Connect -> Communicate -> Collaborate -> Create
10 Ways to Use Social Media for Professional Development
Classroom 2.0
Q's about professional development
Why online learning is better than in person learning for PD
Mobile Devices in Learning
with Shelly Terrell
More Learning ideas with MD
