January 2012
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Let's Play 'History As A List' →
This would make an awesome social studies or history lesson!
It’s a short history of “Frontiers” — territories that he says have challenged humans over the centuries, arranged in roughly chronological order. Drew calls it “Frontiers Through The Ages.”
Water, 1400
Land, 1840
Gold, 1850
Wire, 1880
Air, 1900
Celluloid, 1920
Plastic, 1950
Space, 1960
Silicon,...
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How To Teach Commenting Skills →
An absolutely outstanding resource for K-12 educators. If you’re doing any collaborative digital work with your students, this is a must-read.
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Opting out of Grading →
As an educator who abolished grading in 2004 and initiated a Grading Moratorium, I have an acute understanding for how grading sabotages learning. Because of this, I have drafted this letter for my daughter’s future teachers.
Dear teacher,
Kayley loves to learn and is very excited to start school this year.
Because the case against grades has a wealth of anecdotal evidence and ...
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Thinking Skills Tool Chest →
A little dry, but you’re bound to find something interesting here (and it’s all free!).
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What Privacy Policies (Really) Want to Say →
futurejournalismproject:
With user frustration over endlessly changing end user licensing agreements and privacy policies from the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple among others, Skipity, a startup search/discovery engine, spells everything out quite clearly.
Among their 10-point privacy policy:
1. We are the company that cares about your privacy. Specifically, while most other companies are...
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iPhones, Google Forms, and Walkthroughs →
Adam Truitt (aka @moutainteacher) recently contacted me with an epublication that I think will be handy for school administrators. 21st Century Walkthrough is a ten page guide to using Google Docs Forms and an iPhone or iPod Touch to record and analyze school or classroom walkthrough data. The guide provides directions with screen images for setting up a form, setting up your iPhone, and...
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“No matter what excellent technology, creative lesson plans, or other pedagogical...”
– Deborah S. DeCiantis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, North Greenville University
Ten Skills Every Student Should Learn
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Toward Peeragogy →
A great read if you’ve got a few minutes. Here’s an excerpt:
At the end of the first course I taught solo, I asked students for their frank opinions of what was working and what could work better. I didn’t want to wait for anonymous evaluations, which don’t afford dialogue or collaboration. The first pushback was a strong request for more project-based collaboration,...
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Over 25 Links Uncovering Project Based Learning... →
Well I think that title sums it up pretty well.
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Guys.
I’m in the same category as the Gibbs.
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The Best Resources On Teacher/Student Use Of... →
Updated earlier today!
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Income Inequality is Bad for Society. REALLY BAD. →
gjmueller:
The mysterious SocProf, who writes The Global Sociology Blog, offered a nice review of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett‘s book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. Wilkinson and Pickett offer transnational research showing how, exactly, income inequality is related to bad outcomes on average. In other words, as SocProf puts it, ”…egalitarianism...
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Apple Will Own Your Work With iBooks Author →
dragonsheep:
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coolcatteacher:
Beware, your work is not yours. Free is never free. You give Apple all syndication rights to the content you develop in iBooks Author.
The title’s a bit misleading. In layman’s terms: If you use iBooks Author, the book you create with iBooks Author can only be sold through the iBooks store. Apple doesn’t “own” the copyright to your work, just the...
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Apple Will Own Your Work With iBooks Author →
coolcatteacher:
Beware, your work is not yours. Free is never free. You give Apple all syndication rights to the content you develop in iBooks Author.
The title’s a bit misleading. In layman’s terms: If you use iBooks Author, the book you create with iBooks Author can only be sold through the iBooks store. Apple doesn’t “own” the copyright to your work, just the...
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“So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition...”
– President Obama, SOTU (via girlwithalessonplan)
Funny. A big part of the reason tuition goes up is BECAUSE federal and state funds have been slashed so dramatically. Weird how that works, right?
candyandcusswords asked: I just started following you, and just woke up to your post on curation, and I've pretty much decided that you are now my favorite blog ever. Social media and aspects like that are such a huge passion of mine (though I'm still a young student, with plenty to learn). I'm so glad I'm finally starting to find similar thinkers!
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“A generation ago as a father I learned early to see small children as...”
– Treat Children As the Scientists They Are and Skip the Terrible Two’s (via gjmueller)
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“[Reporters] work in difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions. They do not...”
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John Kass, What really goes on at Tribune Tower (via copyeditor)
Nah. Those bloggers in mommy’s basement posting under a cute pen name on the Internet are just the people who expose the “real” reporter’s work to an even wider audience (this is how Tumblr works, for those...
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Is anyone familiar with an online HTML5 and/or CSS...
Preferably one with gaming elements (like badges and leveling).
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“We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected...”
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This sentence comes from the findings of a new study conducted by psychology professors at Columbia University, the University Of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard University.
Essentially, the study asserts that internet search is destroying our “internal memory.”
Google Search And...
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“Google CEO Larry Page trotted out an impressive statistic during last...”
– Google doubles Plus membership with brute-force signup process
I guess it’s easy to brag about numbers when you force people to use your service, and lie about “engagement” by counting “checking your email.”
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Colleges enthused as iTunes classes go live →
Worth highlighting:
Anyone with an iPad or iPhone can use the app and access the free classes on iTunes U. Having this new standalone app should be a boon to users and educators. The Inside Higher Ed website is highlighting material from Harrisburg Community College, where there are free courses in differential equations and astronomy. It’s the first iTunes U offering from a community...
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