In his article, “Pleasure, Beauty, Wonder,” John M. Eger, communications and public policy professor at the University of San Diego, intones a familiar refrain in today’s discussion over how to educate students: Is the beauty in our world and in education being lost in the race for information? Eger points out the following statistics to [...]
My Year 11 students and I are really enjoying our class blog. I’m seeing a side of their creativity that I would not have seen otherwise, I’m guessing. The students are engaged, innovative, and genuinely seem to be excited about posting even if it’s an “assignment.” Basically I’m having them do three types of post: [...]
Charles Sipe of School Tools Blog introduces some absolutely incredible sites for making flashcards online. These can obviously be used for a myriad of educational purposes. One example: Quizlet Unlike Cramberry, Quizlet allows you to search and find flash card sets created by other users. A nice feature of this site is that it allows [...]
Lifehacker reports that YouTube has just launched a new sub-site called YouTube EDU. Evidently they have links to lectures from many of the US’s top universities. They’re also pointing to another free lecture site called Academic Earth. Great info for those of us looking to better ourselves…for free!
Christopher Sessums breaks down an article on businesses’ use of social media and wonders whether the same questions asked of those engaged in business media should be asked of educators wishing to use social media in the classroom. Sessums states: What I like most about Chandler’s metrics is their candor. For example, a question like [...]
This is an excellent video highlighting the incredible need to adjust our teaching approach to the evolving needs of our students. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE&hl=en&fs=1] This video was created by Tom Woodward of Henrico County schools in Virginia. Tom used the work of Karl Fisch from Colorado who created a PPT using various quotes and statistics from “flat [...]
Amazing video highlighting new manipulative classroom technology. Thanks to Jo McLeay at The Open Classroom.
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