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In Memoriam Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012)
A few years ago, I had one of the most challenging groups of students and parents I had ever worked with in my entire teaching career. I must confess that Ray Bradbury helped me…
Added by Ary Aranguiz on June 7, 2012 at 11:00am — 1 Comment
Shamblesguru's iPad : The Blog
I have an iPad2 and a New iPad ... and a very happy nephew who has inherited my iPad1.
This Blog is designed to share the…
Added by Shamblesguru on May 7, 2012 at 12:21pm — No Comments
eBook: "An Educator's iPad" ... published
eBook: "An Educator's iPad" ... published on Amazon and Apple iTunes.
... written for educators and parents who have an interest in mobile learning and especially the use of Apple’s iPad.
It is not a “how-to” manual but a resource for enabling more informed decisions regarding the use of…
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It is not a “how-to” manual but a resource for enabling more informed decisions regarding the use of…
Added by Shamblesguru on March 22, 2012 at 7:40am — No Comments
Raising standards. What works!
22nd December 2011
This week having broken up from school for the Christmas break, I asked my Twitter Learning Community what it was that they felt most contributed to raising standards in their schools.
The following summarises their contributions for which I'm very grateful personally as we try to raise standards along with every school in the country.
@KingEdVIsport use Year 12 literacy leaders to work with younger students using the sport education…
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What I learned from Kids Today
One of the most enjoyable parts of my job as an administrator is visiting classes. Today I was so impressed with what I saw and learned, that I wrote a note to the class. I share that note below.
Ms. Babcock’s first period class:
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Ms. Babcock’s first period class:
Added by Bill Burkhead on December 16, 2011 at 7:13pm — No Comments
Globaldreamers International Award winning project for global collaboration
Twenty years ago I was looking for ways to interest my children in their English studies. After many courses and difficult work, I realized the value of the Internet as a way of spreading an educational message around the world. The process has led me to become a technology innovator and global leader in online collaborative learning projects. These projects now include thousands of children from more than 37countries worldwide.
"Global Dreamers" (…
Added by Marsha Goren on December 1, 2011 at 5:00am — No Comments
Curation
Hi,
Probably most of you know about curation and curation tools, but for those who don't check out here please:
My curations, most about Education: http://www.scoop.it/webwizard
You will, I am sure about it, find some very interesting stuff... Enjoy it...
Have a nice day and best…
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How Fake Facebook Profiles Support Reading Instruction and More!
Teaching author's perspective, author's purpose, tone and mood, characterization and other literary elements are some of the most difficult reading skills for students to untangle. Because of time constraints, teachers often ignore discussing an author's life experiences as part of front-loading a text to be read. I have always been a proponent of less is more, so I make the time to let kids learn aboout a writer's life before we read his/her book, and we…
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Added by Ary Aranguiz on October 8, 2011 at 2:26pm — No Comments
One Scoop or Two?
Building your own "sundae" of information is as delicious as a double scoop of chocolate ice cream with whipped cream and a cherry on top! Scoop.It is the banana split of bookmarking when browsing the web because you get to choose and garnish an information "sundae" with content you find deliciously interesting. You can share your scoops of information with a community of readers on various social media, and on… Continue
Added by Ary Aranguiz on September 29, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments
List Two-Tech Terms All Teachers Should Know
Are you ready for List Two of Tech Terms All Teachers Should Know? Well, ready or not here it is! Quiz is forthcoming!
My next post will feature one more tech tool that supports vocabulary instruction. I have used wordstash.com again to create List Two to maintain consistency with the way the lists look and can be accessed, but this other tech…
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My next post will feature one more tech tool that supports vocabulary instruction. I have used wordstash.com again to create List Two to maintain consistency with the way the lists look and can be accessed, but this other tech…
Added by Ary Aranguiz on September 24, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments
Do You Speak-a My Language? Tech Terms All Teachers Should Know-List One Using Wordle.net&WordStash.com
In my last post I used the word “friended”. After posting it, I thought what if some readers think I’ve made a huge grammatical blunder using “friend” as a verb. But then I thought, my readers don’t live under a rock. They must have heard this new techie vernacular. Which got me to thinking there’s so much tech talk out there, it’s difficult to keep up with it all.…
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Added by Ary Aranguiz on September 23, 2011 at 11:00am — 1 Comment
Adios, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen to Analog!
Now no offense to Lawrence Welk. I have fond childhood memories of watching the show on our analog TV with my grandfather. I remember the bubbles while the big band played, the pretty singers in the flowing pastel dresses, the young female Mexican singer, and the African-American tap dancer. When I think of it now, Welk was ahead of the game in terms of multiculturalism. He featured minorities as regulars on his show when most shows in the 60s were not. Maybe…
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Added by Ary Aranguiz on September 12, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments
Life Skills As Critical As Basic Skills
Somewhere around fourth grade, students stop learning like sponges and become more like mollusks. But why do students lose that zest for learning they once showed in the primary grades? As children develop their own identity, they are less likely to want to learn what we know they need to learn and will be more likely to choose to learn only what interests them. The problem is what interests them is usually in direct contrast to what they need to learn to become contributing members of…
Added by Ary Aranguiz on September 10, 2011 at 9:30pm — No Comments
Join Us: Launching the 4th Digital Media & Learning Competition: Badges for Lifelong Learning
We hope you can join us on September 15th, either in person or via the webcast, for the announcement of the fourth HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. Badges for lifelong learning would make a great #Edchat topic!
Today learning happens anytime, anyplace, at any age. How can 21st century learners demonstrate their…
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Are They Talking Behind Your Back?
Whether you want to admit it, or not, there are two societies thriving in your classroom; one is in plain view which you take credit for leading fearlessly, and keeping under control,and then something very human begins to happen right behind your back. Whether we like it or not, an “underground” society emerges which you as the teacher are not privy to, a secret society…
Added by Ary Aranguiz on September 7, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments
The Evolution of Vocabulary Instruction: Fotobabble.com
So on Monday, you assign your students 20 vocabulary words; give them a menu of tried and true vocabulary exercises on Tuesday to challenge them to learn and use the words throughout the week; test them on Friday, yet half the students fail the vocabulary test. A month later, most students say they have never heard those words in their entire…
Added by Ary Aranguiz on September 6, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments
Transforming your "To Do" List into a "To LEARN" List
Transforming your "To Do" list into a "To Learn" list
"I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught"
Winston…
Added by Bill Burkhead on August 9, 2011 at 5:31am — 4 Comments
It takes a community to raise a school
We’re inspiring tomorrow’s change agents and empowering them with the skills and tools to effect positive change in their communities. It all starts by engaging the creative, physical, and technical skills that have been identified as necessary to both adapt and thrive in our ever changing world.
We also believe in diverse and dynamic groups. We see great benefit in…
Added by Brendan O'Keefe on August 8, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments
Massively Google
More and more Google+ is feeling more like a great big MOOC where everyone's trying to boost everybody else up and lifehack each other to online success. It's a refreshing cultural shift from inane FB statuses and stale breadcrumbs from twitter birds. Google+ handles global conversations with daring and grit. This is what learning should feel like.
Added by Ari Bancale on July 23, 2011 at 9:53pm — 1 Comment
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