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However, instead of making the trek over to Finland there is somewhere much closer and within the U.S. we can visit. Educators, researchers and leaders could make a pilgrimage to the great state of Massachusetts, because they ranked as highly as Finland in the current PISA results. More than 70 countries take part in PISA, and Massachusetts ranks among the top.
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U.S. we can visit. Educators, researchers and leaders could make a pilgrimage to the great state of Massachusetts, because they ranked as highly as Finland in the current PISA results. More than 70 countries take part in PISA, and Massachusetts ranks among the top.
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Many people are tempted to download videos from YouTube to show them in classrooms where YouTube is blocked. According to YouTube’s terms of use, you’re not supposed to download unless you see a download link, in order to protect video creators’ rights, so you may not want to take this route. The good news is that YouTube now offers Creative Commons-licensed videos, which are automatically safe to use. You can even modify or edit them into your own videos using the YouTube Video Editor. Enter specific keywords into YouTube’s main search bar as you normally would (“biology lectures,” for instance), then click on the “Filter & Explore” tab to the far left. In the middle of the drop-down list are the words “creative commons.” Click here and all the videos that appear under your search term will be Creative-Commons licensed. If the content you’re interested in doesn’t come with a Creative Commons tag, it helps to know that the fair use clause in the Copyright Law of the United States allows the use of works without permission for teaching. Still, the user must adhere to some key regulations that can be vague and confusing.
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My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (December 18, 2016)
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Great list of resources for bloggers
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Our School has listened to the research and will be starting HS & MS at 8:30am beginning next fall. #edchat https://t.co/8hdIdq3Nj9
Burlington One of 12 Catalyst School Districts for MA Personalized Learning EdTech Consortium (MAPLE)
Burlington Public Schools is proud to be one of 12 school districts in Massachusetts that are catalyst school districts in the MAPLE Consortium, a public/private consortium created to catalyze personalized learning in schools across the state.
The consortium, which was created by LearnLaunch Institute and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education launched yesterday at Natick High School with an event featuring MA Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester. Commissioner Chester outlined the motivation behind this initiative as follows:
“While proud of how Massachusetts schools perform when compared to other states, we need to enable success for all students, preparing them to compete globally in the 21st Century. This requires fostering and accelerating the rate of adoption of effective practices in teaching and learning,” said Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts commissioner of elementary and secondary education. “The MAPLE Consortium is a collaborative effort with local school districts to identify, analyze, and nurture successful new models of personalized learning and then catalyze and support the expansion of these models and practices across the Commonwealth.”
The entire presentation from yesterday’s kickoff event is below. The Press Release for the event can be accessed here.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (December 11, 2016)
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From Justin Reich – “The magic of our best schools is really simple. The places where people are year after year making schools better and improving teaching and learning, they are places where the faculty are having fun learning and improving their teaching. When people can find joy in their learning, they keep learning. “
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From Richard Byrne – “The Explore function in Google Docs and Google Slides makes it easy for students to find images to insert into their documents and presentations. The old research tool in Google Docs used to automatically add a link to image sources in the footer of your documents. The same is not true for the Explore function in Google Docs and Slides. In the video below I demonstrate how to find and cite the source of images that appear in the Explore menu in Google Docs and Slides. “
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Good post by Richard Wells – I particularly like the deeper questions he poses for educators to ask students: move from “What are you doing?” to “Why are you doing this?” or “Why is this the priority at the moment?” move from “how’s it going?” to “What do you need to improve so far?” or “How do you know you’re on track?” move from “Are you finished?” to “What might this lead to next?” or “Who could this project or information have an impact on?” move from “Do you understand that topic X is ABC?” to “How do you know you understand that topic X is?”
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Cool spaces – Would like to futher investigate the one-touch recording booth and the idea of more “messy spaces.
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Intersting data from Nate Silver
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From Criag Badura – “A worksheet on an iPad is still a worksheet. It’s boring. We are paid professionals, we can provide better opportunities for our students. “
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Detailed play-by-play of the happenings involving for-profit education ventures/comapnies. Their demise may be overrated with a different perspective from our new Preseident.
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Great resource from Joyce Valenza
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Good Site on deternining the reliability of sources from Northern Essex Community College
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From Jonathan Martin – “It’s been about a year since ESSA was made law, and in that time much attention has been directed to the new non-academic factors requirement, with some wide debate about which particular additional factor(s) should be selected for inclusion in the state level accountability index. “
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (December 4, 2017)
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Awesome! Teacher-driven December Challenge. #proudprincipal #edchat #edchatma #leadlap #edugladiators #mespachat… https://t.co/yLyQ2YPJ1G
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From Edutopia
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Is it optional for Ed. leaders?
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based on our review of these schools, we are confident in saying that technology, when well planned and implemented, can be a key component of a successful digital strategy that has a positive impact on student outcomes.
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From Edutopia – “In addition to these programs, Apple Education introduced the Apple Teacher program in 2016. It gives teachers a way to explore iOS and Mac tools and integrate them into their instruction to create deeper learning experiences. The program uses badges to help teachers monitor which tools they’ve mastered—they can do that within a short time frame or decide to focus on just a few tools during the school year and revisit the program over the summer.”
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To provide additional support to help district and school staff identify what should be observed in particular content-area classrooms, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), in partnership with educators in the field, has developed a suite of straightforward observation guides for grades 1–8 (K–8 for English Language Arts (ELA)). These “What to Look For” guides describe what observers should expect to see in a classroom at a particular grade level in a specific subject area. This includes the knowledge and skills students should be learning and using (as reflected in state learning standards) on the front of the page and best practices related to classroom curriculum, instruction, and assessment for each subject area on the back of the page.
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From Larry Ferlazzo – Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are all coming-up, and I thought it would be timely to create a “The Best…” list focusing on those holidays.
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so excited to find this today! Definitely doing it with @5Wclassroom @jstephengagnon https://t.co/UrGhSkQKpj
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The Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) is the region’s leading technology association and the premier network for tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors and policy leaders. MassTLC’s purpose is to accelerate innovation by connecting people from across the technology landscape, providing access to industry-leading content and ideas and offering a platform for visibility for member companies and their interests.
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another overview of new Google Sites
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An overview of the new Google Sites
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Systemic silences around issues of race, whiteness, and equity in schools sustain a status quo where whites maintain privilege while retraumatizing people of color and sapping any efforts at meaningful, transformative interventions. Instead of sanctifying silence, use this guide to stay vigilant and committed to exposing and disrupting the subtle forms of oppression at work in your school.
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Good model for Professional Learning from George Couros’ work in Winnipeg schools
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Books are uniquely suited to helping us change our relationship to the rhythms and habits of daily life in this world of endless connectivity. We can’t interrupt books; we can only interrupt ourselves while reading them.
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“In other words, while being a privileged white guy working in a reasonably-prestigious university might mean that he can avoid the 21st century for a while, for the rest of us social tools enable us to make important connections, do innovation work, and increase our serendipity surface.” —Doug Belshaw
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Earlier this year, Governor Raimondo rolled out an ambitious plan to offer computer-science classes in every school in Rhode Island by Fall 2017. Known as CS4RI, the program positions RI to become the first state in the country to offer computer science in all schools.
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From Mark Barnes via Jennifer Gonzalez
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Is that link legit? https://t.co/uUsbLXha7G
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (November 27, 2016)
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From the Washington Post – Two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment, as an insurgent candidate harnessed a wide range of grievances to claim the White House. The sophistication of the Russian tactics may complicate efforts by Facebook and Google to crack down on “fake news,” as they have vowed to do after widespread complaints about the problem.
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How do I teach a newcomer, with next-to-zero English proficiency, who is placed in my mainstream classroom without any additional outside support being provided?
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The students displayed a “stunning and dismaying consistency” in their responses, the researchers wrote, getting duped again and again. They weren’t looking for high-level analysis of data but just a “reasonable bar” of, for instance, telling fake accounts from real ones, activist groups from neutral sources and ads from articles.
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Breakout EDU is an immersive game-based learning website structured on the idea of an escape room. As in an escape room, players of Breakout EDU games work together to find clues and solve puzzles. However, instead of locking students in a room, we give them a mysterious box locked with multiple locks and ask them to figure out the combinations so they can open the box before time runs out (usually 45 minutes, but it varies according to the game).
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Explore maps and graphs of historical and projected climate trends in your local area. View data by topics to see how climate change will impact things you care about.
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From Delaware
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From Larry Ferlazzo
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From Getting Smart – “Now is the time for education leaders worldwide to rethink how schools are designed. The first step is to examine what’s already been done and identify what works and what doesn’t.”
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Good look at the importance of analytics literacy…definitely a higher level of digital literacy. We have work to do…
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Wondering about this statement from Tobias Rose-Stockwell – “I believe that the way we consume information has literally changed the kind of people we are.”
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We teaching any of this in schools? h/t to Beth Holland on this one.
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Simple pathway to competence…from Beth Holland’s Diigo Bookmarks.
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Some of this is a bit dense, but it is definitely worth scanning and simplifying…
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Good list of possible FAQ’s for students and families who are immigrants…
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from John Spencer – “While one-size-fits-all works great for socks, it’s not ideal for minds. Kids need to dream and wonder and imagine. They need to design and build and tinker. This is why I love design thinking. It’s a flexible framework that guides students through specific phases in the creative process.”
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From Cult of Pedagogy…ways regular ed teachers could make their classrooms more welcoming for special ed students.
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From Bill Ferriter – “Buzzfeed, a popular online source covering digital media and technology, opened the criticism by publishing the frightening results of an analysis of the election stories generating the most engagement — think likes, shares and comments — on Facebook in the final three months of the election. Here’s what they found:”
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (November 20, 2016)
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You want to see a truly modern vision for education? Take a look at what the Peel School Board just released https://t.co/PY9qfRC7Rn #edchat
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Using new perspectives on mathematics as a cultural and social activity and new research on learning outside the school, the authors ask readers to rethink the problem of mathematical achievement for all students, and for Latino/a and black students in particular.
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From Richard Byrne
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From Richard Byrne – On Wednesday Google announced some changes to the Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Sheets templates galleries. The old version of the templates gallery found at drive.google.com/templates will be going away at the end of the year.
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From The Verge – “From Facebook to alt-right Reddit, social media communities played a large role in gathering young voters for the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton spoke of her supporters in “secret Facebook groups” while Mark Zuckerberg, post-election, dismissed the notion that Facebook had any influence over Tuesday’s outcome. But social platforms absolutely affected the election results: here’s a look at how.”
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In the wake of fake 2016 election results being the #1 Google search result, the company has finally decided to take action against fake news sites.
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Good Overview of RTI
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From Common Sense Media – Building SEL (social and emotional learning) skills such as gratitude requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but there are tools that can supplement the development of character in the classroom and at home.
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The other phenomenon in modern media and elections is the very real presence of fake news – that is, sites propagating information, often sensational, that is unabashedly untrue right alongside, in your Facebook or Twitter feed, articles from, say, The New York Times.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (November 13, 2016)
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This is a “companion” piece to The Best Resources On Helping To Build Empathy In The Classroom – Help Me Find More, and I’m posting it a few weeks before a series on the topic will appear in my Education Week Teacher column.
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When kids are allowed to play in school, the things they are allowed to do are restricted in an unhelpful way.
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The suicide rate among youngsters ages 10 to 14 has been steadily rising, and doubled in the U.S. from 2007 to 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Good article on teaching mathematics – connections for teachers of all subjects
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From National Geographic – Join Leonardo DiCaprio as he explores the topic of climate change, and discovers what must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.
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How One School Changed Its Math Culture, Starting With Teachers https://t.co/L4XYKGYoU5 … #mindset #STEM #mathchat #edadmin
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Storing voice recordings of people younger than 13 via Alexa, Google Home and Siri appears to flout the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
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The technologies that exist in classrooms today won’t necessarily be the same ones that are around in 10 years. In particular, the days of desktop computers and laptops are numbered, according to educators in Campus Technology’s 2016 Teaching with Technology survey.
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From Dean Shareski – “CBC has released an excellent series called This is High School. The 6 part series follows a couple of vice-principals and at a high school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Each episode features 2 students who have various challenges.”
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From The Southern Poverty Law Center – “Our report found that the campaign is producing an alarming level of fear and anxiety among children of color and inflaming racial and ethnic tensions in the classroom. Many students worry about being deported.”
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (November 6, 2016)
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“The Cubs built the best team in baseball by scouting for soft skills is a new article from Quartz describing some of the methods the World Series champion Chicago Cubs used to evaluate potential players.”
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Good lesson on the importance of multiple sources – and following the $. https://t.co/E9T4ZGF1WW
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (October 30, 2016)
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How Do Football and Soccer Measure Up When it Comes to Brain Injuries? | Big Think
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Best of Luck With the Wall (video)
In his film Best of Luck With the Wall, director Josh Begley takes us on a journey across the entire US/Mexico border. It’s a simple premise — a continuous display of 200,000 satellite images of the border from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico — but one that delivers a powerful feeling of how large the world is and how meaningless borders are from a certain perspective.
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Comparing the 2016 and 2012 FLVC Student Textbook Survey Results
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NMC Releases Horizon Project Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy | The New Media Consortium
This project was launched because there is a lack of consensus across the field about how to define digital literacy and implement effective programs. A survey was disseminated throughout the NMC community of higher education leaders and practitioners to understand how digital literacy initiatives are impacting their campuses. The NMC’s research examines the current landscape to illuminate multiple models of digital literacy — universal literacy, creative literacy, and literacy across disciplines — around which dedicated programs can proliferate a spectrum of skills and competencies.
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Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race – ProPublica
From ProPublica – “Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays.”
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The Great Unbundling of Textbook Publishers -e-Literate
“If current trends continue, then textbook publishers will soon find that it no longer makes sense for them to be selling products based on the value of the content. The real money will be in a few areas: High-end digital products that directly or indirectly improve student outcomes Related services that help colleges improve student outcomes Services that help colleges improve the unsexy but critical aspects staying viable, from marketing to administration
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Creating Personalized Learning for English Language Learners
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See how a school district will save hundreds of thousands on textbooks | MLive.com
Mona Shores Public Schools stands to save $80,000-$100,000 every time the district doesn’t buy new textbooks because it’s using openly licensed resources.
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It’s time for a new story: The talks of Session 4 of TEDWomen 2016 | TED Blog
In Session 4 of TEDWomen 2016 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, seven speakers (and a ballet company!) asked us to rethink how we tell each other stories, to empower us all.
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Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths. The Debunking Handbook boils the research down into a short, simple summary, intended as a guide for communicators in all areas (not just climate) who encounter misinformation.”
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@patrickmlarkin nice tweet! #cse627f16 https://t.co/y3gejrGpXZ
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CURMUDGUCATION: The Death of Testing Fantasies
test manufacturers and the policy wonks who love them have so convinced themselves that these tests are super-important and deeply valuable that they tend to believe that students think so, too.
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For the past half year, I’ve been experimenting with the free texting app Remind. Now used by more than 35 million teachers, students, and parents nationwide, Remind is simple: It allows me to text my students and their families and allows them to text me.
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Great piece on helping #OER scale in K12 from #FutureReady asst. superintendent @patrickmlarkin #GoOpen #inacol16 https://t.co/SxnIryYtCc
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Recommended boook for teaching writing.
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Goal: Make It About the Relationships
Good relationship-building activities to utilize with students.
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Strategies to Help Students ‘Go Deep’ When Reading Digitally | MindShift | KQED News
casual digital reading on the internet has instilled bad habits in many students, making it difficult for them to engage deeply with digital text in the same way they do when reading materials printed on paper.
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the problem is to know what questions to ask
“So, when we say that education is the best tool to prevent conflict, we are not only talking about education as usual, but about brand new skills to master and control the new powerful tools that ICTs and social media put in our hands. And it is not only digital literacy in the sense of knowing how to use a computer, or an Internet browser. Not even digital literacy in the sense of knowing where to get good information and how to manage it. It is about new strategic literacies to live in a brand new world that is just disclosing itself.” – Ismael Peña-López
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Two rounds? Jumping the gun a little, aren’t we? https://t.co/zofQLPEs5d
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MPCC – Minnesota Partnership for Collaborative Curriculum
@turnerhj @patrickmlarkin @annapnolin We have some great examples of collaboratively created #OER https://t.co/zqmcGhdU3x
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