October 2011
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(Raising my hand) I have a question:
When was the last time you opened an actual dictionary to look up a word?
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50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom →
Lost in Boston: My First Grade Classroom →
skim-lostinboston:
I’m a living zombie because everyday, in addition to fulfilling my grad school courses [full-time], I am working [full-time] as a first grade teacher. I love my job. Sometimes, the dark circles and sleep deprivation are just soooo worth it!
I’m a teacher so I get to be a candle on the…
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Connect the dots, lah, lah, lah...
Worked in a High School Special Education class the other day mainly composed of students with behavior challenges, at least this was what I was told. If behavior was this classroom’s challenge, I did not encounter it. As the class cooperated, I was given the opportunity to work with students on special assignments, one of which was this nontraditional Dot-to-Dot activity.
Giving students...
Top 12 Ways to Increase Student Participation →
world-shaker:
The best part of this article is that it’s really 3 ways to increase participation in 4 different scenarios. Those include:
The content is repetitive
The content is too hard
There’s too much information to present in too short a time
The lesson emphasize the teacher, not the students
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“Books are changing; but are the fundamentals of reading and writing? Seeing a...”
– Ebooks don’t spell the end of literature | Art and design | guardian.co.uk (via infoneer-pulse)
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10 ways Steve Jobs changed the world →
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