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- “Perhaps our generation focused on information, but these kids focus on meaning—how does information take on meaning?” – John Seeley Brown In th...
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Social Media: Yackpack
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- YackPack ( http://yackpack.com/ ) is helping educators realize the potential of Web 2.0 tools. The boundaries of the classroom are suddenly much wider when everyone can login ...
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Flickr in the K-12 Classroom
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- In the past, students would cut pictures out of National Geographic, Life and other magazines to illustrate reports. Now thanks to Flickr, students and teachers have the abilit...
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Flickr + GeotaggingEDU
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- Flickr + GeotaggingEDU “Geotag” your photos (using the Organizr) to show where you took them or browse a world map to see where other people have been and wha...
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- This lesson will cover the recommended way to use Brain Power Math as part of your teaching arsenal. If you haven’t done so already, download Brain Power Math. It’s ...
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- How Do We Promote Higher Level Thinking Today?It’s one thing for educators to teach to tests that offer learners certification that proves they’ve mastered key facts...
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The Great Forgetting
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- READ THIS!The dawning of the Bad Memory Century will have vast consequences for the social fabric and the international balance of power.David Brooks often irritates me, but thi...
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- To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation. While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by oth...
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- “Virtually all learning difficulties that children face are caused by adults’ inability to set up reasonable environments for them. The biggest barrier to improving education fo...
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Learn Hebrew
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- Learn basic He...
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Teaching Music Online
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- Can you teach music over the Internet? How? Can you teach with Youtube? Nirvana? Piczo? Audacity? Billboard? Newsfeeds? Can you teach in a way that is engaging for the learner? ...
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K12 Lesson Plan Repository
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- This is a resource that I wanted to share across groups so I made it a lesson to make sharing easier. LEARN NORTH CAROLINA, a program of the University of North Carolina at C...
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- I’m having a provocative dialogue with a LearnHub colleague about what constitutes an online “lesson,” what constitutes a “discussion” or a “...
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Wearable e-Learning System
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- Mobile Augmented Reality Systems (MARS) have the potential to provide continuous and autonomous instruction to human learners anytime, anyplace, and at any pace. MARS-based lear...
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Web2.0 Content Writing
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- “This is a recent excerpt from a Blog about SEO and SEM Targeting. It has significant relevance to elearning environs. Our “courses and content” are tools in t...
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Interesting Lessons
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- Why not spend less time learning in class and more online?
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- Monday to Friday, from 7:30am to 3:30pm, Mark Cruthers teaches traditional high school students face-to-face in Pinion Hills, California. Then, after 4pm, Mark teaches homeschoo...
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- Every year the University of North Carolina puts on a 3-day conference on teaching and learning. I am lucky enough to go to the conference every year. Below you’ll find in...
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iPods
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- iPods in Education iPods may be an effective way to learn 24/7. The only requirement is the purchase of an iPod and ...
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3rd: Open Access Textbooks
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- Textbooks are dinosaurs of a past age. They are out of date when they are printed. Instructors usually don’t assign the whole book because there are only a few chapters th...
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- PLE (Personal Learning Environment) is a concept that has caught a lot of attention lately. Essentially a PLE is a collection of dynamically growing resources that are personal...
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- Intended Audience This lesson is specifically intended for Nellie Deutsch. A markup language describes hows something is structured. HTML describes how a web-site ...
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Talking Photos
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- Listen to the Photo Talk Make online learning and instruction exciting by adding voice to your photos in a very simple way. Just upload the photos and record through...
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- Listening to Mark Cruthers’ talk about his experience teaching AP History online to a group of homeschoolers, what comes up for you?(If you haven’t yet heard this in...
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Practicing Mindfulness
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- Practice mindfulness with Jon Kabbat-Zinn Mindfulness is falling awake. It may take practice but mindfulness is an awareness that can bring us to our senses. Jon Kabbat-Zinn h...
