Month: January 2014

See on Scoop.it – Teaching Tools Today

With five satellites scanning the globe, DigitalGlobe has collected impressive imagery of planet Earth this year. Check out their top 20 images here.

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See on Scoop.it – Science for Kids

Part I, island biogeography in a World Regional context…click here to watch part II, why island biogeography matters in places that aren’t on islands.  All links archived at: http://geographyeducation.org/2013/12/06/island-biogeography/

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“This website was designed to help all classroom teachers find apps and resources for using an iPad in their classrooms.”

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See on Scoop.it – Leader of Pedagogy

Teaching is both craft and profession — and more.

 

Thus teaching is a deeply social and emotional activity. You have to know your students and be able to read them quickly, and from that reading make decisions to slow down or speed up, stay with a point or return to it later, connect one student’s comment to another’s.

 

Simultaneously, you are assessing on the fly Susie’s silence, Pedro’s slump, Janelle’s uncharacteristic aggressiveness. Students are, to varying degrees, also learning from each other, learning all kinds of things, from how to carry oneself to how to multiply mixed numbers.

 

How teachers draw on this dynamic interaction varies depending on their personal style, the way they organize their rooms, and so on—but it is an ever-present part of the work they do.

 

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See on Scoop.it – Leader of Pedagogy

Rotana Ty shares a wonderful essay on collective learning for Permamarks blog. He has curated ideas by many thought leaders on the topic including Marcia Conner, Nilofer Merchant, John Hagel, Tiffany Shlain, Gideon Rosenblatt, J.

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