Category: pbl
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The Thursday Folder and Worksheet Measured Learning
At the February 2009 Oklahoma Technology Association’s conference, keynote speaker Will Richardson told a story about the worksheets his own students bring home from their public school each week which resonated with me. Will said he’d contemplated keeping all the papers for an entire school year in a big stack, and then photographing them to…
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Discussing the importance of good questions and inquiry with Kiwi primary teachers, YouTube karaoke
These are my notes from the unconference time at Learning@School 09 Different models are suggested for inquiry units. These are stages or steps for one model discussed by a teacher at our table: immersion (provocation, exploration phase, building relevance) questioning plan gather and sort create and share take action At one school, they are doing…
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Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools by Erin Freeman and Heath Sawyer
These are my notes from Erin Freeman and Heath Sawyer’s presentation “Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools” at Learning@School 09 in Rotorua, New Zealand today. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. ERIN IS TEACHING AT AN AMAZINGLY INNOVATIVE SCHOOL WHICH PERMITS STUDENTS TO BRING THEIR OWN LAPTOPS TO SCHOOL. THEY HAVE FIVE CLASSROOMS…
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Howe Oklahoma Students lead virtual field trip at Fort Smith, Arkansas
This past Friday, February 13, 2009, 8th and 9th grade students from Tammy Parks’ journalism class at Howe Public Schools in southeast Oklahoma shared a student-led virtual field trip with students in Irasburg Village School, Vermont, conducted from the Fort Smith National Historic Site in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A two minute video about the field…
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Student-Created Virtual Field Trips: Howe Public Schools Live and On Location!
These are my notes from Tammy Parks‘ session “Student-Created Virtual Field Trips: Howe Public Schools Live and On Location!” at the Oklahoma Technology Association (OTA) conference on 11 February 2009. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Howe PS has 475 students PK-12. Talking today about a virtual field trip that Tammy’s high school…
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International Education Partnerships: The Need for a Global Perspective
These are my notes from the presentation “International Education Partnerships: The Need for a Global Perspective” at the OU K-20 Center’s MidWinter Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, on 29 January 2009. MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The conference Ning is http://k20center.ning.com, and is open to anyone. How do we broaden students’ perspectives so they are…
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How should EduCon influence NECC?
Based on conversations during tonight’s “Teachers Teaching Teachers” webcast, I posted “EduCon 2.1 Lessons for NECC?” on ISTEconnects. Please share your thoughts! Technorati Tags: #necc09, necc, necc2009, educon, educon21, technology, education, conference
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Reflections on EduCon 2.1 via an EdTechTalk Webcast
These are my notes from “Teachers Teaching Teachers” on EdTechTalk Live this evening, discussing the recent EduCon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia. There were some problems with Skype and delays in the connection tonight, but I learned a great deal none-the-less from the participants. Thanks to Paul Allison for his tweet earlier in the night which…
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Numeracy and Reading Development with the iPhone Weather App
It is important for students to be enthusiastic about learning. Motivation can be tied to many things, and one of the most important elements is background knowledge or schema. For the past several months, my five year old has enthusiastically continued developing her emerging numeracy and reading skills using the weather application on my iPhone.…
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What’s going on with oil prices these days? (Challenge your students in 2009 to find out)
Looking for a challenging research topic for students to tackle after the holiday break? How about this: Explain in detail what is going on with oil and gasoline prices these days. Want to supplement lessons relating to oil and gas economics with some current, high quality videos? No need to subscribe to a commercial video-on-demand…