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Information Fluency Video. Teacher’s Guide Series | The Academy. Home : Education & Outreach : Teacher’s Guide Series The Academy, in cooperation with Young Minds Inspired, produces a series of teacher's guides that explore the art and science of motion pictures. The activities are designed to capitalize on students' natural interest in current films and the excitement generated by the Academy Awards to teach valuable lessons in critical thinking and creative writing, and to develop visual literacy skills. Each teaching guide is available in its entirety to download and print. The guides are made available to more than 19,500 U.S. high schools throughout the United States, reaching 39,600 teachers and nearly 2.4 million students. Teacher's Guides. The Prepared Graduate:The Essential Cognitive Backpack.

Sally was a diligent, determined honor student at her suburban high school. She applied her sharply focused mind to attain consistently praiseworthy results on examinations, and she was awesome in her precise recall of scientific facts, important dates in history, and mathematical processes. The reports that she wrote for various subjects were usually compilations of tightly organized snippets of information that she had found on the Internet and repackaged. But now that she is a freshman at a leading state university, Sally's academic performance is in a state of alarming decline. She recently received a C- on an English test that required her to discuss the different ways in which Robert Frost uses irony and metaphor.

Sally also feels anxious and confused in Philosophy 101 because she can't fathom such concepts as existentialism, Platonism, and logical positivism. Back in high school, Sally succeeded by deploying her outstanding rote memory. In-Depth Understanding Mental Engagement.

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Digital Citizenship. Presentation Tools. Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know. Getty The Internet has made researching subjects deceptively effortless for students — or so it may seem to them at first. Truth is, students who haven’t been taught the skills to conduct good research will invariably come up short. That’s part of the argument made by Wheaton College Professor Alan Jacobs in The Atlantic, who says the ease of search and user interface of fee-based databases have failed to keep up with those of free search engines. In combination with the well-documented gaps in students’ search skills, he suggests that this creates a perfect storm for the abandonment of scholarly databases in favor of search engines. His article is responding to a larger, ongoing conversation about whether the ubiquity of Web search is good or bad for serious research. So what are the hallmarks of a good online search education?

SKILL-BUILDING CURRICULUM. A THOROUGH, MULTI-STEP APPROACH. TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING SOURCES. TECHNICAL SKILLS FOR ADVANCED SEARCH. Related. The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have. By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below.

The 21st century teacher should be able to : 1- Create and edit digital audio Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Free Audio Tools for Teachers 2- Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : A List of Best Bookmarking Websites for Teachers 3- Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Great Tools to Create Protected Blogs and Webpages for your Class 4- Exploit digital images for classroom use Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Web Tools to Edit Pictures without Installing any softwareTools to Convert Photos into Cartoons. Resources | Microsoft Safety & Security Center. Library Tutorials.

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Stewardship. EduTyping | Keyboarding Online | Web-based Keyboarding | Typing Software for Schools. Global Competence. 21st Century Fluency Project.