Traveling Light: the teacher that arrives to work with just his keys! The other week I pulled up to work at the same time as one of our Grade 1/2 teachers. While I got out of my car juggling my usual laptop bag, lunch and sets of keys, I noticed that this teacher was carrying nothing but his lunchbox. “Traveling light?” I asked. “Always!” The next week I ran into him again on the way into work. This particular teacher saw no reason to carry anything with him from school to home or visa versa. Dropbox: all his files are stored through Dropbox.
Google Apps: all our school calendars are run through Google calendars on our Google Apps for Education account. All our staff planning documents are also on Google through Google docs. Also, because all our students have a Google Apps account, they do most of their work online through Google docs, spreadsheets, draw etc. Evernote: I wrote as comprehensively as possible about Evernote in my previous post. What about actually marking student work to give back to students? So what’s the end of the story? 4+1 Reasons Why Pen And Paper Are Still Better Than An iPad « Viet Tran. Leave alone the price, I will discuss in this post why a $.99 ballpoint pen and a paper notepad is still better than a $500.00+ iPad. The beautiful enormous multi-touch iPad screen shouts out for handwriting applications. That is why there are at least a dozen iPad apps today aiming for handwriting notes (smartNotes, Penultimate, TakeNotes, WritePad, uWrite, Scribble Notes, PaperPad, WriteNow – I just searched the App Store for “handwriting”).
I recently added one more into the collection – Notes +. Many of these apps focus more on the cool factor (the hype) than on being practical. And they are not even close comparing to pen and paper. 1. Average human fingertip size is about 64 – 100 square millimeters (8 – 10 mm wide); the pad of the finger, which most people touch with, is 100 – 196 square millimeters (Ubuntu Designing for Finger UIs). The tip size of a 1.0mm ballpoint pen is, well, 1.0 mm. Would you bring a pile of Post-It notes to a meeting or a class in place of a notepad?
2. 3. "On the Brain" with Dr. Mike Merzenich, Ph.D. - Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge. The 21st Century. PEARSON en español. Read blogs and exercise the brain. April 23, 2012 by mrkaiser208 I have been writing this blog for just over two years now. In that time, on several occasions, I have had fellow teachers ask if I could send them the links to new sites or apps that I have ran across. I have also been asked if I could send the links to instructional pages or videos that I have either created or discovered. My answer is, “Go to my blog. It’s all there.” Then the reality of the situation is that I go to my blog, find the links, and then email them to the anxiously awaiting recipient. What makes me do this is the repeated response of, “Oh, you have blog.” Though blogs have been around for years, the general populations still doesn’t see them as a valuable professional tool.
One of the most valuable pieces of professional development instruction for teachers is that of setting up an RSS reader for the sake of professional reading. Does every0ne have to read a blog to keep up on what is current? This short video might be a good place to start. The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss. “Everyone’s looking for rules to follow, and the sooner you realize there aren’t any, the better art can be.”– Jerrod Carmichael Jerrod Carmichael is pushing the boundaries of comedy with his groundbreaking work in stand-up, television, and film. Now just 29 years old, what this driven North Carolina native has accomplished is mind-boggling, and 2017 is going to be his biggest year yet.
Jerrod stars in the hit NBC series The Carmichael Show, which he also writes and executive produces. The third season of the show premieres in 2017. In March of 2017, Jerrod will star in his second stand-up comedy special on HBO, directed by Bo Burnham. He made his debut on HBO in 2014 with his critically acclaimed one-hour special, Love at the Store, directed by Spike Lee. Love at the Store is the funniest standup special I’ve seen in many years, and it’s the reason I reached out to Jerrod.
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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. He concludes: “Maybe our greater emphasis shouldn’t be on training users to work with bad search tools, but to improve the search tools.” 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? Related. Uppityshirts — Are you wicked smart? Tea Time Blogspot Skin.
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What Schools Can Learn From Google, IDEO, and Pixar. A community about to build or rehab a school often creates checklists of best practices, looks for furniture that matches its mascot, and orders shiny new lockers to line its corridors. These are all fine steps, but the process of planning and designing a new school requires both looking outward (to the future, to the community, to innovative corporate powerhouses) as well as inward (to the playfulness and creativity that are at the core of learning). In many ways, what makes the Googles of the world exceptional begins in the childhood classroom -- an embrace of creativity, play, and collaboration. It was just one year ago that 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the number-one leadership competency in our complex global marketplace. We can no longer afford to teach our kids or design their schoolhouses the way we used to if we’re to maintain a competitive edge. [Photos by Steve Hall] The Blue Valley Schools Center for Advanced Professional Studies (BVCAPS) takes a similar approach.
Stand Again. It’s hard to describe to people all of the magic that happens at Anastasis on a daily basis. It really does feel like something special, a magical quality of falling down the rabbit hole into another world where school is fun and challenging and wonderful. The learning that happens here is very organic, it lacks a formulaic approach. So when people ask us how they can do what we do, it isn’t a simple answer. Anastasis learners are in a continual state of growth, discovery, and creativity. We are just wrapping up an Inquiry unit about “How the World Works.” The nice thing about having ALL students in the same big guided inquiry during a block, is the incredible overlaps in learning that occur between classes.
For each inquiry block I give teachers an inquiry guide with the driving inquiry question, the key concept, and the individual lines of inquiry that could be explored. This is the point that the magic I mentioned above starts to happen. Inside the planetarium: Planets The Jr. TEDMED. The Walker Library of Human Imagination. The Long Tail. Strange Maps. Waiter Rant. Jack, Jake, whoever. iLearn Technology. The Quantum Universe: Why Anything That Can Happen Does Happen. By Maria Popova What Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle has to do with the science of paper and the root of the human condition. “The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously remarked. “We’re made of star-stuff,” Carl Sagan countered. But some of the most fascinating and important stories are those that explain atoms and “star stuff.” Quantum theory is perhaps the prime example of the infinitely esoteric becoming the profoundly useful.
The story weaves a century of scientific hindsight and theoretical developments, from Einstein to Feynman by way of Max Planck, who coined the term “quantum” in 1900 to describe the “black body radiation” of hot objects through light emitted in little packets of energy he called “quanta,” to arrive at a modern perspective on quantum theory and its primary role in predicting observable phenomena. Consider the world around you. Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month.
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