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Teaching More by Lecturing Less. Love numbers? A reading list for math enthusiasts. Ready to level up your working knowledge of math?

Love numbers? A reading list for math enthusiasts

Below, Jennifer Ouellette, author of The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse shares her favorite mathematics reading picks. 20 Simple Assessment Strategies You Can Use Every Day. 20 Simple Assessment Strategies You Can Use Every Day by Saga Briggs The ultimate goal of teaching is understanding.

20 Simple Assessment Strategies You Can Use Every Day

But sometimes it’s easier to talk than to teach, as we all know, especially when we need to cover a lot of material in a short amount of time. We hope students will understand, if not now then before test time, and we keep our fingers crossed that their results will indicate we’ve done our job. The problem is, we often rely on these tests to measure understanding and then we move on. An MIT Learning Program Challenges Many Ed-Tech Assumptions. Scientists Discover New Shape When Playing With Rubber Bands. What do you yet when you cross a rubber band with an octopus?

Scientists Discover New Shape When Playing With Rubber Bands

A whole new shape, it turns out, with perversions. The Harvard researchers who made the discovery were seeking to make springs. Learning Archives - TeachThought. It’s Not About The Thinking by Terry Heick It’s not the thinking behind an idea that should bother us, but rather the effect of the idea.

Learning Archives - TeachThought

#edtech. Content-based academic standards. PLCs. Use of data…. Read Post → 4 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy by TeachThought Staff Bloom’s Taxonomy can be a powerful tool to transform teaching and learning. Swivl for Flipped Classroom. Swivl is a remote controlled mobile accessory, app and cloud hosting service that helps you deliver lessons and easily capture them on video.

Swivl for Flipped Classroom

The flipped classroom is a teaching model in which the traditional lecture and homework elements of a class or course are flipped. Instead of having students sit through lectures during class, instructors record and assign them to be watched as homework. Swivl makes getting started with this technique easy for everyone. Simply teach the way you’ve always taught, capture it on video and turn it into useful flipped class content. Art of Observation (Theatre Program) These programs support the Prescribed Learning Outcomes of the B.C.

Art of Observation (Theatre Program)

Ministry of Education's Integrated Resource Packages (IRPs) and the Aquarium's conservation mission Kindergarten Visual Arts: A1 use imagination, observation, and stories to create images C1 describe various purposes of visual arts. Overview - Welcome to Flubaroo. The grades created by Flubaroo will be located in an adjacent worksheet called "Grades", as shown: For each submission, Flubaroo will show which questions were answered correctly ("1" point"), which incorrectly ("0" points), and which were not graded.

Overview - Welcome to Flubaroo

If less than 60% of students got a question correct, the question will be highlighted in orange to alert you. STEM education gives girls new outlook on their futures. MADISON, Ala.

STEM education gives girls new outlook on their futures

(WHNT) – Tuesday, Liberty Middle School 7th grade girls got hands-on experience and a new outlook on their futures. With men dominating science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, local educators want to get young girls interested in STEM. Diffusion, Osmosis and Active Transport. Why Single Sex Education Is Good For Girls. Blogging about the ocean wonders of Northern Vancouver Island. Education – for conservation! Mapping Ebola's Deadly Spread. ESS_lesson3_10.19.05.pdf. Ed and Periodic Videos. Kelp Data Collection Sheet. Readings on formative assessment / Assessment in the classroom / Home - Assessment. There is a wealth of reports and articles available concerning the principles and practices of formative assessment.

Readings on formative assessment / Assessment in the classroom / Home - Assessment

We feature a key selection of them here. Some of these articles, where they have relevance, are also featured in other pages of this website. ‘Black Box’ articles - seminal articles on Assessment for Learning Inside the Black Box Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment. Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam. Working Inside the Black Box Working Inside the Black Box: Assessment for Learning in the Classroom. Veritasium: "13 Misconceptions About Global Warming" and more videos - and - Mail. The freshwater biome. How to Create Stop Motion Videos With JellyCam. ED TECH COACHING: Fixing the Flipped Classroom: @EDpuzzle. Green Bricks: Sustainable building issues in schools and communities. Handouts.

How Many Stars There Are in the Sky, explained in ten seconds. Learning Archives - TeachThought. How to speed up chemical reactions (and get a date) - Aaron Sams. Vital Statistics for Canada. 1.

Vital Statistics for Canada

Core Knowledge: 2. 15 Twitter Hacks That Will Turn You Into a Twitter Ninja. Admit it. Sometimes, your Twitter life is messy. You follow hundreds of people — maybe thousands. Twitter basics - Technical glossary. JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. Build Your Online School. From Guilt to Google: Experimenting with Tech Tools to Improve Writing Feedback. Google Sites. What is Google Sites? Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team website as easy as editing a document. With Google Sites, you can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text — and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, an entire organization, or the world.

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