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Apps. Psychological impact of grades on a student. “I remember the first time that a grading rubric was attached to a piece of my writing….Suddenly all the joy was taken away. I was writing for a grade — I was no longer exploring for me. Lesson Plan: 10 Ways to Teach About Geography. Lalo de Almeida for The New York TimesPopulation growth in the Brazilian jungle is visible in places like Parauapebas.

Lesson Plan: 10 Ways to Teach About Geography

On the outskirts, slums stretch to the horizon and houses continue to go up. Go to related article » Geography frequently takes a back seat to history in the social studies classroom, but teaching geographic literacy is essential if students are going to understanding the challenges and opportunities of our complex world. We have created 10 activities for teaching about geography using Times content, all related to the National Geography Standards, which were produced by the Geography Education National Implementation Project.

Our list is a grab-bag of ideas — from designing maps to analyzing border conflicts — and teachers can use the activities in any order, or as a road map for tracking ongoing coverage of geography-related issues.1. 2. Learning Center- tutoring and intervention. Research Links 'Responsive' Teaching to Academic Gains. Embracing Introversion: Ways to Stimulate Reserved Students in the Classroom. In April, Mark Phillips wrote this article for Edutopia that highlighted the importance of recognizing the introvert in your classroom.

Embracing Introversion: Ways to Stimulate Reserved Students in the Classroom

If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, please do. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Phillips most poignant point was this: I tend to shy away from books that focus on helping a child to "overcome" being an introvert. Although I think it's important to help introverted children learn to effectively navigate our extrovert-dominated world, I don't see introversion as a characteristic that needs to be "overcome," and neither do psychologists. As an introvert, I couldn’t agree with him more. 21st Century School Librarianship. Education. Virtual Worlds. Adventures in Learning.

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In Grockit Answers, interactions happen around video lectures, and participants ask and answer questions about specific points in the lecture. Since every question is attached to a specific point in time in the video, Grockit Answers displays a question and its answers at the point in the lecture that they are most relevant. - Teachers, leaders, and learners can podcast right from their phones! 0 Comments March 15, 2012 By: Lisa Nielsen Mar 15 Written by: 3/15/2012 3:20 AM ShareThis In the busy school day many teachers and leaders don’t feel their schedules allow for the complexities of the equipment and set up necessary for podcasting.

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Phone casting provides the ability to easily create and capture an audio broadcast from your phone that can be published and shared. 21st Century Education. Virtual High School Welcomes You! Academics-SummerSchool. Pre Algebra 101. 1.4 CEUs :: 14 Contact Hours :: Self-Paced :: Instructor-Led :: 6 Month Subscription An understanding of algebra is a foundational skill to virtually all topics in higher-level mathematics, and it is useful in science, statistics, accounting, and numerous other professional and academic areas.

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This course builds a bridge between simple whole-number arithmetic operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and algebra. This course begins by reviewing the basic arithmetic operations and their mutual relationships, and it then goes on to develop an understanding of fractions and how to perform operations on them. The Future of Education - Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked World. Grammar. 10 Apps for Learners Who Struggle with Reading and/or Writing. Despite the growing use of multimedia in classrooms, schools remain primarily text oriented.

10 Apps for Learners Who Struggle with Reading and/or Writing

This is a major problem for significant numbers of learners who struggle with text. No matter how capable they may be in other respects, these students are not “academically” oriented in the ways that tend to matter most in the classroom. For many, it’s a processing issue. Others have difficulty with the physical mechanics of writing. So, as I’ve explored possibilities with the iPhone and iPad, my most urgent priority has been to discover free and low-cost tools that can be effective in supporting individuals who struggle with text. Apple Rolls Out iPad Textbooks, Publishing Software for Teachers. Apple held an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York today.

Apple Rolls Out iPad Textbooks, Publishing Software for Teachers

The company’s number one initiative: “Reinventing the textbook,” said SVP of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller. Apple announced iBooks 2, a free app for the iPad and iPhone that will replace the first version, which was announced alongside the original iPad in early 2010. The newest version of iBooks features iPad-specific textbooks from publishers McGraw-Hill and Pearson; titles from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “are coming soon,” says Apple. (MORE: Liveblog: Apple’s Education Event) The textbooks sport interactive features such as diagrams, photos and video clips, along with 3D objects that can be rotated.

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