Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles School Success-the New Tech Network Rubric How should we measure the success of a school system? For the last few decades, the states have wanted to see high achievement on standardized tests. Parents want a safe school and a successful student ready for college and career. The local newspapers like it when the sports teams are winning. We could measure the success of a school in literally dozens of ways, from cost per pupil to dropout and attendance rates. But what would happen if we chose to focus on student success as the sole measure of a school’s success? That’s exactly what the New Tech Network has done with our re-imagined School Success Rubric. One of the things that distinguish highly successful schools is what the students experience while on campus … in short, the culture of the school. Connected · Students have positive relationships with adults and peers in the school community and feel a sense of belonging. · Students feel empowered to contribute positively to the community and take on leadership roles. Engaged Skills
Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy | Center for Teaching & Learning | UNC Charlotte Various researchers have summarized how to use Bloom’s Taxonomy. Following are four interpretations that you can use as guides in helping to write objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy. From: KC Metro [old link, no longer functioning?] Bloom’s Taxonomy divides the way people learn into three domains. From: UMUC From: Stewards Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. ©2001 St. From: GA Tech According to Benjamin Bloom, and his colleagues, there are six levels of cognition: Knowledge: rote memorization, recognition, or recall of facts Comprehension: understanding what the facts mean Application: correct use of the facts, rules, or ideas Analysis: breaking down information into component parts Synthesis: combination of facts, ideas, or information to make a new whole Evaluation: judging or forming an opinion about the information or situation
Exploring YouTube's education channels Teachers are posting their lessons online in fun educational videos that draw-in tech-savvy kids who love multimedia. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports. YouTube is usually associated with the latest viral video, but now growing numbers of people are turning to the video-sharing website for education instead of entertainment. Teachers are broadcasting lessons online, everything from biology to foreign languages -- and for some, this online "classroom" is more inspiring than the confines of brick and mortar. Below, check out some of the most popular channels on YouTube EDU. Steve SpanglerYouTube was only five months old when this former teacher first taught viewers how to turn a bottle of Diet Coke and a roll of Mentos into an exploding geyser. Rob TarrouWhat started off as a way to help students at St. Alex DainisAlex Dainis is "a biology nerd, music lover, film geek.” Paul AndersonPaul Anderson started creating videos for the students in his class several years ago.
Ananth Pai: Gamifying the Classroom Bio Ananth Pai Ananth Pai is an elementary school teacher who has two decades of experience in using technology to improve business operations. To download this program become a Front Row member. ZOOM IN: Learn more with related books and additional materials. Encyclopædia Britannica Article education Learning that takes place in schools or school-like environments (formal education) or in the world at large; the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. education on britannica.com © 2010 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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Team - Drill Head Now we can move to a different subject; let’s talk about the things that our class learns on the Nintendo DS's. One very useful learning game on the DS is the game Brain Age 2, my favorite game on Brain Age 2 is "Word Scramble". You are given some letters and have to unscramble the letters to make a word. I think this game is useful because you learn to spell words in a fun way. For example, I learned how to spell the word "overflowing," on that game. Now we can talk about the voice recorders. Because of all this and how well we have done in our MAP tests (100% of the students in our class have increased our scores from Fall to Winter, 85% of us have scored more than or very near our goals for Spring in our Winter test already, and almost 65% of us have done the same in Math), we think that all classrooms should have technology that children can use, so all children can benefit and be successful. I hope you will agree with me about this law that our class wants to make.
The mind business Yoga, meditation, ‘mindfulness’ – why some of the west’s biggest companies are embracing eastern spirituality ©Paul Shambroom General Mills, the company behind Cheerios cereal and Häagen-Dazs ice cream, is headquartered on a leafy expanse outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. Enclosed walkways connect a network of modernist buildings, protecting Midwestern workers from heat and humidity in the summer, and bitter cold and towering snowdrifts in the winter. Inside the halls, some 3,000 people work on everything from product development and marketing to litigation, regulation and mergers and acquisitions. The employee base is generally reflective of middle America – predominantly white, casually dressed and possessing a genial, if hard-working, disposition. Yet there are signs that in some significant ways, General Mills has a distinctly unusual corporate culture. This isn’t some passing fad sweeping middle management, or a pilot programme dreamed up by human resources.