Gwen Mueller is an IT Professional, #dnd Gamer-girl, #coffee drinker, geek in Secondary Education, editor on tumblr #education, curating #science, and #tech resources to inspire lifelong learning with 1/4 cup of #fun.
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Send your students home with some educational apps to work their creative muscle over the summer. The list is maintained by Common Sense Media and are grouped by categories and age to make it easy to age-appropriate tools.
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aspiringchongqinger finds:
Taiwanese calligrapher Shao Lan uses a pictorial and story-telling approach to teach Chinese characters. Her website, Chineasy, is fantastic: when you click on a character, related and more complex characters appear. This will be one of many resources that I’ll use when I start learning Chinese characters next month. (For now: speaking and pronunciation practice).
Learn more about her project by reading The World of Chinese’s review or visit her website.
Images: screenshots from Chineasy.
world-shaker shares:
Coursera announces category for Teacher Professional Development
You can view them all here: https://www.coursera.org/courses?cats=teacherpd
In school, learned helplessness relates to poor grades and behavior problems. Learned helpless children doubt their ability to overcome their academic difficulties.
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There’s a difference between using technology and integrating technology in your classroom, and this list from Teachbytes can help you visualize the difference.
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world-shaker recommends:
VideoNotes - A Great Tool for Taking Notes While Watching Academic Videos
VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document.
Not sure what you want to do? Check out Career Sighted, a collection of short videos featuring real people talking about what they do and why they like their jobs.
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The Report of 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education details the results of a survey of 7,752 science and mathematics teachers in schools across the United States. Areas addressed include: teacher backgrounds and beliefs, teachers as professionals, science and mathematics courses, instructional objectives and activities, instructional resources, and factors affecting instruction.
“The study found that 76 percent of teachers “strongly agree” that search engines have conditioned students to expect to be able to find information quickly and easily (and “equate research with Googling,” they say), while 71 percent agree that digital technologies “discourage students from finding and using a wide range of sources for their research.”
Yet 87 percent of the teachers surveyed use Wikipedia, compared with 53 percent of U.S. adult Internet users. More than 80 percent of the teachers surveyed say they use the Internet tool to gather material to help them create lesson plans or find content that will engage their students. And virtually all of the teachers surveyed (99 percent) say they use search engines to find information online.”
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Problem Attic is a free service that allows you to quickly create practice tests and flashcards for social studies, language arts, mathematics, and science. Problem Attic now includes questions from past standardized tests of seventeen U.S. states.
Problem Attic makes it easy to create practice assessments and flashcards. To create your practice tests on Problem Attic you simply create a new document then browse through questions and pin them to your document. After you have pinned all of the questions that you want in your document you can arrange the order in which they appear in your document. Finally, before printing your document you choose and set the page formatting.
Exploring the Grand Canyon on Google Maps
Take a walk down the narrow trails and exposed paths of the Grand Canyon: hike down the famous Bright Angel Trail, gaze out at the mighty Colorado River, and explore scenic overlooks in full 360-degrees. You’ll be happy you’re virtually hiking once you get to the steep inclines of the South Kaibab Trail. And rather than drive a couple hours to see the nearby Meteor Crater, a click of your mouse or tap of your finger will transport you to the rim of this otherworldly site.
There isn’t an abrupt moment in time when the window of opportunity for learning another language slams shut but rather there seems to be this gradual decline that happens throughout childhood.
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MindMeister is an online mind mapping software that works like an extension of your brain. Think of it as a digital catch basin for your team’s best ideas — team members can contribute to business plans within the tool. Creative minds can piece together the big plan section by section. After the initial steps are laid out, they can be tweaked and assigned. But the app has uses cases far beyond business. If you’re planning a vacation, creating a budget or even studying for an exam, MindMeister can help you organize and visualize your big thoughts and little details in a coherent way.
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