Notes on a workshop “Teaching “spatially” with Google Earth to Investigate Land Use Issues during NECC09. Teacher resource page located at http://www.ei.lehigh.edu/nes/luc/ We have opened many .kml files on the above link and discussed observation and the concept of sprawl. Observing the different colors and discussing the trees, heat, freeway patterns, parking lots, etc. Lessons [...]
Bernie Dodge and Place Puzzles: A Design for Learning Outdoors Criteria: Low/no cost Easy Quick Critical Attibutes Resources must be studied ahead of time Map of related place Clues on map that realte the map to the resources and require both recall and ideation Optional Attibures Scores kept based on speed and accuracy Roles to [...]
Attending a session on using audio in the classroom. This is a Bring Your Own Laptop series and we are learning about using Voki to create talking avatars and VoiceThread for uploading images to invite others to comment on it. The workshop leader’s notes are located on her website. AC_Voki_Embed(100,133,”94b680b9bd67d69632f9315dd0a56696″,1551976, 1, “”, 0);Get a Voki [...]
Workshop notes at NECC09, Sunday, June 28, 2009 Workshop Links at http://sites.google.com/site/cuegli/events/2009-06-28 The handout for the day: http://www.cue.org/gwe Difference between Google Apps and Google accounts. Some districts can turn off feature in Google Apps that will render those apps useless. If you create a Google account with your own work email and then someone creates [...]
Daniel Pink Educate our kids for their future, not our past. left brain, right brain difference between our kids future and our past Asia, automation and abundance Off shoring is overhyped in the short run and underhyped in the long run India 15% of billion is 150 million.. that’s their best and brightest.. that’s more [...]
Distinguished Lecture The Global Achievement Gap Tony Wagner Know how to ask good questions and learn how to be a problem solver and how to think What skills do we need to succeed and what skills does it take to be a good citizen? Business can teach them the technical stuff, but not how to [...]
Visions of Century 21st Learning How do our students learn gaming? Not with a book. YouTube… Guitar… http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=guitar&aq=f Graphing linear equations lessons in Youtube. Viral learning… • Creating • Distribute • collaborate • access NCEE.org book.. tough choices or tough times Routine work is declining.. creative work is rising Business side = TCO Education = [...]
Fenwick English presents to the few who stayed at TASA 2009 in spite of the winter ice storm. Misconceptions – Schools are culturally neutral and treat all students the equally. 3 common causes of the gap (but are incorrect) Students… Stupidity- not smart enough incompetence – too far behind motivation Teachers.…. Ignorance – teachers lack [...]
Bill Daggett spoke to the TASA audience who were not scared away by the winter storm. Here are my notes. International Center Findings – the things that make a school highly successful are not transferable to another school, but there are 3 central findings that are transferable. Instruction is far more important than structure. Small [...]
An ill defined task with a well defined outcome. We were given a problem… to dilute food coloring to 1 in 100, 1 in 1000, 1 in 10,000, etc. We found out that food color is already diluted 1-10, so we took one drop of the color and added 9 drops of water. At first, [...]