February 2012
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“How often do you see a person with gold in their pocket and no grace in their...”
– James Lee Adams, Jr., my dad
This is very true.
January 2012
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“Many people throw more out the back door with a spoon, than you can tote in the...”
– Poppa Adams, my great grandfather
Talking about how the small things are often the undoing of people.
I see this to be very true about the school day. Time is taken for announcements and then people get on the intercom, then fire drills, then let them end 5 minutes early. Eventually, you’ve...
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If you're going to spend money: buy activities not... →
“A new study suggests that those who spend money to do things are happier than those who spend their money on possessions.”
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Is Fomalhaut b a new planet or dust cloud #scichat →
Researchers at Princeton now refute the 2008 finding of a new planet and say it is a dust cloud.
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Thinking in Words will help students with #autism... →
I find it fascinating that Intrapersonal skills or self-talk is part of helping autistic children work through problems and cope. There is so much to learn about autism. This is a great article for those who work with the autistic.
“Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may benefit from verbally learning their daily schedule at school instead of using visual timetables, the common...
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Chinese Lantern Festival Lesson Plans →
In the chinese lantern festival (coming up on February 6), children in China and in other areas across Asia, carry lanterns with riddles on them as they go into their temples. Here are some lesson plans and templates for making your own lanterns. You could have students put riddles on them relating to topics you have going in your classroom.
Image via Wikipedia
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““Just days after President Barack Obama called for states to raise the...”
– Illinois Dropout Age, Huffington Post
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See Kels Learn: LA Center #3: Sight Word... →
Sight word tic tac toe. If you are a teacher, you’ll likely find something cool on Tumblr. Tons of lesson plans and center ideas like this one are shared all the time.
kelseyannie:
Lesson inspired by this one!
For my third center, I created a tic-tac-toe board by taping together nine Ziploc sandwich bags. I wrote sight words on 4x6 notecards and placed them inside the bags. I cut out Xs...
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LASCO Math Challenge #mathchat →
The Latin American Street Children’s Organization has a math challenge that runs this Friday, February 3rd. Registration is open through January 31st. It is open to classrooms around the world. I find this interesting because the students debate the strategies for solving math problems. This is the largest math competition in Ireland but is spreading to other countries. When you participate,...
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“The surest way to be nothing is to think you are everything.”
– Vicki Davis
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Library Dogs: Inspiring kids to read →
There are schools in Georgia with reading dogs. Yes, reading dogs. These animals stay in the library and kids get to. There and read to the animals. My friend Stephen Rahn shared a pic on Facebook about two he saw yesterday and sas the kids love them. They sit on the floor and read to the dogs as their tails wag and the kids love it. I think this is an amazing idea but ain one about how libraries...
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Twitter Announces Micro-Censorship Policy →
emergentfutures:
Paul Higgins: This does not sound too good
courtenaybird:
Via NYTimes.com: So much for the free-wheeling, libertarian reputation of Twitter. The company announced Thursday that it could start censoring certain content in certain countries, a sort of micro-censorship widget that would pop up up in a grey box on the Twitter feed.
“Tweet withheld,” it would read “This tweet...
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Opting out of Grading →
girlwithalessonplan:
iamlittlei:
world-shaker:
As an educator who abolished grading in 2004 and initiated a Grading Moratorium, I have an acute understanding for how grading sabotages learning. Because of this, I have drafted this letter for my daughter’s future teachers.
Dear teacher,
Kayley loves to learn and is very excited to start school this year.
Because the case against grades...
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Scicon 2012 is today →
You can still register for this from Discoveryed online. It is for science teachers and starts at 9 am eastern.
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Alumn.US →
gjmueller:
Watch Out, Facebook, Alumn.us is here to help your K-12 to get your alumnae network in-place.
Alumn.us to organize k12 alumni groups. Anyone using yet?
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Classic Dickens clips and teaching resources... →
Celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens in your classroom. Some great video clips here.
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The Press Association: Brown wants global... →
“All 193 United Nations member states are signed up to a Global Millennium Goal for primary school education to be accessed by every child by 2015, agreed at the New York Millennium Summit in 2000.
In the current funding set-up, countries with the biggest out-of-school populations, such as Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, are not eligible for grants from the World Bank’s...
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Anonymous Goes After World Governments in Wake of... →
Hackers who were targeting SOPA supporters now go after those supporting the ACTA treaty, which does not require legislative approval in many countries.
“ACTA is a secretive treaty pushed and quite possibly in part penned by the same interests that just saw their plans for SOPA go up in internet flames — the entertainment industry. It’s never been subject to any public scrutiny, but leaked...
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“In 2011, we collectively listened to 64,876,491,602 songs on the Internet....”
– 64 Billion Plays: What Online Music Looks Like Today (Infographic)
Online music grew last year on an overall basis, here are the stats.
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Small-town teaching:
girlwithalessonplan:
The sub is your former teacher
The sub is also your former coworker
The sub is also your friend and texts you immediately when someone is being a jerk.
Love it! This is true about small town teaching!
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RoboHash: Turn text to robots →
poptech:
Looking for a friendly robot to add some sci-fi flare to your website or blog? RoboHash is a cool little script that will turn any snippet of text, username, file name, etc. into a cute custom robot (or monster, or alien!) that you can use as you see fit. You can change the size and file type to further meet your needs.
Add a robot to your website.
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Japan Reviews Disaster Plan Amid New Quake... →
It may not be over for Japan. “Underscoring the risks facing Japan, a new research institute investigation has determined there is a 70% chance of a magnitude-7 earthquake striking the Tokyo metropolitan area within the next four years, and 98% over 30 years. The March 2011 earthquake was a magnitude-9.”
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IQ Drops When You’re In a Group | Psych Central... →
IQ depends upon social context? If this research is proven to be true it could change how we measure and understand IQ. ““This study tells us the idea that IQ is something we can reliably measure in isolation without considering how it interacts with social context is essentially flawed,” said coauthor Steven Quartz, Ph.D. “Furthermore, this suggests that the idea of a division between...
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Narcissistic Men May Pay High Cost in Stress,... →
We need to help all children have a balanced self esteem. There are enough self centered people and this study shows that it just isnt good for you.
New research suggests that in addition to relationship difficulties, egotistical men may have an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease thanks to higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
“Narcissistic men may be paying a high price in terms...
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Apple Will Own Your Work With iBooks Author →
Beware, your work is not yours. Free is never free. You give Apple all syndication rights to the content you develop in iBooks Author.
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4 Sites for Free Vintage Photographs — Life Scoop →
Four great places for vintage photographs.
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iBooks Author: An ebook publisher looks at Apple's... →
A walk through iBook Author.
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» The Habits That Crush Us :zenhabits →
Replace bad habits with good. Sounds simple. Then why dont we do it? “The old habits of coping didn’t build up overnight, and they won’t go away overnight either. We built them up through years of repetition, and the only way to change them is also years of repetition.”
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Study Shows Algebra iPad App Improves Scores in... →
“Results from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s year-long study comparing students using the publisher’s iPad algebra app are in from Amelia Earheart school in Riverside, Calif., and it’s largely positive, according to the company.
The study showed that 78 percent of students who used the HMH algebra iPad app scored “proficient” or “advanced” on the California Standards Test, compared to 59...
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Crowdsourcing the State of the Union | The Mozilla... →
“Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world.
Using new web tools from the Participatory Culture Foundation, supported by Mozilla, participants will transcribe and translate the President’s speech into dozens of languages in a matter of hours, making...
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Drive to Life contest: Distracted driving PSA... →
Grades 6-12 students can create a PSA storyboard or script - winning student can travel to New York to watch a professional film crew bring their PSA to life. Very cool.
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Australia Day lesson Plans (this Thursday) →
Australia day is this Thursday, January 24. Global competency is important and as you teach about the world, an exciting way to do this is to tie in your lessons with activities that are happening around the world. Here are some lesson plans and information about this holiday that you can use to teach via TES. TES is a website out of the UK that has more English speaking teachers than any other...
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“Social media has birthed the age of the false celebrity. Most of us, even those...”
– Vicki Davis
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Creative Education: Apple Is A Corporation! →
adventuresinlearning:
creative-education:
[Rant] I just heard that my school, a 1:1 school using MacBooks for students in grades 6-12, has been told Apple will no longer make those machines. They say we should replace our laptops with iPads. I get it. iPads are “consumer” devices. They are very popular, solid state - making them profitable to make (with cheap labor in China), and the...
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What's Up With "Despite" and "In Spite of," and...
theyuniversity:
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“The surest way to make a mistake is to think you can’t.”
– Vicki Davis
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Garnets and Aquarians: 30 Goals Challenge #1- The... →
garnetsandaquarians:
I signed up to do the 30 Goals Challenge at http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/. It’s way to reflect and better yourself as an educator through 30 short goals/activities. The first activity is to write a “Me Manifesto”, which describes your beliefs as an educator, so here goes:
These are things…
30 goals challenge that some educators are doing. This is a Me...
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English Apps for Middle School →
English is one of the major components of the curriculum. For any 1:1 iPad program to be really successful appropriate apps need to be sourced that will not only meet curriculum outcomes but also address the learning needs of your students. The following is a list of apps that have been researched and evaluated specifically for use in the Middle School English course.
Middle School English...
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soak it in: Dear Tumblr, →
positivelypersistentteach:
lhuddles:
I am so very excited to finally announce that I have a job for the 2012-2013 school year!
I’ll be teaching sixth grade English in my hometown at a private school that boasts the following:
No prescribed curriculum—I get to decide what books I teach and how I teach them! I will have a few…
I am so, so thrilled for you.
I worked in a school without a...
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“The fastest way to garner no respect from others is to only respect your own...”
– Vicki Davis
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Top #edapp s for PE Teachers (part 8) from... →
great app list for PE and health teachers.
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Two New Imagine Cup Challenges for 2012 - Computer... →
2 more challenges from Imagine Cup: a Kinect challenge and a Windows 8 app challenge. Great for the technology classroom. From my favorite Microsoft educational blogger, Alfred Thompson.
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The King Center Releases 200,000 papers in the... →
Your students can research online in a very authentic way about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. Over 200,000 papers were released online by the King Center creating an amazing online repository of his life.
Related articles
Martin Luther King archive opens (bbc.co.uk)
Martin Luther King Jr. Notes & Papers Debut Online (hiphopwired.com)
200,000 documents from King and civil-rights era go...
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How should you analyze art? →
This is a lesson plan using art but having students write about it (upper middle or lower high school writing assignment.)
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Games Based Learning Resources →
Tons of games-based lesson plans and ideas with downloadables.
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Join the #flatclass Book Club and bring the world... →
Hi to all my Tumblr friends out there. I wanted to share the upcoming book and book club with all of you as we work to help bring the world into classrooms and classrooms into the world. Please share as you wish.
Every week for 10 weeks we will meet at an alternating time - 12 hours apart. (For the East Coast USA it is Sundays at 6 pm Eastern or Monday mornings at 6 am eastern) Visit our...
