A journey into the cloud…
Ideas, thoughts, plans
11 Alternatives to “Round Robin” (and “Popcorn”) Reading: http://t.co/YkZALmfdU0 via @edutopia — Sheri Edwards (@grammasheri) December 2, 2014 Edutopia’s post above is an excellent read. My fifth grade students … Continue Reading #140WC Reading Together
Critical Thinking — What is it? This graphic provides guidelines for developing critical thinkers — active minds that analyze issues for relevance and importance, thinking beyond what is known to … Continue Reading #140WC Critical Thinkers
Questioning myself discovered my students need to ask questions also. As I start the new year, I ask questions of my practice and of my students’ practice. What is it … Continue Reading Questioning…
My students are learning to love to read. They have time almost daily in my reading class to read books of their own choosing. They have been writing responses to … Continue Reading Reading Response #etmooc #ccss
Spot barks. Doors open. You choose. Opportunities flow. This rocks: read on!
More than Basics Teachers in today’s “reformed” schools often are pressured by time, mandates, and test scores into lessons that: Post the objective. State the objective. Explain the objective. Practice … Continue Reading Differentiate: It Works
This year our students have already accomplished several projects: Quad Blogs with three other schools Collaborate with two Iowa schools on Parts of Speech Global Read Aloud 2011: Tuck Everlasting … Continue Reading Continued Citizenship
…pen pals promote careful and critical thinking required in discourse; pen pals prepare students for engaging not just a new friend, but also new ideas.
Collaboration doesn’t just happen. We work at it. One way we do this is by partner work on the computer. After posting writing on the wiki, students partner up. The … Continue Reading Collaboration Partners and Peer Review
…constantly collaborating: listening to each other and considering the inclusion, omission, and organization of ideas and images…
What’s great about Google Apps? We can collaborate on projects
blog about your ideas on someone else’s paragraph or story.
As we passed the work along, and student comments became
longer and better as they read other comments…
Online writing and sharing is a positive learning experience.
Diigo is our friend in the writing classroom.
How does Discovery Education Network help me help students understand different cultural perspectives? To help students understand and accept different cultural perspectives, Kim Trefz from Memphis, Tennessee and I (from … Continue Reading Expanding Perspectives
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