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The Inquiry Process - A Great Visual
Peg Gillard's insight:We are so far removed from inquiry based classrooms that curiosity is but a shadow. Students wait to be fed the learning, which isn't true learning if it is fed. True learning...
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Learning to Learn: fighting cognitive biases
Critical thinking is an increasingly important skill that has been overlooked by many as information becomes more accessible and superfluous.Peg Gillard's insight:Brain research is the new frontier...
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Inside J.J. Abrams’s Brain-Bending Book-Within-a-Book
Peg Gillard's insight:This looks incredibley creative and exciting!See it on Scoop.it, via Reflections from a Life Lived
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Embedding Creativity in Change Management ~ Future of CIO
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Moovly - Create Animated Content like a Pro
Moovly is an online tool that allows you to create animated videos, tutorials, explainers, presentations, infographics, video clips, display ads or e-cards.See it on Scoop.it, via Reflections from a...
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Haiku Deck - Presentation Software that's Simple, Beautiful, and Fun
Haiku Deck is a completely new kind of presentation software -- it’s simple, beautiful, and fun.Peg Gillard's insight:This looks like a great tool and possibility!See it on Scoop.it, via Reflections...
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SAMR in 120 Seconds
This is a quick introduction to the SAMR Model, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura. It is not meant to be an in-depth view of the model. For more information,...Peg Gillard's insight:Great way to have...
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6 Alternatives To Bloom's Taxonomy For Teachers -
This post is updated from an article we published in April. At the end of the day, teaching is about learning, and learning is about understanding. And as technology evolves to empower more diverse...
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Glossi - create digital magazines or e-books
Free digital magazine creation platform. Add images, photos, videos, animations and audio. Customize and publish for desktop and mobile devices.Peg Gillard's insight:Great way for students to showcase...
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5 Steps to Foster Grit in the Classroom
The word "grit" suggests toughness and determination. The question is how do we get students to value struggle, failure and perseverance in our classrooms? ASCD recently published Thomas Hoerr's...
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Saving Our Kids, At Every Turn
By Bethany Meyer School is the place to be right now. My kids are experiencing magic at their school. Teachers know and celebrate the students. Curriculum is rigorous. Technology is embraced. Design...
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Strut - An HTML5 Presentation Editor
An editor for creating web based presentations.All you need is a web browser.Strut presentations work on desktops, laptops, mobile devices and tablets.See it on Scoop.it, via Reflections from a Life Lived
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The Maker Movement and the Rebirth of Constructionism - Hybrid Pedagogy
The culmination of my quest for more powerful learning grounded in theory and research came when recently I conducted an experiment in pushing constructionism into the digital age.Peg Gillard's...
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Empathy | Activities to Grow Empathy
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?” Henry David ThoreauDo we start from empathy when we set out to solve educational challenges and design...
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FlipQuiz | Gameshow-style Quiz Boards for Educators
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Why aren't we more compassionate?
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.Peg Gillard's insight:All it takes is noticing and stepping forward with "You First."See it on...
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What If Kids Co-Created Customized Learning Pathways?
New tools are making it easier to customize learning for every student. Playlists, projects, and portfolios support big blocks, maker spaces, and flex schools. One thing I appreciate about the...
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10 Common Blog Writing Mistakes (Infographic)
Ever wondered what the most common grammar mistakes are that bloggers make? Run-on sentences, punctuation, or maybe use of wrong tenses? This infographic highlights common blog post writing errors and...
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Amazon.com: Extraordinary Lessons From an Ordinary Life - Simple Insights for...
Extraordinary Lessons From an Ordinary Life - Simple Insights for a Better Life - Kindle edition by Mike Jaroch. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.See it on...
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A Solitary World: A Breathtaking Homage to H.G. Wells from a New Genre of...
Peg Gillard's insight:Beautifully powerful and haunting. A possible project arena for students, a way to share powerful images from literature, science, studies of social sciences, life.See it on...
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What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters - More Than Sound
What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters by Daniel Goleman - collection of HBR and other articles on leadershipPeg Gillard's insight:Knowing how to "read others' emotions" allows...
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Why Leaders need to ask Empowering Questions?
Peter Drucker, considered the leadership guru of the twentieth notes that, “The leader of the past may have been a person who knew how to tell, but certainly the leader of the future will be a person...
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Evolution of Storytelling | Visual.ly
Evolution of storytelling created for iversity.com.Origins of storytellingAncient Egyptian storiesAncient Greek poetsShadowplay in AsiaTroubadoursPrinting pressShakespeare's playsMovies &...
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Critical Thinking in the Language Classroom
When you ask people to define ‘Critical Thinking’, there is no shortage of definitions. In a recent online webinar for English Language Teachers, the lecturer started the webinar by asking participants...
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Flipgrid - for short video discussions
Flipgrid is simple: Teachers create grids of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Flipgrid boosts community and social presence in face-to-face, hybrid,...
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15 Interesting Ways to use Google Maps to Support Learning
As many of you will know I am a bit of a map nerd and have always enjoyed peering down at the Earth through a map or using tools like Google Earth and Maps.See it on Scoop.it, via Reflections from a...
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[Simon Staffans'] Seven hands-on transmedia tips
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Coggle - for Mind Maps
Thinking, rethought. Coggle is designed to help you make sense of complex things - it's a shared workspace to help your team work more effectively togetherSee it on Scoop.it, via Reflections from a...
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Cool PowerPoint Tricks: Write on Your Slides During your Presentation
Sometimes you want to capture the audience’s responses in writing for all to see, but using flipchart just isn’t practical. Like in a room of 200 people. Or on a webinar. Or when you're presenting...
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An Annotated List of Flipped Class Tools and Resources
Flipped Class Tool and Resource List from Turn to Your Neighbor We will keep a (clearly very incomplete) list of tools and resources we use and/or discover relative to flipped teaching here. Help...
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