The eLearning Guild: A community of practice for eLearning designers, developers, and managers Kill Math Bret Victor / April 11, 2011 The power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract symbols. When most people speak of Math, what they have in mind is more its mechanism than its essence. This "Math" consists of assigning meaning to a set of symbols, blindly shuffling around these symbols according to arcane rules, and then interpreting a meaning from the shuffled result. The process is not unlike casting lots. This mechanism of math evolved for a reason: it was the most efficient means of modeling quantitative systems given the constraints of pencil and paper. We are no longer constrained by pencil and paper. Project Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration. Someday there will be an introductory essay on this page, and it will move you to tears. Kitchen Math
Text Connections by PCI Education Text Connections - The intervention course that gives reading a whole new meaning! TextConnections is a full-year course specifically designed for adolescents who have mastered basic phonics and decoding skills, but lack solid comprehension and critical-thinking skills. TextConnections: focuses on comprehension skills and strategies with support from vocabulary, fluency, writing, and independent reading instruction has clearly stepped-out lessons to make it easy to teach reading at the secondary level includes research-based, engaging, interactive instruction that brings success and reading back into the lives of striving adolescent learners Text Connections Units provide a variety of texts across subject areas: Strand by Strand... Comprehension Because comprehension is the end goal of reading, TextConnections focuses instruction on the cognitive and metacognitive strategies proven to help students become successful, independent readers and critical thinkers. Vocabulary Fluency Writing
National College online network On 1 April, the National College merged with the Teaching Agency to become the National College for Teaching and Leadership. The new agency has two key aims: improving the quality of the workforce; and helping schools to help each other to improve. Find out more about the new agency. We can help you to develop as a leader and achieve your career goals. Whether you're taking on your first leadership role or are an experienced and successful school or children's centre leader, we have something for you. We also offer professional development for chairs of governors and school business managers. Professional development opportunities One of the most powerful ways of achieving improvement is through collaboration and we offer many opportunities for school and early years leaders to provide and receive support. Find out about becoming a teaching school or being designated as a national, local or specialist leader of education. Support for schools and early years
National Hands-on Science Institute Voie Royale Printable Flash Cards for Vocabulary Words-with Photographs Sluggish Sluggish audio/easy/sluggish.mp3 adjective lacking energy; inactive Our cat is sluggish during the day. sluggish.jpg Gush Gush audio/easy/gush.mp3 verb to flow out forcefully, often in large amounts Water gushed down the waterfall. gush.jpg Predicament Predicament audio/easy/predicament.mp3 noun a difficult situation The animal was left in a predicament. predicament.jpg Weary Weary physically or mentally exhausted The programmer was so weary that he fell asleep on the job. weary.jpg Ruffle Ruffle audio/easy/ruffle.mp3 to raise (feathers) The macaw ruffled its feathers. ruffle.jpg Expedition Expedition audio/easy/expedition.mp3 a journey or voyage made for a specific purpose The scientists made an expedition to Alaska to study wildlife. expedition.jpg Wrath Wrath fierce anger I was the victim of his wrath. wrath.jpg Grove Grove audio/easy/grove.mp3 a group of trees without undergrowth We came across a small grove. grove.jpg Hulking Hulking audio/easy/hulking.mp3 so large as to appear clumsy A hulking rhino stood before me. Immerse
Education World Forum 2013, London AASL Announces 2011 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning « INFOdocket From ALA: At the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2011 Annual Conference in New Orleans, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced the 2011 Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning. In its third year, the list of websites honors the top 25 Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development for school librarians and their teacher collaborators. The list is considered the “best of the best” by AASL. Here’s the 2011 List (Annotations by AASL) Media Sharing Tagxedo Dazzle your project with these word clouds. Kerpoof Explore, create, and design at Kerpoof. Aviary Create logos, web templates, screen captures, edit your photos and more at Aviary. Nota Connect, collaborate, and co-create in real time! Digital Storytelling PicLits If a picture is worth a thousand words, then let this site provide the picture to inspire your words. Zooburst Add a new dimension to storytelling, reports, and presentations with ZooBurst’s digital 3-D tool. Myths and Legends Spicy Nodes
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