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Assessment in the 21st Century

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Brian’s TRT Blog picked up one of my blog posts from Educon’s session Taking.Play.Seriously. Brian has only a very short response to this:
So, would more play produce more creativity which would result in higher test scores? Hmmmm………
That “Hmmmm” sparked the following comment from me:
That is exactly what I am pondering as well. How can [...]

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Geography Awareness Week-Get Lost in Mapping: Find Your Place in the World

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

I am guest blogging on My Wonderful World Blog (National Geographic Education Foundation) in honor of Geography Awareness Week 2009 the week of November 15 – 21!
This year’s theme is “Get Lost in Mapping: Find Your Place in the World”.

I wanted to share a successful geography lesson that continues to grow throughout the school year.  [...]

Filed under: 21st Century Learning, 21st Century Skills, Assessment, Collaboration, Geography, Global Awareness, Information, Literacy, Middle School

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Shifting to 21st Century Learning

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Shifting To 21st Century Learning
View more presentations from Silvia Tolisano.

Special thanks to

Kim Cofino and her inspirational presentations http://www.slideshare.net/mscofino/

The 21st Century Classroom
The 21st Century Learner

Professional Development Components for Change created from table found on Educational Origami Wiki
Think about it…Willing to learn vs. waiting to be taught. Based on a Steven Kimmi’s [...]

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The Place of Homework in the 21st Century

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

The more I try to re-focus my thoughts on the struggle of shifting schools and teaching in the 21st century, the more I examine EVERYTHING that has stayed the same in schools. What about classrooms? What about desks in rows? What about teachers at the front of the class? What about homework?

Whether to assign homework [...]

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Reflections of Podcast Project

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Image used with permission. Copyright K. Tuck at www.sxc.hu
I loved this image, as soon as I saw it. Does it not scream “REFLECTION” at you? In addition, it reminds me that in order to come full circle in a project, we can’t just let it fizzle out when the last word is written or the [...]

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Baking Bread- Intgrating Technology

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

We are in our second year of integrating technology. We moved from isolated and parallel “computer classes” to co-teaching with subject area teachers. THEIR curriculum drives what we teach, introduce, and reinforce in the computer lab. I am available full time (my colleague Paige M. part time)  to our faculty to plan, co-teach, and lead [...]

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Filed under: 21st Century Skills, Assessment, Collaboration, Learning, Tech Integration, Technology Integration Facilitator

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