The New Classroom

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Twitter’s video-sharing app, Vine, has the potential to impact the classroom, much like Twitter itself has done since its beginning.

What is the smartest thing a child has ever said?

chels:

If you need some lunchtime reading, go get lost in this incredible Quora thread. Each answer is great, but this one is my favorite: 

A few years ago when I was teaching a class of five and six year olds, a child came in and asked to do show and tell. He showed a wrapped lolly (sweet, candy….whatever you prefer). He told us that he had taken this lolly from an art gallery, from an exhibit that was a pile of lollies in a corner. The artist’s idea was that anyone could come up and simply take a lolly.

A few of the kids then blew my mind completely by having an intense debate about whether or not such a piece truly constituted art. I felt like it should have been three o’clock in the morning and we should have all had glasses of shiraz in our hands. It was unbelievable. I just sat back and marvelled at the amazing depth of their discussion.

But then….a young fella named Tyson said (and please bear in mind that he was five years old at the time…)

“I keep wondering if it’s still art when all the lollies have been taken and it’s back to being an empty corner.”

Revolutionize Education: Ipadio Revolutionizes Podcasting in the Classroom

revolutionizeed:

I don’t know about you, but I find that students constantly want to use their cellphones. Schools can make all the policies they want about them. I’ve taught in schools where cellphones must be kept in lockets. I’ve taught in schools where cellphones are not…

Study Shows How Classroom Design Affects Student Learning

infoneer-pulse:

As debate over education reform sizzles, and as teachers valiantly continue trying to do more with less, a new study suggests that it might be worth diverting at least a little attention from what’s going on in classrooms to how those spaces are being designed. The paper, published in the journal Building and the Environment, found that classroom design could be attributed to a 25% impact, positive or negative, on a student’s progress over the course of an academic year. The difference between the best- and worst-designed classrooms covered in the study? A full year’s worth of academic progress.

» via Fast Company

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heidicomestolife:

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or what i’ll be doing now that i don’t have a job

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3 Ways To Quickly Share Bunches of Links With Your Students

revolutionizeed:

These are some great tools to share a lot of links.  I used to use them a lot, but now I just attach all my links to a post in Edmodo.  

Library Of Congress Unveils Massive Common Core Resource Center

world-shaker:

There’s even more awesome stuff if you click through :o)

Primary Source Sets – Sets of selected primary sources on specific topics, available as easy-to-print PDFs. Also, background information, teaching ideas, and tools to guide student analysis.

Presentations & Activities – Presentations and activities offer media-rich historical context or interactive opportunities for exploration to both teachers and students.

Collection Connections – Historical context and ideas for teaching with specific Library of Congress primary source collections.The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are on many teachers’ minds this school year, and the Library of Congress is ready to help. The Library’s teacher resources are a great fit for teachers trying to meet key CCSS goals, including critical thinking, analyzing informational texts, and working with primary sources. They’re all free, and finding them is as easy as going to www.loc.gov/teachers.