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  Can Mandarin Save a Failing Georgia School?
  A failing Macon, Georgia school district mandates Mandarin language lessons to stave off a staggering 50% dropout rate.
  by alicarnold / on Oct 1, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “21st century skills”

 

• Tip of the Week: Structured Academic Conversation

  
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  One of the best things about working with social studies teachers is that I get the chance to see all sorts of great ideas and strategies. Several weeks ago, I watched a teacher use something called a SAC or Structured Academic Conversation. It’s a discussion / debate strategy that I haven’t seen used before. And ...
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• Learning is the end in mind, not fun

  
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  Every year, back in my Derby Middle School teaching days, we did Kansas Day. A big Kansas Day. As in . . . invite the newspaper, Board of Education, and parents kind of Kansas Day. I was the social studies guy on a teaching team and my goal was to find a way to integrate my social studies activities with math, ...
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• iPads are the problem, not the solution

  
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  At the recent EdTechTeacher iPad Summit held in Atlanta, Greg Kulowiec asked a simple question: Is the iPad a solution or problem? It’s a great question. There are tons of people jumping on the iPad bandwagon and I’ve suggested before that many of them are hopping on with their eyes closed. It’s a shiny ...
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• Tip of the Week: Less Paper/More Comprehension with Readability and PrintFriendly

  
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  We’re spending more time online, reading and researching with our students. We often need to print out these online resources for use as handouts or review materials. One of the problems with online research is that if you or your students print out a news article, a blog post, or just about anything on the web, the ...
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• Learning with Mobile Devices — What Parents Think

  
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  Today the Learning First Alliance (LFA) and Grunwald Associates, with the support of AT&T, are releasing a report, Living and Learning with Mobile Devices , that documents survey results of parents’ attitudes and perceptions of the value of mobile devices as learning tools for their school-aged children.  ...
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• So what’s my job?

  
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  An assessment researcher said once that The role of the learner is not to passively receive information, but to actively participate in the construction of new meaning. B. L. Shapiro, 1994 I would not disagree with that at all. In fact, much of the recent buzz in the K-12 social studies education movement has ...
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• Teaching with the Library of Congress blog

  
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  Hey. I get it. You’re busy. It’s the end of the year and stuff is starting to pile up. And so you might not have a ton of time right now for reading a new blog. So here’s the deal. Just head over the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog and bookmark it. Subscribe to an email or RSS feed. Then forget it ...
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• Strategies for Teaching Students to Critically Validate Online Information

  
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  “With all these online searching aids at our disposal, we should be committing to teaching our children accurate and creative searching techniques that are applicable across every discipline.” Alan November, Who Owns the Learning: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age Our students hold within the ...
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• Teachers Explore STEM Concepts

  
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  Twenty-five primary teachers spent two days actively engaged in exploring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts via conducting hands-on-minds-on STEM investigations. During the two-day STEM teacher training session conducted by Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski, teachers were immersed in exploring STEM ...
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• Tip of the Week: MapStory. It’s Wikipedia for Maps

  
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  Okay. Not sure if I should be impressed or freaked out by the fact that the founder of MapStory was also one of the original officers of In-Q-Tel . In-Q-Tel, as we all know, is the venture capital group working to keep the CIA equipped with the latest in information technology. I’m gonna go with freakishly ...
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• If it was legal in Kansas, I would marry a map

  
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  I love maps. Seriously love maps. My latest purchase is a 1941 Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer. Three hundred and thirty-five pages of maps, statistics, articles, and geographic data. Sweet. And really, aren’t maps some of the coolest things that history teachers get to mess with? The answer is yup. But I ...
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• Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate 21st Century Creativity and Leadership

  
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  Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate 21st Century Creativity and LeadershipWhole Brain Thinking: A two... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Let’s build a library. A public library. A digital public library.

  
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  There are lots of online archives out there. Heck. Sometimes it seems as if that’s all I write about . But the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is different somehow. It’s bigger. More intentional. Specifically designed for the 21st century. Searchable in handy ways. But it’s different in one very big ...
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• Supporting Language Acquisition in English Learners: An Interview with Dr. Mandy Stewart

  
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  Were over a decade into the 21st-century and schools across the country are working tirelessly to ensure students are prepared for whatever lies ahead. Rapid changes are afoot in demographic shifts and in the continuing development of new technology and social media platforms. These realities are presenting schools ...
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• It’s not just jeans. It’s how we teach.

  
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  There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to say goodbye. It’s never easy. We try to be brave but it’s hard. Knowing we’ll never be together again is tough. Guys. You know what I’m talking about. The day you have to throw away the t-shirt you won in that 1992 softball championship. Maybe it’s ...
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• 10 sites for thinking, learning historically

  
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  It’s a double bonus type of day. First, today is one of the last days of our Century of Progress Teaching American History project. So I get to spend all day with 41 middle school teachers and we talk about nothing except history stuff. Today’s history stuff? Chinese immigration during the late 1800s. And ...
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