All Discussions Tagged 'of' - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T20:40:08Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=of&feed=yes&xn_auth=noCurrent problem of depression in young in Mumbaitag:www.classroom20.com,2014-03-24:649749:Topic:10023772014-03-24T16:51:32.228ZUSHA SHARMAhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/USHASHARMA
<p><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rise-in-depression-among-the-young-in-mumbai/articleshow/20664083.cms" target="_blank">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rise-in-depression-among-the-young-in-mumbai/articleshow/20664083.cms</a></p>
<p>What do you think should be done to minimise the problem of depression among students ?</p>
<p><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rise-in-depression-among-the-young-in-mumbai/articleshow/20664083.cms" target="_blank">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rise-in-depression-among-the-young-in-mumbai/articleshow/20664083.cms</a></p>
<p>What do you think should be done to minimise the problem of depression among students ?</p> Mosaic of Thought/7 Keys to Comprehension Reading Programtag:www.classroom20.com,2012-08-25:649749:Topic:8680262012-08-25T13:53:09.634ZJennifer McCormickhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/JenniferMcCormick
<p>Has anyone used these works as a basis for a reading comprehension program? We are working to implement this from kindergarten to Grade 12. We have quite a few of the tool kits designed by Stephanie Harvey and gang for students up to about grade 8, but haven't gotten into the high school end yet.</p>
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<p>The main reason we chosen this is that its about making kids THINK while they read, rather than being passive with text. Our Division I teacher is seeing solid success with it in her…</p>
<p>Has anyone used these works as a basis for a reading comprehension program? We are working to implement this from kindergarten to Grade 12. We have quite a few of the tool kits designed by Stephanie Harvey and gang for students up to about grade 8, but haven't gotten into the high school end yet.</p>
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<p>The main reason we chosen this is that its about making kids THINK while they read, rather than being passive with text. Our Division I teacher is seeing solid success with it in her room, and we are going to be trying to scaffold that success to our higher grades.</p>
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<p>One of the big pieces to this program that we're missing is the connection to others who are using this program. I'm hoping this is the place to come to remedy that. :)</p>
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<p>I'm looking to share ideas, pick brains (<grin>) and so on with anyone who might have had the opportunity to see this program in practice, used it, or sat in on any PD sessions by Stephanie Harvey and her associates.</p>
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<p>Thanks and looking forward to making connections!</p>
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<p>Jennifer McCormick</p>
<p>Canadian educator</p> Transform Learning by Making Learning Personaltag:www.classroom20.com,2012-08-08:649749:Topic:8587092012-08-08T20:21:07.793ZKathleen McClaskeyhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/kmcclaskey
<p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.9512946753814459" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Your Name and Title: </strong>Kathleen McClaskey, Co-founder…</span><br></br><br></br></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" id="internal-source-marker_0.9512946753814459"><strong>Your Name and Title: </strong>Kathleen McClaskey, Co-founder</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>School, Library, or Organization Name:</strong> </span> <a href="http://www.personalizelearning.com" target="_blank">Personalize Learning</a><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Co-Presenter Name(s):</strong> Barbara Bray, Co-founder of Personalize Learning</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Area of the World from Which You Will Present:</strong> US</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Language in Which You Will Present:</strong> English</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Target Audience(s): </strong>Teachers, administrators, teacher education programs</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Short Session Description:</strong> Discover the steps to transform your learning environment to make it personal for you and your learners.</span><br style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"/><br/><strong><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Full Session Description:</span></strong><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why transform learning? Why make learning personal?</span> <br/><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teaching is changing. Teachers are working harder than ever. Learning is hard. Learners need to be more engaged in the learning process. This means teacher and learner roles change. Want to do something about it? You can from day one by trying some of the steps the presenters will share with you how to make learning personal.</span></p>
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</ol> Black History Month - FREE album download!tag:www.classroom20.com,2012-02-09:649749:Topic:8057022012-02-09T14:59:03.964ZTauniahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/Taunia
<div>Wanted to let you know about a free album download in celebration of <span><span class="il">Black</span></span> <span><span class="il">History</span></span> <span><span class="il">Month</span></span> in February. My company, Rhythm, Rhyme, Results produces educational rap and hip hop music, and we're giving away this album download during the entire <span><span class="il">month</span></span> of February, and we're hoping that you may want to feature this on your blog? The album download…</div>
<div>Wanted to let you know about a free album download in celebration of <span><span class="il">Black</span></span> <span><span class="il">History</span></span> <span><span class="il">Month</span></span> in February. My company, Rhythm, Rhyme, Results produces educational rap and hip hop music, and we're giving away this album download during the entire <span><span class="il">month</span></span> of February, and we're hoping that you may want to feature this on your blog? The album download page can be found here:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.educationalrap.com/music/black-history-month?src=ad-home" target="_blank">http://www.educationalrap.com/music/<span><span class="il">black</span></span>-<span><span class="il">history</span></span>-<span><span class="il">month</span></span>?src=ad-home</a></div>
<div>The album includes four songs: 1) The Civil War 2) Civil Rights Movement 3) 44 Presidents and 4) Countries of Africa. </div>
<div>Each song download contains contains lyrics, custom-made worksheets and games in PDF form, and all versions of the songs in MP3 audio form.</div>
<div>Thanks for helping us to celebrate <span><span class="il">Black</span></span> <span><span class="il">History</span></span> <span><span class="il">Month</span></span>!</div> Shall we discuss those days(in classroom) about the reasons why people protest these days against their governments?tag:www.classroom20.com,2011-10-27:649749:Topic:7665152011-10-27T22:01:02.762ZAlfonso Velázquez Molinahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/AlfonsoVelazquezMolina
<p>Shall be an important discussion if we consider that protest like the Wall Street Occupy today is just a normal reaction of the people due to exploitation and greed of just 1% of population (the wealthiest, Wall Street bankers), when the rest of people(99%) work for the safety of their kids and their families and unfortunately the wealthiest bankers keep all the money that everyone deserves for the work done in society. And those are just a few reasons about talking about protest, (and is…</p>
<p>Shall be an important discussion if we consider that protest like the Wall Street Occupy today is just a normal reaction of the people due to exploitation and greed of just 1% of population (the wealthiest, Wall Street bankers), when the rest of people(99%) work for the safety of their kids and their families and unfortunately the wealthiest bankers keep all the money that everyone deserves for the work done in society. And those are just a few reasons about talking about protest, (and is releated also with the future of our children.</p>
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<p> </p> Free Resources to Teach Critical Thinkingtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-11-19:649749:Topic:5707622010-11-19T03:45:43.433ZMark Penningtonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MarkPennington
<div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">As accumulated content knowledge is roughly doubling every five years now, we may need to take a hard look at the content that we impart in our classrooms. It’s…</span></p>
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<div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">As accumulated content knowledge is roughly doubling every five years now, we may need to take a hard look at the content that we impart in our classrooms. It’s not that our content is outdated or superfluous; it’s just that we may need to shift our instructional focus a bit. In other words, we should start being more concerned with teaching process skills that will enable our students to be better equipped to deal with the exponential increase in our knowledge base. This new process-centered design is commonly referred to as <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">critical </em><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">thinking</em>.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13.3333px;">This may run counter to the standards-based movement, prevalent in most public schools. Standards-based education is primarily product-driven. We have end goals that we teach toward and we evaluate students by the degree to which they have attained mastery over these standards. Process-centered standards are few and far between, especially in English-language arts, history, and science.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Following are articles, free resources (including reading assessments), and teaching tips regarding how to integrate process-centered critical thinking skills into daily instruction at <b><a href="http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/free-resources-to-teach-critical-thinking/">Free Critical Reading Resources</a></b>. </p>
</div> WEB 2.0 resources to support service learningtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-11-05:649749:Topic:5262822010-11-05T20:36:50.352ZKellyAnn Bonnellhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/kellyannbonnell
The Points of Light Foundation just launched a new initiative called Tag You're It that is perfect for teachers who engage their students in service learning projects. Students (anyone actually) can make a committment, invite friends to participate, and then blog about their completed experiences. And depending on how well they engage their friends they can possibly win a donation to the charity of their choice.<br></br><br></br>To learn more check out the entry at…
The Points of Light Foundation just launched a new initiative called Tag You're It that is perfect for teachers who engage their students in service learning projects. Students (anyone actually) can make a committment, invite friends to participate, and then blog about their completed experiences. And depending on how well they engage their friends they can possibly win a donation to the charity of their choice.<br/><br/>To learn more check out the entry at <a href="http://www.popgoestheclassroom.com">Pop Goes the Classroom</a><br/><br/>or visit the <a href="http://www.pointsoflight.org">Points of Light Foundation</a><br/> Taking World of Warcraft to the Classroomtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-08-22:649749:Topic:4995732010-08-22T18:02:20.516ZLucas Gillispiehttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/LucasGillispie
Hi folks!<div><br></br></div>
<div>Just wanted to share a project that is currently underway with the group and provide some follow-up resources/links from the interview that Peggy Sheehy and I did with Steve Hargadon a couple of weeks ago.</div>
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<div>Last year, we introduced the <a href="http://wowinschool.pbworks.com">WoWinSchool Program</a> in Pender County Schools (North Carolina) and in the Ramapo Central School District (New York). This program revolved around the use of the…</div>
Hi folks!<div><br/></div>
<div>Just wanted to share a project that is currently underway with the group and provide some follow-up resources/links from the interview that Peggy Sheehy and I did with Steve Hargadon a couple of weeks ago.</div>
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<div>Last year, we introduced the <a href="http://wowinschool.pbworks.com">WoWinSchool Program</a> in Pender County Schools (North Carolina) and in the Ramapo Central School District (New York). This program revolved around the use of the popular massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game, <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">World of Warcraft</a>, in a school setting. We began with an after-school program primarily targeted to middle schoolers who were academically or behaviorally "at-risk," and designed to support their social development, literacy, leadership, and a variety of 21st-Century skills. Our first year was a huge success and largely an experimental year.</div>
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<div>This year, we're taking the project to the next level. In Pender County Schools, we'll be offering a language arts elective called WoWinSchool: The Hero's Journey. This course will be a blended environment, designed entirely in Moodle, and designed to support 8th graders' language arts learning. it will be aligned to the national common core standards and will be designed as a year-long course. </div>
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<div>During the course, students will create their own "hero" in World of Warcraft and set off on a journey through the world of Azeroth, as they embark on a variety of quests and work cooperatively to accomplish not only course goals but their own goals in the virtual world. Parallel to that, they'll be reading a fictional novel (The Hobbit, in our case), and making reflective comparisons between their reading, their experiences in-game, and their own real-world experiences.</div>
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<div>There will be a heavy emphasis on reflective and creative writing throughout the course, with students regularly writing in a "Hero's Journal" as well as "Tavern Talks" which take place in the course forums. A number of projects will also be involved ranging from Tweeting from their character's point-of-view to creating game-based machinima (videos) to tell a story.</div>
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<div>This course is also providing us the opportunity to experiment with other ideas we've wanted to see implemented in classrooms. For example, instead of a standard grading system, our students will earn Experience Points for completing the course challenges. As they gain points, they'll "level-up" in rank. This course will also provide a mastery learning environment. If a student is not satisfied with the number of experience points they earn, they can re-submit assignments for additional points.</div>
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<div>Our hope is to be able to provide this entire course for download to any interested community members who might wish to implement it in their own school. Of course, we're also looking to bring more students in other schools on board as well.</div>
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<div>So, here is my open invitation to anyone who is passionate about gaming and wants an opportunity to contribute to a project that involves integrating games into the classroom. If you are interested or want to know more, feel free to contact me.</div>
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<div>Of course, I'll be sharing my own reflections on the experience on my blog, <a href="http://www.edurealms.com">Edurealms.com</a> and you can find lessons, supporting research, logistical information, costs, and more on the project wiki - <a href="http://wowinschool.pbworks.com">wowinschool.pbworks.com</a>.</div>
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<div>This will be an exciting year!</div>
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<div>-Lucas</div> Bell Work for Computer Labtag:www.classroom20.com,2010-08-12:649749:Topic:4971082010-08-12T14:55:28.588ZBrian S Langloishttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/BrianSLanglois
Hello Everyone,<br/><br/>I was hoping to poll to masses for some best practices used as far as bell work (beginning of class before bell) in a Middle School Computer Lab. Currently, I'm not using any because I haven't been able to think of something that would work well. What do you use?
Hello Everyone,<br/><br/>I was hoping to poll to masses for some best practices used as far as bell work (beginning of class before bell) in a Middle School Computer Lab. Currently, I'm not using any because I haven't been able to think of something that would work well. What do you use? For Love of Liberty, High School & College Facilitator's Guidetag:www.classroom20.com,2010-07-19:649749:Topic:4899832010-07-19T14:16:43.626ZFor Love of Libertyhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ForLoveofLiberty
Attached you will find the For Love of Liberty, High School and College Facilitator's Guide.<br/>
Attached you will find the For Love of Liberty, High School and College Facilitator's Guide.<br/>