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Project Based Learning: Explained.
The Buck Institute for Education commissioned the cutting-edge advertising agency, Common Craft, to create a short animated video that explains in clear lang...sarspri's insight:Awesome short...
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Project-Based Learning Research Review
Teachers can create real-world problem-solving situations by designing questions and tasks that correspond to two different frameworks of inquiry-based teaching: Problem-based learning, which tackles a...
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What Project-Based Learning Is — and What It Isn’t
[Excerpt]: "The term “project-based learning” gets tossed around a lot in discussions about how to connect students to what they’re learning. Teachers might add projects meant to illustrate what...
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Project-Based Learning: What is it?
[Excerpt]: "During project-based learning, students are approached with a complex question, problem, or challenge, which they respond to through a lengthy process of analysis and reflection. These...
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Project-Based Learning: Real-World Issues Motivate Students
In a growing number of schools, educators are echoing Papert's assertion that engaging students by starting with the concrete and solving hands-on, real-world problems is a great motivator. Students...
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Brainstorm, plan, collaborate, publish: 15 Tools For Better Project-Based...
[Excerpt]: "Project-Based Learning is a 21st century approach to learning that acts both as a curriculum and instruction tool, as well as a new way for students to think about school. Rather than...
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Project Based Learning: documenting classroom examples @ High Tech High
[Excerpt]: "We emphasize projects at High Tech High because we believe they represent an effective pedagogy, offering multiple entry points for students with varying learning styles and academic...
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TFL Spanish (high school): Rudos vs. Tecnicos || project @ High Tech High
"Project at a GlanceEssential Question(s):What social problems can you identify in your community?What social problems are prevalent in Latin America (Central America, Caribbean and/or South...
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Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
"Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness." See more at...
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Three competing visions of educational technology. Which is yours? |...
[Excerpt]: "There are three competing visions of educational computing. Each bestows agency on an actor in the educational enterprise. We can use classroom computers to benefit the system, the teacher,...
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Storytelling websites and apps || Ed Tech in English Language Teaching (ELT)
[Excerpt]: "Storytelling in all its forms (traditional pen and paper or digital) has always been a favourite of mine. I always include some kind of storytelling activity with my classes so I decided to...
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Baseball Rules Whiteboard Video
http://www.truscribe.com -Set your message free It's more than a game....It's baseball!! Baseball Rules One of my first times out to an American baseball gam...sarspri's insight:Thanks for this,...
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Blogs vs. Term Papers || New York Times (2012)
To raves and rants, blogging has become a requirement in everything from M.B.A. to literature courses.sarspri's insight:A number of different perspectives (and some rather extreme positions at both...
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Mentor Texts in the Digital Writing Workshop [Posterous]
[Excerpt]: "Digital reading and writing has changed me as a learner. On June 24, 2007, I started my journey into blogging and for months before that I was glued to the screen of my computer inspired...
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Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story || TED
"Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single...
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listening to prepare for English exams || IELTS-friendly podcasts
[Excerpt]: "I've already written an introduction to podcasts, including what they are and some activities that you can use with them. If you're planning to do the IELTS exam, podcasts can help you in a...
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Lingua Frankly: A corpus in the class...
[Excerpt]: "This week I got my first opportunity to try out corpus linguistics in the classroom. It was a class of technically-oriented students (computers and media), and it was a small enough group...
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From corpus to dictionary | Macmillan
[Excerpt]: "Lexicographers use powerful computer programs to extract information from language corpora. The best-known type of software for analyzing a corpus is called a ‘concordancer’ – because it...
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MERLOT Mobile Learning Portal
[Excerpt]: "MERLOT partners and members have created a dynamic collection of mobile learning apps that may be used by faculty, campuses, or systems. As with other parts of the MERLOT collection, the...
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Student-driven Design & Mentira [mobile game for learners of Spanish]
[Excerpt]: "Student-driven design can be a rather complicated topic. Rather than go into the details here, it's perhaps more appropriate to describe where this concept intersects with Mentira....
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