Category Archives: The Web 2.0 Teacher
End of School Year Reflections
The end of another school year has arrived for most educators, bringing with it a flurry of closing activity. With summer enticing and vacation beckoning, it’s easy to understand how teachers often fail to conduct deliberate reflection on their past … Continue reading
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Tagged goals, improvement, planning, professional development, questions, reflecting, reflection, review, schedule, school, teachers, teaching, Technology
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Cheaters Never Win
MIT professor David E. Pritchard conducted a recent study that analyzed cheating on homework in his introductory physics course. He arrived at some interesting conclusions. Chief among these, that cheating occurs about 50% more than is reported by students in … Continue reading
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Tagged cheat, email, ethical behavior, MIT, online, online learning, physics, plagiarism, pritchard, students, teachers, Technology
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Think About This!
In An Open Letter to Educators, Dan Brown challenges educators, as well as our past notions of education. It is bound to spark controversy in some areas. Nevertheless, this should cause each teacher to re-examine the relationship between teacher, student, … Continue reading
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Tagged change, dan brown, education, information, learning, letter, video games, Web 2.0
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Web 2.0 at CCSAC 2010
I’ve just returned from presenting at the California Charter Schools Conference in Sacramento. With so many topics and such diverse backgrounds it was quite enlightening. The interest in Web 2.0 technologies was intense. It seems to be one of the … Continue reading
Shmoop: Learning Guides and Teacher Resources
Shmoop is an online resource that provides learning guides and academic resources to help teachers make learning relevant. Shmoop provides free learning guides in seven subjects: literature, poetry, bestsellers, US History, civics, biography, and music. The learning guides are written … Continue reading
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