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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

Robert Kaplinsky, Open Middle Math pioneer, talks about effective math teaching From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Filled with dread, some math teachers have a problem. As they give problems to students to work their students become problems. Behavior problems. Boredom problems.

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

One of last year’s winners reported back, “I have been participating in the Speak Up survey ever since it started [in 2003]. Since 2003, more than 3.7 Follow me on Twitter and Google+. View the “Are you Speaking Up” state participant map to see where your state falls. The online Speak Up 2014 survey s close on December 19 th.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Motivation in Your Students

The CoolCatTeacher

How to Become a Master at Student Motivation From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can even coordinate volunteer schedules, donations, and parent-teacher conferences. Larry Ferlazzo began teaching in 2003 after working as a community organizer for nearly twenty years.

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Rethinking How Scholarship Works at MLA17

ProfHacker

Friday at the Modern Language Association conference, I’ll be presiding at a session entitled “ That’s Not How Scholarship Works! Each of these works of scholarly making represents a foray into an emerging digital edge — for instance, Web frames and forms in 1998 , digital video in 2003 , and modal interfaces in 2012.

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

NCCE (Northwest Council For Computer Education) being our regional ISTE sponsored conference with somewhere around 1500 participants coming together each year to share and learn. 2003 – In Saudi Arabia due to terrorism in the country, I helped my school set up and run Moodle to do Virtual School.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

Right after the announcement broke Twitter lit right up with questions, pleas, mourning, and brainstorming. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. We did two live Future Trends Forum sessions from NMC summer conferences. I stand by those words. On a personal note, this breaks my heart.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Several research papers followed including The Good, the Bad and the Wiki , and also a number of research papers presented at international conference. Around the turn of the century we all began to be aware of a surge in the use of the Web for creating content. Unported License.