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Tumblr Teacher: Girl with a Lesson Plan: One frustrating, emotionally taxing aspect of teaching:

girlwithalessonplan:

I don’t mind sharing my opinions about most topics with students if they ask me (and if it doesn’t deviate dramatically from plans). I feel this is important because teenagers should have “adult” conversations with adults to even LEARN how to have those conversations, or to learn and be part of a…

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How my child went from homeschool to Harvard

bellechantelle:

This is by far the best article I’ve read in the past few months if not more. Schools (even in Canada) underserve their students, and instill ZERO work ethic or competition. 

Kartoon-y-ness: Fun with #Mathsnap

more airplane signals

More Airplane Signals

Airplane Signals!

Airplane Signals!

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Mathtoons joins the AccelerateOK New Years Kick off party

20120112-AOK-Kick-Off- 7955 (by AccelerateOK)

Mathtoons joins the AccelerateOK New Years Kick off party

20120112-AOK-Kick-Off- 7955 (by AccelerateOK)

No matter what excellent technology, creative lesson plans, or other pedagogical methods they encounter, students must learn how to learn; to do this, they must understand that learning means much more than entering a search term and clicking on a website followed by speed reading and/or copying and pasting information. Finding information is one important component of learning, but it is ineffective if students do not understand why the information is significant, how it should be appropriately and ethically used, and to what extent the information is relevant, credible, timely, etc. Students are more than ready to question data or conclusions, but often lack of focused study has rendered them unready to pursue such questions to well-reasoned conclusions.

Deborah S. DeCiantis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, North Greenville University

Ten Skills Every Student Should Learn

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Over 25 Links Uncovering Project Based Learning Resources On The Web

world-shaker:

Well I think that title sums it up pretty well.

Ulrika Kestere’s photo essay based on a fairy tale about a woman whose drying laundry is taken by a sudden storm and takes on unexpected forms

Design and teaching Anatomy

Awesome illustrations of our muscular and skeletal systems using hand-felted muscle has on hand-made paper.

hand felted example of muscles