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Welcome to Engaging Education, a collection of resources and ideas that aim to engage our students and help them reach their full potential... as well as engage us as educators in the principles behind what we do every day. I hope you find them helpful, thought-provoking, and time-saving.
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New Article in Creative Educator: Authentic Audiences
“Beyond waiting “To Grow Up” For too long, our students have worked tirelessly for an audience of one: their teacher. When class assignments assume that work is simply preparation for some future “real world,” this singular audience makes sense. But in the course of a 21st century school year, if a class of students never [...]
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Sept 11 Reflections: Democracy, Citizenship and Education
What should a good citizen do? The question of “what a good citizen should do” in a democratic society begins with an assumption of a universal ethical imperative within democracy. Perhaps this follows from the concept of democracy itself. At the onset of American independence, the writers of the Declaration stated that it was self-evident [...]
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Happy Birthday, Maria Montessori — from Google and the rest of us!
August 31, 2012. Today would be 142nd birthday of revolutionary Italian physician and educator, Maria Montessori. To celebrate, Montessori alums at Google displayed a Google doodle of traditional Montessori learning manipulatives on their homepage. That’s right - both Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, grew up as Montessori kids. What’s more, it [...]
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Empowering Students with Digital Media Creation
The new school year is getting underway. We are filling drawers with math manipulatives, cabinets with supplies for science experiments, shelves with books… and lesson plans with inspired ideas for teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. Yet, while we make plans to teach these tangible standards, let’s not forget to plan lessons that teach the intangibles, [...]
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Re-envision Technology Integration in your Classrooms
With all of the advances in technology tools and 21st century learning strategies, it can be hard to both keep up… and to nail down just what ideas are the most important. My latest article in NAESP’s Principal magazine aims to help you do just that. Technology Integration for the NEW 21st Century Learner You [...]
ISTE: project-based, assessment, multimedia
Please let me know if you find this project relevent for your Monday, 6/27/2011, 4:15pm–5:15pm Session.
National Children’s Folksong Repository
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/
PRESERVE OUR AMERICAN VERNACULAR SONGS – OUR ORAL CULTURE