Caduceus featured on Classroom 2.0 Live Sat Dec 6, 2009

Please join us on Dec 6 at 12:00 PM (EST) (GMT-5) as we welcome Alec Chishom and Wade Munday. The topic for the show will be about;

CADUCEUS: Teaching Students About Scientific Inquiry Through Games
To demystify the complexities of pediatric medical research so kids can better understand the scientific process, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have likened what they do in their labs and in the field to how players advance through digital games — what’s experienced and learned at one level, informs, empowers, and enables what players do in subsequent levels. Join us for a special presentation of Caduceus, the online puzzle adventure game that Children’s Hospital has developed with the MIT Education Arcade, Learning Games Network, and FableVision to see how you can use this valuable tool and accompanying lesson plans and classroom activities to excite and engage students in Grades 4-8 around science and math. Caduceus and accompanying “In the Classroom” materials are free and available through Generation Cures, a kid-friendly, parent- and teacher-enabled community committed to helping Children’s Hospital Boston doctors and researchers find cures for the most devastating childhood illnesses. Visit generationcures.org for more information.

Link to show: live.classroom 20.com

The Tempered Radical: Three Tricks to Retaining Teachers

November 29, 2009 Today’s story:

• The Tempered Radical: Three Tricks to Retaining Teachers

  "Three Tricks to Retaining Teachers Have you ever noticed that the constant stream of articles about the teacher retention crisis in America’s schools never really ends? Poke through Google and you’ll find bits on attrition in math and science, where candidates can easily move into the private sector and earn significantly more over a lifetime, and on the costs that attrition carries for schools and districts. You can find reports drafted by national organizations like the Education Commission of the States and the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. Ed Week and Edutopia are writing about teacher retention. So is Cal State University and the Virginia Department of Education. "

  tags: radical, tempered, teacher, retention

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

K12 Online conference teaser

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: You Want Me To Use This In My Classroom? What’s The Point?

I’m sharing with you this blog post from Steven Anderson. It is a summary of a #edchat meetup this Tuesday night. I missed the conversation but I’d like to mention parents and what an impact they could have. That is why we are starting a program for parents Digital Parent
Ask parents you know, if they would sign up for a course on web 2.0 tools.

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: You Want Me To Use This In My Classroom? What’s The Point?

  "There is one in every school. There is one in every district. There is that one teacher, no matter what you do, no matter how much time you take, how slow you go, how much one-on-one time you spend with them, there is that one teacher who is not going to integrate technology into their classroom. They dig in their heals. They bury their heads in the sand. They shut the doors to their classroom, leaving technology (and perhaps ultimately quality learning) out in the cold. As is the case every Tuesday evening, educators, parents and students from around the globe came together on Twitter for #edchat. The topic: How do we encourage those teachers who don’t see or refuse to see the value in technology integration? It was, as always, a fascinating discussion. Here is just a snapshot of some of the thoughts of the participants:"

  tags: no_tag

  • here is one in every school. There is one in every district. There is that one teacher, no matter what you do, no matter how much time you take, how slow you go, how much one-on-one time you spend with them, there is that one teacher who is not going to integrate technology into their classroom. They dig in their heals. They bury their heads in the sand. They shut the doors to their classroom, leaving technology (and perhaps ultimately quality learning) out in the cold.

    As is the case every Tuesday evening, educators, parents and students from around the globe came together on Twitter for #edchat. The topic: How do we encourage those teachers who don’t see or refuse to see the value in technology integration? It was, as always, a fascinating discussion. Here is just a snapshot of some of the thoughts of the participants:

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

  "Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that’s notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you’ll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that’s evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave"

  tags: googlewave, collaboration

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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