revolutionizeed:

I’ve used the Nintendo Wii in the classroom before for a review game but a lot of these strategies are ones I would have never thought of.  Check it out!  Also…the Nintendo Wii keeps getting lower in price.  Great for the budgetless teacher!

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world-shaker:

“We need to revolutionize education to encourage creativity and need to teach our kids to play, take a chance and create. By not teaching our children liberal arts we will hinder their capacity to innovate.”

-Axelle Tessandier, The Next Web

(via Steve Jobs: Liberal Arts Essential for Innovation - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.)

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The Manila Bulletin: Retention, self-expression, Tumblr

Maraming salamat!

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infoneer-pulse:

“The Modern Educator Is Not a Teacher”: Updating Learning for the 21st Century

Why do classrooms and schools operate almost the same way they did 100 years ago? A group of middle schoolers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area began asking themselves this question during a class discussion of Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s Game. More importantly, they began to wonder, “Could children, using the internet, have a dramatic impact on the world around them? Could they influence public opinion, and make a mark on their world?” Thus began “Education Evolution,” a class video project that brings a student perspective to what’s going wrong in the modern classroom, and offers up ideas of how it can be fixed.

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revolutionizeed:

Social Studies
1.) Have students portray a President and recreate a famous speech
2.) Act out a time period in history
3.) Use for Mock Trial to record “evidence” at a scene of a crime
4.) Create advertisements for products when teaching Economics
5.) Create advertisement for inventions in history
6.) Interview family members
7.) Create Propaganda Techniques
8.) Film “On The Scene” news clips as if a news reporter from an event in history
9.) Create a movie trailer about an event in history, or even a biography of a person from history
10.)Create a music video for any of the subject matter

More subjects and ideas by clicking the link!

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revolutionizeed:

Can’t remember if I posted this before…hmm…

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infoneer-pulse:

Coming soon: make your phone your wallet

Google Wallet is a key part of our ongoing effort to improve shopping for both businesses and consumers. It’s aimed at making it easier for you to pay for and save on the goods you want, while giving merchants more ways to offer coupons and loyalty programs to customers, as well as bridging the gap between online and offline commerce.

Because Google Wallet is a mobile app, it will do more than a regular wallet ever could. You’ll be able to store your credit cards, offers, loyalty cards and gift cards, but without the bulk. When you tap to pay, your phone will also automatically redeem offers and earn loyalty points for you. Someday, even things like boarding passes, tickets, ID and keys could be stored in Google Wallet.

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lessonsfroma4thgrader:

teachersintiaras:

Book reports can be so mundane and repetitive for students. These are some alternative ideas for students to write about books.

• Write a letter to one of the characters in the novel
• Write a sonnet summing up the novel
• Make a poster advertising the novel
• Put 5-10 items in a shoe box to…

Great ideas!

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