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Creative Fluency: Energy Challenge (Rube Goldberg Machine)
"Toothpaste Dispenser" Application: I am a little behind where I thought I’d be so we have not actually started the energy challenge yet – I will post a recap (& pictures!) once it happens (right...
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Wiki: Skeptic Turned Supporter!
While reading through my student’s Wiki time logs and checking their contributions thus far (spring break was a partial deadline), I came across a comment I had not expected! This was actually kind of...
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Collaborative Fluency: Lab Practica
Application: Lab Practica In order to compliment our written tests, I’ve been experimenting with a lab test or lab practica. In many ways, the lab practica is an opposite to the written test. Where the...
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Deprogramming Students for 21CL
“Just give me the answers.” “Why won’t you help me? You’re the teacher.” “This project is going to take FOR…EVER. Ugh.” “You mean I actually have to think on this assignment?!?” Ever heard one these...
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Media Fluency
Timing is everything. Every semester I try to find a creative way to let my Film Criticism students demonstrate their understanding of the work that we have done during the semester. Projects that find...
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The Bully Project: What’s the Solution?
13 million kids will be bullied in the U.S. this year. That’s the problem. What’s the solution? Recently, I was blessed to attend a private screening of the new documentary Bully, arranged by my school...
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Global Digital Citizenship: Elementary Physics Project Part II
Global Digital Citizenship still feels like an abstract hodgepodge of all the other fluencies wrapped in one to me. The 21st century learning site even states: All the 21st Century fluencies are...
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Global Digital Citizenship: Elementary Physics Project Part I
I had a hard time coming up with an idea that incorporated global digital citizenship in a physics curriculum meaningfully. Ultimately I had my students work in small groups to plan and teach 20 minute...
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Love Learning, Yet Hate School?
This morning, in an email from TIE, I received a link from Greg Limperis to watch a viral video related to education. The title caught my attention…Why I Hate School But Love Education. I was...
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Media Fluency
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