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Posted Sep. 28, 2012

Bringing Geometry to Life with Twitter

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In this episode, Alan speaks to Jessica Caviness, geometry teacher at Coppell High School in Texas. The two will discuss Jessica’s use of Twitter to engage her students in real-life applications of geometry. Supporting examples of this work can be found in a blog post titled Connecting Students to Geometry Through Twitter and an article titled How Twitter Can Be Used as a Powerful Educational Tool.

To learn more about this type of teaching and learning with Twitter, we invite you to Boston to attend our Building Learning Communities Summer Conference. More information on our conference is also available at novemberlearning.com.

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Posted Sep. 24, 2012

Join Alan November in Two Upcoming Webinars

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Register Now! Join Alan November in two upcoming, free webinars.
ThinkForward: Who Owns the Learning? Making the Case for Purpose-Driven Learning
September 28 at 12:00 PM ET/ 11:00 AM CT
Creative and altruistic things can happen when we equip students with easy-to-use digital tools. Some have been known to develop tutorials to help classmates learn. And we know that many children prefer to learn from their peers. Giving our students a sense of purpose by helping them contribute to the learning community can be one of the most powerful and effective ways to improve achievement for all students. [...]

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Posted Jul. 13, 2012

How Twitter Can Be Used as a Powerful Educational Tool

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In the third part of their three-part series on eSchool News, Alan and Brian demonstrate how Twitter can be used in any classroom to connect students to the world and provide students with immediate, practical, real-world problems.

If you missed  part one or part two of the series, we invite you to read them before reading the final installment.

After reading the article, we invite you to come back and share your thoughts.

 

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Posted Jul. 3, 2012

Connecting Students to Geometry Through Twitter

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Posted: Jul. 3, 2012

Alan and Brian have been working with a cohort in Texas made up of teachers and administrators who are a part of the Texas Association of School Administrators. At a recent event in Austin, high school math teacher, Jessica Caviness, shared a fun implementation of Twitter in her geometry class. We thought it was so great, we simply had to share it. Jessica provided us with a quick write-up explaining her work.

“When will we use this?” It’s the question all teachers hate and motivated me to change my approach to teaching. Being a geometry teacher, it was easy for [...]

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Posted Jun. 1, 2012

Web Literacy: Where the Common Core Meets Common Sense

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Posted: Jun. 1, 2012

In the second of their three-part series revisiting Alan’s earlier article, Teaching Zack to Think, Alan November and Brian Mull dig deeper into their three pillars of Web literacy. They share examples that demonstrate the struggles that the majority of students and adults have effectively researching on the Web. In addition, they share techniques that can be used to boost research effectiveness.

Also, Alan and Brian expand on two driving forces that create an urgency to redefine what it means to be literate in today’s world: common sense and the Common Core.

If you missed part one of the series, we invite you to read [...]

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Posted May. 9, 2012

Why More Schools Aren’t Teaching Web Literacy—and How They Can Start

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Fourteen years after writing Teaching Zack to Think , there is still no Internet skill more critical than Web literacy. However, simply teaching students to be able to search for and validate information is not enough. The ever-growing amount of information on the Web and the immediate access to experts and peers from around the world create great opportunities for thoughtfully organizing and expanding upon learning.

Alan November and Brian Mull have recently written an article titled  Why More Schools Aren’t Teaching Web Literacy—and How They Can Start,  which now appears on the eSchool News site and discusses a three-part framework for making sure students are Internet savvy.

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Posted Mar. 27, 2012

Flipped Learning: A Response to Five Common Criticisms

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Alan November and Brian Mull have recently written an article titled  Flipped Learning: A Response to Five Common Criticisms which now appears on the  eSchool News site. Within the article, they explain how to deepen student learning using the Flipped Learning method, and they also address criticisms this method has received.

You are invited to read this article and share your thoughts and questions here.

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Posted Jan. 29, 2012

BLC is an Incubator of Great Ideas

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Posted: Jan. 29, 2012

Last spring, at the end of a full day of keynotes and presentations at BLC 11, @ewanmcintosh @dkuropatwa, a few others and I hit Beantown for refreshments and a kick at the day’s notes. The idea of problem-finding, of asking question to which no one knows the answers, emerged as a new model for pedagogy. Ewan took the idea to TEDxLondon.

Here it is again–six months later–on ISTE’s site: Teach your students to fail better.

BLC hits a sweet spot that I think puts it at the forefront of education: it’s big enough to draw a lot of bright minds yet small enough to allow serious conversation between keynotes [...]

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Posted Jan. 23, 2012

BLC11 Keynote: Rob Evans

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Posted: Jan. 23, 2012

Today, we are launching our second BLC11 keynote video with Rob Evans, clinical and organizational psychologist and the Executive Director of the Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

As you watch the keynote, we encourage you to reflect on and respond to the following questions.

  • Rob Evans shared that for transformation to take place, there must be a balance of enough anxiety to stimulate change without having so much that people shut down. What are your ideas on how to acheive this balance?
  • What do you do in your school to manage the overwhelming changes in technology?

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Posted Jan. 11, 2012

Webinar with Alan November and Dr. Eric Mazur

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Posted: Jan. 11, 2012

This is a very special episode of our podcast series. It’s an archived recording of our first of what we hope will be many live webinars complete with audience Q&A at the end.

In this conversation, Alan talks again to Dr. Eric Mazur, Area Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University and 2011 Building Learning Communities Conference keynote speaker. Alan and Dr. Mazur revisit his work on flipped learning along with peer instruction that is guided by the questions and misconceptions students bring to class each day. This process, being done using his Learning Catalytics software, is allowing him to visualize [...]

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