Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 10/02/2012

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1:1 in Practice at Sinarmas World Academy: Why I Gave Back the MacBooks and Asked for iPads

This teacher wanted ipads instead of MacBooks. Here's the rationale including that the teacher can better differentiate. Now, the teacher has been using iPads for 3 weeks and captures reflections. This is what a good implementation SHOULD look like. Sadly, the teachers who use them as epaper don't get to see these sorts of results because they are missing the point. Great read.

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Teaching With the Presidential Debates – NYTimes.com

The New York Times has some options to allow students to participate and learn from the US Presidential debates. If you're teaching and you are wanting to use this as a topic, this is a great lesson plan.

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In the News: Five Web Tools to Help Teach Bloom's Taxonomy

Here are some great options from Edutopia for promoting higher order thinking in the classroom.

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Vicki Davis is a full-time classroom teacher and IT Director in Georgia, USA. She is Mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world. She hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast which interviews teachers around the world about remarkable classroom practices to inspire and help teachers. Vicki focuses on what unites us -- a quest for truly remarkable life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers that are grounded in the truth and shared with love. Vicki has been teaching since 2002 and blogging since 2005. Vicki has spoken around the world to inspire and help teachers reach their students. She is passionate about helping every child find purpose, passion, and meaning in life with a lifelong commitment to the joy and responsibility of learning. If you talk to Vicki for very long, she will encourage you to "Relate to Educate" or "innovate like a turtle" or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves to talk to teachers who love their students and are trying to do their best. Twitter is her favorite place to share and she loves to make homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and enjoys running half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

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