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		<title>Lesson Plan Search Engine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s frustrating finding free lesson plans through traditional search engines. I wanted to share this customized search engine for free lesson plans. Now teachers can search for free lesson plans from sites that do not require registration. Every result should be a ready-to-go lesson plan for free. If not, please make a comment to let me know. You can enter search information in the box below, where it says &#8220;Google Custom Search&#8221;.  Just put in your subject (ex: American History) and a specific topic (ex: Andrew Carnegie), hit the search button and look through the results. If you have any trouble or get bum results, please comment below. I will do everything I can to make this tool viable for all teachers. And one last word: Sorry about the ads. The only way to make this customized search engine for free is to allow Google to place ads in the results. Happy lesson plan hunting! Loading //]]></description>
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		<title>Using iTunes U to Develop Symphony Without an iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s iPad has taken the world by storm, and it seems that educators everywhere are fascinated by the device. At Julia Green Elementary school in Nashville, Apple&#8217;s iPad will be utilized in all of their kindergarten classrooms.  Students will be able to use the technology to surf the web, access iTunes U, and create their own content.  Educators at Julia Green say that this type of technology is essential in preparing students for the global economy. In A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink cites the aptitude of symphony as the ability to look at vast amounts of information and to find meaningful patterns.  As I read about iPads in the classroom, the aptitude of symphony came to mind. With the deluge of information that comes across the screen of an iPad, how can we prepare students to process that information and make sense of it all? The obvious answer is to let our students use an iPad.  Principal Eileen Willis of Julia Green calls this the process of developing &#8220;global mindedness&#8221; and &#8220;preparing children to be in this world&#8221;. But what about the rest of us who do not have the resources to provide an iPad for our students to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrade This Lesson Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling all teachers of the Right-Brain! Maybe you could help me upgrade this colleague&#8217;s lesson plan to include some of Dan Pink&#8217;s right-brain aptitudes from A Whole New Mind.  She is looking for any number of suggestions, but if we get enough folks submitting ideas we can put it up for a vote to declare an overall winner.  And who knows&#8230;maybe a prize for the winner? Rules of the game: Be nice Your upgrade needs to be simple, keeping the integrity of the plan You must mention which specific aptitude from A Whole New Mind that students will be developing Please post your upgrade as a comment, as I did, so all can see it Be nice! Alright, here it goes&#8230; Here is the lesson plan: Students are given a basic summary page of the textbook chapter that will be studied.  Students answer provided questions following the reading.  This is about a 20-minute activity, just to give you a time frame. So Right-Brain teachers please comment below and we&#8217;ll see what we&#8217;ve got!  Post it, Tweet it, send it, Digg it or Like it.  Just send out the word &#8211; I can&#8217;t wait to see what we get!]]></description>
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		<title>Using Design in Note Taking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share a template with you that I use when giving notes. The idea came from a conversation with a colleague who had attended an in-service on Marzano&#8216;s strategies.  (To see more on Marzano and Dan Pink&#8217;s right-brain aptitudes see this post) When asking students to take notes, the obvious weakness in strategy is assessing their understanding and maintaining their interest.  To address both of these issues, I gave students this template.  Basically I give a short lecture where students take notes, about 10-15 minutes.  (I use fill-in-the-blank notes in my classes.) I then pause and ask students to take out their template and to &#8220;draw out&#8221; what I had just covered.  What are the basic ideas?  Can you recreate them in a picture?  I give them about five minutes to do this.  While students are drawing, I circulate around the room and check on their work. The result has been incredible.  For an example from this week, I lectured students on the division of Germany after World War II.  I then asked students to draw it out.  Questions began to arise like &#8220;Where is Berlin in Germany?&#8221; or &#8220;Which side is East?&#8221; With just a five-minute upgrade, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marzano&#8217;s Instructional Strategies and Dan Pink</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great site for resources on Robert Marzano&#8217;s instructional strategies. If you are familiar with Marzano, then you will find this site particularly interesting as it connects instructional technology resources with each of his strategies.  If you are not familiar with Marzano, each strategy is briefly defined so that you can implement the technology while knowing which instructional strategy you are using. I also sorted out a few of Marzano&#8217;s strategies and applied them to Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitudes from A Whole New Mind.  Here are a few of the obvious connections that I made after reviewing the strategies on the Marzano website: #3 Complex Cognitive Tasks (Symphony) #4 Cooperative Learning (Empathy) #8 Graphic Organizers, #12 Non-linguistic Representations (Design) #11 Interactive Games, #12 Kinesthetic Activities (Play) #19 Summarizing (Story/Design) I&#8217;m sure there are any number of parallels that can be drawn between Marzano and Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitudes, but I thought these were the easiest to implement. So if your district is asking you to utilize the Marzano startegies, don&#8217;t worry.  You can still develop your students&#8217; right-brain aptitudes at the same time! Marzano&#8217;s Instructional Strategies.]]></description>
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		<title>6 Word Stories: A Template for Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently created a 6 Word Stories Video Template for using six word stories as video summaries.  It really does make for a quick and easy upgrade for watching videos. As I have mentioned before, I like to use six word stories to enhance the story aptitude from A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink.  I have always struggled to get students to appreciate and understand an entire video.  The faithful &#8220;video guide&#8221; usually results in students only paying attention long enough to write the word in the blank.  But when you use 6-word stories, students seem to be a bit more engaged.  They have to pay attention to the entire video in order to offer a six word summary.  And my experience shows that students really enjoy the challenge of creating their own six word story.  They can take away their own meaning from the video, and they can create a phrase that can easily be memorized. I would like to offer a general observation on AWNM and the classroom.  When I consciously design lessons around Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitudes, I try to &#8220;cross over&#8221; between the visual and the written.  I have students use pictures to summarize words, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History comes alive through program at Montgomery elementary school &#124; MyCentralJersey.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another great use of empathy in the classroom. History is an excellent medium for developing empathy.  And these New Jersey elementary students have taken it to the next level. In the first part of the project they research historical figures.  They look into their early life and careers, following the figures throughout all of their contributions to society.  Seems standard enough. But then they upgrade that lesson to incorporate Dan Pink&#8217;s aptitude of empathy from AWNM. Students team up with a partner and write anonymous pen pal letters to each other, from the perspective of their historical figure! What a great idea.  And what an easy way to develop empathy.  You could take any small research project and add a simple upgrade to enhance empathy.  And think about the high-level thinking skills that are required to write from another person&#8217;s perspective.  Amazing. Even though this example is from an elementary school, I plan on using something similar with my high school kids.  There are any number of opportunities to enhance empathy in American History.  I can&#8217;t wait to take advantage of a few of them. History comes alive through program at Montgomery elementary school &#124; mycentraljersey.com &#124; MyCentralJersey.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Free Printable PDF Templates &#8211; Smashing Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is some great stuff! If you are looking at enhancing your students&#8217; design aptitude from AWNM, any lesson plan would benefit from one or more of these templates. There are templates for story boards, visual brainstorming, and even just some fun fold-up patterns that might help with spacial understanding in elementary school or math classes. I have never been a designer, so I am always more apt to defer to an artist&#8217;s opinion.  And in this case, I have downloaded quite a few of these templates. As an example of something I would never have thought of myself: The grids will probably help my students to focus on the content of their drawing and free them from the frustration of free-handed balance in their designs.  After all, I want them to get the content of the curriculum as well as develop their design aptitude. When you have a few minutes to spare, look through the templates.  I promise you will not be disappointed! Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates &#8211; Smashing Magazine.]]></description>
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		<title>Dartmouth Engineer » Engineering by Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a great idea &#8211; Using improv to develop design-based thinking. This article highlights Peter Robbie&#8217;s Design Thinking class at Thayer Engineering School. As you read the article, Robbie points out that in an age of abundance such as ours, human-centered design is essential to business success.  His ideas are completely in line with Dan Pink in A Whole New Mind. As you read the article, check out the &#8220;Need for Design&#8221; and &#8220;Design is a Process&#8221; sections.  Robbie does an outstanding  job of describing how improv develops the skills necessary for human-centered design.  By acting out and anticipating human needs through improv, students start to think about the needs of consumers when designing products. This idea sounds a lot like empathy, and if you recall the Dan Pink interview that I posted, Pink argues that design without empathy is &#8220;mediocre design.&#8221;  Apparently Professor Robbie agrees. Another point of Robbie&#8217;s  concerns some of the pitfalls of brainstorming.  He talks about self-censorship and ridicule as limiting factors in traditional brainstorming.  But by having students act out scenes and improvise, these limitations of traditional brainstorming disappear.  Students are less likely to censor their ideas, and they will be much more hesitant to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Turns Students into Educators in Distance Learning Program &#8212; THE Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Videoconferencing is something you continue to hear about, and I think we can all agree that it continues to create opportunities in education. But this program in Rural Texas really has a great application of the technology. The main project that elementary students use is a presentation about cotton.  The Texas students are living in a town where cotton is their main crop. These kids&#8217; life experience is rich with expertise on the growing of cotton. So their teacher offered that expertise to the rest of the United States.  The Texas students present to young people form around the country about cotton.  The majority of people in the United States have no idea what is involved in the growing and harvesting of cotton, but these kids do. And the students from Texas learn from their peers across the nation.  A subway is not only a sandwich,  it is mass transportation.  And what do you do in the snow? This is a great way to use develop empathy.  As Dan Pink argues in A Whole New Mind, empathy will become increasingly important in a global economy.  And these  students in rural Texas are getting that chance. If you have not tried [...]]]></description>
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