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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
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This eight minute video provides a look at a Singapore school and shows examples of what the students to and how the students stimulate learning. Lots of good ideas. Especially interesting is the fast fact section about Singapore education.
March 15, 2012 at 08:51 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
1796 Views:
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This five minute video provides insights into how a low performing school used mentoring, teacher training the use of research to improve. Well worth a view.
March 15, 2012 at 09:32 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
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This six minute video shows how teaching about finance starting in kindergarten can help students in life.The school that is featured is a public K-8 school on the South Side of Chicago which serves many low income families The video features interv...iews with those responsible for the program and provides insights into what the curriculum needs to cover and how to present the material. It also shows classroom discussions. (6:00)
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March 28, 2012 at 11:59 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
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This 22 minute video shows students using technology and raises the question of if today's education leaders are willing to let students take charge. Several points are made by the British presenter that would make it good for an inservice. ""We are ...not going to build better learning for our children; we are going to build it with our children"
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February 27, 2012 at 10:07 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
1727 Views:
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This five minute video is on stressing literacy in all subject areas. It provides a general overview with the emphasis on learning. This video features a 6th grade teacher and emphasises that every teacher is a literary teacher.
March 4, 2012 at 10:56 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
1709 Views:
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The former Dean of Pixar University, Randy Nelson, explains what schools must do to prepare students (and themselves) for new models in the workplace. The lecture format provides some interesting insights, but there isn't any examples outside of his ...workplace. The stress is on working together to be innovative. The best part is the importance of those who failed and recovered and not simply didn't try or avoided failure. (09:18)
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March 4, 2012 at 10:36 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
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This 5:22 video shows a school that has a rainforest biosphere. It explains how all the grade levels utilize the rainforest theme in their studies and how the money was raised and the use of volunteers. The school is in La Vegas. Another part of the ...video, around the 4:30 mark, shows how students learn about a silver mine by going to a mine school.
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April 2, 2012 at 08:49 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 13 - 18
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This video explains teh potential of free online university courses and what it is and what if opportunities it provides. The video also gives ideas on how free onlne courses can be helpful and what advantages they have for users. A good video to sho...w how videos, such as those on watchknowlearn.org can help expand learning by serving as a backbone for an online course. (20:41)
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August 6, 2012 at 12:46 AM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
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This 20 minute video is a fictional account by a British politician about what would happen if Steve Jobs designed a school. The video tells how some leading technology oriented leaders expressed surprise at how little impact technology had had on sc...hools. The video starts making points to ponder around the five minute mark. "Are we brave enough to truly challenge the many forces of conservatism in
education? Can we "invent the future" for education? Can we show learners what they really want and make schools "insanely great". Can learning become so intuitive, seductive and personal that every child is engaged, progresses, and fulfils their potential?"
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February 27, 2012 at 09:59 PM
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Not Right For WatchKnowLearn
Ages: 18 - 18
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In this 20 minute video Francis Gilbert explains what he feels are some of the best and worst features of the current "industrial scale" of education systems teacher and discusses the myths and purpose of education, the promise and reality of the te...aching profession, the negative impact of assessment on learning and how teachers construct their identity. Excellent for an inservice. British.
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February 27, 2012 at 09:52 PM
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