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A ding sounds as each group sends in their analogy. Their analogy appears on the screen.

diversify what they teach

I see a professional teacher and engaged students rather than the tech driving the class forward.

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She then flashes on the screen a three minute animated video on “Genes, DNA, and Chromosomes.” As the video plays, I scan the room and see that about half are taking notes as they watch. I do not see any student that appears to be off-task, looking secretly at smart phone in their laps, etc. Sensing that the video, while catchy with its animation, may have not stuck with students, she runs it again. Many students are now taking notes.

“There’s a pedagogical danger that students won’t develop open-ended skills from an animated dissection, that it doesn’t have the genetic variety we find in animals,” says Brian R. Shmaefsky, a professor of biology at Kingswood College in Houston and the secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Biology Teachers. “But for teachers dealing with student and parental complaints about animals, I’m for technology like that in the classroom.”

the technology saves school districts thousands of dollars, allows students to do multiple dissections on the same creature and get immediate feedback about what they did right or wrong, and ensures a safer enviornment for dissections.

Or they’ll use a Web camera and integrate graphics to produce weather reports, which they post online as podcasts.

educators need to do much more than just show off the latest gizmo to make technology effective.

Some are downloading real data

What We Do For Scientists PlantingScience is a simple, effective and efficient avenue for outreach, and to share the passion for what you do with burgeoning young scientists and citizens.

student-centered plant investigations that integrate scientific practices and big ideas in biology that meet the guidelines in the Next Generation Science Standards and other 21st century education standards

PlantingScience Staff We like how this mentor is encouraging the students to think ahead.

Sharing information and ideas to improve thinking for all is a very important part of science.

Inquiry-Based Learning

"I didn't want to turn it into a typical report you do in school," said Baker. "I wanted it to be a lot more exciting than that."A

central repository for class notes, pictures, and extra credit assignments.

sick of waiting by the photocopier to make handouts

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blog is called Rebecca’s Pocket. In her oft-cited essay “Weblogs: a history and perspective”, she writes about how blogging not only helped her gain knowledge about herself and her own interests, blogging actually led her to value more highly her own opinion and her own point of view. Partly, this was because she carefully considered her ideas as she wrote.