Summer+Thoughts...

**considered myself this summer. **
=While at a conference this summer a presenter shared the following: = =In medical school, students are required to first observe, then demonstrate, and lastly teach other students a procedure. It is not until they have taught the procedure that they are considered competent in that skill. = =What occurred to me was how can we give our students opportunities to teach other students? =

=Eyejot? : Classroom newsletter, student generated lesson summary, communication with parents via teacher or student...? =


=Flickr? : Enrichment lessons, alternative assessment...What about the Smarties photo? = =  = =  =  = <span style="color: rgb(78, 57, 249); font-family: Georgia,serif">While at a conference this summer a presenter shared the followin  <span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(35, 51, 246)">g:  = = <span style="color: rgb(21, 43, 249)"><span style="color: rgb(15, 7, 237); font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(187, 23, 211); font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(54, 23, 238); font-family: Georgia,serif">    = = <span style="color: rgb(21, 43, 249)"><span style="color: rgb(15, 7, 237); font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(187, 23, 211); font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="color: rgb(54, 23, 238); font-family: Georgia,serif">    = =<span style="color: rgb(21, 43, 249)"><span style="color: rgb(24, 36, 236); font-family: Georgia,serif">When students are introduced to a new "button" they instantly push it and continue to do so until they figure out the correct sequence to its intended purpose or outcome. On the other hand, when a teacher is given a new "button" they instantly ask what they should do with it. = =<span style="color: rgb(21, 43, 249)"><span style="color: rgb(39, 15, 240); font-family: Georgia,serif">Just food for thought. =
 * "Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." - ||
 * -- **Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]** ||  ||

=<span style="color: rgb(183, 21, 176); font-family: Georgia,serif"> = =<span style="color: rgb(183, 21, 176); font-family: Georgia,serif">Over the past three years, I have suggested and requested, we compile a lesson bank comprised of successful lessons from each of you. While reading **//A Whole New Mind//**, by Daniel Pink, I came across this: <span style="color: rgb(183, 21, 176); font-family: Georgia,serif"> = =<span style="color: rgb(183, 21, 176); font-family: Georgia,serif"> = =<span style="color: rgb(183, 21, 176); font-family: Georgia,serif">And Xerox - recognizing that its repair personnel learned to fix machines by trading stories rather than by reading manuals - has collected its stories into a database called Eureka that **//Fortune//** estimates is worth $100 million to the company. = =<span style="color: rgb(183, 21, 176); font-family: Georgia,serif">Same theory, different business. =

=**<span style="color: rgb(16, 41, 229); font-family: Georgia,serif">Screencasts, Google Maps, and Google Custom Search Engines...your turn **=

"Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers." --Gilbert Highet

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." --Ralph Waldo Emerson