The Best of What Tim Found This Morning #edtech #edchat 03/04/2015

• For Students, the Importance of Doing Work That Matters | MindShift

  tags: engagement relevance post2blog

• These 6 questions determine if you're technology rich, innovation poor | eSchool News | eSchool News | 2

  tags: post2blog evaluatingtechnologyuse* evaluatingtechnologyuse

  • We need all of our teachers to recognize the critical and essential role they play in preparing students to be web literate.
  • pportunity to teach students to ask questions we could never ask in the limited world of paper.
  • One of the most important skills is to teach our students how to ask the creative, innovative and even impossible questions.

• Do You have the Personality To Be an Inquiry-Based Teacher? | MindShift

  tags: inquirybasedclassrooms pbl relationships wcw post2blog

  • compelling evidence from the fields of adolescent development and resiliency studies show that caring relationships are the key factor in helping young people flourish
  • motional interactions between teacher and student drive physiological changes, and thus performance.
  • a teacher’s personality counts,
  • f an inquiry-based system is to succeed, we’ll need human beings in the classroom who know their field, but who also radiate the kind of positive, non-judgmental love that helps students open their minds and hearts.

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