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Over this Holiday Break, do teachers find themselves broken down from all the standardization and deprofessionalization that they experience or do they use the break to find their voice?
Mentioned:
Mindy Kuykendall
De-professionalization of Teaching
Carol Jago
About 20 minutes and change.
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Merianna discusses the importance of teachers creating their own curriculum, why presentation is important and what teachers and learners can do to have more involvement and ownership over their own educational destiny in ThinkingEDU 10.
Mentioned:
Kevin Hodgson
Because Digital Writing Matters
About 20 minutes and change.
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ThinkingEDU 9 brings Merianna to your ears via real bits to discuss the current hot-button issue of virtual schooling and learning. Is there a future for learning via the web? Are schools in for a major shift in coming decade? Have we already stepped over that line towards major reform? Merianna discusses the options in this one.
Mentioned:
WaPo: Virtual Schools are Multiplying
About 20 minutes and change.
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Merianna Neely investigates the ins-and-outs of integrating new technologies in classrooms and points out potential pit-falls and major successes that are possible.
Mentioned:
Why Social Media Can and IS Changing Education
The 10 Barries to Technology Adoption
About 20 minutes and change.
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Merianna Neely (aka Teacher Without A Classroom) brings a new episode of ThinkingEDU with a discussion of the all-important issue of digital literacy and how it relates to what happens in/out of our classrooms.
Show Notes:
Intro Song: Trailer for Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Ending Song: Meatloaf “Two of Three Out of Three”
Mentioned:
Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf by Jennifer Holm
Don’t Let The Pigeon Run This App
About 22 minutes and change
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Merianna Neely thinks about podcasting, thinking, bad teaching, bad marketing, good promotions and what it means to be a teacher in the new millenium.
Mentioned:
Intro Song: Teacher Teacher by Edwin Phillips
Closing Song: Vertical Horizon Finding Me
About 20 mins and change.
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What happens when you take teaching down to its core? Can you be a teacher without a classroom?
Mentioned:
Why I Did TFA and You Shouldn’t
About 20 minutes and change
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Merianna Neely explores the tricky subject of homework and offers up a few suggestions for teachers in Episode 4.
Mentioned in this show:
Do Kids Have Too Much Homework?
About 30 minutes and change.
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Merianna talks of blogs, blogging as pre-writing, classroom instruction, and the future of writing mechanics.
24 minutes and change.
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This week, ThinkingEDU host Merianna Neely is joined by Josh Rosenberg, a high school Biology teacher and soccer coach in Shelby, NC (Cleveland County, NC… not SC) for a discussion on student engagement and uses of technology in (and out) of the classroom.
Mentioned:
Generation Z from PrincipalsPage
56 minutes and change
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