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Bibliography of Personalized Learning Support Themes

Topic: Neuroscience: links to Canadian researchers working in the fields including brain development, early learning, language acquisition, self-regulation, behaviour. The sites have general information for parents and educators) Adele Diamond, PhD and director of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, University of British Columbia http://www.devcogneuro.com/ Fraser Mustard, MD, Fraser Mustard Chair in Childhood Development, Alberta Children’s Hospital and University of Calgary http://www.frasermustardchair.ca/resources/ Stuart Shanker, PhD, director of Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative , York University, http://www.mehri.ca/people/shanker.html Clyde Hertzman, PhD, director Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia, http://www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/people/directors/ Topic: Adolescent Learners and Student Engagement John Abbott, with Heather MacTaggart, Overschooled but Undereducated: How the Crisis in Education is Jeopar...

Bibliography of Personalized Learning Resources

These are not “approved” resources and some even provide contrarian perspectives. The resources go beyond Personalized Learning and/or 21 st Century Learning. The idea is to use what is known about things like neuroscience and brain development to inform learning and teaching. John Abbott, with Heather MacTaggart, Overschooled but Undereducated: How the Crisis in Education is Jeopardizing our Adolescents , Continuum International Publishing Group, London, 2010. Check out Abbott’s Born to Learn site: http://www.born-to-learn.org/ British Columbia Ministry of Education, The British Columbia Performance Standards for Reading, Writing, Numeracy and Social Responsibility http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/perf_stands/ British Columbia Ministry of Education, “Principles of Learning”, in English Language Arts curriculum guide , 2006 (page 3) http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/english_language_arts/2006ela_k7.pdf British Columbia Ministry of Education, “First Peoples Principles of Learning”, in Engl...

The Digital Backpack

A couple of years ago I posted a blog entry about the Digital Backpack , a directory of Web 2.0 tools,online applications, and resources for students and teachers. This site has recently been refreshed and contains a number of additions. http://www.goodhue.k12.mn.us/school242/genie224/images/files/backpack2010.html

25 places to find instructional videos

From Jane's Learning Pick of the Day blog. A number of wonderful resources here. http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2010/02/25-places-to-find-instructional-videos.html

Seeing Math™ Secondary Interactives

All of the Seeing Math™ Secondary interactives are free for you to use. Most are copyrighted by The Concord Consortium and licensed to you under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Seeing Math™ has developed interactive software tools to clarify key mathematical ideas in middle and high school mathematics. Each interactive provides a real-time connection between representations of the mathematics (symbolic, graphical, etc.), so that changes in one representation instantly cause changes in the other. http://www.seeingmath.concord.org/sms_interactives.html

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles

Here is another good set of math activities that vary from introductory to complex applications of mathematical principles. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/

Math Interactives from LearnAlberta.ca

This multimedia resource includes interactive math activities, print activities, learning strategies, and videos that illustrate how math is used in everyday life. The resource addresses the following mathematics topics: Fractions; Integers; Percentages; Rate/Ratio/Proportion; Square Roots; Exponents; Patterns; Algebra; Linear Equations; Polynomials; Angles; Circles; Surface Area and Volume; Area and Perimeter; Triangles; Pythagoras; Trigonometry; Similarity and Congruence; Transformations; Shape Classification; Data Display and Graphs; Central Tendency and Distribution; and Probability. http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mejhm/index.html