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#Internet4schools: Make Your Voice Heard

A Principal's Reflections

We began to create a school that worked better for them in that they could create learning artifacts to demonstrate conceptual mastery through the construction of new knowledge and application of skills.

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Two Worlds, Two Technologies: The Divergent Stone Industries of the Uluzzian and Châtelperronian Peoples

Anthropology.net

Châtelperronian sites are compiled from Pelegrin and Soressi ( 2007 ) and Soressi and Roussel ( 2014 ) modified. 2014 ) modified. To correct this, the team organized a workshop where archaeologists directly examined artifacts from both traditions side by side. Uluzzian sites are compiled after Marciani et al.

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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series: Student Engagement and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Digital leadership is a mindset and a call to transform a school’s culture into one that unleashes the creativity of students so they can create artifacts of learning that demonstrate conceptual mastery.

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Amazing Students Do Amazing Things

A Principal's Reflections

It is these artifacts after all that truly measure the construction of new knowledge as well as both skill attainment and application. Above is a picture of her entry into the 2014 Cover Contest held by Creative Outlook, a free magazine distributed to high school teachers and students immersed in art and music.

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The Power of Video

A Principal's Reflections

The students were able to learn particular aspects of a survivor’s story, record reflections, and actually create a video utilizing testimony clips and artifacts to tell their impression of a particular survivor’s story. The learning connects students to the past, engages them in the present, and motivates them to build a better future.

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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

Digital Promise

Creating and sharing artifacts of learning helps everyone learn 5. A key principle of Seymour Papert’s theory of constructionism and a foundation of maker learning is the idea that the creation of artifacts is critical in the learning process. 2014 Oct;42(7):1038-48. DOI: 10.3102/00028312019002237 [link]. Mem Cognit.

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The Evolution of Cooking: A Defining Moment in Human History

Anthropology.net

These hearths typically consist of circular arrangements of stones surrounding ash deposits, often accompanied by burned artifacts or plant remains. One of the key indicators of fire control in archaeological sites is the presence of combustion structures, such as hearths. link] 2 Wrangham, R. Catching Fire: How cooking made us human.