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7 Skills students need for their future - YouTube - 138 views
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7 Skills Students Need for the Future
Presentation Zen: Videos to help you rethink education, learning, & school - 133 views
One-Stop Resources - 113 views
the four rooms of change | claes f janssen - 106 views
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The Four Rooms of Change is a theory that deals with change, with what happens with people and organizations in change and transition and how they can influence their own and others change processes.
Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 5 views
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they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners
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“In the standard approach, the emphasis in class is on the first, and the second is left to the student on his or her own, outside of the classroom
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Great article that brings added depth to the notion of flipped classroom and what we've always know to be great teaching/pedagogy/andragogy
Planning for a new year in ICT - Can growth and change happen? - 8 views
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Changing the ICT culture of your school
Challenging Reformers' Conventional Wisdom about Structures and Classroom Practice | La... - 49 views
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It's not enough to change the status quo.
In 50 Years A Lot Has Changed In School | WeKnowMemes - 116 views
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In 50 years a lot has changed in school 1961 Whats the meaning of these marks. 2011 Whats the meaning of these marks.
'What's Wrong With Education Cannot Be Fixed with Technology' -- The Other Steve Jobs |... - 3 views
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But I’ve had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent.
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It’s a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions. You plot the growth of the NEA [National Education Association] and the dropping of SAT scores, and they’re inversely proportional. The problems are unions in the schools. The problem is bureaucracy.
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You’d be crazy to work in a school today. You don’t get to do what you want. You don’t get to pick your books, your curriculum. You get to teach one narrow specialization. Who would ever want to do that?
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Daily Kos: Universal Public Education Is Dead: The Rise of State Schools - 0 views
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U.S. schools under the jurisdiction of state and federal governments are now scripted processes that view knowledge as static capital, students as passive and empty vessels, and teachers as compliant conduits for state-approved content.
The accountability paradigm is antithetical to human agency and autonomy and thus to democracy, but it serves the needs of the status quo and the ruling elite; in effect, accountability paradigms driving compulsory education are oppressive:
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Re-reading and re-writing the world acknowledges that being as a human is always becoming, and these acts embrace the perpetual cycle of re-reading and re-writing as essential for both human agency and democracy. Teaching and learning are reciprocal and on-going, not hierarchical and ends to attain, possess.
Prof. Stephen Krashen 12-08-2011 on Vimeo - 50 views
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Primary conditions that impact achievement:
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1. poverty
2. access to school library/books at school/books at home
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Suggestions:
1. ramp up school meal programs
2. more/better healthcare for kids at school/school nurses
3. better access to books & libraries at school, community, and home.
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How to pay for it?
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Michael Fullan - 90 views
Donald Clark Plan B: More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years - all drive... - 88 views
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Interesting ideas and pretty true about education not changing.
Not Just A Teacher: A Reluctant Adult Learner - 9 views
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"Teaching this class has allowed me to witness levels of student engagement I have never seen before. Students are motivated, curious, flexible, prepared to take risks, comfortable with failure and they are also having fun."
Pop Chart Lab - The Insanely Great History of Apple - 160 views
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An infographic showing every computer released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air. Products are sorted according to type, including the connections between various form factors which have arisen as Apple has invented--and reinvented.
Really preparing human minds... - 77 views
"Be open, be hip, be brave, be curious." - 4 views
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Interview with Pirate Radio Co-Founder, broadcaster and marketing guru Terry O'Reilly who hosts "The Age of Persuasion."
