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Steven Engravalle

Historic American Newspapers - Chronicling America (The Library of Congress) - 74 views

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

newspapers HISTORY resources reference america

shared by Steven Engravalle on 22 May 12 - Cached
  • Michele Brown on 22 May 12
     
    Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 from Chronicling America (The Library of Congress).  Great for research.
Trevor Cunningham

A Teacher Wonders - Can Grading Teachers Work? - 86 views

www.aft.org/...epstein.pdf

education teacher evaluation research

shared by Trevor Cunningham on 16 May 12 - No Cached
  • Trevor Cunningham on 16 May 12
     
    Interesting article questioning student-performance-based teacher evaluation systems. Includes a summary of a longitudinal study's findings on the shortcomings of isolating teacher impact on student learning.
Steve Ransom

The fantasies driving school reform: A primer for education graduates - The Answer Shee... - 4 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQA5vwzLU_blog.html

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  • Richard Rothstein
  • In truth, this conventional view relies upon imaginary facts.

  • Let me repeat: black elementary school students today have better math skills than white students did only twenty years ago.

  • ...11 more annotations...

  • As a result, we’ve wasted 15 years avoiding incremental improvement, and instead trying to upend a reasonably successful school system.

  • But the reason it hasn’t narrowed is that your profession has done too good a job — you’ve improved white children’s performance as well, so the score gap persists, but at a higher level for all.
  • Policymakers, pundits, and politicians ignore these gains; they conclude that you, educators, have been incompetent because the test score gap hasn’t much narrowed.
  • If you believe public education deserves greater support, as I do, you will have to boast about your accomplishments, because voters are more likely to aid a successful institution than a collapsing one.
  • In short, underemployment of parents is not only an economic crisis — it is an educational crisis. You cannot ignore it and be good educators.
  • equally important educational goals — citizenship, character, appreciation of the arts and music, physical fitness and health, and knowledge of history, the sciences, and literature.

  • If you have high expectations, your students can succeed regardless of parents’ economic circumstances.

    That is nonsense.

  • health insurance; children are less likely to get routine and preventive care that middle class children take for granted
  • If they can’t see because they don’t get glasses to correct vision difficulties, high expectations can’t teach them to read.
  • Because education has become so politicized, with policy made by those with preconceptions of failure and little understanding of the educational process, you are entering a field that has become obsessed with evaluating only results that are easy to measure, rather than those that are most important. But as Albert Einstein once said, not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.
  • To be good educators, you must step up your activity not only in the classroom, but as citizens. You must speak up in the public arena, challenging those policymakers who will accuse you only of making excuses when you speak the truth that children who are hungry, mobile, and stressed, cannot learn as easily as those who are comfortable.
  • Steve Ransom on 14 May 12
     
    An important read for anyone who truly wants to understand what's really important in education and the false reform strategies of our current (and past) administration.
Trevor Cunningham

Search Education - Google - 22 views

www.google.com/...index.html

Libray research search

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  • Trevor Cunningham on 06 May 12
     
    Providing lessons for educating students on search techniques.
Jill Hanson

Search Education - Google - 88 views

www.google.com/...searcheducation

ITL search

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  • Eric Arbetter on 06 May 12
     
    Materials on this site help students become better at searching for things on Google.
  • Jill Hanson on 09 May 12
     
    Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.
Jac Londe

Annotum - 3 views

annotum.org

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  • Annotum, an open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress.

    Annotum version 1.o was launched on November 22, 2011 (11/22/11).

Lauren Rosen

Google Alerts - 39 views

www.google.com/alerts

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  • Lauren Rosen on 18 Apr 12
     
    controla la Web en busca de nuevo e interesante contenido. Get alerts on what you are most interested in, currently researching. Similar to a twitter search but set to email you regularly if you want to save the alert. 
Elizabeth Resnick

Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know| The Committed Sardine - 9 views

www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm

research search_skills

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  • “What do students really need to know about online search to do it well?”
  • Search competency is a form of literacy, like learning a language or subject.
  • inquiry,
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  • literature review,
  • evidence-gathering,
  • build the evidence for new conclusions.
  • What students need to be competent at is identifying the kind of source they’re finding, decoding what types of evidence it can appropriately provide, and making an educated choice about whether it matches their task.
  • construct tighter or deeper searches
  • They have the technical skills to access Web pages, but also books, journal articles, and people as they move through their research process.
  • how to carry out excellent research online.
  • Elizabeth Resnick on 17 Apr 12
     
    the hallmarks of a good online search education
Elizabeth Resnick

Digital Collections - Harvard College Library - 2 views

hcl.harvard.edu/...explore.cfm

harvard research library maps

shared by Elizabeth Resnick on 11 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Resnick on 11 Apr 12
     
    "To enhance access to its rich and varied collections, the Harvard College Library has digitized thousands of historical photographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, books, music scores, rare maps and other rare and unique materials. The vast majority of these images are freely available online for public access"
Steve Ransom

Stephen Krashen Pulls the Rug Out From Under the Standards Movement - Living in Dialogu... - 2 views

blogs.edweek.org/...hen_krashen_pulls_the_rug.html

education poverty achievement standards reform testing research statistics

shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • ur average scores are respectable but unspectacular because, as Farhi notes, we have such a high percentage of children living in poverty, the highest of all industrialized countries. Only four percent of children in high-scoring Finland, for example, live in poverty. Our rate of poverty is over 21%.
  • It means that the "problem" of American education is not ineffective teaching, not teachers' unions, not lack of national standards and tests, and not schools of education: It is poverty.
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Apr 12
     
    "It means that the "problem" of American education is not ineffective teaching, not teachers' unions, not lack of national standards and tests, and not schools of education: It is poverty."

    Sarah's comment is heartbreaking
Rick Vettraino

instaGrok | A new way to learn - 97 views

www.instagrok.com

searchengine educators research

shared by Rick Vettraino on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Gleeson on 08 Apr 12
     
    An innovative search engine built for education. Search via concept map, save searches in a personal journal. Great concept to check out. 
  • ...1 more comment...
  • Michele Brown on 10 Apr 12
     
    Search engine built for education.
  • Trevor Cunningham on 17 Apr 12
     
    Diigo and Wolfram Alpha make a love child!
  • Bob Rowan on 07 May 12
     
    Filtered search engine that presents related terms in a web + displays results for web sites, pictures, and some key facts on the right side of the page. Suggested by Jeremy Carver, 5/7/2012;

    **** NOTE: as of 5/7/2012 this site claims not to work in Internet Explorer ****
Roland Gesthuizen

UK Study: Parents, Not Teachers, Key to Education | Education News - 79 views

www.educationnews.org/...-not-teachers-key-to-education

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Children are influenced by everything around them, the way their parents act, what their parents say and do, and increasingly as they spend more time ‘with’ celebrity figures how these role models act.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Mar 12
     
    A study by the Royal Economic Society, to be presented this week, finds that parental effect on test results is five times that of teachers' influence. This comes in the wake of warnings by Sir Michael Wilshaw last week that teachers were unable to properly do their own jobs because parents were expecting them to cover their own parenting skill shortfalls and to become surrogate family for the students.
  • Mark Gleeson on 29 Mar 12
     
    It all happens well before school comes into the equation. If a child grows up in a literature rich, engaging environment with adults that spend quality time giving opportunities for great learning experiences in the world, the worst teachers still can't decoy that child's enthusiasm for learning. He can always learn at home. But if the child grows up neglected, not nurtured with rich learning experiences ( and I'm not talking about helicopter parents spending every waking moment ramming study down their throats - just quality conversation and hands on experiences )l doesn't get read to or taken out to shop, teachers are fighting an uphill battle with a disengaged individual. Parents, don't wait for school teachers to teach your kids. Start straight away..
Steve Gall

instaGrok | A new way to learn - 33 views

instagrok.com

research search engine tweet

shared by Steve Gall on 25 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • C Galvin on 25 Mar 12
     
    A worthy successor to google's wonder wheel? http://t.co/xuLd2DnZ #tlchat #austl #searchengine
Michael Garrity

Clawson Kids Learn - 64 views

iteach.org/index.html

research Internetsafety keyboarding elementary interactive

shared by Michael Garrity on 24 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Michael Garrity on 24 Mar 12
     
    Three pages designed to provide elementary teachers resources for 1. Interactive Sites 2. Research & Internet Safety skills and 3. Keyboarding skills.
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