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Tue, 13 May 2008 13:04:27 -0000

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A listing of social networks used in educational environments. Please add to this list (alphabetical by category and within categories).

Tags: education ning professional development socialnetworking technology web2.0

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Transitioning to Web 2.0: Using Blogs to Promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:25:36 -0000

Tags: blogging education web2.0

Posted by: scmorgan

Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:19:45 -0000

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The world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an important sales outlet.

Senator Ted Kennedy's office released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never again reached above 91% where it stands in 1990

in the United States almost nobody who reads, writes or does arithmetic gets much respect. We are a land of talkers,

Tags: education independent teaching

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle and High School age kids in the surrounding communities of Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Lafayette, Pittsburg, Antioch. Children experience Democracy, Freedom &

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:17:45 -0000

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I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.

In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts

Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.

New York State, for instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European Economic Community nations combined.

rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children" in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as the vegetables.

Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the influence of mothers on their children.

Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce, alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of a poverty in education.

Tags: education independent teaching

Posted by: sarahhanawald

SIMILE | Exhibit 2.0

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:56:00 -0000

Tags: education technology web2.0

Posted by: sarahhanawald

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:54:47 -0000

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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed a unified, collective vision for 21st century learning that can be used to strengthen American education. The key elements of 21st century learning are represented in the graphic and descriptions below. The graphic represents both 21st century skills student outcomes (as represented by the arches of the rainbow) and 21st century skills support systems (as represented by the pools at the bottom):

Tags: 21stcentury education ioi technology

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Apostrophes and Philosophy: Postcards from the Ivory Tower | The Line

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:24:33 -0000

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Let’s make it an institutional priority to talk on an ongoing basis to any university researcher who can help us teach better.”

Tags: education research

Posted by: sarahhanawald

List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:49:50 -0000

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List of cognitive biases

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A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgement that occurs in particular situations (see also cognitive distortion and the lists of thinking-related topics). Implicit in the concept of a "pattern of deviation" is a standard of comparison; this may be the judgment of people outside those particular situations, or may be a set of independently verifiable facts. The existence of some of these cognitive biases has been verified empirically in the field of psychology, others are widespread beliefs, and may themselves be a consequence of cognitive bias.

Tags: bias education philosophy psychology

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Support Blogging! » Links to School Bloggers

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:39:42 -0000

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Blogs on Educational Blogging

Tags: blogging education teaching web2.0

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool -How to

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:58:45 -0000

Tags: education learning teaching twitter

Posted by: scmorgan

Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Resources by Annenberg Media

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:07:06 -0000

Tags: annenberg education resources teaching

Posted by: scmorgan

Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:20:40 -0000

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the learner's brain will do everything possible to look for something more interesting.

The most compelling and motivating reason/benefit is almost always the thing you say only after you've answered at least three "Yeah, but WHY do I care?" questions.

Those who have taught a topic have a big advantage writing about it--they've fielded the questions and watched people struggle.

Remember, it's never about you. It's about how the learner feels about himself as a result of the learning experience

Tags: education learning teaching theory

Posted by: scmorgan