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Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:14:58 -0000

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Technology Integration Matrix

Mon, 19 May 2008 15:40:46 -0000

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21st Century Education: Thinking Creatively at Students 2.0

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:00:00 -0000

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Twenty-first century education won’t be defined by any new technology. It won’t be defined by 1:1 laptop programs or tech-intensive projects. Twenty-first century education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching—a shift towards learner-centered education and creating creative thinkers.

The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned the answer. Rather, the students of tomorrow need to be able to think creatively: they will need to learn on their own, adapt to new challenges and innovate on-the-fly

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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

Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing : April 2008 : THE Journal

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:23:41 -0000

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Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing

by Dave Nagel

Extra Credit
Student Writing and Internet Usage

According to the Pew/National Commission on Writing study, 50 percent of teens write something for school every day. Ninety-four percent use the Internet for research for their school assignments at least occasionally, and 48 percent sad they use the Internet for research at least once per week.

More Information

Study: Writing, Technology and Teens (PDF)

--D. Nagel

Students see a distinction between the writing they do for school and the writing they do in their personal lives. While the vast majority of 12- to 17-year-olds (85 percent) engage in some form of electronic writing--IM, e-mail, blog posts, text messages, etc.--most (60 percent) don't consider this actual writing. That's one of the findings from a study released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing for America’s Families, Schools and Colleges.

Tags: english teaching technology web2.0 writing

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Techlearning > > Caught on Video > April 22, 2008

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:14:48 -0000

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Lots of ways to use video with our students posted by scmorgan

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Over the years, I've come up with many scenarios where using video would be a beneficial tool in the classroom.

Lots of ways to use video with students. posted by scmorgan

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Top News - Tech encourages students' social skills

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:01:01 -0000

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Well-integrated technology opens social networks for students and allows children to develop key social skills, according to two recent studies conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tags: independent research teaching

Posted by: scmorgan

Support Blogging! » Links to School Bloggers

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

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Blogs on Educational Blogging

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Posted by: sarahhanawald

The LoTi Connection - LoTi Services

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:27:33 -0000

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The LoTi Classroom Teacher represents a series of online courses designed for classroom educators, mentors, and building administrators to improve and refine the manner in which learning technologies are used to promote student engagement and achievement. The LoTi Classroom Teacher series explores the concepts of higher order thinking skills, differentiation, collaboration, and the use of technology to build effective communities of inquiry that help students develop 21st Century Skills as articulated by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Tags: 21stcentury professional development teaching

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AntiTeaching_Spring08.pdf M. Wesch

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:27:19 -0000

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Posted by: scmorgan

Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool -How to

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

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Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Resources by Annenberg Media

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

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MathNotations

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:21:26 -0000

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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

Articles - Independent School Education Head Views

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:39:17 -0000

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Growing Up with Google: What it means to education

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:36:36 -0000

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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Teacher e-mails made public

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:36:02 -0000

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Another great reason to be in an independent school. posted by artgelwicks

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"Based on our interpretation of the current state law, the public interest demands those e-mails be released."

Bubolz said in July he made the request to see if the teachers were doing their job "... the way it's supposed to be done."

"People will know this decision is out there," Jonen said. "The effect will be any public employee that does a personal e-mail at work is subject to having that released."

"There's no misconduct at all; they don't want the public to feel they were misusing resources," she said. "These are e-mails they wrote to their friends, spouse or kids. It's a little unsettling they will be for public view."

Tags: management policy privacy teaching

Posted by: artgelwicks