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Catherine Strattner

Cuomo Signs Legislation on Public Disclosure of Teacher Evaluations | WKBW News 7: News... - 0 views

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legislation public disclosure teacher performance

shared by Catherine Strattner on 01 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The new law signed today by the Governor ensures that parents and the general public can assess how schools across New York are performing. The law requires school districts and BOCES to fully disclose their evaluation results to the public and require requires the State Education Department to post and make widely available important data that will allow the public to analyze and compare how schools are performing. School districts and BOCES will also be required to notify and fully disclose to parents and legal guardians the final specific ratings and composite evaluation scores of the teachers and principals to which their student is assigned.
  • Catherine Strattner on 01 Jul 12
     
    Legislation makes APPR ratings public in NY state.
  • Catherine Strattner on 01 Jul 12
     
    Article regarding public disclosure of teacher ratings in NY state.
Bill Hooper

AP Central - The AP Macroeconomics Exam - 0 views

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Module 4 Assignment Advanced Placement Macroeconomics

shared by Bill Hooper on 20 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • Questions
  • All Questions
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  • Questions
    • Bill Hooper
      Bill Hooper on 20 Jul 09
       
      Each year, the free response questions from that years A.P. exam are posted. For example, by clicking on the link below, students will be able to view the 2008 questions. These questions have become an integral part of my course as practice and assessment tools.
  • Scoring GuidelinesStudent Performance Q&AScoring Statistics
  • Sample Responses Q1Sample Responses Q2Sample Responses Q3
    • Bill Hooper
      Bill Hooper on 20 Jul 09
       
      I frequently use the sample responses and give them to students as a way to assess their understanding. I have them grade the student papers and then compare their answers to the actual rubric.
  • 2008: Free-Response Questions
    • Bill Hooper
      Bill Hooper on 20 Jul 09
       
      The Free-Response questions are posted every year and are a integral part of my course. I use them as practice and assessment tools on a regular basis. I strongly recommend that all AP teachers make use of them.
    • Bill Hooper
      Bill Hooper on 20 Jul 09
       
      This page contain practice questions and answers for the AP Macroeconomics Exam. However, every AP course available on this site by clicking on the green link in the left hand sidebar entitled "AP Course and Exams" I strongly recommend it!!!!
  • Bill Hooper on 20 Jul 09
     
    Webpage containing every free response question asked on the A.P. Macroeconomics exam for the past 20 years. The questions and their associated detailed solutions are made available.
Lisa Martin

Online Schooling Grows, Setting Off a Debate - 0 views

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fully online public schools opposition

shared by Lisa Martin on 03 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Half a million American children take classes online, with a significant group, like the Weldies, getting all their schooling from virtual public schools.
    • Lisa Martin
      Lisa Martin on 03 Jun 12
       
      I didn't realize this many children in America were already taking online classes.
  • Florida Virtual School, the largest Internet public school in the country, more than 50,000 students are taking courses this year
  • About 90,000 children get their education from one of 185 such schools nationwide.
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  • full-time online charter school like the Wisconsin Virtual Academy
  • They are publicly financed, mostly elementary and middle schools.
  • Legally, they are considered public school students, not home-schoolers, because their online schools are taxpayer-financed and subject to federal testing requirements.
  • opposition from some educators, who say elementary students may be too young for Internet learning, and from teachers, unions and school boards, partly because they divert state payments from the online student's home district.
    • Lisa Martin
      Lisa Martin on 03 Jun 12
       
      My charter school faces the same opposition.
  • ''That's what I love most about this curriculum,'' Mrs. Weldie said. ''There's no reason for Isabel to practice counting if she can already add.''
    • Lisa Martin
      Lisa Martin on 03 Jun 12
       
      True individualization of instruction.
  • Lisa Martin on 03 Jun 12
     
    This article discuss fully online public elementary schools and the opposition from school districts.
Hedy Lowenheim

Universities Team With Online Course Provider - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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education online classes public university free technology

shared by Hedy Lowenheim on 01 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • At SUNY, which has 468,000 students at 64 campuses, the Coursera partnership is tied to Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher’s announcement this year of Open SUNY, an online effort to enroll 100,000 new students and make it possible for a quarter of them to earn a degree in three years.
    • Hedy Lowenheim
      Hedy Lowenheim on 01 Jun 13
       
      Great to see that SUNY is partnering up with Coursera! This is a very exciting development for the world of online learning!
  • “We hope this will help public universities do more with the less they’re getting in state support,” Dr. Koller said.
    • Hedy Lowenheim
      Hedy Lowenheim on 01 Jun 13
       
      Public education funding seems to be in constant jeopardy these days. Adding distance learning classes at an extremely low price has the potential to bring college level classes to students who might never have had the opportunity to attend a university.
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  • Some faculty resistance has emerged recently against using online materials, even if they are blended with classroom work. This week, 58 Harvard professors wrote a letter seeking the creation of a new committee to consider the ethical issues related to edX and its impact on higher education.
  • Hedy Lowenheim on 01 Jun 13
     
    Universities Team With Online Course Provider By TAMAR LEWIN "In a move that could open online classes to 1.25 million students at public institutions, a California company is forming partnerships with 10 large state university systems."
sherrilattimer

Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility? | TIME.com - 0 views

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broadband internet access

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  • State and local laws that make it difficult — if not impossible — for new competition to emerge in broadband markets should be reformed, according to Crawford. For example, many states make it very difficult for municipalities to create public wireless networks, thanks to decades of state-level lobbying by the industry giants. In order to help local governments upgrade their communications grids, Crawford is calling for an infrastructure bank to help cities obtain affordable financing to help build high-speed fiber networks for their citizens. Finally, U.S. regulators should apply real oversight to the broadband industry to ensure that these market behemoths abide by open Internet principles and don’t price gouge consumers. Should broadband Internet service be considered a public utility like water and electricity? “We treated the telephone industry like a utility and people don’t seem to be surprised by that,” says Crawford. “High-speed Internet access plays the same role in American life. It’s just that these guys have succeeded in making us think that it’s a luxury.”
  • According to Crawford, the interests of cable and telecom giants like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, and AT&T, are not aligned with the interests of the public. Those corporate giants are concerned first and foremost with maximizing the profits of their shareholders. And all too often, profit maximization — especially in a market that lacks robust competition — is not consistent with providing the best possible service at reasonable prices.
  • “You let a little bit of competition exist so you can point to it and say ‘Ha, we’re competing!’ But otherwise it’s mostly controlled by one company.”
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  • One of the main themes in the book is the “digital divide,” which refers to the fact that millions of people in the U.S., mostly in the poorest and most rural communities, don’t have access to affordable broadband service, including 2.2 million people in New York City, according to Crawford. “We’re depriving people of basic communications access,” she says. Still, broadband and wireless services have become so important to our business and personal lives that most people are willing to pay up, even in the face of high prices driven in part by a lack of competition in the broadband and wireless markets.
  • Crawford, who has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Michigan, spent a year on the National Economic Council as a top telecommunications advisor to President Obama. In her book, she directs much of the blame for the sorry state of the U.S. broadband market at the federal government. “Instead of ensuring that everyone in America can compete in a global economy,” she writes, “instead of narrowing the divide between rich and poor, instead of supporting competitive free markets for American inventions that use information — instead, that is, of ensuring that America will lead the world in the information age — U.S. politicians have chosen to keep Comcast and its fellow giants happy.”
  • “Truly high-speed wired Internet access is as basic to innovation, economic growth, social communication, and the country’s competitiveness as electricity was a century ago,” Crawford writes, “but a limited number of Americans have access to it, many can’t afford it, and the country has handed control of it over to Comcast and a few other companies.”
  • Crawford argues that the Internet has replaced traditional phone service as the most essential communications utility in the country, and is now as important as electricity was 100 years ago.
Fiona Grady

Federal Research Public Access Act (SPARC) - 0 views

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federal research public access act FRPAA open access federally funded research

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  • Call for action by higher education leaders
  • Because U.S. taxpayers underwrite this research, they have a right to expect that its dissemination and use will be maximized, and that they themselves will have access to it.
  • Amy M on 05 Jun 12
     
    Bill for open access
  • Fiona Grady on 11 Jun 12
     
    Information on Federal Research Public Access Act.
alexandra m. pickett

Sloan-C - Publications - Journal: JALN - Vol4:2 Student Satisfaction and Perceived Lear... - 0 views

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jaln student satisfaction at suny vol4

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 22 Apr 08 - Cached
  • For new SLN faculty the first stage in their development as on-line instructors is to get on-line and access the SLN Faculty Developer Gateway (http://SLN.suny.edu/developer). There, they are introduced to the SLN faculty development and course design processes. They participate in a facilitated on-line conference to network with our growing community of on-line instructors and to get the feel for on-line discussion in the asynchronous Web environment. In stage two, faculty begin to conceptualize their courses. They complete an on-line orientation to the Web course environment and they also have the opportunity to observe a variety of live on-line courses that have been selected as models to help them get a sense of the possibilities and to get the look and feel of the on-line classroom. Stage three is the SLN Course Development stage. They are asked to attend three workshops. At the first workshop, faculty receive a customized course template created in Lotus Notes, access to our networked system and on-line resources, and a step-by-step guide for building the components of their course. They are also assigned an instructional design partner to work with throughout their first course-development and delivery cycles and have access to a Help Desk for technology support. Note that it is not until stage three of our faculty development process that faculty are introduced to the technology that they will use to create their course. Our primary focus is on developing and supporting on-line faculty and effective on-line pedagogy, not on the technology. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 27 May 08
       
      what are your thoughts on this passage?
    • Robert Braathe
      Robert Braathe on 30 May 08
       
      Getting faculty involved in the system of communicating in a new way is very effective. If we expect our students to be involved, we need to (as faculty) get immersed in communicating in these new ways to make the technology effective. Otherwise, the technology is obsolete
  • alexandra m. pickett on 22 Apr 08
     
    Student Satisfaction and Perceived Learning with On-line Courses: Principles and Examples from the SUNY Learning Network Eric Fredericksen, Alexandra Pickett, Peter Shea State University of New York William Pelz Herkimer County Community College http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v4n2/pdf/v4n2_fredericksen.pdf Karen Swan University of Albany
  • alexandra m. pickett on 27 May 08
     
    doing a demo ignore this.
alexandra m. pickett

Sloan-C - Publications - Journal: JALN - Vol5:2: Assessing Teaching Presence in a Compu... - 0 views

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teaching presence

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  • alexandra m. pickett on 22 Apr 08
     
    ABSTRACT: This paper presents a tool developed for the purpose of assessing teaching presence in online courses that make use of computer conferencing, and preliminary results from the use of this tool. The method of analysis is based on Garrison, Anderson, and Archer's [1] model of critical thinking and practical inquiry in a computer conferencing context. The concept of teaching presence is constitutively defined as having three categories - design and organization, facilitating discourse, and direct instruction. Indicators that we search for in the computer conference transcripts identify each category. Pilot testing of the instrument reveals interesting differences in the extent and type of teaching presence found in different graduate level online courses.\nhttp://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v5n2/pdf/v5n2_anderson.pdf
Maria Guadron

Brainstorm in Progress: 12 Sources of Creative Commons or Public Domain Images - 0 views

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images creativecommons

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  • Maria Guadron on 07 Jul 12
     
    "12 Sources of Creative Commons or Public Domain Images "
Maria Guadron

NARAtions » Tag, You're It! - 1 views

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digital content tagging miscellaneous knowledge

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  • Maria Guadron on 07 Jun 12
     
    Digital content organization is no longer limited to librarians and other experts. The National Archives encourages the public to tag archives: "Our hope is that crowdsourcing tags will enhance the content of our online catalog and help you find the information you seek more quickly."
Hedy Lowenheim

Integrating Web 2.0 Tools into the Classroom: Changing the Culture of Learning | CCT - 0 views

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classroom learning online teaching tools education web tools

shared by Hedy Lowenheim on 11 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • This report presents findings from a two-year investigation of the ways in which Web 2.0 tools and social networking technologies are being used to support teaching and learning in classrooms across the United States.
  • Currently, there is much discussion and excitement about Web 2.0 in education, but we still know very little about how these tools actually work in the classroom. Therefore, the goal of this research was simply to interview and observe educators and students who are experimenting with these tools in the classroom to see what uses are emerging and to explore the learning affordances of blogs, wikis, and other Web 2.0 tools.
  • between school/home, public/private or youth/adult culture, it presents an emerging challenge. Web 2.0 technologies are fundamentally reshaping and realigning many aspects of the communication loop: the people with whom teachers, students, and parents communicate; how they communicate; what they communicate about; and where and when they communicate. These ongoing processes bring to the fore exciting opportunities and novel challenges for educators. As schools use these technologies to build communities, the old boundaries between public and private, in school and out of school, and youth culture and adult culture are melting away and being redrawn.
  • Hedy Lowenheim on 11 Aug 13
     
    Study on Web 2.0 tools for educational purposes. "Web 2.0 technologies are fundamentally reshaping and realigning many aspects of the communication loop: the people with whom teachers, students, and parents communicate; how they communicate; what they communicate about; and where and when they communicate."
lkryder

Sloan-C Free Downloads | The Sloan Consortium - 0 views

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interactions learning elearning sloan Education

shared by lkryder on 11 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Relationships Between Interactions and Learning In Online Environments provides a concise summary of research about interaction online and its implications for practitioners. It was created by Karen Swan, Kent State University, the Sloan-C Editor for Effective Practices in Learning Effectiveness. Download the free Relationships Between Interactions and Learning In Online Environments (PDF 486KB).
  • lkryder on 11 Jun 14
     
    scroll down to Relatinships Between Interactions and Learning in Online Environments
  • lkryder on 11 Jun 14
     
    The Interactions pdf free download is available if you scroll way down
Kristen Della

MIT Coursware - 0 views

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courseware publication opensource course materials education materials

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  • Kristen Della on 26 May 11
     
    MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. What is MIT OpenCourseWare? MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT. * OCW is not an MIT education. * OCW does not grant degrees or certificates. * OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty. * Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.
Diane Gusa

My teacher . . . the computer? « InterACT - 0 views

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education technology assignment db5

shared by Diane Gusa on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • A group blog from Accomplished California Teachers: Classroom expertise for better education policy. Home About ACT ACT Publications Blogger Bios My teacher . . . the computer?
  •  “One of [a successful student's] key skills in school is his ability to bond with teachers. We’ve spent a generation trying to reorganize schools to make them better, but the truth is that people learn from the people they love.”
  • computers and technology cannot replace the ability of skillful teachers to develop a young student’s ability to think critically, be innovative, and believe in the potential that he or she possess.  A computer will never be able to provide a safe environment for a child seeking stability and support.
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  • students who face incredible challenges and confront tremendous obstacles. 
  • providing guidance, a passion for learning, an understanding of what is necessary to move a student to the next level of inquiry and excellence, and an unwavering belief in each student’s potential – that will continue to make the ultimate difference.
  • Diane Gusa on 11 Aug 11
     
    Wonderful blog about the power of f2f/
Heather Kurto

http://www.daddcec.org/Portals/0/CEC/Autism_Disabilities/Research/Publications/Educatio... - 0 views

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  • Heather Kurto on 04 Jun 13
     
    autism research education
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