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Michael Lucatorto

The Legend of Cliff Young: The 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won the World's Toughest Race - E... - 0 views

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  • When the race started, the pros quickly left Cliff behind. The crowds and television audience were entertained because Cliff didn't even run properly; he appeared to shuffle. Many even feared for the old farmer's safety
  • All of the professional athletes knew that it took about 5 days to finish the race. In order to compete, one had to run about 18 hours a day and sleep the remaining 6 hours. The thing is, Cliff Young didn't know that! When the morning of the second day came, everyone was in for another surprise. Not only was Cliff still in the race, he had continued jogging all night.
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  • Today, the "Young-shuffle" has been adopted by ultra-marathon runners because it is considered more energy-efficient. At least three champions of the Sydney to Melbourne race have used the shuffle to win the race. Furthermore, during the Sydney to Melbourne race, modern competitors do not sleep. Winning the race requires runners to go all night as well as all day, just like Cliff Young
  • Cliff kept running. Each night he came a little closer to the leading pack. By the final night, he had surpassed all of the young, world-class athletes. He was the first competitor to cross the finish line and he set a new course record.
Gary Bedenharn

The Race to Space 1 of 2 - BBC Moon Landing Documentary - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Gary Bedenharn on 07 Jul 12
     
    British point of view of the "space race"  part 1 (10:57)
Gary Bedenharn

The Great Space Race - YouTube - 0 views

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    A documentary on the start of the "space race"
Gary Bedenharn

Space Race Exhibition - 0 views

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  • Gary Bedenharn on 07 Jul 12
     
    A walk through the history of the "Space Race"
Kristen Della

Self-concept, self-esteem, gender, race and information technology use - 0 views

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  • Kristen Della on 30 May 11
     
    Self-concept, self-esteem, gender, race and information technology use.
Donna Angley

Race to the Top (RT3) - 0 views

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  • Donna Angley on 29 May 11
     
    New York State's Race to the Top initiative.
Donna Angley

Graduate Level Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation Pilot Program - 0 views

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  • Donna Angley on 15 Jun 11
     
    One of the Race to the Top RFP's - I personally worked on this RFP.
Irene Watts-Politza

THE REGENTS EDUCATION REFORM PLAN AND NEW YORK STATE'S RACE TO THE TOP (RTTT) APPLICATION - 0 views

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federalfunding P-12 education Regents Reform Agenda

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  • Irene Watts-Politza on 01 Jun 12
     
    Summary of the New York State Regents' Reform Agenda in chart form (p. 2) with explanation of its connection to Fed's Race to the Top (RTTT) grant competition.
Gary Bedenharn

The Race to Space 2 of 2 - BBC Moon Landing Documentary - YouTube - 0 views

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    Part 2 of the documentary of the U.S. going to the Moon.
Gary Bedenharn

Great Teachers and Leaders : Race to the Top : NYSED - 0 views

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  • Gary Bedenharn on 06 Jul 12
     
    A list of practice rubrics that districts can mull over to decide what is best for the district and teachers.
  • Irene Watts-Politza on 06 Jul 12
     
    This looks good, Bill. I bookmarked it for my library and will look it over. Thanks for sharing.
Catherine Strattner

The Evolution of Technology and the Human Race - YouTube - 0 views

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    Interesting video shared on my blog.
Michael Lucatorto

Unshielded Colliders: Poverty and Education - 0 views

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education poverty

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  • For example, Mel Riddile points out that when one conditions on various measures of poverty, instead of trailing other nations, the U.S. actually comes out on top! He concludes that "when it comes to school improvement, it's poverty not stupid." Poverty causes educational deficiency.
  • or example, Mel Riddile points out that when one conditions on various measures of poverty, instead of trailing other nations, the U.S. actually comes out on top! He concludes that "when it comes to school improvement, it's poverty not stupid." Poverty causes educational deficienc
  • Michael Lucatorto on 27 Jun 11
     
    For example, Mel Riddile points out that when one conditions on various measures of poverty, instead of trailing other nations, the U.S. actually comes out on top! He concludes that "when it comes to school improvement, it's poverty not stupid." Poverty causes educational deficiency. Now, I like to actually have data to play around with, in part because people have been known to lie about politically charged issues and in part because I like to have nice graphs (which are not provided by Riddile). Anyway, it turns out that international poverty data is pretty hard to come by and fraught with interpretational difficulties. On the other hand, the National Assessment of Educational Progress provides test data for most of the states in the U.S., and the U.S. Census Bureau provides data on the percentage of people in poverty by state. I took the NAEP data for 8th grade science achievement and regressed on the percentage of people below the poverty line for the measured states. The two are negatively associated: as poverty increases, science achievement scores decrease according to the relationship in the plot below. (Alaska, Kansas, Nebraska, and Vermont did not meet NAEP reporting guidelines and are not included in the plot above.) The association is highly significant (p=9.98*10-6). I also took pilot NAEP data for 8th grade mathematics achievement and regressed on the percentage of people below the poverty line for the measured states. (Evidently, the NAEP has only just started testing for mathematics achievement, and only eleven states were included in their pilot.) Again, the two are negatively associated. The slope of the relation turns out to be almost exactly the same as for science achievement. The association is not as significant, but it is still significant (p=0.0186). (My guess is the association is less significant in this case because fewer states were measured.) Clearly there is an association between poverty and achievement in science and mathem
Diane Gusa

Trusting our Deeper Knowing by Parker J. Palmer.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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Palmer.pdf Deeper knowing module 4 blog Economic 2008

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    Michael: book? 1964, Merton published Seeds of Destruction in which he prophesied ―the fire next time, a conflagration of the races rooted in white ignorance, indifference and injustice.
Diane Gusa

Curriculum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Diane Gusa on 21 Jun 11
     
    "As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults"
Heather Kurto

Pedagogical Love and Good Teacherhood | Määttä | in education - 1 views

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  • A teacher’s proficiency is manifested by the ability to look at the subject from a learner’s point of view, to foresee the critical junctions in learning, and to design teaching to meet learners’ information acquisition and collection processes (e.g., Zombylas, 2007).
  • van Manen (1991) claims that as teachers embrace all children, regardless of their characteristics they become real educators, and thus, educators’ pedagogical love becomes the precondition for pedagogical relations to grow (p
  • Individualistic features, position, nationality, gender, abilities, race, or language do not determine a human being’s value. Those differences based on skills, intelligence, or knowledge are insignificant compared with that basic human presence that is the same for all people: the right and need to be loved, accepted, and cared for as well as the right and need to grow and develop (Bradshaw, 1996; Lanara, 1981; Sprengel & Kelly, 1992).
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  • A teacher’s ethical caring means genuine caring, aspiring to understand and make an effort for pupils’ protection, support, and development. Because of this pedagogical caring, the teacher especially pursues pupils’ potential to develop and thus help them to find and use their own strengths.
  • Pedagogical love has been considered the core factor in the definition of good teacherhood for decades, though the characteristics of a good teacher have always included a variety of features. Features such as the ability to maintain discipline and order, set a demanding goal level, and the mastery of substance have been especially emphasized (e.g., Davis, 1993; Zombylas, 2007; Hansen, 2009)
  • Love influences the direction of people’s action as well as its intensity. Positive emotions, joy, strength, and the feeling of being capable lead mental energy toward the desired goal (Rantala & Määttä, 2011). Negative emotions, grief, fear, and anger cause entropy, an inner imbalance that burns off energy, brands the target with negative status, and pursues nullifying and undervaluing (e.g., Isen, 2001).
  • he educator’s task is to provide pupils with such stimuli and environment where students are guided to limit their instincts by controlling enjoyment and vital-based values, in order to be able to achieve higher values and skills (Solasaari, 2003).
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990, 2000) has launched the concept that refers to an optimal or autotelic experience where people are riveted so comprehensively by a challenging performance that the awareness of time and place blurs. Flow is possible when the challenges in a task are balanced with an actor’s abilities. Flow is an enjoyable state of concentration and task orientation, leading to optimal performance, whether the case is wall creeping, chess playing, dancing, surgery, studying languages, painting, or composing music.
  • This sets challenges for skill development. If a task is too easy, it will bore. If it is too difficult, it will cause anxiety and fear. The exact experience of flow and the active sense of well-being resulting from the former, encourage people to develop and improve their skills. People are willing to strive for flow whether it was about love for math, art, programming, or orthopedics (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990).
  • In an interview, Gardner (as cited in Goleman, 1999) said flow is intrinsically rewarding without the hope for reward or threat of punishment. We should use learners’ positive moods (love) and through it get them to learn things about fields they can succeed in. People have to discover what they like, what things and doings they love and do these things. Even a child learns the best when he/she loves what he/she is doing and finds it enjoyable. (p. 126)
  • Pedagogical love might contribute to pupils’ learning and success by providing them with positive learning experiences, initial excitement, and perceived successes. These are the seeds of expertise as a positive feeling that can be considered the source of human strengths (Isen, 2001).
  • Pedagogical love springs from an individual learner’s presence persuading it to come forward more and more perfectly and diversely. A skillful educator does not just sit by and watch if a learner makes worthless choices or fails in his or her opportunities to grow and develop.
  • Haavio emphasized the meaning of pedagogical love in teachers’ work and considered that teachers’ work consists of the following two obligations: attachment to learners and dutiful perseverance of life values.
  • Pedagogical love speaks to interdependence—the recognition and acceptance that we need others.
  • Love appears in teaching as guidance toward disciplined work, but also as patience, trust, and forgiveness. The purpose is not to make learning fun, easy, or pleasing but to create a setting for learning where pupils can use and develop their own resources eventually proceeding at the maximum of their own abilities
  • A loving teacher reveals for a pupil the dimensions of his or her development in a manner of speaking. This is how a pupil’s self-esteem strengthens and he or she can develop toward higher activities from the lowest, pleasure-oriented ones. Achieving high-level skills is rewarding because it brings pleasure, and yet, it often demands—as mentioned previously—self-discipline and rejections
  • A teacher’s work is interpersonal and relational, with a teacher’s own personality fundamental to building relationships with students. A teacher’s work involves plenty of emotional strain. In addition, a teacher inevitably has to experience frustration in his or her work. There are many situations when a teacher will feel like she or he has failed regardless of the solution he or she creates.
  • Consequently, teachers are likely to experience guilt because they cannot sufficiently attend to all pupils in an appropriate way that is congruent with the notion of caring.
  • However, teachers have to realize that their own coping, motivation, and engagement require attention; they are not automatic.
  • Pedagogical love emerges through teachers’ emotions, learned models, moral attitude, and actions
  • Good teachers are examples to learners even in the most difficult life situations. Teachers have to believe in their work and endeavour to build a nurturing environment and a more humane world.
  • To be happy about life, to guide students to see the wonder and joy in the mundane is a teacher’s most important skill. Being able to help students find and negotiate the joy, wonder, happiness, and pain in the everydayness of life is an increasingly important quality in today’s insecurities, with the mounting pressure of increased demands for efficiency
b malczyk

The Changing Demographics of America | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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  • For all these reasons, the United States of 2050 will look different from that of today: whites will no longer be in the majority. The U.S. minority population, currently 30 percent, is expected to exceed 50 percent before 2050. No other advanced, populous country will see such diversity.
  • most of America’s net population growth will be among its minorities, as well as in a growing mixed-race population. Latino and Asian populations are expected to nearly triple, and the children of immigrants will become more prominent. Today in the United States, 25 percent of children under age 5 are Hispanic; by 2050, that percentage will be almost 40 percent.
  • b malczyk on 01 Jun 12
     
    This article describes some of the changes in demographics within the US.
Irene Watts-Politza

Race to the Top Fund - 1 views

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    Federal website for RTTT information management
Gary Bedenharn

Documentary 2007 - Declassified: Sputnik (Part 1/6) - YouTube - 0 views

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    Documentary that discuss the importance of Sputnik in the U.S. determination to build rockets.
Amy M

The New York Times > Technology > When the Blogger Blogs, Can the Employer Intervene? - 0 views

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  • majority of states are considered "at will" states - meaning that employees can quit, and employers can fire them, at will - without evident reason (barring statutory exceptions like race or religion, where discrimination would have to be proved). "There really are no laws that protect you," Ms. Newitz said.
  • "It depends on what the blog is," he said, "what the content is, a
  • Amy M on 18 Jul 12
     
    Blogs aren't off limits
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