With input from the “muckrakers”—journalists such as Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens and others—and under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt and many other political and business leaders, the nation began to clean up its act.
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Progressivism & America's Rise to World Power - 0 views
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This is a great general statement of what my online course will entail.
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Progressive Era Documents
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Great documents that can aid student learning. This contains primary source materials that should help students in my future course complete their "artifact" portfolio
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An online social studies textbook for the Progressive Era. It contains articles, resources, and activities to teach this time period in a social studies environment
kolb's learning styles, experiential learning theory, kolb's learning styles inventory and diagram - 0 views
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Despite this, (and this is my personal view, not the view of the 'anti-Learning Styles lobby'), many teachers and educators continue to find value and benefit by using Learning Styles theory in one way or another, and as often applies in such situations, there is likely to be usage which is appropriate, and other usage which is not.
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Education is big business. Much is at stake commercially and reputationally, and so it is not surprising that debate can become quite fierce as to which methods work and which don't. So try to temper what you read with what you know and feel and experience. Personal local situations can be quite different to highly generalised averages, or national 'statistics'. Often your own experiences are likely to be more useful to you than much of the remote 'research' that you encounter through life. You must be careful how you use systems and methods with others, and be careful how you assess research and what it actually means to you for your own purposes.
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A note about Learning Styles in young people's education: Towards the end of the first decade of the 2000s a lobby seems to have grown among certain educationalists and educational researchers, which I summarise very briefly as follows: that in terms of substantial large-scale scientific research into young people's education, 'Learning Styles' theories, models, instruments, etc., remain largely unproven methodologies. Moreover Learning Styles objectors and opponents assert that heavy relience upon Learning Styles theory in developing and conducting young people's education, is of questionable benefit, and may in some cases be counter-productive. Despite this, (and this is my personal view, not the view of the 'anti-Learning Styles lobby'), many teachers and educators continue to find value and benefit by using Learning Styles theory in one way or another, and as often applies in such situations, there is likely to be usage which is appropriate, and other usage which is not.
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"A note about Learning Styles in young people's education, and by implication potentially elsewhere too: I am grateful to the anonymous person who pointed me towards a seemingly growing lobby among educationalists and educational researchers, towards the end of the first decade of the 2000s, which I summarise very briefly as follows: that in terms of substantial large-scale scientific research into young people's education, 'Learning Styles' theories, models, instruments, etc., remain largely unproven methodologies. Moreover, Learning Styles objectors and opponents assert that the use of, and certainly the heavy reliance upon, Learning Styles theory in formulating young people's education strategies, is of questionable benefit, and may in some cases be counter-productive."
Literacy Corner | OER Commons - 0 views
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This resource is great to help broaden a teachers scope of literacy. There are many parts to explore.
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In each activity you can click to find out more information about how it is helping the student. They address how students are hitting the Language Strand, Skills, Theme and Type. It is easy to understand for both a teacher and a parent.
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It is easy to find different activities to try just by looking through the different stands.
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I like the section that discusses home to school connections. Many times it is hard for teachers to continue their students learning at home. This site gives great tips and tricks for teachers to give to parents to help them help their students.
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I plan on using this resource in my course as a tool for my students to explore some activities they can implement in their classroom involving literacy. The choice will be theirs on what they choose to use if they choose to use any. I plan on adding this to my module that ties in technology. I think it would be a good fit there.
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What is the NFIL? | National Forum on Information Literacy - 0 views
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Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.
The Technology Source Archives - Ten Ways Online Education Matches, or Surpasses, Face-to-Face Learning - 6 views
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Students are empowered to learn on their own and even to teach one another.
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Students work together with professors to create a learning style that meets their needs. The students guide information that is important to them making the experience meaningful.
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Students served as instructors to their classmates, and together they worked toward learning goals more effectively than if they had been provided with the answer by the instructor.
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I have seen my own students achieve better comprehension when they are able to see the information through the eyes of their peers rather than my perspective.
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This also supports Shift 4 in ELA Common Core which calls for students to have "rich" conversations centering on a text.
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When an instructor posts a question on the asynchronous discussion board, every student in the class is expected to respond, respond intelligently, and respond several times.
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This expectation is supported by the online instructor's facilitation of discourse and intellectual leadership, identified by Jones et al. as two aspects of teaching presence.
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Sorry I didn't want these to go public. These were just my notes to myself so that I could further do some research. Is there a way to remove these or make these private again. Guess I'm still testing the water.
PDF.js viewer - 0 views
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Data compiled via a national survey of 1500 students enrolled or planning to enroll in online education
Citizen Science - National Wildlife Federation - 0 views
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itizen science is where the public volunteers time to assist scientists in their research
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This outlines the varying roles citizen scientists can take.
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Podcasting: A Stepping Stone to Pedagogical Innovation - 1 views
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odcasting was defined for instructors as a technology that allowed students to receive course materials through the convenient, RSS-based subscription mode and listen to them anywhere, anytime. The goal of the podcasting theme was to enable instructors to experiment with audio modes of learning. Audio has the power to capture and focus attention, helping learners acquire content and process complex information (Bishop, Amankwatia, and Cates, 2008).
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Furthermore, informal, personalized audio presentations are thought to create a feeling of social presence that helps learners integrate new information with their existing knowledge (Moreno and Mayer, 2004).
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Some instructors used podcasting as a way to provide recordings of lectures to students. However, many more experimented with podcasting as a way to expose students to additional course content in engaging formats. They created course podcasts that were mock radio programs, case studies, and interviews with national and international figures. Still others used podcasting as a method for delivering course audio files or assigned students to create podcast presentations for their class. These varied pedagogical strategies were used by instructors across all disciplines.
College Accreditation in the United States-- Pg 2 - 0 views
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The United States has no Federal Ministry of Education or other centralized authority exercising single national control over postsecondary educational institutions in this country
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the practice of accreditation arose in the United States as a means of conducting non-governmental, peer evaluation of educational institutions and programs.
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Verifying that an institution or program meets established standards;
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accrediting an online degree program
National Social Science Association - 0 views
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With heutagogical approaches to learning, students are self-directed and learn HOW to learn. Learning is meaningful and collaborative.
Education World ® Administrators Center: Making Retention A Last Resort - 0 views
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Retaining students while their peers are promoted is bad for a child's self-esteem and may not help them academically, according to the argument. But promoting children without the skills for the next grade can be just as demoralizing.
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"Multi-age learning is the gift of time," Jetel told Education World. "Students work to complete a curriculum cycle. The activities are open-ended and students can work on at their own pace."
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on Student Grade Retention and Social Promotion, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) notes that the use of grade retention has increased over the past 25 years, despite little indication of its effectiveness.
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Social Retentions and the risks to the students
The Case Against Summer Vacation - TIME - 0 views
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With billions of dollars for improved education bulging from last year's economic-stimulus package
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Indianapolis Algebra Project
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Phalen saw the existing public schools as a roadblock, not a career path
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Student Evaluations, Grade Inflation, and Declining Student Effort - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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The less rigorous professors even get good performances out of their students in the courses taught but those students subsequently, in follow up courses, do poorer than the more rigorous professors who do more than teach to the standardized test. Sounds reasonable to me.
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would note that student evaluations began to become popular during the 1960s and early 1970s as a common evaluation tool for faculty. I would also note that most of the great grade inflation in America has occurred since evaluations began, with national grade point averages probably rising from the 2.5 or 2.6 range in about 1960 to well over 3.0 today
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The colleges of education, which in my judgment should be put out of business (topic for another blog), are the worst offenders, but the problem is pretty universal.
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Inflations as a reaction to student evaluations
Research: Students Actually Use the Internet for Education -- THE Journal - 0 views
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New research released by the National School Boards Association reveals data showing we all might need to reevaluate our assumptions: It turns out kids are actually using the Internet for educational purposes. In fact, according to the study, "Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social--and Educational--Networking," the percentage of children specifically discussing schoolwork online outpaces the percentage that spend time downloading music.For the survey, the NSBA teamed up with Grunwald Associates to poll 1,277 9- to 17-year-olds, 1,039 parents, and 250 school district leaders who "make decisions on Internet policy." It found that a full 50 percent of students who are online spend time discussing schoolwork, and 59 percent spend time talking about education-related topics, "including college or college planning; learning outside of school; news; careers or jobs; politics, ideas, religion, or morals; and schoolwork."
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Maybe there is hope!
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The kids are engaging and participating meaningfully and purposefully online. We should pay more attention to contexts for engagement. When it is personally meaningful, kids will engage (ie. American Idol auditions), and when it isn't (college classes), they won't. Time to look at elements in the contexts which encourage meaningful participation.
Neuroscience shows the value of taking a break from the national curriculum | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk - 0 views
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But the biggest message is that our education system is not necessarily offering children what their developing brains need. We know for certain what good teachers have often said: learning is more profound when it is active rather than passive, and that is that it is vital for education to be tailored to individual pupils' needs.
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The other key message, he says, is that motivation and a positive attitude are crucial for learning - it is now possible to measure how fear and discomfort can impair a child's ability to learn. It is also possible to see the different neural circuits the brain uses for "extrinsic" learning - which is motivated by a concrete goal such as a good mark - and "intrinsic" learning, which brings its own reward.
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One of our problems in education is that we constantly have to balance our images of traditional success with the possibilities in our evolving knowledge of scientific development," he said.
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Benefits of taking a break in learning.
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