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Social Studies 8 - Dashboard - 0 views

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  • Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
     
    This software is free and helps a group monitor its productivity. I think this might work well helping groups manage a complex cooperative task.
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African-American Experience and Issues of Race and Racism in Schools - WISE - 1 views

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    Racism and schools issues

Dipity - 0 views

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Rethinking Schools Online - 0 views

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  • A person can teach in one of Milwaukee's 125 publicly funded private schools without even a high school diploma.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      Does this really make sense? Without a high school diploma? How does that really improve student learning, but online learning?
  • "teacher proof"
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      Maybe we could just have one super-teacher make a video and post it to you tube and that would solve all our problems..
  • Such approaches ignore fundamental issues of resources, teacher leadership, teaching and learning conditions, and the need for much more time for teachers to collaborate, assess student progress, and improve their teaching skills.
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  • 20 percent of all new hires leave the classroom within three years. In urban districts, the numbers are worse; close to 50 percent of newcomers leave within their first five years.
  • Poor children are the most likely to be taught by the newest and least-qualified teachers
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      The point here is that they are new and unseasoned. In my experience, these often can be the most energetic and creative. Simply saying they are the newest does not necessarily mean they are the least-qulified.
  • But if students rarely — if ever — see a teacher of color, or if teachers of color feel isolated and/or burdened by being "the only" in their schools, educational quality suffers.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      Perhaps online educators are colorless? This would help address this problem.
  • Such "conversation" implies thoughtful dialogue. We need to create the institutional spaces where in-depth reflection and discussion about good teaching take place on a regular basis.
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      The one risk would be that online education became so common place that we could teach remotely and miss out on this collaboration.
  • "We have tried to figure out how you can have creative and constructive resistance and how you can layer in your knowledge . . . to try to craft something that has integrity and matches what we know about learning."
  • It's a matter of reform grounded  in the classroom, of respect for teaching as a profession, of a broader vision of social justice, and of improved organizing and collaboration.
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Reducing the Online Instructor's Workload (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • Automate parts of the course whenever possible.
  • Create a “What’s New” section to let your students focus on new assignments or learning materials without having to review the entire course. This also minimizes the amount of e-mail questions you will receive regarding assignments
  • Communicate with students early in the semester about how to best use the course
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  • Determine what kind of technical support you have available.
  • substituting peer, computer, or self-assessment options. Group assignments often require less teacher assessment than do individual assignments
    • Melissa Pietricola
      Melissa Pietricola on 14 Jun 10
       
      I am considering requiring group posts to our discussion board that critique the other groups' work. I'm hoping this will cut my grading down to a quarter of what it would be.
  • Post any new e-mail questions or general problems on the FAQ and “What’s New” sections to minimize repetitive e-mail questions from others in the class
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Resource: The Learning Classroom: Theory Into Practice - 1 views

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  • Kelly Hermann on 14 Jun 10
     
    There are several videos available on the Learning Classroom that are interesting for those of you who teach in the classroom as well as online. The one I referred to in my discussion post is session 2 and mentions the zone of proximal development.
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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School - 0 views

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  • Kelly Hermann on 14 Jun 10
     
    Vygotsky's zone of proximal development is described here. The entire book can be read online and is a good synthesis of learning theories and current research into how learning happens and what influences it.
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E-Mail: Ten Tips for Writing It Effectively - 0 views

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  • Mike Fortune on 13 Jun 10
     
    This document offers 10 tips to help you write effective professional e-mails. The informal e-mails you exchange with your friends don't have to meet any particular standards, of course, but if you want to be taken seriously by professionals, you should know e-mail etiquette.
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