Comprehensive research released today by The Center for Rural Policy and Development offers policymakers a series of recommendations on how to help and improve rural Minnesota schools.
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Recommendations for Rural Minnesota Schools - 0 views
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Develop collaboration instead of consolidation: A state policy should be developed to help foster collaboration with and between school districts. While consolidation has been used in rural districts with declining enrollment, the authors’ research on cost-effective policies strongly cautions against this strategy as the negatives outweigh the positives.
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Use technology to its best advantage: Online professional learning communities should be established to help rural educators share best practices and reduce isolation, and online general subject or enrichment courses should be made available to isolated rural learners.
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Use technology to its best advantage: Online professional learning communities should be established to help rural educators share best practices and reduce isolation, and online general subject or enrichment courses should be made available to isolated rural learners.
Engaging the Eye Generation: Visual Literacy Strategies for the K-5 Classroom - 0 views
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Engaging the Eye Generation takes a fresh approach to infusing twenty-first century skills into the classroom.
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Traditional teaching and learning strategies are becoming increasingly ineffective with a generation of secondary students that have instant access to information, are accustomed to managing their own acquisition of knowledge, and embrace the roles of content producer and publisher.
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Couldn't disagre more my overhead still works!
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Today’s high school curriculum presents students with assignments that lack a real-world context and activities that lead to uninspired projects and end in a letter grade.
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Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions.
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ASCD Inservice: Seven Ways to Go from On-Task to Engaged - 5 views
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We know that engagement is the key to learning
On Ed Tech, We're Asking the Wrong Question | The Committed Sardine - 7 views
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In the end, that’s all technology is, too—a resource. In the hands of talented and well-trained teachers, it can facilitate high-quality teaching and learning; when used by average teachers, it most likely will lead to average results. And in either case, it’s not entirely clear whether test scores would rise, anyway—for reasons I’ll discuss later.
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There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that, when used wisely, technology is a powerful resource that can help boost achievement.
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I would argue that’s the point: You can’t separate the technology from the rest of the learning process, because they are inextricably bound.
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Education World: A Paradigm Shift for Student Engagement - 3 views
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""There just isn't enough time to integrate technology and adequately cover the curriculum." "What will happen next year when they go to a new classroom and realize school is work and not all 'fun and games?' You're setting them up for disappointment." "Playing games all day just isn't good teaching." Sentiments like these echo in the hallways and classrooms, offices, and teachers' lounges across the nation. Technology can be an important tool that helps teachers teach and students learn. But are we utilizing it to its fullest potential?"
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To increase the delivery of e-Services to citizen, we have adopted the strategy of strengthening the core infrastructure," says K T Sukhalu, Commissioner & Secretary, Information Technology &…
Glove romney accuses Barack obama of 'vicious lies' on Bain Capital - 0 views
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"So disgrace on you, Barack Obama!" yowls out the speech in the newest TV ad from the Glove romney strategy, broadcasting only in Oh. Yet the speech is supposed to be not to presumptive GOP nominee Glove Mitt romney, but to an unlikely determine to appear in any Glove romney commercial: Hillary Clinton.
E-Learning Graduate Certificate Program: mLearning: Using Mobile Technologies to Enhanc... - 0 views
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Fundamental to the modern definition of mlearning is that it is the learner/learning that is mobile, not the device. In-depth analysis of mobile learning research, trends, instructional strategies, curriculum integration, professional development, and on-the-job training using handheld technology such as the iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, and smartphones.
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This is a terrific class taught by author and online educator Ann Bell. Cutting Edge!
NCTE Position Statement on Machine Scoring - 0 views
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Conclusions that computers can score as well as humans are the result of humans being trained to score like the computers (for example, being told not to make judgments on the accuracy of information).
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Computer scoring systems can be "gamed" because they are poor at working with human language, further weakening the validity of their assessments and separating students not on the basis of writing ability but on whether they know and can use machine-tricking strategies.
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Important and well written
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