A new study by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, finds that students’ perceptions of their teachers correlate with the teachers’ value-added scores; in other words, “students seem to know effective teaching when they experience it.” The correlation is stronger for mathematics than for ELA; this is one of many discrepancies between math and ELA in the study. According to the authors, “outside the early elementary grades when students are first learning to read, teachers may have limited impacts on general reading comprehension.” This peculiar observation should raise questions about curriculum, but curriculum does not come up in the report.
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The MET Research Paper: Achievement of What? « The Core Knowledge Blog - 3 views
Science Explorer - 4 views
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"The Science Explorer: An Exploratorium-At-Home Book"
Why Mobile Is a Must -- THE Journal - 2 views
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What makes these authentic, intimate learning opportunities possible? Mobile technologies. Mobile devices provide the platform and, as importantly, the incentive for students to take personal ownership of the learning experience.
Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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students in the Independent Project are remarkable but not because they are exceptionally motivated or unusually talented. They are remarkable because they demonstrate the kinds of learning and personal growth that are possible when teenagers feel ownership of their high school experience,
Teacher Experience Exchange - Web tools - 9 views
I Finally Drank the Kool-Aid! - The Tempered Radical - 3 views
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Having gained notoriety as a somewhat surly cuss, most everyone was surprised when I emerged as an active proponent of professional learning communities as a form of staff development.
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more practical reason that educators should embrace learning teams: Collaboration done right helps to lighten the load for everyone. In the past few years, I've actually seen the time that I invest in planning daily lessons go down as I've taken advantage of learning experiences and materials shared by my colleagues.
National Gallery of Art NGAkids Art Zone - 0 views
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PHOTO OP (Shockwave, 7 MB) is a two-part interactive activity that introduces you to digital photography and digital photo editing. Use the virtual camera to create snapshots and explore lighting, focus, shutter speed, and compositional effects. After you've taken some photos, switch to the Photo Op editor and transform your pictures into something completely different. This Art Zone interactive is suitable for all ages. Young children will find it easy to take simple snapshots and transform or recolor their virtual photos. More advanced users can create complex artistic compositions by layering, applying filters, and experimenting with various special effects, lighting, and blends. If you need help, scroll down for some hints about how to use the program. If your Internet connection is slow, allow the program to load fully, then come back to play.
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Very neat collection of online art creation tools.
Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool - JSOnline - 0 views
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Live tweeting
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"Live tweeting is not easy," Ekechai said, but "they capture the content of the lectures very, very well." Twitter also allows faculty members to post links to what they're reading. Students who "follow" a professor's tweets can get a look at the news stories that help inform their professor's lectures or connect with the experts their teachers are following.
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Essential to field Ekechai and Menck see it as their responsibility to teach students about Twitter because social media knowledge is becoming essential to their future fields - communications, advertising, public relations and marketing.
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YouTube - Outlook - 2 - 0 views
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Lee Keller and Kim Cavanaugh show some basic tricks to surviving your Outlook experience with version 2007. Some quick and easy things to do that will let Outlook do the work
YouTube - Outlook - 1 - 0 views
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Lee Keller and Kim Cavanaugh show some basic tricks to surviving your Outlook experience with version 2007. Some quick and easy things to do that will let Outlook do the work.
Digital Education: Malcolm Gladwell: Lessons from Fleetwood Mac - 0 views
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The first is that effort is more important than talent
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In fact, almost every successful individual or organization puts in at least 10,000 hours of practice first, which averages out to about four hours a day for ten years, he estimates.
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The second lesson educators could learn from Fleetwood Mac's success is the importance of a compensation strategy, rather than a capitalization strategy. In other words, instead of building on successes, the band became better and more successful because they put their energy into compensating for their weaknesses, he said.
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Playful Learning Experiences - 0 views
Maggwire: Experience magazines online. - 6 views
Over the Top - A First World War Game - 12 views
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"Over the Top is an interactive adventure game that allows YOU to experience life in the trenches during the First World War. As a young Canadian soldier stationed somewhere along the Western Front in the late Fall of 1916, you will live through some of the excitement, despair, brutality and sheer horror of trench warfare."
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