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in title, tags, annotations or urlEducation Week's Digital Directions: Challenges Seen in Moving to Multimedia Textbooks - 4 views
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Most school districts have the technical infrastructure to support the basic digital textbooks of today. But as far as supporting the kinds of textbooks tech-savvy educators would like to see—multimedia-rich, interactive, Web-based materials—schools have some serious catching up to do in increasing network speed and connectivity, providing professional development for teachers, and persuading lawmakers to revisit state textbook-adoption policies.
Is Subject Matter Expertise Enough for Successful Teaching? - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Education Week - 1 views
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If knowledge of subject matter were the most important factor in delivering a quality education, then professors with doctorates and a long list of publications in their field would make ideal candidates for K-12, as I wrote in a letter to the editor published in the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 3 ("You get what you pay for"). After all, they certainly possess expertise in their subject. But what most of them lack is pedagogical competence. That's why they wouldn't last very long in a public school classroom.
Education Week: Study Finds Social-Skills Teaching Boosts Academics - 2 views
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Study Finds Social-Skills Teaching Boosts Academics
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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