Students achieve better test scores and attendance rates at the six smaller Baltimore City high schools where teachers have greater control over lessons and principals have more freedom when hiring staff, a new study shows.
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Study: 'Innovation' schools help teens - Examiner.com - 0 views
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Unfortunately the article says very litttle about what makes these schools "innovative", apart from the autonomy they are granted to tailor programmes, their "best practices" and the addiitonal money made available.
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The "innovation" high schools provide more support for students and more positive learning environments than the city's other high schools
Web 2.0: Helping Reinvent Education : January 2008 : THE Journal - 0 views
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"Thinking is now distributed," he said, "across minds, tools and media, groups of people, and space and time." It is important, he shared, for people to be fluent in new technologies and literacies because more and more jobs are disappearing that require classical knowledge.
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Web 2.0, Dede noted, is "centered around Web-based communities, where the central theme is to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing." It is an environment where knowledge is gained through bottom-up, individual methods, rather than top-down, traditional forms. "Web 2.0," he said, "is a major paradigm shift in the way people think."
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Creativity and collaboration and sharing are not an automatic results of using web tools. They require the right practices and the right institutional conditions if they are to survive and flourish.
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In a world where learners are being shaped by the things they do outside of the classroom, he said, how do we prepare students for careers that do not exist yet and that will be driven by these very same methods of learning?
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A talk by a specialist in teacher training about the impact of Web 2.0 on education. For those already interested in change in education thanks to ICT, this may bring little new. When are people going to go beyond statements about how things are radically changing to what we are going to do about it?
Innovate: Fair Use Education for the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Study of Stude... - 0 views
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This article describes the implementation and evaluation of the University of Minnesota's Fair Use Analysis (FUA) tool, an interactive online application intended to educate users and foster defensible fair use practice in accordance with copyright law by guiding users through a robust, fact-specific, four-factor analysis.
Innovation and Excellence - Middle Year School - 0 views
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The use of clusters of schools to encourage innovation is an interesting idea.
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The Schools for Innovation and Excellence initiative commenced in 2003 and supports primary and secondary schools to work closely together in clusters over three years to deliver innovation and excellence in Victorian education. Clusters receive funding to develop strategically effective education programs to advance student learning. From 2005, every Victorian government school will be in a cluster, with a total of 247 clusters in operation.
What do you think about Catalan issue? - 35 views
I found in my college works (V.Rupainiene, 2003) some definition of innovation: educational innovation is a new idea, practice and process, something what is understood as newly implemented at the ...
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