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Jennifer Garcia

Education Week: It's Time for a New Kind of High School - 0 views

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  • withholds responsibility from, students.
  • We have lost sight of young people's potential for responsibility, and it can be argued that in doing so we have sacrificed many opportunities for growth and usefulness.
  • Students see themselves as passive participants
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  • he steady drone of teachers' voices in room after room. The sound of boredom is deafening.
  • We need to tear apart the school day, the high school timetable, the school year, the four-year diploma.
  • The time has come to stop tinkering with an antiquated model. We are delayed in our thinking because those who were able to suffer through or even thrive in this dying high school model have grown up to be teachers and lawyers and businesspeople who now advocate for reforms through the prism of their experiences.
  • Jennifer Garcia on 09 May 12
     
    high school reform
Jennifer Garcia

The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy | Hack Education - 1 views

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shared by Jennifer Garcia on 13 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Gates argues that educational training is unrelated to teacher performance (and “teacher performance” here means “student achievement” which means “test scores.” I’ll get to that in a minute.)
  • Jennifer Garcia on 13 Dec 11
     
    "Some of these reformers do see Khan Academy as "revolutionizing" education, while others, including lots of educators, contend that Khan Academy is actually far from that. As the title of Clive Thompson's Wired article observes correctly: the rules of education are changing. But is Khan Academy the cause? Or the symptom?"
Jennifer Garcia

21st Century Presentation Literacy: 21st Century Presentation Project - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Garcia on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Garcia on 22 Mar 11
     
    a blog of ideas for improving the presentation skills of learners.
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