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Jennifer Garcia

iPad app credited with 20% jump in math scores at middle school | TabTimes - 0 views

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    "Score another win for the iPad, quite literally. Educational courseware provider Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is touting the results of a yearlong pilot program that indicates the company's HMH Fuse Algebra 1 program improved student's test scores. "
Jennifer Garcia

INeedAPencil.com - Free SAT Prep - 1 views

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    This SAT prep program is free and has more than 60 lessons in math, reading, and writing. It also includes a score projector. This is something parents CAN have their children do to prepare for the test (unless you want to get my FAVORITE book for this -- SAT prep for dummies .) 
Jennifer Garcia

Welcome to Flubaroo - 0 views

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    "Welcome to Flubaroo - Grading Made Easy Teachers, do you... * Not have enough time for grading? * Want useful measurements on student performance? * Need a free solution to help? If so, then Flubaroo can help! * Grade online assignments in a single step! * Get reporting and analysis on student performance! * Email students their scores. * Designed by a teacher, for other teachers!" can be added on to google forms
Jennifer Garcia

21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020 | MindShift - 0 views

  • Because computing is going mobile and over the next decade we’re going to see the full fury of individualized computing via handhelds come to the fore
  • Over the next ten years, we will see Digital Portfolios replace test scores as the #1 factor in college admissions.
  • he 21st century is customizable. In ten years, the teacher who hasn’t yet figured out how to use tech to personalize learning will be the teacher out of a job
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  • e as ‘paper’ itself becomes digitized.
  • more teachers and students will be going out into their communities to engage in experiential learning.
  • 15. PAID/OUTSOURCED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT No one knows your school as well as you. With the power of a PLN (professional learing networks) in their back pockets, teachers will rise up to replace peripatetic professional development gurus as the source of schoolwide professional development programs. This is already happening.
  • the shift in middle schools to a role as foundational content providers and high schools as places for specialized learning.
  • just let your kids do it. By the end of the decade — in the best of schools — they will be
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    "How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says he's seeing some of these already beginning to come to fruition."
Jennifer Garcia

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

  • 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.)
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    "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?"
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