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Judy Brophy

Prestidigitation » Another in the Long List of Reasons Student Projects Shoul... - 0 views

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    They make the learning for the students (and the public) go on beyond the boundaries of the semester or the class, and they give students a commitment and an engagement to their work. And they give students real evidence that their work can really matter-that they can learn not just to think like historians (or literary critics or biologists or whatever), but to actually do what historians do.
Judy Brophy

Outworld, In Canvas Leveraging and Integrating Blogs, Jared Stein, Instructure on Vimeo - 0 views

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    Canvas supports real-world, learner-owned, best-of-breed blogs in a number of ways. This session presents both the mechanisms that support blogging in Canvas as well as instructional designs that leverage these (and other) external web sites.
Judy Brophy

Blogs + Canvas - 0 views

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    This course site is set up to show how Canvas can leverage outworld blogs--real world blogs owned by learners.
Judy Brophy

Holding Common Core accountable | Flipped Textbook - 0 views

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    Bottom line for standards makers: Don't think that the real world is someone else's problem (SEP). If your standards can't be implemented, you have failed. If standards can't be implemented within normal constraints, then standards makers have not done their job.
Judy Brophy

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Coo... - 1 views

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     this study underscores the need to test environmental and health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough horizon to understand how this behavioral effect evolves over time
Jenny Darrow

Yummy Math - 0 views

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    Relevant math for the real world - geared towards kids
Judy Brophy

The Innovative Educator: Eight Reasons An Innovative Educator Uses Twitter - 1 views

  • This is fast becoming one of my favorite uses of Twitter. Combined with Google collaborative docs, Twitter becomes a powerful tool. Start your project in Google docs, spreadsheet or presentation and then Tweet a request to your followers for help.Here are a few examples of that:Last Day of Free Ning Networks - What Should You Choose?Innovative Ideas for Getting Teachers Excited About Building Their Personal Learning Networks Real Time from Hunterdon Central Regional High SchoolHiring the World to Be Your Professional Development Provider (free of charge)Adult Learners - Lucy Gray asked her followers for help on this
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     his is fast becoming one of my favorite uses of Twitter. Combined with Google collaborative docs, Twitter becomes a powerful tool. Start your project in Google docs, spreadsheet or presentation and then Tweet a request to your followers for help
Judy Brophy

Virtual learning making real-world strides: Online classes catching on in Illinois - ch... - 0 views

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    researcher at the National Education Policy Center, said research has so far failed to prove that online instruction is superior to face-to-face education. Jeff Hunt, who runs Indian Prairie's online program, said such critiques are a caution to those who want to expand Internet-based learning. "We have to do this well because we can't do it over," he said. "(Poor results) will verify to critics that there's no quality there." Tribune reporter Lawerence Synett contributed. jkeilman@tribune.com Get the Chicago Tribune delivered to your home for only $1 a week > Copyright © 2011, Chicago Tribune Share61(2) RECOMMENDED FOR YOU 2 charged with prostitution at Evanston spa (Chicago Tribune) Ind. couple pleads guilty to duct-taping children (Chicago Tribune) Hospitals drowning in noise (Chicago Tribune) Chicago's at top as gas prices jump again (Chicago Tribune) Chicago discussed as terrorist target, document says (Chicago Tribune) FROM AROUND THE WEB What?! Prince in foreclosure?! (BankRate.com) Every Parent's Nightmare: Your Grad Is Moving Home (CNBC) Little-known credit card perks (BankRate.com) Riskiest Places to Use Your Credit Card (CNBC) Mary Robbins Dies Just 12 Days After Husband (The New York Times) [what's this]   Comments (2)Add / View comments | Discussion FAQ ckotarch at 10:55 PM April 25, 2011 Online learning offers the people who can learn faster than their peers the opportunity to work ahead and learn more and do more in the same amount of time.   The fact that students are graduating early is testament to the fact that there are some superior advantages to it when used that way.  Credit recovery too gives kids the opportunity to catch up to meet their goals of graduation where without it, they would not.  What more evidence does one need?   The benefits are self evident. Arrive2.net at 9:57 PM April 25, 2011 "Gene Glass, senior researcher at the National Education Policy Center, said research has so far failed to prove that online instr
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