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Randy Rodgers

Obama calling for more schooling --either more hours or more days. - Lynn Sweet - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • economic progress and educational achievement have always gone hand in hand in America.
  • The source of America's prosperity, then, has never been merely how ably we accumulate wealth, but how well we educate our people. This has never been more true than it is today. In a 21st century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an internet connection; where a child born in Dallas is competing with children in Delhi; where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know - education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it is a prerequisite.
  • of the thirty fastest growing occupations in America, half require a Bachelor's degree or more. By 2016, four out of every ten new jobs will require at least some advanced education or training.
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  • politics and ideology have too often trumped our progress.
  • Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will use only one test when deciding what ideas to support with your precious tax dollars. It's not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works.
  • the first pillar in reforming our schools - investing in early childhood initiatives.
  • Early Learning Challenge Gran
  • better standards and assessments
  • They are spending less time teaching things that don't matter, and more time teaching things that do
  • challenge our states to adopt world-class standards that will bring our curriculums into the 21st century.
  • develop standards and assessments that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking, entrepreneurship and creativity.
  • money is tied to results
    • Randy Rodgers
      Randy Rodgers on 11 Mar 09
       
      Research doesn't support the idea that money=successful schools, unfortunately.
  • using data to track how much progress a student is making and where that student is struggling
    • Randy Rodgers
      Randy Rodgers on 11 Mar 09
       
      Individualization--good plan
  • third pillar of reform -- recruiting, preparing, and rewarding outstanding teachers.
  • I am calling on a new generation of Americans to step forward and serve our country in our classrooms. If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make the most of your talents and dedication; if you want to make your mark with a legacy that will endure - join the teaching profession. America needs you.
  • extra pay to Americans who teach math and science
  • if a teacher is given a chance but still does not improve, there is no excuse for that person to continue teaching
  • fourth part of America's education strategy - promoting innovation and excellence in America's schools.
  • I call on states to reform their charter rules, and lift caps on the number of allowable charter schools,
  • We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day.
  • expand effective after-school programs
  • rethink the school day to incorporate more time - whether during the summer or through expanded-day programs
  • let us all make turning around our schools our collective responsibility as Americans. That will require new investments in innovative ideas. That is why my budget invests in developing new strategies to make sure at-risk students don't give up on their education; new efforts to give dropouts who want to return to school the help they need to graduate; and new ways to put those young men and women who have left school back on a pathway to graduation.
  • The fifth part of America's education strategy is providing every American with a quality higher education - whether it's college or technical training.
  • simplify federal college assistance forms
  • the goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the year 2020.
  • Adults of all ages need opportunities to earn new degrees and skills
  • bottom line is that no government policies will make any difference unless we also hold ourselves more accountable as parents.
  • Randy Rodgers on 11 Mar 09
     
    President Obama's first address on educational reform.
Randy Rodgers

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling - 0 views

digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.html

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 08 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 08 Nov 08
     
    Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. And the topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between. A great way to begin learning about Digital Storytelling is by watching the following video introduction to Digital Storytelling.
Randy Rodgers

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
  • Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
  • In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
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  • We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
  • Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside
  • There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
  • “schools in the cloud,”
  • as the kids blasted through the questions, they couldn’t help noticing that it felt easy, as if they were being asked to do something very basic.
  • Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13
     
    Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
Randy Rodgers

Become a Maker - DIY - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 03 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 03 Oct 12
     
    The DIY online club awards badges (called 'Skills' on the site) to students and kids of all ages in exchange for completing tasks. DIY Makers share their work with the community and get patches for the Skills they earn. Each Skill consists of a set of Challenges that help them learn techniques to get the hang of it. Once a Maker completes a Challenge, they add photos and video to their Portfolio to show what they did.
Randy Rodgers

Dispelling the Myth of Deferred Gratification - Education Week - 1 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 16 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • What worked best wasn't (in Mischel's words) "self-denial and grim determination," but doing something enjoyable while waiting so that self-control wasn't needed at all.
  • precisely the opposite of the usual message that (a) self-control is a matter of individual character, which (b) we ought to help children develop.
  • the ability to invent a distraction turned out to be correlated with plain old intelligence
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  • "Impulsivity," they concluded, "is not a purely maladaptive trait, but one whose consequences hinge on the structure of the decisionmaking environment."
  • Perhaps the broader message for educators is this: Focus less on "fixing the kids" and more on improving what and how they're taught.
  • Randy Rodgers on 16 Sep 14
     
    Interesting look at the marshmallow study on willpower and achievement.
Randy Rodgers

Find, Follow and Share Comments - BackType - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 05 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 05 Jan 09
     
    BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web. Whenever you fill out the "Website" or "URL" field in a comment form when you publish a comment on a blog or other website, BackType attributes it to you. We give comment authors a profile featuring all the comments they've written on the Internet.
Randy Rodgers

Timetoast Timelines | Create timelines, share them on the web. - 0 views

www.timetoast.com

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 02 Oct 09
     
    Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.
  • Randy Rodgers on 02 Oct 09
     
    Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future... Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.
Randy Rodgers

Virsona: create the virtual you. - 0 views

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virsona history tools

shared by Randy Rodgers on 08 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 08 Nov 08
     
    Virsonas are "Virtual Personas," created to Reason, Remember and React in the same way that a living, fictional or historical person would. You can create the "Virtual You" as a Personal Virsona™ or you can create and / or interact with one of our Community Virsonas. Interacting with our Community Virsonas opens up a world of possibility - you can actually talk directly to one of your heroes, conduct research or simply have FUN! You can also create Virsonas of departed loved ones, your pet(s), as well as for commonly shared experiences, for example; "The First Kiss."
Randy Rodgers

quietube | Video without the distractions | Youtube, iPlayer, Viddler, Vimeo and more - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 05 Feb 10
     
    Browser button add-on that eliminates superfluous items from YouTube (ads, comments). Just install in the browser bookmark toolbar, browse to the desired video, and click the Quietube button.
Randy Rodgers

SnipSnip.It - Share the Good Parts - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 10 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 10 Jan 11
     
    Very handy tool lets you share just a portion of an online video. You select the start and end times, and the site gives you both an embed code and link to the video snippet.
Randy Rodgers

Gapminder Four Big - Gapminder.org - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 22 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 22 Sep 09
     
    Site with fascinating and beautiful statistical visualizations. "Gapminder Foundation now fills the Trendalyzer with statistical content and use the resulting animations to fulfill our aim by: * Making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries. * Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics. All with the intention of being a "fact tank" that promotes a fact based world view."
Randy Rodgers

Mini-Movies for Your SmartBoard - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 25 Sep 09
     
    A SmartBoard mini-movie is a simple (most involve only a click of the mouse), interactive animation that teachers can download and add to their galleries. From there, the movies can be inserted into their SMART Notebook presentations. Each mini-movie is a dynamic Flash file, similar to the same files that are already included in SMART Notebook's resources.
Randy Rodgers

The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 14 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 14 Mar 09
     
    The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms Book by Margaret A. Boden; 2003. Read The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms at Questia library.
Randy Rodgers

the scribbler art toy :: zefrank.com - 0 views

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design flash illustration tools generator art drawing

shared by Randy Rodgers on 18 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 18 Jan 10
     
    Site transforms simple sketch drawings into hard to describe creations that look a bit like the drawing done as a spider web. Printing is done via right-click, but saving is, again, not built-in. Still, scores high on the interestingness scale.
Randy Rodgers

SafeShare.TV - The Safest Way To Share YouTube videos - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 05 Feb 10
     
    Another tool that allows viewing of YouTube w/o ads or comments. Enter a video link, and Safeshare creates a new link to the video in a page w/o the distractions.
Randy Rodgers

How to Summon Your Child's Inner Coder: 10 Questions With Raspberry Pi Inventor Eben Up... - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 03 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 03 Oct 12
     
    Interview with the inventor of the Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton. Some good nuggets and implications for education here.
Randy Rodgers

YouTube Teachers - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 05 Sep 12
     
    Click on the Classroom Videos tab below the featured video to see hundreds of playlists arranged by subject and objective.
Randy Rodgers

PicLit | Inspired Picture Writing | PicLits.com - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 28 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 28 Oct 13
     
    Nice, easy to use tool lets users choose an image and create a caption, either using the built-in gallery of words or freestyle. Good tool to get the creative writing juices flowing!
Randy Rodgers

GoNoodle - 0 views

www.gonoodle.com

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 14 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 14 Apr 14
     
    Interesting site offers short "brain breaks" in the form of videos incorporating colorful characters, subject content, and yoga-like elements such as stretching, breathing, mild exercise. Goes along with research into exercise/activity and the brain.
Randy Rodgers

Idea Springboard - Google Science Fair 2014 - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Randy Rodgers on 24 Sep 14
     
    Truly cool tool from Google inspires learners' questions and projects. Input what you are good at, what subject you enjoy, and what you want to do, and Google provides a tapestry (Yes, I just used the word "tapestry.") of links, videos, books, and other resources to get the creative juices flowing.
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