“The most exciting findings were identification of which implementation factors
improve learning outcomes,” said Tom Greaves
“We found that technology-infused classes in core subject areas, such as science
and math, and in intervention classes such as Reading, Title I, English Language
Learners and special education, were a significant factor in improvement
“In our practice, we see how personalization and individualization of
instruction work best when students have 100% access to a computing device,”
1) Technology-assisted classes help students stay in school - reducing drop-out rates, 2) Schools with 1:1 learning programs, when properly implemented, have better education success than do schools with fewer computing devices and poor implementation 3) But 80% of schools under-utilize technologies they have already purchased.
Forty-one states have adopted the Common Core State Standards. Now, implementing the Standards-to realize their purpose of increasing the college and career readiness of our high school graduates-takes on primary importance. This transition to implementation introduces a number of challenging questions: What is the baseline of student performance on the Common Core State Standards, and what reasonable expectations should we hold for students moving forward? What does student college and career readiness look like today through the lens of the Standards?
ACT is pleased to provide this first look at student performance relative to the Common Core State Standards and college and career readiness. The report establishes a baseline of performance on the Standards by using a sample comprising a quarter-million typical high school students, and then discusses how states, districts, and schools can support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards going forward.
The period between Common Core adoption and Common Core implementation offers an important opportunity to evaluate and reframe education policy and practice at all levels. ACT believes this report provides information that stakeholders can use to understand the current state of college and career readiness of students and to begin implementing programs and policies that best support the Common Core.
Now is the time to provide students with more effective opportunities to prepare for education and workplace success.
and conceptual models within a specific subject area, and even experts often fail to apply
Transfer is the sort of Holy Grail in this whole thing and it is very challenging," Mr. Pellagrino said. "We'd like to believe we can create Renaissance men who are experts in a wide array of disciplines and can blithely transfer skills from one to the other, but it just doesn't happen that way. We do know how to promote transfer but it is limited in scope."
The committee found students develop the best ways to solve new problems by learning
Yet the keystone skill, the one that underlies and connects skills in all three areas, may be the trickiest to teach and test: a student's ability to transfer and apply her or his existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.
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heir exist
ng knowledge when a problem is presented in a totally new context.
"Transfer is deeply connected to your knowledge base and your skill in an area,"
"If we really believe that the fundamental proposition here is transfer, it would dramatically affect what we did in curriculum assessment and instruction,"
"In math, for example, we wouldn't necessarily just give kids these problem sets but engage them in identifying, framing and solving real-world problems that would use those problem sets."
Many executives feel that their current workforce is not as well developed in these areas as they need to be. As such, management will need to address these skill gaps in order to compete in a global market,
A couple recent models of this education advocacy on Facebook that come to mind
may be different in intent, but they both have something in common: the use of
21st century tools to move mountains.
It was, he admits with a smile via Skype, “one-hundred percent student created.”
Translate and detect languages in Google spreadsheets
They’ve added a new question type (grid), support for right-to-left languages in
forms, and a new color scheme for the forms summary. Also, you can now
pre-populate form fields with URL parameters, and if you use Google Apps, you
can create forms which require sign-in to access
Email as an attachmentFrom the share button you can now
email your Google Spreadsheets workbook out directly as an attachment in .xls,
.csv, .ods, .pdf and other popular formats
ROMAN functionConverting numbers into Roman numerals as
easy as I, II, III
DOCX ImportYou can now import Word 2007 files (.docx) into
Google Docs
Online social media communities are vast and are growing at a rapid pace. For
example, there are more than 400 million active users on Facebook, which is
greater than the population of the United States.
The key question that faces each church organization that decides to engage
social media is, How will we engage?
Because of the high volume of content and sites, and the dynamics of search
engines and computer networking, social media require constant input and
monitoring to make the Church’s presence effective.
is not applicable. It is important to set internal expectations regarding how
often posts will be made, so that your followers can become accustomed to your
schedule.
Web 2.0: The term “Web 2.0” is commonly associated
with Web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing. A Web 2.0
site allows its users to interact with other users, to change website content,
to provide reaction to content, to share the site’s content with others, or to
filter content being provided by the site creator.
Be sure to have permission from a minor’s parent or guardian before
contacting the minor via social media or before posting pictures, video, and
other information that may identify that minor.
Parents must have access to everything provided to their children. For example,
parents should be made aware of how social media are being used, be told how to
access the sites, and be given the opportunity to be copied on all material sent
to their children via social networking (including text messages).
Personal sites of church personnel should also reflect Catholic values