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Vi Hart's Videos Bend and Stretch Math to Inspire - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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    "For Vi Hart, her mind pondered the mathematical implications. "There's a packing puzzle here," she said. "This is the kind of thing where if you're accustomed to thinking about these problems, you see them in everything." Mathematicians over the centuries have thought long and deep about how tightly things, like piles of oranges, can be packed within a given amount of space. "Here we've got even another layer," Ms. Hart said, "where you're allowed to overhang off the edge of your square. So now you have a new puzzle, where maybe you want the big things near the edge because you can fit more of them off the edge before they fall off." Ms. Hart - her given name is Victoria, but she has long since dropped the last six letters - has an audacious career ambition: She wants to make math cool. "
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    Cloud Storage Face-off: Dropbox vs Google Drive vs SkyDrive http://t.co/Nc0kzKsH via @zite

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We can't let educators off the hook | Dangerously Irrelevant - 10 views

    • anonymous
       
      What do you think? SHOULD we let them off the hook? IS it excusable today to NOT be aware of and to use the appropriate tools of the web?
    • anonymous
       
      Oh, and read down through the comments, as well. The discussion continues there.
  • If you’re a teacher / administrator / librarian / education professor that somehow ‘doesn’t even realize [yet] that there’s a decision to be made,’ should you even be working in a school or university? Don’t our children and our school systems need and deserve someone who’s in a different place than you are?
  • It’s about our students: our children and our youth who deserve at the end of their schooling experience to be prepared for the world in which they’re going to live and work and think and play and be. That’s the obligation of each and every one of us. No educator gets to disown this.
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    "If you're a teacher / administrator / librarian / education professor that somehow 'doesn't even realize [yet] that there's a decision to be made,' should you even be working in a school or university? Don't our children and our school systems need and deserve someone who's in a different place than you are? It's one thing to still be a learner; heck, we're all learners with this technology stuff. It's another to opt out or not even recognize the choice. If we look at what our kids need, shouldn't we replace you with someone else? "
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Evaluating Databases Lesson Plan - 5 views

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    You will work in pairs develop a commercial for the database you are assigned. Most are available off our Catalogs and Databases page. As you examine the database, record any relevant information in the organizer shown below. Please use the glossary if you are unfamiliar with any terms.
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Ed schools vs. education - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 5 views

  • "The achievement gap between the U.S. and the world's top-performing countries can be said to be causing the equivalent of a permanent recession," Mr. Hanushek wrote for Education Next.
    • anonymous
       
      What are your thoughts on this?
  • Today we lead the world only in how much we spend per pupil.
    • anonymous
       
      There are many reasons for this, of course. But, why do you suppose we're not getting the achievement?
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      Is it because we are forcing all kids to fit the same standards rather than develop different standards for different needs of the students?
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      Not in % of GDP we spend... Of course, those other countries spend on pupil support: extended parental leave, full health care...
  • Far and away the most important factor in student learning is the quality of teachers. If we got rid of just the bottom 5 percent to 7 percent of teachers, that alone would lift our kids to Canadian levels, Mr. Hanushek calculates.
    • anonymous
       
      This is a delicate subject. But, we all know folks who don't put forth the effort that they should. What IF we did this?
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      How do you compare this? In my school, I will have 183 students in my classes this year, and none will be considered advanced math students. Our calc teacher will have a majority of the advanced students and his enrollment numbers are at 93. How does this compare?
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      I only teach the lower level students (no complaints about that, I'm good at what I do) but they will not hit "advanced"!!
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  • Our teachers "do not know anything," according to Terrence Moore, who teaches history at Hillsdale College. That's largely because most have degrees in education rather than in the subjects they teach.
    • anonymous
       
      This statement just TICKS.ME.OFF!
    • anonymous
       
      Teachers are constrained by many different influences. Creativity is stifled, we teacher to the lowest common "core" denominator. Schools are not bold but old. We are rewarded by passing many useless measures, which unfortunately this article is based off of. Standardized test scores have blinded the public to what is important. Being able to problem solve and to be creative has always been the mark of an American, but that is being stripped of this generation b/c of the drive to wards testing.
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      And what are elementary teachers supposed to have degrees in? Do you really want a second grade teacher with a major in history? Or chemistry? In college, I took engineering and business calculus classes, business statistics and accounting, in addition to my education math classes. Does it matter that I didn't get a degree in math? Isn't it better that I also have courses in ancient near eastern history? And Arthurian legends? And American and English literature and American government?
  • "Future teachers are better served by getting good grounding in academic subject matter."
    • anonymous
       
      Is that true? Or, is it better to learn how to teach and to use technology for what its capable of doing, etc etc?
  • Ed schools seem to think knowing stuff isn't important.
    • anonymous
       
      Humbug!
  • "If you confront [teachers] with the fact that they, just as their students, can tell you nothing about the first 10 presidents or the use of the gerund, they will blithely respond that it is not so important for them to know things as to know 'how to know things,' " said Mr. Moore.
    • anonymous
       
      What do you think?
  • The reform needed is to remove state "certification" requirements. The reason for them, we're told, is to guarantee that only the qualified teach. Their real purpose is to keep the knowledgeable out of the classroom.
    • anonymous
       
      This is sounding more and more like a rant instead of a thoughtful argument.
  • "Yet these education schools," Mr. Moore points out, "not only do not impart real knowledge of academic subjects; they are actively hostile to it."
    • anonymous
       
      I need to see facts to support this.
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      The first three out of four years in college were spent taking more non-education courses than education related. We all had to take the full math/English/history/science core courses, then added psychology and sociology in addition to the education courses and several internships as well.
  • If instead of being forced to hire the certified, schools were free to hire the qualified, colleges of education would wither away -- and learning would blossom.
    • anonymous
       
      Many qualified folks lost their positions when they weren't deemed 'highly qualified.' 
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      Isn't that what certification is? An official statement that the person is indeed qualified?
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      But, wasn't he just complaining several paragraphs ago that 60% of teachers are certified in their subjects? And he wants to add more uncertified teachers?
  • Students learn a lot from the teacher who knows a lot," Mr. Moore said. "They learn nothing from the teacher who knows nothing."
    • anonymous
       
      Now, that's profound.
  • they aren't allowed to teach.
    • anonymous
       
      Why would they? The work is difficult, the pay is terrible and everyone outside of education thinks you're lazy.
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      A medical doctor teaching in HS? What, around their appointments with patients? 
    • Anne Van Meter
       
      And politicians take cushy jobs as lobbyists. I can't think of many teachers who only need to teach civics. It's only a small part of the full curriculum.
  • Not so many years ago, our schools were the best in the world
    • Jimbo Lamb
       
      I'd like to see the supporting evidence on this.
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    An interesting article, and certainly not without other opinions.
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    An interesting article, and certainly not without other opinions.
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Twilight franchise is growing, says Robert Pattinson - 0 views

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    In the series' third installment, «Eclipse», a dark tone permeates and limbs fly off bodies in a scalable battle involving vampires and werewolves. The triangle of love between lead characters Edward, Bella and Jacob burns with even greater intensity.
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England v Germany: concerned step before a crucial World Cup last 16 clash - 0 views

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    For the second World Cup running having been informed that the condition of the pitch is not in good enough condition to each side to educate about it 24 hours before kick-off. Instead, Capello will run the rule over his men much closer to home with fewer chances of being spied on, before a short flight south for an early afternoon news conference.
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The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 2 views

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    "A fine example of this emerged in January of this year, with release of a study by University of Western Ontario neuroscientist Daniel Ansari and Harvard's Aaron Berkowitz, who studies music cognition. They put Dartmouth music majors and nonmusicians in an fMRI scanner, giving participants a one-handed fiber-optic keyboard to play melodies on. Sometimes melodies were rehearsed; other times they were creatively improvised. During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously."
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Argentina dazzle at the expense of the Greeks - 0 views

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    It is fortunate for Diego Maradona, and Argentina, the team is probably better at making friends in the coach. Off the pitch, Maradona is caustic and controversial, offensive game is great and the good with just hidden joy. On the pitch, his team has been nothing but charming.
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World Cup 2010 "Uruguay v South Korea" live - 0 views

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    Halftime: Uruguay 1-0 South Korea. And that was that in half. "Kick Off ball makes me a little sad," said Adam Forbes, who speaks my language. "Now Match Ball is no longer, what gives the scorer of a hat trick? All of them and what goes to the charity auction?" It almost like the soul of football has ripped the moneymen, is not it.
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They said it: The Tech Coach To-Do List - 10 views

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    T&L advisor Kim Cofino, 21st Century Literacy Specialist at the Yokohama International School Bangkok in Japan, shares her priorities for starting the year off right.
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RIP: A remix Manifesto - 2 - Copyright vs Copyleft | Open Source Cinema - An Open Sourc... - 0 views

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    Check this out. Surely you've got some students who LOVE to do this stuff. They're encouraged to remix these videos! Not a homework assignment, but you can surely give them an interesting hobby. :-)
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    Open Source Cinema starts off with some video that they encourage you to remix and send back to them. In the process you'll learn about copyright - at least one organization's feelings about it.
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Smithsonian Magazine | People & Places | Interview: Doug Fine Journalist, New Mexico - 0 views

  • I make a career of doing things poorly and increasing people's confidence they can do those things, too.
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    Any Env Sci teachers in the network?
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    Journalist Doug Fine lives "off the grid" in New Mexico - I bought the book...
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Stages of PLN adoption | The Thinking Stick - 0 views

  • Stage 1 Immersion: Immerse yourself into networks. Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to. Collaboration and connections take off.
    • anonymous
       
      How can we convince teachers to try this?
    • Sharon Stanski
       
      great way to bring teachers and students together
    • Chris Hyde
       
      Get them to attend more PD conferences.
    • Aly Kenee
       
      I worry a bit that teachers who are just starting might be overwhelmed if they join "any and all" -- perhaps we could help them pick a smaller number of highly effective and friendly networks?
  • Stage 1 Immersion: Immerse yourself into networks. Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to. Collaboration and connections take off.
    • sam elias
       
      I'm convinced. Time to import my delicious tags...
    • anonymous
       
      How can we get teachers to try this?
    • Aly Kenee
       
      Let's try this again.
    • Chris Hyde
       
      Get them to attend more technology conferences.
  • Stage 2 Evaluation: Evaluate your networks and start to focus in on which networks you really want to focus your time on. You begin feeling a sense of urgency and try to figure out a way to “Know it all.”
    • Sharon Stanski
       
      Evaluation can be done by a survey
    • anonymous
       
      I agree and I hope this shows up
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