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Anne Van Meter

Ed schools vs. education - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 5 views

www.post-gazette.com/...ed-schools-vs-education-648613

education

shared by Anne Van Meter on 12 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • "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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      What are your thoughts on this?
  • Today we lead the world only in how much we spend per pupil.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      There are many reasons for this, of course. But, why do you suppose we're not getting the achievement?
    • Jimbo Lamb
      Jimbo Lamb on 13 Aug 12
       
      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
      Anne Van Meter on 29 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      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
      Jimbo Lamb on 13 Aug 12
       
      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
      Anne Van Meter on 29 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      This statement just TICKS.ME.OFF!
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      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
      Anne Van Meter on 29 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      I need to see facts to support this.
    • Anne Van Meter
      Anne Van Meter on 29 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      Many qualified folks lost their positions when they weren't deemed 'highly qualified.' 
    • Jimbo Lamb
      Jimbo Lamb on 13 Aug 12
       
      Isn't that what certification is? An official statement that the person is indeed qualified?
    • Anne Van Meter
      Anne Van Meter on 29 Aug 12
       
      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
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      Now, that's profound.
  • they aren't allowed to teach.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 12 Aug 12
       
      Why would they? The work is difficult, the pay is terrible and everyone outside of education thinks you're lazy.
    • Jimbo Lamb
      Jimbo Lamb on 13 Aug 12
       
      A medical doctor teaching in HS? What, around their appointments with patients? 
    • Anne Van Meter
      Anne Van Meter on 29 Aug 12
       
      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
      Jimbo Lamb on 13 Aug 12
       
      I'd like to see the supporting evidence on this.
  • anonymous on 12 Aug 12
     
    An interesting article, and certainly not without other opinions.
  • Anne Van Meter on 29 Aug 12
     
    An interesting article, and certainly not without other opinions.
Darcy Goshorn

Cymbolism | Words & Colors - 1 views

www.cymbolism.com

color cymbolism design newspaper psychology tool tools web webdesign word yearbook

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 04 Oct 08 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 04 Oct 08
     
    share with yearbook advisers or psych teachers
  • Darcy Goshorn on 04 Oct 08
     
    Attempts to quantify the association between words and colors. Users click on the color that matches a word. You can view results for 200+ words. Might make an interesting discussion in psychology class or definitely a good tool for yearbook or web design classes.
Kristin Hokanson

College Students Score Higher In Classes That Incorporate Instructional Technology Than... - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...080324125154.htm

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shared by Kristin Hokanson on 26 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Kristin Hokanson on 26 Mar 08
     
    Jim Gates sent this ACSD article on the CFF listserve.
  • Kristin Hokanson on 26 Mar 08
     
    Hybrid classes & instructional tech incorportated helps students. From ACSD SmartBrief shared by jgates513
sam elias

Gates Workshop Links - Social_Bookmarking - 1 views

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shared by sam elias on 24 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • Diigo - watch this video about Diigo (Sample diigo bookmarked page with comments)
    • sam elias
      sam elias on 24 Sep 09
       
      Okay Jim, I'm convinced. Time to inport my Delicious tags...
anonymous

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

www.ascd.org/..._Would_Socrates_Say%C2%A2.aspx

21st-century

shared by anonymous on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The noted philosopher once said, "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." My fear is that instead of knowing nothing except the fact of our own ignorance, we will know everything except the fact of our own ignorance. Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and ubiquity are not the same as actually knowing something.
  • Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate. We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner. Otherwise, the great knowledge and communication tsunami of the 21st century may drown us in a sea of trivia instead of lifting us up on a rising tide of possibility and promise.
  • A child born today could live into the 22nd century. It's difficult to imagine all that could transpire between now and then. One thing does seem apparent: Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate. We need to adapt to a rapidly changing world.
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  • Every day we are exposed to huge amounts of information, disinformation, and just plain nonsense. The ability to distinguish fact from factoid, reality from fiction, and truth from lies is not a "nice to have" but a "must have" in a world flooded with so much propaganda and spin.
  • For example, for many years, the dominant U.S. culture described the settling of the American West as a natural extension of manifest destiny, in which people of European descent were "destined" to occupy the lands of the indigenous people. This idea was, and for some still is, one of our most enduring and dangerous collective fabrications because it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions.
  • A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events.
  • The third element of the 21st century mind must be the recognition and acceptance of our shared evolutionary collective intelligence.
  • To solve the 21st century's challenges, we will need an education system that doesn't focus on memorization, but rather on promoting those metacognitive skills that enable us to monitor our own learning and make changes in our approach if we perceive that our learning is not going well.
  • Metacognition is a fancy word for a higher-order learning process that most of us use every day to solve thousands of problems and challenges.
  • We are at the threshold of a worldwide revolution in learning. Just as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the wall of conventional schooling is collapsing before our eyes. A new electronic learning environment is replacing the linear, text-bound culture of conventional schools. This will be the proving ground of the 21st century mind.
  • We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfare. According to Huff and Saxberg, immersive technologies—such as multitouch displays; telepresence (an immersive meeting experience that offers high video and audio clarity); 3-D environments; collaborative filtering (which can produce recommendations by comparing the similarity between your preferences and those of other people); natural language processing; intelligent software; and simulations—will transform teaching and learning by 2025.
  • So imagine that a group of teachers and middle school students decides to tackle the question, What is justice? Young adolescents' discovery of injustice in the world is a crucial moment in their development. If adults offer only self-serving answers to this question, students can become cynical or despairing. But if adults treat the problem of injustice truthfully and openly, hope can emerge and grow strong over time. As part of their discussion, let's say that the teachers and students have cocreated a middle school earth science curriculum titled Water for the World. This curriculum would be a blend of classroom, community, and online activities. Several nongovernmental organizations—such as Waterkeeper, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and Water for People—might support the curriculum, which would meet national and state standards and include lessons, activities, games, quizzes, student-created portfolios, and learning benchmarks.
  • The goal of the curriculum would be to enable students from around the world to work together to address the water crisis in a concrete way. Students might help bore a freshwater well, propose a low-cost way of preventing groundwater pollution, or develop a local water treatment technique. Students and teachers would collaborate by talking with one another through Skype and posting research findings using collaborative filtering. Students would create simulations and games and use multitouch displays to demonstrate step-by-step how their projects would proceed. A student-created Web site would include a blog; a virtual reference room; a teachers' corner; a virtual living room where learners communicate with one another in all languages through natural language processing; and 3-D images of wells being bored in Africa, Mexico, and Texas. In a classroom like this, something educationally revolutionary would happen: Students and adults would connect in a global, purposeful conversation that would make the world a better place. We would pry the Socratic dialogue from the hands of the past and lift it into the future to serve the hopes and dreams of all students everywhere.
  • There has never been a time in human history when the opportunity to create universally accessible knowledge has been more of a reality. And there has never been a time when education has meant more in terms of human survival and happiness.
  • To start, we must overhaul and redesign the current school system. We face this great transition with both hands tied behind our collective backs if we continue to pour money, time, and effort into an outdated system of education. Mass education belongs in the era of massive armies, massive industrial complexes, and massive attempts at social control. We have lost much talent since the 19th century by enforcing stifling education routines in the name of efficiency. Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth.
  • If we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
    Some very interesting points in this article. Why not add your coments?
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 09
     
    A VERY interesting article. If you've got Diigo installed, why not add your comments
Darcy Goshorn

Class Discussion Guidelines - 1 views

www.scribd.com/...Class-Discussion-Guidelines

discussion collaboration learning presentations guidelines rules rubric discuss for:cffcoach

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 27 Sep 09
     
    Great visual rubric for class discussions
anonymous

Check Out Class Blogs! | The Edublogger - 5 views

theedublogger.com/check-out-these-class-blogs

edublogger blogs

shared by anonymous on 24 Jan 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 24 Jan 10
     
    A HUGE list of class blogs. When you're fighting the good fight to get blogs unblocked, point them to this. Er... this is a blog, too. Well, they can look at the list at home.
anonymous

Math Worksheet Generator - 11 views

www.educationlabs.com/...default.aspx

math worksheets generator microsoft_office

shared by anonymous on 07 Apr 10 - Cached
  • »  Sign In to participate in discussions. Math Worksheet Generator Do you spend a lot of time searching for worksheets with practice problems to give your students? Now you can easily create your own in just a few seconds with the Math Worksheet Generator. This is a tool that generates multiple math problems based on a sample, and then creates a worksheet that you can distribute. By analyzing the math problem you provide, or one of the built-in samples, the generator determines the structure of the expression and provides similar problems. We tack on an answer sheet too.
Darcy Goshorn

Class Blogs - 8 views

classblogs.us

blog blogging class web2.0 blogs wordpress wpmu

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 31 Mar 11
     
    Yet another free WordPress MU blog(s) for you and your class.
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