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www.weareteachers.com - P21 Cyber Summit - In the Classroom - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 02 Jun 09
     
    LOVE this collection of videos of great classroom lessons
  • anonymous on 02 Jun 09
     
    If THIS collection of videos wasn't meant for CFF then NOTHING was. :-) Check these out. Every one of them (that I've watched so far) seems to be an excellent example of the kinds of lessons that we're promoting. Excellent!
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JayCut - Online video editing - 0 views

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shared by Virginia Glatzer on 01 May 09 - Cached
  • Kathe Santillo on 01 May 09
     
    JayCut is a website that enables people to upload video, audio, and more in order to create "mixes" or movies. People can create their own profile page and groups of friends or students who can view their mixes or they can make them public. Users can ad
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Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
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  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
  • The clarity of language be damned: They come to bury a given institution rather than to improve it, but they describe their mission as “reform.”
  • It’s a very clever gambit, you have to admit. Either you’re in favor of privatization or else you are inexplicably satisfied with mediocrity.
  • there’s plenty of room for dissatisfaction with the current state of our schools. An awful lot is wrong with them: the way conformity is valued over curiosity and enforced with rewards and punishments, the way children are compelled to compete against one another, the way curriculum so often privileges skills over meaning, the way students are prevented from designing their own learning, the way instruction and assessment are increasingly standardized, the way different avenues of study are rarely integrated, the way educators are systematically deskilled .
  • To that extent, even if privatization worked exactly the way it was supposed to, we shouldn’t expect any of the defects I’ve just listed to be corrected.
  • Making schools resemble businesses often results in a kind of pedagogy that’s not merely conservative but reactionary, turning back the clock on the few changes that have managed to infiltrate and improve classrooms.
  • ut an attack on schooling as we know it is generally grounded in politics rather than pedagogy, and is most energetically advanced by those who despise not just public schools but all public institutions.
  • Michelle Krill on 28 Aug 09
     
    Using Accountability to "Reform" Public Schools to Death
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Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: The Changing Landscape of Teacher Learning - 8 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 05 Mar 10 - Cached
  • So the challenge is to find ways to create online teacher professional development that seems both compelling in its content and also more convenient, easier to fit into the work life of a teacher than the face-to-face courses.
  • online teacher professional development that includes an asynchronous component helps with that kind of reflection. Plus, the online format provides a layer of distance that helps people feel more willing to share things that are a little bit risky than they might in a face-to-face environment.
  • I think the kinds of professional development that involve people sharing artifacts of their practice and talking about them within a larger conceptual framework are becoming more and more popular with teachers.
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  • The first is that it’s easier to do online professional development at scale than it is with local or purely face-to-face professional development.
  • I think this financial crunch is going to force people to move to some other model—one that probably uses a lot of technology,
  • Michelle Krill on 05 Mar 10
     
    "An education-technology scholar discusses the current state and promise of online teacher PD. Chris Dede, a professor of learning technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a leading authority on online teacher professional development."
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Mailinator - Let Them Eat Spam! - 3 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 09 Dec 09
     
    "Protect your privacy and avoid spam. Use Mailinator! No Registration! No Sign-up!"
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New projectors make any wall an interactive whiteboard | eSchoolNews.com - 6 views

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shared by anonymous on 19 Jan 10 - Cached
  • n a move that could shake up the interactive whiteboard (IWB) market, two projector manufacturers have just released new products that can turn virtually any surface into an IWB.
  • The development means schools no longer have to buy separate hardware to enjoy the benefits of IWBs, whose interactive surface and ability to engage students have made them quite popular in classrooms. “We would certainly consider this projector a game-changer,”
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Live Binders - 5 views

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shared by Virginia Glatzer on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Jan 10
     
    Create a "binder" full of bookmarked sites that then show up as tabs and sub-tabs. The binder gets one url to share. Nice way of packaging a collection of sites. Like this one about google: http://livebinders.com/play/play/3803
  • MM Tech on 10 May 10
     
    According to the site - "do with digital information what you do with the papers on your desk - organize them into nice containers - like 3-ring binders on your shelf.:
  • Virginia Glatzer on 18 Oct 10
     
    Your 3 -ring binder on the web. Very cool way to organize your info for the web. Would be interested to see how your teachers use it.
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Governor's Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness | State of Louisiana - 3 views

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  • anonymous on 03 May 10
     
    Gov of Louisiana uses Google Earth KML file to project oil spill trajectory
  • anonymous on 03 May 10
     
    THIS is what you can do WITH computers that you cannot do WITHOUT them.
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The Technology Facade - 11 views

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  • anonymous on 17 May 10
     
    "Abstract: This paper reports on the design, development, and application of a Checklist intended to assist educators in recognizing strengths and weaknesses in their technology-based programs at their institutions. The Checklist sampled public and private schools to validate the existence and impact of the Technology Facade. Initial findings indicate that schools have masked the effective use of computers labs and classroom computers behind the auspices of teacher activities, student participation, and parental involvement. The study and suggests possible courses of action to address deficiencies in the use of technology, the construction of the necessary infrastructure, and the design of a viable instructional strategy."
  • anonymous on 17 May 10
     
    This resonates with me because I see it time after time. Even one-to-one districts aren't doing anything with the computers that they weren't already doing without them. The technology is a Facade. Interesting notion
  • Aimee Engleka on 19 May 10
     
    The author of this book was my professor at Duquesne University during the time he was authoring it. He, at the time was the head of the Instructional Technology Deptartment. As an assignment, we helped to "proofread" and make suggestions...so excited to see it mentioned here. Larry has been ahead of his time in this field for years. Great read, and highly recommended as it offers a different, yet crucial perspective on things.
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CK12.ORG - FlexBooks - 13 views

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  • customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12
  • anonymous on 07 Jan 11
     
    T hey're free, they're customizable, and they meet state standards. Those are the three biggest selling points of CK12 Flexbooks, digital educational content for K-12 schools. FlexBooks are developed through a combination of author donations, licensing partnerships, university collaborations, and incentives for community-based authorship, and teachers can customize them to their hearts' content.
  • Michelle Krill on 06 Apr 11
     
    Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12. CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.
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Why Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus » Edurati Review - 3 views

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  • If, for example, I were to limit my workday to 9 hours, of which 7.5 were in school, how could I conceivably read and correct papers from the vast majority of my 192 students in order for those corrections to be part of a meaningful learning experience? Do I limit the amount of work I assign in order to keep up with it? Do I shortchange the feedback to which my students are entitled? Do I allow the responsibilities of effective teaching to consume time that should be available for things outside of my school responsibilities? None of the three choices is truly acceptable, yet in reality for many teachers such are the options from which they can choose. Choices like this are just one example of the pressures that many good teachers experience, and that can help drive them from the profession.
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      anonymous on 10 Feb 11
       
      It's time we work smarter not harder. We don't have to be the center of the learning experience. Teachers should be really creative travel agents that set up the trip for the students to explore, explain, get lost, fail, connect, help someone else, make a difference (a real difference). If you have interest or create it you just have to get out of the way. It's not easy to do this, that's why we need to work smarter and share the load. It's just to hard anymore to do alone.
  • he final four pages of text, 153-156, are under the title of “Afterward: Final Thoughts” and these pages bring together final conclusions from the wealth of material Farber has provided. There are three sections, titled respectively, Why Teachers Teach,: To Educational Leaders, Policy Makers and Politicians; and To Teachers
  • We can no longer continue the ongoing loss of skilled teachers. It costs too much financially. It costs even more in lost learning and benefits to our society.
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Projects: A better way to work in classroom groups - 4 views

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shared by anonymous on 07 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Drag members into the teams you want to reassign them to.
  • You have several options for team-level permission settings: Public to wiki: All wiki members can view and edit pages Protected to wiki: All wiki members can view pages, but only members of this team can edit pages Private: Only members of this team can view and edit pages Custom: Define custom permissions (on available to Super-plan wikis or wikis on Private Label sites)
  • To add a new page, just click the New Page icon in the action menu. This will create a new page on the team (not on the main area of the wiki), so it will be protected by the same permissions as the rest of the team.
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  • Your team also has a special set of files, separate from the files for the main area of the wiki. If you upload a file while editing a team page, it’ll be added to the files for that team.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Sep 11
       
      Doesn't this Projects idea just REALLY make wikispaces a POWERFUL tool? Y' gotta LOVE it!
  • anonymous on 07 Sep 11
     
    "We're calling this new feature Projects. Whenever you have a particular assignment or activity, you can create a project for it, then define teams of members, each with its own unique pages, files, and permissions. Team content (that is, pages and files) are grouped together, separate from the main area of the wiki. That way, students in teams can do their group work completely independently from other teams."
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State's graduation exam passes latest test - 4 views

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shared by anonymous on 25 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • The regulation calls for the state to provide 10 end-of-course exams, beginning with English literature, Algebra 1 and biology in 2010-11, with other English, math, science and social studies subjects being phased in through 2016-17.
  • School districts would be required to count the exams for at least one-third of a student's final grade or districts could use other options, including validated local assessments or Advanced Placement exams instead. Districts also could set up a project for students who failed exams.
  • Opponents of the exams told the regulatory commission that the testing program would cost too much to administer and be unfair to otherwise good students who perform poorly on standardized tests.
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  • We understand the system now,
  • Some have said that the exams would discourage students who have a hard time taking tests and would prompt them to drop out.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 25 Oct 09
       
      What do you think of that concern?
  • anonymous on 25 Oct 09
     
    This is HUGE. There will eventually be ten end-of-course exams, each counting for one third of a student's final grade. Some will argue that this means that there will be no time for "21st Century T&L" concerns. Others will argue that those concerns are exactly what are needed to ensure true mastery of the subject. Where do YOU fall in that debate?
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Education Innovation: We Have The Answers and They Have The Answers: The Ambidextrous P... - 4 views

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  • Donald Burkins on 21 Oct 09
     
    "The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community knows they have the knowledge and information they need to make decisions instructional decisions and respond to student needs. But the Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community also knows that the answers they need lie outside of the team as well. "
  • Donald Burkins on 21 Oct 09
     
    Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community series - no. 6 (more to come as Rob Jacobs creates them...)
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Stanford report finds good and bad in Pennsylvania charter schools - Philly.com - 1 views

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  • The results were more dismal for cyber charter schools: Students at 100 percent of them performed "significantly worse" than their counterparts in district schools.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 30 Jun 11
       
      If that's the case then why are our tax dollars going there and NOT into public schools? Shouldn't this be cause for SERIOUS concern?
  • But, on average, the state's charter school students lag behind the gains of students in regular public schools - 39 percent of charter schools underperform their public school counterparts in reading and 46 percent in math.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 30 Jun 11
       
      Of course, we have to flip those numbers as well. If 39% underperform, then 61% OUTperform.

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