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Robert Ryshke

Asking good questions, is the practice relevant - 1 views

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Asking Questions

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  • Robert Ryshke on 14 Dec 11
     
    While this research is interesting and may have something to say to all educators, I can't imagine teaching without the art of "asking good questions." Good questions ignite critical thinking on the part of students.
Chris Harrow

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/sed/staff/Sadler/articles/Sadler%20and%20Good%20EA.pdf - 2 views

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harvard peer review peer grading test corrections

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  • Chris Harrow on 21 Sep 12
     
    Admittedly, peer grading is not the same as grading by an expert who really knows the material. But it is better than nothing! In fact, done conscientiously, using a well designed rubric, it's a lot better than you might think, particularly when the results are compared with grading by an instructor who has a large number of assignments to grade in a limited amount of time! In some studies, students were observed to learn better when they were asked to actively assess their answers and those of their peers according to the instructor's rubric. In particular, students who self-graded using a rubric outperformed students who were graded by instructors.
Robert Ryshke

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Reading

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  • Robert Ryshke on 13 Mar 12
     
    When I asked a classroom of thirty 17 and 18 year-olds how many of them read for pleasure, only four students raised their hands. I shouldn't have been shocked, but I was. I love reading. It is one of the reasons I got into teaching: to share my love of reading with others.
Chris Harrow

Study smart - 3 views

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study learning strategies

shared by Chris Harrow on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • it may be that the study habits you've honed for a decade or two aren't serving you as well as you think they are.
  • while last-minute cramming may allow you to pass a test, you won't remember the material for long
  • research shows that mixing tasks and topics is a better bet.
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  • Despite strong evidence that interleaving works, it can be tough for teachers to work the mixed-up style of teaching into their lectures,
  • students might not enjoy taking a quiz at the end of every class or testing themselves every time they finish reading a chapter, but doing so would probably help them remember the material on the final exam — and even after the class ended.
  • even though most professors won't use daily quizzes in their courses, students can — and should — test themselves by asking themselves questions during study sessions.
  • "One of the most important transitions you make [at the beginning of graduate school] is realizing that you are really there to learn, not just get good grades,"
Chris Harrow

AFT - A Union of Professionals - Ask the Cognitive Scientist - 0 views

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Daniel Willingham Learning Myths

shared by Chris Harrow on 02 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • "Brain-Based" Learning: More Fiction Than Fact
Chris Harrow

Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading - SchoolBook - 0 views

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reading testing elementary standardized

shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • By asking young students to spend time taking tests like this we are doing them a double disservice: first, by inflicting on them such mediocre literature, and second, by training them to read not for pleasure but to discover a predetermined answer to a (let’s not mince words) stupid question.
  • Literary texts, whether by A.A. Milne or Leo Tolstoy, always admit multiple interpretations — and the greater the work, the more robust the tension among these readings, and the graver the loss in trying to reduce the work to a single idea.
  • Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12
     
    While focused on teaching reading to elementary students, the points raised here apply also to mathematics teaching ... reducing everything to a single way and a single answer is stifling, minimizing, and counterproductive.
Chris Harrow

On assessing for creativity: yes you can, and yes you should « Granted, but… - 1 views

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creativity assessment grant wiggins

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  • Educators sometimes say that they shy from assessing creative thought for fear of inhibiting students, but this is a grave error in my view,
  • I once saw a class at Portland HS in Maine where the student oral presentations were unbelievably good, across the board, with “average” kids. How did you do it, I asked the teacher?
Robert Ryshke

Humanities teachers using Inquiry-based teaching - 0 views

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Inquiry-based teaching

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  • Robert Ryshke on 05 Nov 11
     
    Asking good questions is a big part of a strong inquiry-based lesson. Check out how history teachers do it.
Robert Ryshke

Breathing Earth - 3 views

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Global Learning

shared by Robert Ryshke on 08 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 08 Feb 12
     
    Check out this site for PBL, global learning project.
  • Jere Wells on 10 Feb 12
     
    This is a very powerful graphic rendering of what words cannot easily convey. Thanks, Bob!
  • Robert Ryshke on 11 Feb 12
     
    I agree Jere. I think it is a great segway into PBL. Lots of good PBL could be generated by just looking at this site and starting to ask some interesting questions. Why? Bob
Chris Harrow

Lost In Recursion | endless thinking about math and school - 0 views

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grades homework testing no grades

shared by Chris Harrow on 13 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • When we ask students to memorize and replicate for tests, this is surely the message.  Even worse, we equate the work with learning, when they are plainly distinct.
Chris Harrow

Explore Mars, Inc. Launches the 2011-2012 Mars Education Challenge- ExploreMars.org - 0 views

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Mars Challenge NASA Nye

shared by Chris Harrow on 17 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • MEC asks science educators who teach grades 7-12 to develop inspiring ways to fit Mars science and exploration into their “every day” classroom lessons – such as biology, chemistry, physics, geology, etc.  MEC empowers teachers to create lessons that will enable educators to teach these topics in new and interesting ways by using Mars as an example.
  • Chris Harrow on 17 Nov 11
     
    Curriculum challenge for Science teachers in grades 7-12.
Chris Harrow

APS officials want erasure analysis thrown out | www.wsbtv.com - 0 views

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statistics methodology dispute atlanta

shared by Chris Harrow on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • The lawyer for four high-ranking Atlanta Public Schools officials told Channel 2 Action News he will ask a judge to throw out an erasure analysis that is key to many of the allegations against his clients in the CRCT cheating scandal.
  • Lawson told Winne regarding the 2009 and 2010 CRCT erasure analysis ordered by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, “it’s not sound, scientifically and statistically.”
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