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Chris Harrow

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

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reading testing elementary standardized

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  • 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

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views

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google technology brain attention information thinking

shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - Cached
  • media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.
  • what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
  • Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “
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  • “For us, working on search is a way to work on artificial intelligence.”
  • In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas. Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking.
  • Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12
     
    Older article saying technology may be changing our ability to read, think, and produce deep works.
Robert Ryshke

edu180atl: joel mcelvaney 3.12.12 - 0 views

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Reading

shared by Robert Ryshke on 13 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • 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

What goes into mathematical thinking? - 0 views

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Daniel Willingham Learning math brain

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  • Chris Harrow on 02 Jun 12
     
    "So, learning math is somewhat like learning to read: we can do it, but it takes time and effort, and requires mastering increasingly complex skills and con- tent. Just about everyone will get to the point where they can read a serious newspaper, and just about everyone will get to the point where they can do high school-level algebra and geometry-even if not everyone wants to reach the point of comprehending James Joyce's Ulysses or solving partial differential equations."
Beth Holland

YouTube and the Quest for Audience - 0 views

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youtube anthropology Michael Wesch Social thinking media

shared by Beth Holland on 23 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • “I love the fact that wether [sic] we like it or not, or better put ‘wether [sic] we know it or not’, we are a part of an international, interemotional and integrating system. But who is studying everyone [sic]? That’s the beauty. We are not being studied by anyone, but we are studying ourselves. It is an amazing system of theories and use.”
  • Beth Holland on 23 Mar 12
     
    This article from Anthropology News discusses Prof. Michael Wesch's 2008 presentation at the Library of Congress - An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube. It is worth a read, especially with regard to the last statement, "
Chris Harrow

Seth's Blog: What do you do when they don't understand? - 2 views

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writing audience

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  • No one is going to read the whole thing, ever again. But we need to make it much easier to read the part of the thing that someone really cares about.
Chris Harrow

MOOCtalk - 0 views

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keith devlin mooc stanford flipped classroom

shared by Chris Harrow on 28 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Harrow on 28 Aug 12
     
    An interesting 'blog from Stanford's Keith Devlin (NPR's Math Guy) who is documenting his thinking as he prepares to offer a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) on Mathematical Thinking.  This is an incredibly compelling read if you are interested in transition issues from secondary to college, the future potential of online courses, and/or mathematics education.
John Burk

the research on transfer and some practical implications (Transfer, part 2) - 2 views

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transfer pedagogy must_read

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  • John Burk on 16 Jan 12
     
    excellent summary on research on transfer. A must read post. 
Chris Harrow

A FREE Book App - Cool to Be Clever - iGameMom - 2 views

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edson hendricks internet cool clever

shared by Chris Harrow on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • This is a book App targeted at kids 6 and up, or kids who are ready to read chapter-books.  It tells the true story of Edson Hendricks: He was bullied at school, but found comfort in an imaginary world where he had machine parts, and no biological organs or emotions.  Later he went to MIT and IBM, and invented “connectionless” network design, which is used in today’s Internet. 
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

Why great ideas come when you aren't trying : Nature News & Comment - 3 views

www.nature.com/...when-you-aren-t-trying-1.10678

creativity mind neuroscience wandering

shared by Chris Harrow on 26 May 12 - No Cached
  • A study now suggests that simply taking a break does not bring on inspiration — rather, creativity is fostered by tasks that allow the mind to wander.
  • From an evolutionary perspective, mind-wandering seems totally counterproductive and has been viewed as dysfunctional because it compromises people’s performance in physical activities. However, Baird’s work shows that allowing the brain to enter this state when it is considering complex problems can have real benefits. Zoning out may have aided humans when survival depended on creative solutions.
  • Chris Harrow on 26 May 12
     
    Some evidence that 100% "time on task" might actually be counterproductive if you want to develop creativity.
  • Ted Sadtler on 27 May 12
     
    Thanks Chris. I'm currently reading Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine: How Creativity Works." lots of tie-ins with this research (Kounios is one of his main sources). I wonder if we can build such mind- wandering into our classes...do physics labs allow for "deliberate zoning out time"? Probably not.
Robert Ryshke

What should Teacher Evaluations Look Like? - 1 views

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Teacher Evaluation

shared by Robert Ryshke on 14 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 14 Dec 11
     
    Read these blog entries to see if these resonate with your ideas.
Robert Ryshke

Teach For America Met With Big Questions In Face Of Expansion - 1 views

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Teach for America

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  • Robert Ryshke on 28 Nov 11
     
    MIAMI — In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers have had difficulty: raising students' reading and math scores.
Robert Ryshke

National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Homepage - 0 views

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Teacher Quality

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  • Robert Ryshke on 31 Dec 11
     
    The formal policies and agreements that establish the work rules for teachers have important consequences for what schools can and cannot do. Despite their importance, collective bargaining agreements and personnel policies too often escape public scrutiny. Read more... State governments are arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession.
Robert Ryshke

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 1 views

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education teaching methods

shared by Robert Ryshke on 26 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 26 Feb 12
     
    In 1990, after seven years of teaching at Harvard, Eric Mazur, now Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, was delivering clear, polished lectures and demonstrations and getting high student evaluations for his introductory Physics 11 course, populated mainly by premed and engineering students who were successfully solving complicated problems. Then he discovered that his success as a teacher "was a complete illusion, a house of cards." THIS IS A MUST READ ARTICLE!
Robert Ryshke

Resources : Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge - 0 views

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Creativity Innovation

shared by Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 24 Sep 11
     
    This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more.
Robert Ryshke

Creative Teaching - 3 views

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Creative Teaching

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  • Robert Ryshke on 29 Sep 11
     
    Creative Teaching provides useful tips, suggestions, lesson plans and worksheets to creatively teach children at the elementary- and middle-school grade levels, along with suggested resources for parents and teachers. The information and materials cover content areas including reading, writing, math, science and social studies. We hope you find these useful in both classroom and homeschool environments.
Robert Ryshke

101 Fascinating Brain Blogs | OEDb - 1 views

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Brain Learning Blogs

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  • Robert Ryshke on 16 Sep 11
     
    Whether you are a specialist in the field of neuropsychology or just love reading about how the human brain works, there are plenty of interesting blogs on the Internet to help you find out more. In order to make it easier to for you to discover great blogs, the following list is categorized for easy browsing.
Robert Ryshke

Are Americans Smarter Than Ever - 2 views

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Intelligence

shared by Robert Ryshke on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 20 Oct 11
     
    A really interesting article. MUST READ. Clearly, not the definitive piece on this question. More research in both areas. Interesting about IQs increasing since 1900, but then very interesting that assessments that measure creativity show a substantial decline over the past 20 years.
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