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Chris Harrow

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

www.theatlantic.com/...6868

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.
judy osborne

The Success of African-American Students in Independent Schools - 5 views

www.nais.org/...ismagazinearticle.cfm

diversity teaching student support

shared by judy osborne on 31 Oct 11 - Cached
  • judy osborne on 31 Oct 11
     
    Over the past five years — at the request of concerned independent school educators, and with funding from independent schools and a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health — we've conducted extensive research on the experiences of African-American students in independent schools.
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  • Robert Ryshke on 31 Oct 11
     
    Seems to me that you should report on these findings to the Administrative Team in the very near future. Bob
  • judy osborne on 01 Nov 11
     
    Last year's report and conversation around the need for affinity group dialogue with the administrative team included statistics and plenty of personal and national stories pointing to the importance of addressing race/culture and learning, particularly as it relates to a discussion around whiteness and the culture of "niceness" within our schools. This article is 8 years old and not much has changed at many schools. Thanks for reading it! Please pass along to your team colleagues if you can?
  • Robert Ryshke on 03 Nov 11
     
    Why is the change in this area so slow?
Chris Harrow

Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education | Video on TED.com - 1 views

www.ted.com/...r_changing_math_education.html

arthur benjamin ted statistics calculus

shared by Chris Harrow on 21 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Harrow on 21 Apr 12
     
    If you could "fix" or re-direct math education, what would you do? IMO, Arthur Benjamin NAILS it in this brief 3ish minute video.
Chris Harrow

Devlin's Angle: If You Don't Have a Web Presence, Are You Doing Your Job? - 2 views

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blogging outreach dan meyer devlin

shared by Chris Harrow on 20 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • the fact that there are millions of people who, rather than examine the evidence and change their position, prefer to cling to what they were taught as children, is simply a fact of life
  • Americans seem particularly prone to this head-in-the-sands behavior.
  • Sure, it takes time to build those networks. But there is an audience out there of committed teachers who are eager for all the help they can get.
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  • If no teacher has learned of, or been influenced by, our work, why should we expect society to continue to support us?
  • John Burk on 21 Feb 12
     
    Great find. I've listened to the entire discussion linked in Devlin's talk and it is fantastic.
Chris Harrow

A teacher explains why she gave up a career she loved | Get Schooled - 1 views

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retention career teaching

shared by Chris Harrow on 23 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • I would like to go back some day when the system finally figures out how lucky it is that people are willing to teach.
  • I cannot ignore that I am leaving a profession I love dearly. Everyone in my family has been part of public education. I viewed it as a calling. I guess now the call has changed its tune.
  • I have decided to quit teaching. Maybe not forever, but definitely for a year or two. This is not a decision I came to lightly, and I did not feel triumphant in it at all. To be frank, I had never felt more defeated in my life.
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  • I thought schools were about learning, but it’s become more about numbers and appearances than learning. When it reached the point that I dreaded getting up and going to work in the morning, it was time to leave. Teaching is not a job you can do well if you don’t love it.
Chris Harrow

Freakonomics » The Way We Teach Math, Sciences, and Languages Is Wrong - 4 views

www.freakonomics.com/...ach-math-and-language-is-wrong

teaching math science languages

shared by Chris Harrow on 06 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 06 Nov 11
     
    why the inertia to making needed changes in pedagogy?
Robert Ryshke

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

www.wecanchange.com/...resources

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

Education Week: Improving Teaching and Learning When Budgets Are Tight - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...kappan_odden.html

Good schools best practices school reform

shared by Robert Ryshke on 01 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 01 Sep 11
     
    Published Online: September 1, 2011 By Allan Odden and Lawrence O. Picus, Phi Delta Kappan Education budgets are imploding at the fiscal seams. A sluggish economy and falling property values are shortchanging public education budgets across the country. At the same time, there are growing expectations for improved student performance, better teachers and closing the achievement gap. Interesting article about changing the face of schools and teacher performance in the absence of or with declining revenues. A good article to review with some other good resources.
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