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Chris Harrow

When to Grade Homework - 4 views

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homework grading

shared by Chris Harrow on 13 Nov 11 - No Cached
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  • Chris Harrow on 13 Nov 11
     
    I've honestly never considered this before. Whether you agree with the chart's conclusions is obviously open for discussion, but the chart left me thinking about specifically WHY we assign HW and what we should be doing about it.
  • Beth Holland on 14 Nov 11
     
    Given technology, can homework be used as a means to (a) differentiate assessment, (b) have students demonstrate understanding via a different modality, (c) scaffold learning to further enhance the classroom experience. For a while, Howard Gardner experimented at Harvard with assigning his lectures as homework. Students watched videos and then came to class prepared to engage in discussion. Could a similar approach be taken at the high school level?
  • Robert Ryshke on 16 Nov 11
     
    Chris: I think this flow chart is very interesting and worthy of considerable discussion. I like it. I would tweak it a bit. For example, I think you could (and should) give application homework that is formative as well as summative. I think all types of homework that fit with all six levels of Bloom's taxonomy could be given both formatively and summatively. The only homework that should be "graded" is homework that leads to end-of-learning assessment. If the homework is given in the process of learning, then it should not be graded but should receive feedback, both from the instructor as well as from the student(s).
Chris Harrow

Desmos | Interactive education. For every platform. For everyone. - 0 views

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online graphing_calculator

shared by Chris Harrow on 07 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Harrow on 07 Mar 12
     
    Free online grapher ... very nice graphics. Handles polar & Cartesian, function & inequality forms very well. No tools (intersection, etc.), but very nice, FAST graphics.
  • Beth Holland on 24 Mar 12
     
    Have you tried it on the iPad? Do you think it could replace the Virtual TI app?
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.
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

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

The Problem With Lectures : Uncertain Principles - 1 views

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problem lectures pedagogy

shared by Chris Harrow on 01 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • What's this have to do with lectures and my students' complaints? Well, far too often, lectures and recitation sessions are just like the conversations Steve and I had with Paul. When somebody else is presenting a detailed explanation of how they solve some problem, it's very easy to nod along and say "Yes, yes, of course, that's the thing to do." You leave the room perfectly convinced that you've understood everything, but when you try to apply what you think you know by explaining it to someone else, you find that you didn't really understand a thing.
  • That's the problem with good explanations: they're incredibly seductive, convincing you that you understand things that you don't understand at all.
  • Chris Harrow on 01 Dec 11
     
    Great post I found via John Burk
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.
Beth Holland

Edutopia - 1 views

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professional development project-based brain-based

shared by Beth Holland on 19 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Beth Holland on 19 Aug 11
     
    Sponsored by the George Lucas Education Foundation, this is a great resource for research as well as case studies of best practices. They have a feature section on Project Based Learning.
  • Robert Ryshke on 01 Sep 11
     
    Beth: One of my favorite sites, good resources, good blogs, and plenty of good ideas under key educational issues. Bob
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presentations - 1 views

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Assessment professional development

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  • Robert Ryshke on 30 Aug 11
     
    Thank you for your interest in the CLA, the CWRA, and our Performance Task Academy workshops. The resources on this page are designed to more fully inform the presentation you attended, and to provide you with a comprehensive and well-rounded understanding of our services.If you have any questions after reviewing the contents of this page, please feel free to contact Chris Jackson, Director of Business Development, at 212.217.0845 or cjackson@cae.org.
Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher - 1 views

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professional development teaching Learning education Technology

shared by Beth Holland on 20 Sep 11 - Cached
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  • Beth Holland on 20 Sep 11
     
    I'll admit that this is a bit of self-promotion; however, since I redesigned the EdTechTeacher site, I've added a lot of resources. We also have some great webinars as well as an online course coming up in the next few weeks. Check out our partner sites, too: besthistorysites.net, thwt.org, and tewt.org.
  • Robert Ryshke on 20 Sep 11
     
    Thanks Beth! I have tweeted some links to your site. Keep me posted on progress. Bob
Robert Ryshke

NYT article, SAT Scores Correlate to Family Income - 2 views

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SAT

shared by Robert Ryshke on 19 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 19 Sep 11
     
    What do SAT scores correlate well to?
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Teacher Leader Network - 0 views

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Blogs professional development

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  • Robert Ryshke on 20 Sep 11
     
    A good site for browsing for ideas, resources, and tips. Some good education blogs as well.
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North Carolina New Schools Project - 1 views

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STEM PBL

shared by Robert Ryshke on 20 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 20 Sep 11
     
    NC is ahead of the game trying to develop schools that meet the needs of our 21st C workplace, as well as the needs of students. They are supporting STEM education and partnerships with local universities, Greensboro and Raleigh.
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