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

economix.blogs.nytimes.com/...sat-scores-and-family-income 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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Educational Technology Clearinghouse - 2 views

etc.usf.edu/ technology resources education edtech
shared by Kay Solomon on 14 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Kay Solomon on 14 Dec 11
     
    This website is full of resources for clipart, backgrounds for Keynote/PowerPoint presentations, maps, technology in the classroom, and more. It is sponsored by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology and the Educational Technology Clearinghouse, which "provide(s) digital content, professional development, and technical services supporting the appropriate integration of technology into K-12 and preservice education."
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http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/sed/staff/Sadler/articles/Sadler%20and%20Good%20EA.pdf - 2 views

www.cfa.harvard.edu/...Sadler%20and%20Good%20EA.pdf 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.

iPad Resources - 2 views

started by Beth Holland on 17 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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Devlin's Angle: If You Don't Have a Web Presence, Are You Doing Your Job? - 2 views

devlinsangle.blogspot.com/...have-web-presence-are-you.html 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.
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Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms | eSchool News - 1 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...onse-to-five-common-criticisms Flipped flippedclassroom pedagogy
shared by Chris Harrow on 29 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • It’s our opinion that one of the reasons this debate exists is because there is no true definition of what Flipped Learning is. The method is often simplified to videos being watched at home and homework being done at school. If this is the definition, then we should all be skeptical. Instead, we should look closer at
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On assessing for creativity: yes you can, and yes you should « Granted, but… - 1 views

grantwiggins.wordpress.com/...yes-you-can-and-yes-you-should 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?
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iPad in Education Wiki & Blog - 1 views

palmbeachschooltalk.com/...ipadpilot iPads Technology learning project-based
shared by Beth Holland on 04 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Beth Holland on 04 Nov 11
     
    This site, created by the Department of Educational Technology in Palm Beach County is an amazing resource if you have any thoughts about integrating iPads.
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Fake Money - Act 1 on Vimeo - 1 views

vimeo.com/38285683 exponential dydan meyer stadel vimeo money
shared by Chris Harrow on 11 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Harrow on 11 Mar 12
     
    This is a great Act 1, in Dan Meyer terminology, for introducing exponential functions. It's 40ish seconds long & totally accessible for ES, MS, & HS students.
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Flipping the Classroom - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/...pped-classroom-ramsey-musallam Flipping classroom
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  • Robert Ryshke on 07 Nov 11
     
    See what you think about the idea of moving the lecture to an online platform and using class time for more student-centered work.
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Free Technology for Teachers: QR Codes Explained and Ideas for Classroom Use - 1 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...s-explained-and-ideas-for.html qr codes
shared by Chris Harrow on 02 May 12 - No Cached
  • I started doing this because often people would miss the links when they're just on a slide at the beginning and end of the presentation. This way people can scan the QR codes with their phones and tablets and have instant access to the resources for the day.
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How to password protect a video using Vimeo | New Westminster Mac Users - 1 views

wmsnewmacs.wordpress.com/...rd-protect-a-video-using-vimeo password video vimeo youtube
shared by Chris Harrow on 22 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Vimeo, an alternative video sharing service does allow you to password protect individual videos, and even complete albums of videos.
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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.
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Next Time, Fail Better - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...131790 education failure writing computer science
shared by Chris Harrow on 11 May 12 - No Cached
  • "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
  • When a program runs and produces a good result, it's perfect. It's awfully hard to define success the same way in the humanities. What we do, teaching or writing, can always be better. The program will never simply run.
  • Chris Harrow on 11 May 12
     
    ""Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.""
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Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 1 views

harvardmagazine.com/...twilight-of-the-lecture education teaching methods
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  • 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!
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Posting and Sharing Your Educational Programs and Advances: An "Ethical Oblig... - 1 views

21k12blog.net/...-and-leadership-responsibility best_stuff sharing
shared by John Burk on 24 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • John Burk on 24 Jan 12
     
    Excellent post that argues schools have responsibility to share their innovations with wider world. 
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Photo Pin : Free Photos for Your Blog or Website via Creative Commons - 1 views

photopin.com photos creativecommons blog cc media
shared by Beth Holland on 11 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Beth Holland on 11 Jan 12
     
    Since Google created its new image search, I've been really frustrated. To do an advanced search, you now have to scroll to the bottom of the page, go back to "basic search", and then choose advanced search. Typically, I look for this feature because I want Creative Commons licensed images that can be reused on either my blog or the EdTechTeacher blog. While I feel like I heard about Photo Pin before, I'm glad that I rediscovered it today - thanks to Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers. This is a great resource for searching for images licensed for reuse.
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Superstar teachers | Harvard Gazette - 1 views

news.harvard.edu/...superstar-teachers superstar teachers harvard statistics
shared by Chris Harrow on 19 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Top educators boost students’ earnings, living standards, study says
  • Chris Harrow on 19 Jun 12
     
    Interesting use of a data set.
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What should Teacher Evaluations Look Like? - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...teaching_ahead 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.
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The Problem With Lectures : Uncertain Principles - 1 views

scienceblogs.com/...the_problem_with_lectures.php 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
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