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

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Robert Ryshke on 19 Sep 11

What do SAT scores correlate well to?

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Educational Technology Clearinghouse - 2 views

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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."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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."</div>

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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iPad Resources - 2 views

Lately, I have also been keeping track of resources for integrating iPads and other mobile tablets into the curriculum. You can subscribe to my list here: http://www.diigo.com/list/brholland/ipad-r...

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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

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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
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Americans seem particularly prone to this head-in-the-sands behavior.
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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?
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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

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Flipped flippedclassroom pedagogy

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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

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shared by Chris Harrow on 04 Feb 12 - No Cached

Educators sometimes say that they shy from assessing creative thought for fear of inhibiting students, but this is a grave error in my view,
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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

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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

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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Flipping the Classroom - 1 views

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Flipping classroom

shared by Robert Ryshke on 07 Nov 11 - No Cached

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

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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

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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

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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.
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what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
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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.”
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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.
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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

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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
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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.
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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

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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!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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!</div>

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Posting and Sharing Your Educational Programs and Advances: An "Ethical Oblig... - 1 views

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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

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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Superstar teachers | Harvard Gazette - 1 views

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superstar teachers harvard statistics

shared by Chris Harrow on 19 Jun 12 - No Cached

Top educators boost students’ earnings, living standards, study says
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Chris Harrow on 19 Jun 12

Interesting use of a data set.

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What should Teacher Evaluations Look Like? - 1 views

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Teacher Evaluation

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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

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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.
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That's the problem with good explanations: they're incredibly seductive, convincing you that you understand things that you don't understand at all.
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Chris Harrow on 01 Dec 11

Great post I found via John Burk

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