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Chris Harrow

High-stakes testing cheats children out of a quality education | Get Schooled - 0 views

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testing reform high stakes

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  • “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”
  • “[W]hen test scores become the goal of the teaching process, they both lose their value as indicators of educational status and distort the educational process in undesirable ways.”
  • New requirements to assess teachers based on their students’ scores, in particular, virtually guarantee even more cheating will take place.
Chris Harrow

The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph - Derek Thompson - Technology - The Atlantic - 3 views

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history technology graph atlantic

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  • Chris Harrow on 10 Apr 12
     
    I don't know all the places this could be used, but the graph in this article contains a STUNNING amount of information. I think the math is obvious, but I envision some phenomenal social science lessons, technology insights, the evolution of science, the implied connections to the ability of societies to spread information, the differences in cost of the various innovations and why that matters .... Hope you find something cool.
Chris Harrow

Defining Trapezoids | CAS Musings - 0 views

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geometry trapezoid properties parallelogram

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  • Chris Harrow on 02 Apr 12
     
    Some shameless self-advertising, and probably of interest only to math logic & curriculum wonks, but I believe there is a good argument for using a more inclusive definition of trapezoids.
Chris Harrow

Some responses to replies to my posts on curriculum reform « Granted, but… - 2 views

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grant wiggins curriculum reform pbl

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  • The goal is always to emulate best practice.
  • The content does not determine the flow, the goals of meaning and transfer do. But content matters; it can’t just be projects. It takes artful design.
Chris Harrow

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
Chris Harrow

The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated | Brain Pickings - 4 views

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creativity frustration teaching learning

shared by Chris Harrow on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • When we tell stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase. We neglect to mention those days when we wanted to quit, when we believed that our problem was impossible. Instead, we skip straight to the breakthrough. We tell the happy ending first.
Chris Harrow

Daniel Willingham - Daniel Willingham: Science and Education Blog - 3 views

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study learning strategies

shared by Chris Harrow on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Rereading is a terribly ineffective strategy. The best strategy--by far--is to self-test--which is the 9th most popular strategy out of 11 in this study. 
Chris Harrow

Study smart - 3 views

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study learning strategies

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  • 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,"
Kay Solomon

Random Team Maker - 1 views

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technology education edtech team_generator groups collaboration

shared by Kay Solomon on 26 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Kay Solomon on 26 Mar 12
     
    If you want to generate teams and groups randomly (and quickly), you can't go wrong with this easy-to-use tool. Copy & paste the names of your students in one box, choose team names (optional), the number of teams you want to generate, choose your output format (HTML or Excel format), and click Generate Teams! If you don't like the teams, click Generate Teams! again. Very simple to use. And fast!
Chris Harrow

My Reflections As A Mother on the Murder of Trayvon Martin « BTransformed - 0 views

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murder trayvon martin black african-american

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  • I learned in law school, and it is still true today, that it is the color of the victim, not the perpetrator, that is the one of the greatest determinants in criminal sentencing. 
  • they have no idea what it is like for black parents to have to prepare their children to deal with a public that often still judges them by the color of their skin.
  • when you walk out of the safety, protection and loving arms of our home, you are walking while black, and only our prayers can protect you then.
Beth Holland

Webinar Series - 0 views

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teaching Development Professional

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  • Beth Holland on 24 Mar 12
     
    EdTechTeacher has a great lineup of free, live, webinars this spring: Teaching Physics with Technology, Ken Davis to talk about Teaching History, Carla Beard to talk about Building a Community of Readers, and more. Their archived recordings are also available from this page.
Chris Harrow

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

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online graphing_calculator

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  • 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

Top 10 - 101qs - 0 views

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dan meyer 101questions act one

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  • Chris Harrow on 24 Mar 12
     
    A great collection of Dan Meyer intro video clips
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

"Children's Need to Know: Curiosity in Schools" -- Harvard Educational Review - 1 views

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harvard curiousity children learning

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  • Chris Harrow on 14 Mar 12
     
    "curiosity is both intrinsic to children's development and unfolds through social interactions. Thus, it should be cultivated in schools, even though it is often almost completely absent from classrooms."
Robert Ryshke

edu180atl: joel mcelvaney 3.12.12 - 0 views

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Reading

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  • 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.
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