Within our own profession, teachers are engaging in continued learning through personal learning networks, websites like Edutopia and MOOCs. Anyone has the ability to self-construct curriculum and gain the skills once exclusive to those able to pay for a traditional education.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlConrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers | TED Talk | TED.com - 0 views
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"From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach - calculation by hand - isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming."
Micro-Credentials: Empowering Lifelong Learners | Edutopia - 0 views
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Despite the vast shift in how we pursue knowledge, little has changed with how we credential those who acquire knowledge. We still primarily credential learners based on seat time and credit hours, and often only recognize learning pursued through traditional pathways.
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For teachers, badges could be a way to demonstrate skills to potential employers, build identity and reputation within learning communities, and create pathways for continued learning and leadership roles.
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Why Don't Makers Have Higher Social Status? | TechCrunch - 2 views
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Our society remains deeply biased against careers that involve any sort of risk. Economic anxiety caused by rapid change has encouraged more conservatism when it comes to careers, at precisely the time when we should be most innovative.
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Second, and most importantly, we need to address the risk of these professions head on.
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First, we need to cultivate more role models that show how to be a maker and that such a career is entirely possible and potentially even profitable.
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NAIS - NAIS Research: Budget Considerations for the 2021-2022 School Year - 0 views
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Data from the NAIS Snapshot surveys of varying groups of independent school leaders reveal that 61% of schools have increased their expense budgets for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, while 58% are projecting a loss for the same time period.
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Determining what motivates your parents can help your school focus its offerings and rein in expenses, helping you focus on what matters most to families.
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Sixty-seven percent of schools have already implemented revenue-increasing strategies, and 76% plan to do the same in 2021-2022. Schools most commonly plan to rely on summer programs, with 67% already offering them and 79% likely to for the next summer.
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Why I Gave Up Flipped Instruction - 0 views
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the flip wasn’t the same economic and political entity then that it is now
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my brief love affair with the flip has ended. It simply didn’t produce the tranformative learning experience I knew I wanted for my students .
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The flipped classroom essentially reverses traditional teaching. Instead of lectures occurring in the classroom and assignments being done at home, the opposite occurs.
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The Marshall Memo Admin - Issues - 0 views
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Every superintendent, or state commissioner, must be able to say, with confidence, ‘Everyone who teaches here is good. Here’s how we know. We have a system.
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school-based administrators “don’t always have the skill to differentiate great teaching from that which is merely good, or perhaps even mediocre.” Another problem is the lack of consensus on how we should define “good teaching.”
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""Researchers Probe Equity, Design Principles in Maker Ed." by Benjamin Herold in Education Week, April 20, 2016 (Vol. 35, #28, p. 8-9), www.edweek.org"
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students who have four years of art score 91 points higher on the SAT than students who don’t.
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Danny Gregory applauds the arguments made for the importance of art and music in schools: they improve motor, spatial, and language skills; they enhance peer collaboration; they strengthen ties to the community; they keep at-risk students in school and improve their chances of ultimately graduating from college; and
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In middle school, the majority start to lose their passion for making stuff and instead learn the price of making mistakes.
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