Most of the students were quite awkward in their initial blogging. Good students all, the class was a seminar on "Designing for Effective Change" for the Honors Program, but lacking experience in this sort of approach to instruction, the students wrote to their conception of what I wanted to hear from them. I can’t imagine a more constipated mindset for producing interesting prose. For this class there was a need for them to unlearn much of their approach which had been finely tuned and was quite successful in their other classes. They needed to take more responsibility for their choices. While I gave them a prompt each week on which to write, I also gave them the freedom to choose their own topic so long as they could create a tie to the course themes. Upon reading much of the early writing, I admonished many of them to "please themselves" in the writing. I informed them that they could not possibly please other readers if they didn’t first please themselves. It was a message they were not used to hearing.
Group items tagged
http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/our-future-our-teachers.pdf - 23 views
-
"The Obama Administration's Plan for Teacher Education Reform and Improvement" (cover)
Views: Teaching With Blogs - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
-
-
The commenting, more than any other activity the instructor engages in, demonstrates the instructor’s commitment to the course and to the students. In turn the students, learning to appreciate the value of the comments, start to push themselves in the writing
-
Is open blogging this way consistent with FERPA? As best as I’ve been able to determine, it is as long as students “opt in
-
Article about using student blogs instead of a wiki or LMS.
ED Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet-- Pg 2 - 1 views
-
As you begin to explore the possibilities for cross-cultural interaction, global classroom projects, and new learning opportunities, the following organizations can assist you in your efforts.
Create A Graph - 0 views
-
This is a nice graphing tool.
FREE -- Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government - 0 views
-
FED FREE ed resoures search the categories. Follow on twitter. primary docs, animations, photos, videos from many agencies gathered here. Amazing
-
FED FREE ed resoures search the categories. Follow on twitter. primary docs, animations, photos, videos from many agencies gathered here. Amazing
News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
-
WASHINGTON -- Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education.The study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction. Further, those who took "blended" courses -- those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction -- appeared to do best of all. That finding could be significant as many colleges report that blended instruction is among the fastest-growing types of enrollment.
-
the positive results appeared consistent (and statistically significant) for all types of higher education, undergraduate and graduate, across a range of disciplines, the study said.
-
On the topic of online learning, there is a steady stream of studies, but many of them focus on limited issues or lack control groups. The Education Department report said that it had identified more than 1,000 empirical studies of online learning that were published from 1996 through July 2008. For its conclusions, however, the Education Department considered only a small number (51) of independent studies that met strict criteria. They had to contrast an online teaching experience to a face-to-face situation, measure student learning outcomes, use a "rigorous research design," and provide adequate information to calculate the differences.
- ...4 more annotations...
-
Timely information for our group! The learning time issue in particular is an important finding that points to a cost effective way to increase student learning time without tackling the issue of a longer school day head on. We know that more time on meaningful tasks is crucial, but the physical cost of attending a bricks and mortar classrooms is prohibitive.
Duncan: Superintendents Need To Think Differently About Education Investments -- THE Jo... - 0 views
-
"Yes." Part of the cost for textbook publishers is trying to deal with at least 50 sets of standards, and that isn't efficient for anyone.
-
So, if they only have to produce to one national standard, the cost of textbooks should drop dramatically. Let's see..... I have my doubts.
-
-
talked about meetings she has attended with other agencies to develop a plan to get more bandwidth to rural areas in the country
-
Office of Educational Technology Still Up in the Air The topic of a new director for the Office of Educational Technology provided the least amount of discussion. Shelton refused comment on who that person might be, when a name might be released, or even where the position would be placed in the organization. Beginning with the first Director, Linda Roberts under Secretary Richard Riley in the Clinton administration and continuing through John Bailey, Susan Patrick, and Tim Magner under President Bush, this position has always reported directly to the secretary. Rumor in Washington is that the position will report to the assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement, Shelton, and not the secretary.
FREE -- Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government - 0 views
-
Teaching and learning resources from Federal Agencies.
FREE -- Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government - 0 views
-
A little bit of everything for everyone. There are resources for Science to PE to Music to Social Studies. It is all here in free resources.
See how you compare to other students with this Timms database questionbank - 0 views
-
So, how do you compare with students nationally and from around the world? Pick a subject, a grade and how many questions you want to see (500+ currently in database), then click the Show Questions button below.
netp.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 23 views
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - World's largest digital library of educ... - 27 views
-
Enormous collection of scholarly articles on education research, many of them available for full-text download.
Technology in Schools. Suggestions, Tools and Guidelines for Assessing Technology in El... - 33 views
-
"This guide was written by the National Forum on Education Statistics under NCES's Cooperative Education Statistics System. Directed toward state and local education agencies, it describes how to measure technology use by examining planning and policies; finance; equipment and infrastructure; technology applications; maintenance and support; professional development; and technology integration."
Create A Graph - 0 views
-
This is a great tool for creating charts and graphs with lots of options to get your data looking just right. But this also makes it complicated for younger users. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - 15 views
-
http://treehousecottages.co.in/ Tree House Jaipur - World's largest, most unique, 5 Star & Luxury Tree House Resort. Located atop "trees", the tree have several live branches running through the rooms making nature universal in the Lap of luxury. Jaipur Airport is 40 km from Tree House resort Jaipur