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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 16 views

  • As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs. "There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
  • The main driver of education policy is not competition between teachers and between schools, but cooperation.
  • Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
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  • Finland -- unlike, say, very similar countries such as Norway -- was producing academic excellence through its particular policy focus on equity.
  •  the number of foreign-born residents in Finland doubled during the decade leading up to 2010, and the country didn't lose its edge in education. Immigrants tended to concentrate in certain areas, causing some schools to become much more mixed than others, yet there has not been much change in the remarkable lack of variation between Finnish schools in the PISA surveys across the same period.
  • Educational policy, Abrams suggests, is probably more important to the success of a country's school system than the nation's size or ethnic makeup.
  • When Finnish policymakers decided to reform the country's education system in the 1970s, they did so because they realized that to be competitive, Finland couldn't rely on manufacturing or its scant natural resources and instead had to invest in a knowledge-based economy. 
  • It is possible to create equality. And perhaps even more important -- as a challenge to the American way of thinking about education reform -- Finland's experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity.
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    Partanen, Anu. (2011). What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success. The Atlantic. Retrieved January 9, 2012, from http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - The Atlantic - 37 views

  • "There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
    • Maggie Wolfe Riley
       
      Wow did this ever strike a chord! Give us more responsibility, and let us show what we can do. When you reduce it to "accountability" you've taken away our power.
    • Kim Schmidt
       
      Perfect!
  • The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad
  • Finland's experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity
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  • Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
  • Real winners do not compete
  • cooperation
  • instrument to even out social inequality
  • Finland offers all pupils free school meals, easy access to health care, psychological counseling, and individualized student guidance
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Why do people suffer from poverty and disease? - 0 views

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    It is the right of every human being to be happy. Happiness is the normal condition, as natural as the landscapes and the seasons. Suffering is unnatural and it is due largely to ignorance. Happiness is the product of wisdom. To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the purpose of life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering and to escape most ill. Perfect wisdom is an un-shadowed joy.
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Hold your ideas lightly - The Learner's Way - 17 views

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    The history of teaching is littered with ideas that have come and gone. In their day each was the new bright hope, set to transform what we do as teachers and how our students learn. Each new idea had its supporters and detractors and each in turn was replaced by an alternative or simply disappeared from view. Those who have experienced this ebb and flow of ideas have learned to approach the shiny and the new with caution and yet we have all encountered ideas that are so compelling it is difficult to ignore. How might we approach new ideas and innovative practices in ways that ensure our students benefit?
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Why banning technology is not the answer - The Learner's Way - 15 views

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    There is something about human nature that draws us towards dichotomous patterns of thought; an all or nothing, us or them style of thinking in which an option is either good or it is bad. In such a model complexity and subtle nuance with multiple possible outcomes and routes towards a goal are ignored. The field of educational technology is one where such a pattern is evident and recent ban on technology by a Sydney school shows how this style of analysis can have a significant impact on student learning
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Seven Things Your Email Campaign Metrics Are Saying That You Might Be Ignoring - 0 views

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    Your B2B email marketing campaign talks to you through a special language called analytics which use numbers instead of letters to form words called metrics. Through combinations of these metrics and other data, your campaign lets you know about any aspect in your project -topics/content reception, effectiveness of timing, B2B email contact database accuracy, etc.
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Top 8 Tips on Optimizing B2B Landing Pages You Can't Afford to Ignore - 0 views

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    In B2B email marketing, emails begin the conversation; landing pages start the conversion. As such, a landing page is the continuation of your email message and is where the call-to-action is (or isn't) taken in its entirety.
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Elif Bilgin - Extraordinary People Changing the Game - 0 views

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    Plastic destroys our ecosystem yet we keep reproducing them. It's as if we are only after making life more convenient for the present and not at the very least concerned about the fate of our children, who will basically inherit this planet. It's easy to just ignore this for now especially if we delude ourselves with false hope that someone else will figure out a way to solve a major problem such as pollution. Elif Bilgin, a gifted teen from Istanbul, isn't too selfish to just think of the now. She made bio-plastics out of banana peels. To read more about Elif Bilgin visit www.thextraordinary.org
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edSocialMedia » Why Schools Shouldn't Ignore Social Media - 0 views

  • 272 million manage a profile on a social network
  • 394 million people watch video clips online
  • 346 million read blogs/weblogs
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HIV and AIDS in Russia - 0 views

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    With a dwindling population and an out of control HIV infection rate in Russia, the future looks bleak. Estimates place Russia on the forefront of the battle against HIV and in a worse position than Africa. Largely ignored by the media and the government, HIV has become the rapidly spreading epidemic in Russia, especially among the youth who are supposed to be future of the country.
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Is Video Game School Training a Generation of Professional Princess Rescuers? | Design ... - 16 views

  • Is this really necessary? And how promising is it?
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    A very well-intentioned, but ignorant piece on the role of video games in the classroom. Non-educators should stay out of the education arena and write what they know about!! "On the other hand, does it really take a videogame to make learning fun? Surely, there are better ways, which are less likely to be dated the second they're finished."
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B Devauchelle : Faut-il inverser l'enseignement, l'apprentissage ou même l'ét... - 0 views

  • B Devauchelle : Faut-il inverser l'enseignement, l'apprentissage ou même l'établissement ?
  • Redisons-le d'abord simplement. Ce n'est pas parce que je remplace mon cours magistral par une vidéo que je change de modèle pédagogique. Ce n'est pas parce que les exercices se font en classe au lieu de se faire à la maison (ce qui est partiellement faux dans les faits) que cela change le modèle pédagogique basé sur l'alternance apport/entraînement
  • La classe inversée a d'abord ce mérite d'avoir amené l'enseignant à se rendre compte qu'apprendre est plus compliqué qu'enseigner et que la principale compétence de l'enseignant c'est "l'ajustement" cognitif et métacognitif
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  • La classe inversée n'est pas en soi une innovation pédagogique, elle est surtout une prise de conscience professionnelle.
  • Car d'inversion, il en est au moins deux autres qui méritent d'être étudiées : celle qui inverse la place de l'élève d'une part, celle qui inverse le cœur de l'établissement scolaire. Dans les deux cas, comme dans la classe inversée "modèle traditionnel", le numérique n'est qu'un plus, mais il n'est pas forcément fondamental, il apporte simplement une souplesse supplémentaire à l'exercice d'inversion.
  • Par contre la difficulté peu mise en avant est celle de la qualité des visionnages ou des lectures des élèves en amont du "cours" : ces supports peuvent être de très mauvaise qualité et produire un effet de rejet ou de lassitude, mais plus simplement les élèves peuvent avoir, pour certains, du mal à rentrer dans ce mode de travail à la maison qui peut se révéler assez passif.
  • Modèle de l'inversion de l'apprendre   Le modèle de l'inversion de l'apprendre est celui sur lequel se sont basées les approches connectivistes ou les approches des communautés d'apprentissage. Dans la classe, c'est Ann Brown qui a en particulier travaillé cette dimension de l'élève enseignant
  • L'inversion ici tient du fait que l'on propose à l'élève de faire un enseignement à la place de l'enseignant
  • Certains disent rapidement que ce que l'on maîtrise le mieux c'est ce que l'on enseigne, et une vision paradoxale serait celle de Jacques Rancière rapportant l'histoire de Jacotot dans son livre le Maître Ignorant (Le Maître ignorant : Cinq leçons sur l'émancipation intellectuelle, Fayard 1987
  • Modèle de l'inversion dans la structure de l'établissement   C'est en travaillant sur l'idée de "Learning Center" (qu'il ne faut ni confondre ni réduire au centre de documentation) que l'on peut en arriver à l'inversion au niveau de l'établissement. Pour le dire rapidement l'inversion de l'établissement repose sur l'organisation physique de l'établissement sur les élèves plutôt que sur les cours, les enseignants et leurs salles de classe
  • ttention ces lieux doivent travailler la cohérence et non pas la juxtaposition des services. Les moyens numériques sont convoqués ici pour faciliter le travail des élèves et permettre une continuité au-delà du lieu et du temps scolaire. Et les enseignants alors ? Ils sont les partenaires privilégiés de cette inversion en proposant aux élèves une pédagogie de projet, allant vers l'autonomie et pour laquelle ils proposent un "accompagnement structurant",
  • À lire également : l’organisation du travail, clé de toute pédagogie différenciée de Philippe Perrenoud, ESF 2012.
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Are you a Healthy Teacher? - 0 views

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    "Teachers are notorious for ignoring health concerns and just carrying on. From teaching with a high fever, and soldiering on with 4 hours of sleep, teachers often put their health at risk. But done this make teachers more productive, or less?"
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Education Outrage: Why do we still have schools? - 1 views

  • Competition: Why should school be a competitive event?
  • We learn what we choose to know in real life.
  • Stress: When 6 year olds are stressed about going to school you know that something is wrong.
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  • Right answers: School teaches that there are right answers.
  • But, in real life, there are very few right answers.
  • Bullying and peer pressure
  • In school there are always other kids telling you how to dress, how to act, how to be cool.
  • Stifling of curiosity: Isn’t it obvious that learning is really about curiosity?
  • Adults earn about things they want to learn about. Before the age of 6, prior to school, one kid becomes a dinosaur specialist while another knows all about dog breeds. Outside of school people drive their own learning. Schools eliminate this natural behavior.
    • Tero Toivanen
       
      Exactly!
  • Subjects chosen for you:
  • Classrooms:
  • Classrooms make no sense as a venue for learning unless of course you want to save money and have 30 (or worse hundreds of) students be handled by one teacher.
  • Schools cannot work as places of learning if they employ classrooms.
  • Grades: Any professor can tell you that students are pretty much concerned with whether what you are telling them will be on the test and what they might do for extra credit.
    • Melissa Seifman
       
      I disagree - Employers do have rating systems, performance evaluations, but most of those are on the whole person, not just technical or academic skills
  • Parents do not give grades to children and employers do not give grades to employees. They judge their work and progress for sure, but not by assigning numbers to a report card.
  • Certification: We all know why people attend college. They do primarily to say they are college graduates so they can get a job or go on to a professional school.
    • Caroline Roche
       
      So, why is this the student's fault? Why blame, or disadvatage them for this? We should be fighting the system that causes students to work like this, not blaming them for doing it! it is the constant testing and league table system that is wrong.
  • Confined children: Children like to run around.
  • Of course in school, sitting still is the norm. So we have come up with this wonderful idea of ADD, i.e. drug those who won’t sit still into submission. Is the system sick or what?
  • Academics viewed as winners: Who are the smartest kids in school?
  • Those who are good at these subjects go on to be professors. So those are certainly the smartest people we have in our society.
  • But, I can tell you from personal experience that our society doesn’t respect professors all that much, so something is wrong here.
  • Practical skills not valued: When I was young there were academic high schools and trade high schools. Trade high schools were for dumb kids. Academic high schools were for smart kids.
  • The need to please teachers: People who succeed at school are invariably people who are good out at figuring what the teacher wants and giving it to them.
  • In real life there is no teacher to please and these “grade grubbers” often find themselves lost.
  • Self worth questioned: School is full of winners and losers.
  • In school, most everyone sees themselves as a loser. Why do we allow this to happen?
  • Politicians in charge: Politicians demand reform but they wouldn’t know reform if it hit them over the head.
  • Major learning by doing mechanism ignored: And last but not least, scholars from Plato to Dewey have pointed that people learn by doing. That is how we learn. Doing. Got it? Apparently not. Very little doing in schools. Unless you count filling in circles with number 2 pencils as doing.
  • Government use of education for repression: As long as there have been governments there have been governments who wanted people to think that the governments (and the country) is very good.
  • School is about teaching “truth.”
  • Discovery not valued: The most important things we learn we teach ourselves.
    • Tero Toivanen
       
      Autotelic learning!
  • This kind of learning is not valued in school because it might lead to, heaven forbid, failure, and failure is a really bad word in school. Except failure is how we learn, which is pretty much why school doesn’t work.
    • Tero Toivanen
       
      Exactly!
  • Boredom ignored: Boredom is a bad thing. We drug bored kids with Ritalin so they will stop being bored.
  • What they mean is that school should be like they remember rather than how it is now
    • Caroline Roche
       
      Not accepting students with straight A's only shows your own prejudices. Students can be good at a range of subjects, without being passionately interested in all of them. Lots of people are self motivated, without being teacher pleasers, they just wish to do their best in everything for their own satisfaction.
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    Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?
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    Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?

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Ashley Benson: Net Worth, College Attended, Life and Career - A Comprehensive Overview ... - 0 views

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    Ashley Benson, a shining star in the vast universe of television and film, stands out not just for her beauty but for her unparalleled acting prowess. From the tender age when she first graced the screen in commercials, showcasing a promise that was hard to ignore, to her transformative role as Hanna Marin in the cultural phenomenon "Pretty Little Liars," Benson's trajectory in the entertainment industry has been nothing short of meteoric. Her ability to immerse herself in diverse roles and make them her own speaks volumes of her dedication and passion for the craft.
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How Not to Be Alone - NYTimes.com - 17 views

  • Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.
  • The phone didn’t make me avoid the human connection, but it did make ignoring her easier in that moment, and more likely, by comfortably encouraging me to forget my choice to do so.
  • The more distracted we become, and the more emphasis we place on speed at the expense of depth, the less likely and able we are to care.
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  • Most of our communication technologies began as diminished substitutes for an impossible activity.
  • These inventions were not created to be improvements upon face-to-face communication, but a declension of acceptable, if diminished, substitutes for it.
  • we began to prefer the diminished substitutes.
  • it’s easier to check in without becoming entangled.
  • Each step “forward” has made it easier, just a little, to avoid the emotional work of being present, to convey information rather than humanity.
  • My daily use of technological communication has been shaping me into someone more likely to forget others.

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