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While reading OECD’s publication Education Today, I noticed a StatLink option under each of the tables/charts. StatLink is part of OECD’s ongoing initiative to make data available in original form. A simple click and data is downloaded into a spreadsheet for happy manipulation by the user. A simple, but important idea. OECD also offers a tool to visualize data. The data is somewhat limited (employment, productivity, educational attainment, GDP, etc) in scope, but the willingness to share not only original data but also software to assist in making sense of data is a welcomed gesture!
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50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching - 18 views
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50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom
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Assign portfolio pages to each of your students, and allow them to display and discuss their work.
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Create a calendar on the wiki and encourage students to add their own personally important dates.
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Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Using these ideas, your students can collaboratively create classroom valuables.
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If we want students to become citizens who understand their role as a citizen then we need to teach them to understand and respect the power of questions.
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Without the freedom and courage to ask that paradigm shifting question then progress and innovation would cease to exist and we would become slaves to our past and out-dated solutions.
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The power of just one word can totally change the meaning of something as intrinsic as national identity.
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NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel - 9 views
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NodeXL is a template for Excel 2007 that lets you enter a network edge list, click a button, and see the network graph, all in the Excel window. You can easily customize the graph’s appearance; zoom, scale and pan the graph; dynamically filter vertices and edges; alter the graph’s layout; find clusters of related vertices; and calculate a set of graph metrics. Networks can be imported from and exported to a variety of data formats, and built-in connections for getting networks from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and your local email are provided.
Leading Scholar's U-Turn on School Reform Shakes Up Debate - NYTimes.com - 10 views
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Arthur E. Levine, a former president of Teachers College, where Dr. Ravitch got her doctorate and began her teaching career in the 1970s. “Now for her to suddenly conclude that she’s been all wrong is extraordinary — and not very helpful.”
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In 2005, she said, a study she undertook of Pakistan’s weak and inequitable education system, dominated by private and religious institutions, convinced her that protecting the United States’ public schools was important to democracy.
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She remembers another date, Nov. 30, 2006, when at a Washington conference she heard a dozen experts conclude that the No Child law was not raising student achievement.
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Intel Partners in Learning Index - 9 views
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"These activities are designed so that all educators can find something that interests them irrespective of their computer experience. You will notice that there is a range of scenarios. Look through the list and start with the one that interests you the most. At the end of each activity you will notice that there are further scenarios related to the one you have just completed as well as links to skills at a higher level of difficulty."
Technology Integration - Technology Integration for Teachers - 38 views
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"This set of guidelines helps outline best practices in integration, where technology is used as a tool to enhance the teaching and learning experience. When designing classroom activities that utilize computers, it's important to focus on the pedagogy, not the computer skill. As the following outline indicates, pre-teaching and utilizing planning materials like graphic organizers help improve the process. This information will help teachers that are just beginning the process of using technology to help the students learn in new ways."
Keep Ning Free for Nonprofit and Educational Use | Education | Change.org - 29 views
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School Tech: 6 Important Lessons From Maine's Student Laptop Program - 10 views
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never ran a pilot program for the initiative
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Decide to Do It, Not Pilot It
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