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Clint Walters

Truthdig - Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System - 0 views

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shared by Clint Walters on 17 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • “It is extremely dispiriting to realize that you are in effect lying to these kids by insinuating that this diet of corporate reading programs and standardized tests are preparing them for anything,”
    • Clint Walters
      Clint Walters on 17 Jan 12
       
      Why I'll NEVER go back to teaching Middle School English...
  • The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to themselves. They do not pretend that fraud is moral or that corporate greed is good. They do not claim that the demands of the marketplace can morally justify the hunger of children or denial of medical care to the sick. They do not throw 6 million families from their homes as the cost of doing business.
  • “Not only have the reformers removed poverty as a factor, they’ve removed students’ aptitude and motivation as factors,”
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  • It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.
    • Clint Walters
      Clint Walters on 17 Jan 12
       
      WOW! I've been say this repeatedly for years!! Amen!
Timeless Learntech

E Learning: Transitional Trend in Educational Pattern in India - 0 views

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shared by Timeless Learntech on 22 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Timeless Learntech on 22 Nov 11
     
    "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Learning does not cease, its timeless and forever!" Traditional teaching has been part of formal education over years, where in students assemble together in classrooms and learn. With the advent of technology, the skills and methods of approach towards learning are changing.
Child Therapy

Coaching Both Parent And Child - 1 views

I want to see my kid happy and grow to his full potential. That is why, when I see him having trouble opening up to me or to other people, I feel bad as a parent. I feel that I am not doing a good ...

started by Child Therapy on 27 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
Rack Sider

Marketing trends, stats and events that made the news in 2013 - 0 views

When gearing up for the new year, marketers should reflect on marketing trends and events from 2013 that may help them to prepare for 2014. One major marketing trend was multiplatform content: Som...

Marketing Stats

started by Rack Sider on 01 Jan 14 no follow-up yet
Randy Rodgers

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 0 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
  • And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
  • We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
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  • In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
  • Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside
  • “schools in the cloud,”
  • There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
  • as the kids blasted through the questions, they couldn’t help noticing that it felt easy, as if they were being asked to do something very basic.
  • Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13
     
    Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
Walco Solutions

Academic Projects | Walco Solutions - 1 views

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shared by Walco Solutions on 18 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Walco Solutions on 18 Mar 15
     
    We provide the best quality and unique projects at very nominal price. We are updated with the latest technology being used in the industries we try to render the same at the student level for proper technical exposure through our projects. We also conduct proper lectures, practical sessions to guide and prepare students for external viva and competitions. Programmable Logic Controller, Supervisory Control and data acquisition, Human machine Interface, Variable Frequency drive, Instrumentation, Panel designing, Embedded System, Mat lab
mbarek Akaddar

PISA - 24 views

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shared by mbarek Akaddar on 07 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Are students well prepared for future challenges? Can they analyse, reason and communicate effectively? Do they have the capacity to continue learning throughout life? The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) answers these questions and more, through its surveys of 15-year-olds in the principal industrialised countries. Every three years, it assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills essential for full participation in society.
Melissa Seifman

PBS Teachers | learning.now . Collaborative Writing, 140 Characters at a Time | PBS - 0 views

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shared by Melissa Seifman on 14 Nov 08 - Cached
  • teacher in suburban Washington DC has launched a collaborative writing initiative using the messaging tool Twitter. Prepare to be concise!
  • a middle school teacher in Montgomery County, MD, launched Manyvoices, which may be the first collaborative student writing project on Twitter. Mayo’s idea was to embrace Twitter’s 140 character limit as a creative challenge for his students, using a framework known as a Twittory. Created by Cameron Reilly, a Twittory is a story in which each person may add only 140 characters to the story. The story must also be told in 140 posts - no more, no less.
  • Melissa Seifman on 14 Nov 08
     
    I think this is an interesting use of Twitter, and makes me want to think of ways to use it my classroom as well
Dennis OConnor

Welcome to the BrainyFlix SAT Vocab Contest - Brainyflix - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 31 Jan 09 - Cached
  • We’re trying to help kids prepare for the SAT by offering fun and free videos about SAT vocabulary, made by YOU! We’re offering $600 in prize money to the video that receives the most number of votes. $200 of the payout will go to the maker(s) of the video and $400 to the class or school club of his/her choice.
Gary Miller

Big Ideas for Education - 0 views

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shared by Gary Miller on 11 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Shift teaching away from teacher as lecturer toward constructivism where students are construction their own knowledge (id 272)
    • Gary Miller
      Gary Miller on 11 Nov 08
       
      What a great idea. It would mean teachers would have to give up control, but would invigorate students.
  • Keeping powerful Web 2.0 tools out of students' reach during the school day doesn't prepare them for life. Internet filtering is detrimental (id 234)
  • Gary Miller on 11 Nov 08
     
    Combining ideas from educators everywhere, they will eventually be combined and prioritized into action statements in order of importance.
Maggie Verster

Social networking guidelines for teachers - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • But ignoring this risk doesn't make it go away; indeed, it leaves many students ill-equipped to make intelligent decisions about what to do when they encounter this kind of material in real life, as they are certain to do. Learners who have access to social media and adult support for reflecting on their engagement with it in their homes will be prepared, of course
    • Maggie Verster
      Maggie Verster on 02 Sep 09
       
      Well put!!!
  • Maggie Verster on 02 Sep 09
     
    A set of nine guidelines, not intended to be the final word but intended to start a conversation "in the best of social networking tradition." Some refinements included.
Russell D. Jones

News: Making Wikis Work for Scholars - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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Wikipedia at College

shared by Russell D. Jones on 04 May 09 - Cached
  • Others, noting features of the Web site that contribute to inaccuracies and shortchange the value of expertise, are building variations on the model that are more amenable to academics and to peer review.
  • "I use Wikipedia a lot for my own research and for course preparation. Often, to the extent that [Wikipedia articles] appear on my syllabi it’s to give students a quick overview of a subject or concept when I’m looking less for a theoretical or critical perspective and more for this kind of open-source knowledge, or kind of 'crowd-sourced' perspective,"
    • Russell D. Jones
      Russell D. Jones on 04 May 09
       
      Uses of Wikipedia in the Classroom
  • Still, some continue to worry that the very structure of Wikipedia encourages editors (who can be anyone) to disregard expertise and undermine the basic mechanics of peer review and academic credibility.
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  • In other words, what happens to articles once they're posted? Will they be watered down or made inaccurate by someone with no relevant credentials? Wikipedians would argue that credentials are besides the point -- that anyone with a computer can police the encyclopedia by judging source material, sifting through edits and using a neutral tone to describe disputes. It's a dynamic that Sorin Matei, a communications professor at Purdue University, describes this way: "He who can sit for the longest in front of the computer is right."
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Fabian Aguilar

American Cultures 2.0 - 0 views

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shared by Fabian Aguilar on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The power of just one word can totally change the meaning of something as intrinsic as national identity.
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  • The more students have an opportunity to read, speak and write the more they are going to understand the power of words.
  • The moment students craft words meant not just for the teacher and a few other peers, but for the wider world, is the moment students learn that a misplaced, mispronounced, or misspelled word has consequences far beyond a grade. These authentic learning opportunities are crucial to prepare students for the new realities of a more global and transparent world.
  • Students (and teachers) need to understand that everything they do communicates, whether they know what they are communicating or not.
  • Once students really figure out who they are and what they stand for then they can more comfortably be themselves. However, an important social skill that many students have difficulty grasping is knowing appropriate social norms in various settings.
  • Anyone can be a teacher... if you are alert and willing to learn from others. We need to teach students to be alert and willing to learn from sources other than textbooks. We need to teach students how to create and cultivate learning from a personal learning network, in order to extend the traditional capabilities of school from the limited hours of the school day to the unlimited hours beyond the school day. The informal classroom of life offers lessons far more valuable than the classroom if only we are open to learning from each other each and every day.
Roland Gesthuizen

Paula Smith: Education 2020 -- An Emerging Consensus About Learning - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...-2020-an-emergin_b_824342.html

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 26 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • we need to add a truly human dimension to our educational benchmarks
  • First, an increasing number of people have concluded that we need to add a truly human dimension to our educational benchmarks.
  • if a lower school subject area like hands-on science is taught in a way that students understand, they go on to high school and college and explore biology, chemistry and physics with greater enthusiasm
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  • the new key metrics must be whether students find school interesting; whether the material challenges them; and whether they actually like school enough to continue their studies.
  • there are no limitations on what children can learn
  • children are preparing themselves to become lifelong learners when they question, analyze, compare, collaborate and listen in the classroom
  • teaching must be individualized and responsive to each student's talents, way of thinking and level of understanding
  • teachers act as coaches who model thinking, planning, risk-taking and reflection for children
  • Technology is transforming how we think about education today.
  • practice over time, plus motivation and mentoring, yields excellence and mastery
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 26 Feb 11
     
    "as we contemplate 2020, I'm certain that there won't be one model, one benchmark, one standard, one curriculum, or one teacher training program that ultimately helps us reach our educational goals. But I strongly believe that a decade from now we'll be able to look back and know that we made learning more interesting for each and every child in our country"
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 26 Feb 11
     
    How to make learning interesting for everybody.
amita parmar

A Romantic situation by Sudipsinh Dhaki (Sudipsinh Dhaki) - 0 views

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shared by amita parmar on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • amita parmar on 07 Aug 11
     
    A Romantic situation will help you to get a sound sleep. That is why many people want to make their rooms look more romantic. For a spouse it will help them to get a closer relationship. There are several things to prepare before starting to redecorate your room.
Philippe Scheimann

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine - 26 views

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shared by Philippe Scheimann on 22 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • “Children from wealthy families with lots of education can be taught by stupid teachers,” Louhivuori said, smiling. “We try to catch the weak students. It’s deep in our thinking.”
  • “We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test,”
  • “Play is important at this age,” Rintola would later say. “We value play.”
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  • Compulsory schooling does not begin until age 7. “We have no hurry,” said Louhivuori. “Children learn better when they are ready. Why stress them out?”
  • “It was simply the idea that every child would have a very good public school. If we want to be competitive, we need to educate everybody. It all came out of a need to survive.”
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