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National Atlas.Gov - 11 views

www-atlas.usgs.gov Mashup 2.0 Social-Studies Geography Culture Collaboration=Telecollaboration PBL Art
shared by Clif Mims on 15 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 15 Jul 10
     
    "...the latest National Atlas includes electronic maps and services that are delivered online. We are using information presentation, access, and delivery technologies that didn't exist 30 years ago to bring you a dynamic and interactive atlas. But we have held fast to our tradition of producing the finest maps in the world. We think nationalatlas.gov™ is more useful than any bound collection of paper maps." Work with multiple map layers
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National School Reform Faculty - 0 views

www.nsrfharmony.org/protocols.html reflection school-reform protocols resources professional-development faculty
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  • drew polly on 06 Mar 09
     
    Materials and protocols for teachers from the National School Reform Faculty.
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Footprint Science - Introduction - 0 views

www.footprintnetwork.org/...footprint_science_introduction footprint science health ecology
shared by Dean Mantz on 27 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Institutionalizing the Ecological Footprint at the national level requires that statistical offices, policy advisors, academia, and businesses trust the methodology and data underlying the Footprint, which is comprised of 150 National Footprint Accounts.
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Educational Standards Correlations - 5 views

www.spellingcity.com/al-standards-correlations.html common core spelling vocabulary standards
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  • Cara Whitehead on 02 Jun 13
     
    VocabularySpellingCity provides the following sets of correlations to standards: U.S. Standards by State Common Core Standards for each States' Implementation Australian Standards by State Canadian Standards by Province English National Curriculum Standards
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TerraFly Geo Databases - 4 views

terrafly.fiu.edu Maps math statistics geography
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  • Jennifer Lamkins on 12 Dec 12
     
    TerraFly, a site provided by Florida International University and sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the United States Geological Survey, and IBM, contains a huge database of aerial and satellite images of the entire United States. The site includes a satellite link that serves up images of Earth close enough to identify city streets, parks, and other geographical landmarks. Visitors type in any U.S. address, ZIP code, or city and state for a virtual flyover of the area selected.
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Redu - 8 views

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  • Roland O'Daniel on 14 Sep 10
     
    REDU stands for rethinking, reforming and rebuilding US education. Powered by people and technology, REDU is a movement designed to expand and encourage the national conversation around education reform by providing information and resources to learn, a community platform to connect, and tools and initiatives to act.
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Access, Analyze, Act: Asking Questions That Make a Difference - 8 views

www.pbs.org/...preview journalism
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  • Jennifer Lamkins on 14 Oct 10
     
    Lesson Plan Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12 Think like a journalist and examine what it means to ask the right questions of politicians and public figures to make sure the public learns what they need to know about leaders in the community and the nation.
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Learning from Student Work - 0 views

www.nsrfharmony.org/...earning_from_student_work.html reform student-work professional-development assessment
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  • drew polly on 06 Mar 09
     
    Protocols for learning from looking at student work. From the National School Reform Faculty.
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NCTE's Advice Sheets - 0 views

www.ncte.ie/...AdviceSheets free software teaching technology tutorials worksheets
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  • Clif Mims on 23 May 08
     
    PDFs on a variety of technology-related topics from the National Centre for Technology in Education. Topics include: --What Is a Computer --Computer Specification --PDA, DVD, Printer, Scanner, Camera --Network --Much More
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NECC 2008 Podcasts - 0 views

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  • Clif Mims on 22 Jul 08
     
    The official podcast channel for the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference.
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National Archives Experience# - 0 views

www.digitalvaults.org libraryofcongress audio History archives socialstudies resources primarysources digitalimages
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  • Dean Mantz on 08 Jan 09
     
    The National Archives experience and interactive digital vaults.
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Education Week: Federal 'Mega-Event' Showcases School Technology - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...33edtech.h28.html megaevent edtech Washington DC education technology
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  • Jeff Johnson on 30 May 09
     
    Several hundred teachers, administrators, and educational technology specialists from around the country recently joined researchers and national experts in Washington to highlight effective ways to use tech-based resources, including television programs and computer games, to support literacy instruction.
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eMINTS - 0 views

www.emints.org technology teaching professional resources professionaldevelopment eMINTS Education teachers
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  • Dean Mantz on 27 Aug 09
     
    The eMINTS National Center is a non-profit, independent business unit of the University of Missouri. eMINTS offers professional development programs created by educators for educators. Leading experts have collaborated to produce programs that * inspire educators to use instructional strategies powered by technology * engage students in the excitement of learning * enrich teaching to dramatically improve student performance eMINTS changes how teachers teach and students learn. Its instructional model provides a research-based approach to organizing instruction and can be implemented in any subject area at any level.
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National Educational Technology Plan - 9 views

edtechfuture.org edtech plan techplan technology educational tech National learning education classrooms 21st century skills 21stCentury teaching resources
shared by Dean Mantz on 07 Jan 10 - Cached
  • The plan will provide a set of concrete goals that can inform state and local educational technology plans as well as inspire research, development, and innovation.
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FRONTLINE: digital nation: an online interactive learning tool for frontline's digital ... - 17 views

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  • Henry Thiele on 03 Feb 10
     
    Teachers are tapping into technology and digital media for learning. Watch How Google Saved a School and discuss the hype and the hopes for improving education through technology. More and more educators are tapping into the power of digital media and technology for teaching and learning. The variety of information resources available online is simply staggering. Explore how teachers and students are using the power of social media to promote students' active engagement, critical thinking and literacy skills. New Forms of Learning. It doesn't need to happen in school. Because it's visual, interactive and social, learning can happen anywhere with digital media as people collaborate and share about a wide range of topics and issues that matter to them. Technology and School Improvement. Technology may transform schools by promoting student engagement and creativity. But critics fear that too much focus on technology takes attention away from what's really needed to improve schools: capable, well-trained teachers; student-centered learning methods; and smaller class sizes. Hope, Hype and Reality. Are today's learners really different from previous generations? Compelling images of students using digital technology are impressive, but the research evidence on the impact of technology on learning is more mixed. And it's sometimes hard to separate the scholarship from the marketing hype, given the deep investment of technology companies in promoting the idea of technology's transformative potential.
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STRIDE Handbook 8: E-Learning ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes - 0 views

www.downes.ca/51318 Twitter Online Learning Books
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  • Michael Johnson on 16 Jan 10
     
    The STRIDE handbook on e-learning has now been released and is an essential introductory resource. The book contains five conceptual overviews, including Perdagogical Affordances by Som Naidu and Managerial Perspectives by Tony Bates. Following are 20 technology-specific chapters, from Electronic Mail by Sanjaya Mishra, my own Blogs in Learning, Social Networking by Terry Anderson, and Twitter by Any Ramsden. Sanjaya Mishra, ed., Indira Gandhi National Open University, January 16, 2010.
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National Jukebox LOC.gov - 12 views

www.loc.gov/jukebox audio jukebox recordings history music Library of Congress National Jukebox tools resources Teaching learning Free education
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  • Michael Johnson on 12 May 11
     
    The Library of Congress has made available a good assortment of digital recordings, music, speeches, etc. Could come in handy. 
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The Test Generation - 11 views

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  • "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      How many decades have teacher's experienced this firsthand as students try to cheat, weasel, and otherwise fabricate their way to the reward, whether it's a gold star, a piece of candy, or some extra credit.
  • In 2005, for example, Alabama reported that 83 percent of its fourth-graders were proficient in reading, even though the NAEP found that only 22 percent of these children were proficient readers. The harsh punishments associated with NCLB had encouraged Alabama and most other states to dumb down their tests and then teach directly to them.
  • The letter is a thinly veiled attack on teachers' unions and the job security for which they fight. Mike Stahl, former executive director of the Pikes Peak Education Association, says union membership in Harrison has decreased by half under Miles' leadership, and that teacher turnover, at about 25 percent from year to year, "is the highest in the state among like-sized or larger districts." According to Stahl, Miles "is very anti-union and very prone to retaliation for speaking in opposition to district or superintendent plans. ... There was no collaboration with staff or union in the development of this plan. As a result, district teacher morale is extremely low."
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      This is where a lot of the proponents of education and teacher evaluation reform fall. In the area that no longer concerns itself with building effective cooperation, teamwork, and a positive work atmosphere, a shame really.
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  • Since Miles became superintendent, Harrison's scores on state exams in math, reading, and writing have steadily increased. In reading, for example, 54 percent of Harrison students were proficient in 2005, compared to 61 percent in 2010. Critics who chalk those gains up to "drill and kill" teaching might find at least one thing to love about Harrison District 2: Its test score-based teacher-evaluation system is matched by intense professional-development efforts of the sort promoted by education experts from across the political spectrum.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      The silver lining of this system.
  • But "really systemic, momentous things are happening right now, and I am at the ideological epicenter of that change," he added. "If nothing else, it's really interesting
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      Don't our schools deserve reform and/or experimentation that is better than just "really interesting?"
  • Rival groups of education researchers interpret the reliability of value-added differently but even the technique's defenders have urged caution, as have the Educational Testing Service and the Department of Education's own Institute for Education Sciences. Experts raise a number of powerful objections: that value-added measurements are often based on poorly designed, unsophisticated standardized tests; that the ratings are particularly volatile (a teacher who scores very well or very poorly using value-added has only a one-third chance of getting a similar score the following year, and it takes about 10 years of data to reduce the value-added error rate to 12 percent for any individual teacher); and that the technique gives the impression that the teacher is the only factor in student achievement, ignoring parental involvement, after-school tutoring, and other "inputs" that research shows account for up to 80 percent of a student's achievement outcomes
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      Although "value-added" seems great on the surface, having to wait around for 10 years to get a 12 percent error rate and then deal with all of the uncontrolable factors, makes student performance assessments seem like a joke almost.
  • A consensus is emerging on what those best practices are, and they have little to do with test-driven instruction. Research by Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University teaching expert and former Obama adviser, has found that in Finland, South Korea, and other high-performing nations, teachers spend just 50 percent of their workday in the classroom with students, compared to about 80 percent for American teachers. During the rest of their day, Finnish and South Korean teachers work with other adults to plan lessons, observe one another's classrooms, and evaluate student work. This balance is especially important for beginning teachers; powerful evidence suggests that the single most helpful teacher-training exercise is to spend time inside a master teacher's classroom and to get feedback from that master teacher on one's own practice.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      Reflective practitioning through blogging as a systemic model for teacher PD would be one way to encourage growth in this area.
  • The teachers are grouped to maximize the sharing of best practices; one team includes a second-year teacher struggling with classroom management, a veteran teacher who is excellent at discipline but behind the curve on technology, and a third teacher who is an innovator on using technology in the classroom.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 11 Apr 11
       
      Interesting group composition, and would be easy to put together in any school with proper surveys and cooperation among teaching "families".
  • When I visited MSLA in November, the halls were bright and orderly, the students warm and polite, and the teachers enthusiastic -- in other words, MSLA has many of the characteristics of high-performing schools around the world. What sets MSLA apart is its commitment to teaching as a shared endeavor to raise student achievement -- not a competition. During the 2009-2010 school year, all of the school's teachers together pursued the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards' Take One! program, which focuses on using curriculum standards to improve teaching and evaluate student outcomes. This year, the staff-wide initiative is to include literacy skills-building in each and every lesson, whether the subject area is science, art, or social studies.
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 12 Apr 11
       
      This is what schools should be doing. Foster community, cooperation, and collaboration among the teachers, not isolating them in content area groups, and separating them based on department. Inter-disciplinary teaching teams is a first start, but having everyone in a district adopt the same goal, and work together would be huge.
  • As Nazareno walked me through MSLA's hallways, introducing me to kids and teachers, she reflected on how her profession is changing. "I'm not afraid of being held accountable. I haven't dedicated a career to have kids unable to read or do science," she said. "But people need to understand that teaching and learning are very complex processes, and any time you try to measure anything that's highly complex, you can miss the nuances." Nazareno paused outside a classroom door and lowered her voice. "We had a girl in the second grade whose mother died. At the school next door, a girl was brutally murdered. That's all they've been talking about there for two weeks; they lost a lot of instruction time." She raised her eyebrows. "How do you factor that into value-added?"
    • Ben Rimes
      Ben Rimes on 12 Apr 11
       
      Education ultimately is about navigating the real world, and attempting to make meaning from our daily individual experiences, or building community around shared experiences.
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