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David Beaty

Graded - The American School of São Paulo: LARK Guidelines - 0 views

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  • David Beaty on 13 Feb 14
     
    RUP AUP from Graded.br Sao Paulo
Ivan Beeckmans

An A+ student regrets his grades - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • Valuing success above all else is a problem plaguing the schooling systems, at all levels, of many countries including Canada and the United States, and undermining those very qualities that are meant to foster an educated and skillful society.
  • but I mistakenly defined achievement in a way most do: with my GPA.
  • The academic portion of my high school life was spent in the wrong way, with cloudy motivations. I treated schooling and education synonymously. I had been directed not by my inner voice, but by societal pressures that limited my ability to foster personal creativity.
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  • “Writing exams isn’t a measure of intelligence or knowledge, it’s about getting inside your prof’s head to figure out what’ll be on the exam.”
  • Information is propelled into students without teaching them how to practically utilize it. This is senseless. Regurgitating facts, memorizing figures and formulas, compressing course material in our short-term memory for the sake of doing well on an exam; they are all detrimental to the learning experience. But students still do it because they don’t want to fail. Instead, we should be fostering a culture where, to paraphrase Arianna Huffington, “Failure isn’t considered the opposite of success, but an integral part of it.”
  • We can’t allow learning to become passive. We need to teach students to learn how to learn – to become independent, innovative thinkers capable of changing the world.
  • Ivan Beeckmans on 20 Jan 13
     
    Granted, this is not about digital technology, but it could be part of the fuel to light the fire for change. What do we do when we fall so short of helping almost anyone foster a passion for learning? The quotes here are memorable and relevant: the writer is currently in university.
Tim Pettine

Evidence-based practices for teaching writing - 0 views

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      Tim Pettine on 17 Sep 12
       
      Good resource...needs explicit instruction on teaching these strategies 
  • Tim Pettine on 17 Sep 12
     
    "The list of recommendations presented below is based on scientific studies of students in grades 4-12. The strategies for teaching writing are listed according to the magnitude of their effects. Practices with the strongest effects are listed fi"
Jeff Utecht

Teaching kids to be 'digital citizens' (not just 'digital natives') - The Answer Sheet ... - 10 views

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  • Jeff Utecht on 20 Mar 12
     
    I would bet that the education community's use of technology follows a "Two C's 10-90" rule: TEN percent to create, and NINETY percent to control. I mean 'control' broadly, everything from keeping the school's master schedule, monitoring attendance and grades, tracking teacher performance, and imparting the knowledge we believe kids need to have.
Ivan Beeckmans

It's Time for a New Kind of High School| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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  • In Indiana University's 2007 High School Survey of Student Engagement, 73 percent of the respondents said, "I didn't like the school"; 61 percent said, "I didn't like the teachers"; and 60 percent said, "I didn't see the value in the work I was being asked to do." About 30 percent of the students indicated they were bored because of a lack of interaction with teachers, and 75 percent reported that the "material being taught is not interesting."
  • Despite what we now know about the power of learning through talking and doing, we persist in expecting students to learn by listening. The present disparity between teacher and student talk time is a profound hindrance to learning.
  • We need to tear apart the school day, the high school timetable, the school year, the four-year diploma. We need to rethink credit- and diploma-awarding authority, which need not be the sole purview of the high school. For instance, why can't we give this authority to nongovernment organizations and corporations willing to step up and offer academic credits in their workplaces relevant to the work of their institution?
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  • a grade 7/8 half-day school/work internship;
  • not just for university-bound scholarship students
Ivan Beeckmans

Let Kids Rule the School - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Their guidance counselor was their adviser, consulting with them when the group flagged in energy or encountered an obstacle. Though they sought advice from English, math and science teachers, they were responsible for monitoring one another’s work and giving one another feedback. There were no grades, but at the end of the semester, the students wrote evaluations of their classmates.
  • The students also designed their own curriculum, deciding to split their September-to-January term into two halves.
  • each of them focused on specific mathematical topics, from quadratic equations to the numbers behind poker
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  • “I did well before. But I had forgotten what I actually like doing.”
  • They are remarkable because they demonstrate the kinds of learning and personal growth that are possible when teenagers feel ownership of their high school experience, when they learn things that matter to them and when they learn together.
  • But perhaps children don’t need another reform imposed on them. Instead, they need to be the authors of their own education.
  • Ivan Beeckmans on 04 Feb 12
     
    An interesting way of harnessing the natural energy of teenagers. Definitely worthy of further exploration.
Kim Cofino

BBC News - Ivy League education free on the web - 0 views

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  • Viviane Van Esch on 16 May 12
     
    Many school children shed sweat and tears to pursue the privilege of a top university education. But only a lucky few will make the grade and then they will have to fund it. The tech world however is full of visionaries intent on disrupting traditional establishments.
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