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Gates vs. Weingarten « Matt Bowman - 1 views

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  • “tenure is a proxy for fairness”
  • Weingarten deflects the accusation and suggests the real problem is a lack of “support” for teachers, aka funding:
  • Then Gates nails it: No, we spend more on professional development than they do. We spend more on salaries than they do. We spend more on pensions than they do. We spend more on retirement health benefits than they do. But we have less evaluation than they do. In many districts you have to give advance notice before anybody can come into your classroom. That’s part of the contract. So there are some real differences in terms of the personnel system in these other countries.
  • Bradford Saron on 23 Dec 10
     
    This is the exchange between AFT national president and Bill Gates as they debate tenure for teachers. 
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Cognitive Interfund Transfer: Marching Backward into the Future - 1 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 23 Dec 10
     
    New blog post. 
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The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness: 10 Tips/Ways Blog Posts Recap - 1 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 23 Dec 10
     
    What a great list of ways to engage and integrate. 
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DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms - 0 views

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  • Myth #1: Students will naturally acquire tech skills.
  • Bradford Saron on 23 Dec 10
     
    I too agree that the primary people disseminating these misconceptions are the ones that don't understand digital-age tools, socialization, and collaboration. 
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Google Shared Spaces - 0 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 23 Dec 10
     
    This is out of Google Labs and is called shared spaces. It uses the old Google Wave widgets. So for those of you disappointed to hear about Google phasing out Wave, this may be a sound replacement. 
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Cognitive Interfund Transfer: Top Web 2.0 Learning Tools for 2010 - 0 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 23 Dec 10
     
    New blog post. 
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FINAL Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 - 0 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 23 Dec 10
     
    Here, you can check out the top 100 learning tools of 2010. How many are you familiar with? 
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Cognitive Interfund Transfer: #edtech-ies Vs School Leaders - 2 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 22 Dec 10
     
    New blog post.
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Demo Slam! Epic Docs Animation - Official Google Docs Blog - 1 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 22 Dec 10
     
    If you haven't switched from Microsoft to the Google Apps for Ed, this may be the catalyst. Google Docs are really something extraordinary. 
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Cognitive Interfund Transfer: Shifting Norms and Answerleaks - 1 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 22 Dec 10
     
    New blog post. 
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A vision for media centers - 1 to 1 Schools - 0 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 22 Dec 10
     
    A 1:1 initiative is not sustainable in my mind, but media centers with these types of resources are. The problem here isn't a fiscal one but one of philosophical stance as to what a media center is, what it overs, and how it serves students. This is a great way to dream!
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Learning with 'e's: Web 3.0 and onwards - 0 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 22 Dec 10
     
    The slideshow embedded in this blog is awesome for understanding what Web 3.0 is (or is going to be). Check it out!
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22 Essential Resources for Android Owners - 1 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 22 Dec 10
     
    Yes, I am a Droid owner, so this hits home. I'll have to download Angry Birds!
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The Political Power of Social Media | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

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  • The event marked the first time that social media had helped force out a national leader.
  • How does the ubiquity of social media affect U.S. interests, and how should U.S. policy respond to it?
  • social media have become coordinating tools for nearly all of the world's political movements, just as most of the world's authoritarian governments (and, alarmingly, an increasing number of democratic ones) are trying to limit access to it.
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  • New media conducive to fostering participation can indeed increase the freedoms Clinton outlined, just as the printing press, the postal service, the telegraph, and the telephone did before.
  • Despite this basic truth -- that communicative freedom is good for political freedom -- the instrumental mode of Internet statecraft is still problematic.
  • THE THEATER OF COLLAPSE
  • Opinions are first transmitted by the media, and then they get echoed by friends, family members, and colleagues. It is in this second, social step that political opinions are formed. This is the step in which the Internet in general, and social media in particular, can make a difference. As with the printing press, the Internet spreads not just media consumption but media production as well -- it allows people to privately and publicly articulate and debate a welter of conflicting views.
  • This condition of shared awareness -- which is increasingly evident in all modern states -- creates what is commonly called "the dictator's dilemma" but that might more accurately be described by the phrase coined by the media theorist Briggs: "the conservative dilemma," so named because it applies not only to autocrats but also to democratic governments and to religious and business leaders. The dilemma is created by new media that increase public access to speech or assembly; with the spread of such media, whether photocopiers or Web browsers, a state accustomed to having a monopoly on public speech finds itself called to account for anomalies between its view of events and the public's. The two responses to the conservative dilemma are censorship and propaganda. But neither of these is as effective a source of control as the enforced silence of the citizens. The state will censor critics or produce propaganda as it needs to, but both of those actions have higher costs than simply not having any critics to silence or reply to in the first place. But if a government were to shut down Internet access or ban cell phones, it would risk radicalizing otherwise pro-regime citizens or harming the economy.
  • Bradford Saron on 21 Dec 10
     
    The power of being digitally social, this is an example in the political arena. This is also what Clay Shirky is talking about in a Cognitive Surplus. This is the power of people collaborating and sharing without consideration of cost, distance, time, copyright, law, etc. Do we want to teach children how to ethically participate in this type of environment? Or, just let them go without any skills or discipline?
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How Should We Use Technology in Schools? Ask Students | MindShift - 1 views

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  • he 2010 Education Council had plenty to say — and they’re certain they’ll be heard. Among their suggestions: 1) Allow access to restricted Web sites like YouTube for educational purposes. 2) Hold technology integration training workshops for teachers. 3) Use cell phones as a “teacher-defined learning tool.” 4) Partner with media-savvy youth organizations like YouMedia so that students who participate in technology-rich projects outside of school can receive elective credits.
  • he most important recommendations is for CPS to offer workshops for teachers on using technology in the classroom.
  • teachers should have a personal password for unblocking restricted websites for educational purposes.
  • Bradford Saron on 20 Dec 10
     
    Interesting article. Like most of these "recommendation" type articles, much of what you read is familiar and obvious. 
  • Deb Gurke on 20 Dec 10
     
    It may be obvious to you.
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WatchKnow - Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students - 0 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 20 Dec 10
     
    Want help with your homework? 
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Openleaks? Brusselsleaks? Tradeleaks? The market's getting crowded | Media | guardian.c... - 1 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 16 Dec 10
     
    Indeed, this is not about education, but it is about the age of the disaggregation of power and mass transparency. To a large extent, because of open records laws, we've been dealing with public decision making for some time. Do you think this new trend with accelerate our movement toward total transparency? Have you ever seen Michigan's Budget and Salary Compensation Transparency Reporting Law? 
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10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2011 - 3 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 16 Dec 10
     
    Twitter, blogs, and social bookmarking included, once people understand the basics, they will migrate to use of social media to solve a variety of problems (if you are not already). 
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10-Year Study on the American School Superintendent Released - 1 views

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  • he work portfolio of America’s superintendents is increasingly diverse, encompassing not only student achievement, but the diversification of student and staff populations, the explosion of technology, expanded expectations from the government, the school board and the community, and the globalization of society.
  • A high percentage would again seek to occupy the same position if given the chance to re-live their careers.
  • a finding suggesting the probability of substantial turnover in the next few years.
  • Bradford Saron on 15 Dec 10
     
    AASA's Study of School Superintendents finds a number of interesting (but obvious) results from research funded by Pearson and Rowman and Littlefield (both publishers). 
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Cognitive Interfund Transfer: What if school districts had to apply for superintendents? - 1 views

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  • Bradford Saron on 15 Dec 10
     
    New Blog Post. 
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