Group items tagged student - Diigo ISTE12

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Portfolios should be:1- About learning and legacy.It isn't just about assessment but about helping kids connect to their legacy and who that student is.efolios should be about taking kids from a number to a unique individual and give us a unique way to celebrate creativity beyond the standardized test.2 - Efolios should make kids not feel like a number to feeling unique. They should be able to pull all of their lives together. Steve Hargadon shares how his daughter used her blog to get into college.
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3 - Schools need permanent museums of learning.If I was sending my child to a new school, I would ask that school to show what their students were doing.
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4 - Schools can use efolios as a way to celebrate creativity, the arts, and phenomenal work instead of the "standardized test."
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United States is on the wrong educational path. Zhao, who studies global education practices, used the keynote address to advocate for reducing emphasis on traditional models of assessment in education.
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“I would love the common core standards if they were not common or core. I love standards, I love the NETS, but they are not common or core,” he said. Instead, Zhao argued for an education system that recognizes the diversity of talents evident in our students.
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“It was an amazing talk because he brings to life what’s really important in education right now. Not worrying about test scores but thinking more about creativity and entrepreneurism
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Just validating that creativity and the things that we’re doing in our classroom has value and it’s not just the bottom line of the test score is amazing.”
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Defining "Friend" Anyone who has seen The Social Network finds Mark Zuckerberg's use of the word "friend" ironic as through the course of the movie we see him lose the few friends he has in order to gain the millions that are online. I've heard it is a mischaracterization (come on what billionare 20-something year old doesn't havea  lot of friends ;-) but nevertheless friend doesn't mean what you think.
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Let's get this straight. We are talking about Facebook Friends (I call them FF's in class) and a Facebook friend has access to everything you put on your wall (unless you "list" them - more on that later.) It means that if you "friend" someone who hates you that they will be crawling your page and your life looking for something bad about you. It also means that if you "friend" your students and you skip school one day and post "I took a sick day to go to the mall." that you've just ratted yourself out -- in writing. Everyone will know, that sort of word travels fast.
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In "the South" we are taught to be friendly from the moment our Mom's tell us as a drooling tot to "say hello because he just said hello to you." Be friendly. So, we think we have to "friend" everyone who "friends" us - it is good manners, right?
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