Control, whether by threats
or bribes, amounts to doing things to children rather than working
with them. This ultimately frays relationships
The Risks of Rewards - 54 views
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The alternative to bribes and threats is to work toward creating a caring community whose members solve problems collaboratively and decide together how they want their classroom to be
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grades in particular have been found to have a detrimental effect on creative thinking, long-term retention, interest in learning, and preference for challenging tasks
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"Many educators are acutely aware that punishment and threats are counterproductive. Making children suffer in order to alter their future behavior can often elicit temporary compliance, but this strategy is unlikely to help children become ethical, compassionate decision makers. Punishment, even if referred to euphemistically as "consequences," tends to generate anger, defiance, and a desire for revenge. Moreover, it models the use of power rather than reason and ruptures the important relationship between adult and child."
Should Personalization Be the Future of Learning? - Education Next : Education Next - 48 views
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Effective instruction requires understanding the varying cognitive abilities of students and finding ways to impart knowledge in light of that variation
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can be done in classrooms with students sitting in beanbags holding iPads and Chromebooks.
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privacy
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Schools and Students Clash Over Use of Technology | MindShift - 5 views
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Students want more control over how they use technology in school, but many classrooms are still making it difficult.
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A whopping 45 percent of middle-schoolers and 55 percent of high-schoolers say that they mainly access the Internet through mobile devices.
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And access to tablets doubled between 2010 and 2011 – up to 26 percent for middle-schoolers and 21percent of high-schoolers.
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Video in the Classroom - 8 views
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Video CurriculumUsing video could be as simple as recording a student oral presentation for future review, or as elaborate as producing an original short film. Depending on the complexity of the project, consider these suggested steps for ensuring that your students create thoughtful final products that demonstrate their knowledge rather than pieces full of flash but potentially lacking in substance.
Houston Strategies: The future of education is here, it's just not evenly distributed - 3 views
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lots of student agency and teachers who've switched from lecturing to mentoring and guiding
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approach is *far* more engaging for the kids, and therefore they learn so much more and faster.
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Acton's kids are testing 5+ years ahead of grade level (!),
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Is this website offering the future of education? - 3 views
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Here's how Salman Khan thinks schools should work: Students should learn lessons online and do homework and projects in class. This "flipping" of the traditional classroom is the operating system espoused by Khan and his Khan Academy, a website whose popularity is exploding as millions tune into its free videos, ...
Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites | Lucacept - intercepting the Web - 49 views
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a significant minority (36.1%) of the teachers who were asked this question indicated that they had used SNS for educational purposes, including communicating with their students about schoolwork.
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These educational activities should be aimed primarily at equipping children and young people with the skills required to be effective digital citizens, and not focussed on rare or hypothetical fears.
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the importance of SNS in the lives of students, and the potential significance of social media for future digital citizenship, suggests that room should be found for these issues to be directly addressed.
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2009 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch - 0 views
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Now, many common devices can automatically determine and record their own precise location and can save that data along with captured media (like photographs) or can transmit it to web-based applications for a host of uses.
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a collection of technologies that are used to configure and manage the ways in which one views and uses the Internet.
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imbuing ordinary objects with the ability to recognize their physical location and respond appropriately, or to connect with other objects or information.
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Kids Create at Google I/O Youth | TIME For Kids - 35 views
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Google I/O conference, now in its seventh year.
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Freakonomics » Evaluating Teachers: What About Doing it the Old-Fashioned Way? - 88 views
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A substantial literature documents large variation in teacher effectiveness at raising student achievement, providing motivation to identify highly effective and ineffective teachers early in their careers. Using data from New York City public schools, we estimate whether subjective evaluations of teacher effectiveness have predictive power for the achievement gains made by teachers’ future students. We find that these subjective evaluations have substantial power, comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness taken from a teacher’s first year in the classroom.
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