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Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: New York City, Humor, and Cardboard History - 54 views

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learning new york new york city photographs pictures history

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  • Michael Sheehan on 20 Jan 13
     
    870,000 vintage pictures of New York City
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Historic Photographs of New York City - 45 views

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learning photographs new york new york city

shared by Michael Sheehan on 16 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Michael Sheehan on 16 Mar 13
     
    Over 870,000 vintage photographs from New York City's history.
Roland Gesthuizen

A Sociological Eye on Education | The worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City - 183 views

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leaguetable teachertraining performance evaluation

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 19 May 12
     
    'Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, received some startling news. . she was the worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City, where she has taught since 2007'
Lisa C. Hurst

Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 9 views

www.wired.com/altschool

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  • Lisa C. Hurst on 05 May 15
     
    "AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15. 05.04.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION Click to Open Overlay Gallery Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it. At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird. On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about. Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say. And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat
Roland Gesthuizen

City Teacher Data Reports Are Released - SchoolBook - 36 views

www.nytimes.com/...cher-data-reports-are-released

NYTimes performance assessment teacher leaguetable

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  • The rankings stem from a desire by policy makers to find an objective way to distinguish between effective and ineffective teachers, untainted by the subjective judgment of individual evaluators, like school principals.
  • Critics also say there are aspects of a child’s life — or distractions on test day — that the numbers cannot capture: supportive parents, a talented principal, the help of a tutor, allergies or a relentlessly barking dog outside the classroom.
  • there are schools where students are taught by multiple teachers, making it difficult to figure out the weight of their individual contributions
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  • The union has warned that the result will be sweeping, with good teachers steering clear of grades that have standardized tests, parents’ attempts to switch their children to other classrooms, low morale among teachers and worse.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Feb 12
     
    After a long legal battle and amid much anguish by teachers and other educators, the New York City Education Department released individual performance rankings of 18,000 public school teachers on Friday, while admonishing the news media not to use the scores to label or pillory teachers.
anonymous

Schools shift from textbooks to tablets - US News and World Report - 57 views

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    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 07 Mar 13
       
      No, individualized instruction will personalize learning for students.
  • "We must use technology to empower teachers and improve the way students learn," said Joel Klein, a former New York City schools' chief who now leads News Corp.'s education tablet program. "At its best, education technology will change the face of education by helping teachers manage the classroom and personalize instruction."
  • "We must use technology to empower teachers and improve the way students learn," said Joel Klein, a former New York City schools' chief who now leads News Corp.'s education tablet program. "At its best, education technology will change the face of education by helping teachers manage the classroom and personalize instruction."
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      anonymous on 11 Mar 13
       
      Isn't the concept that helping teachers manage the classroom by using technology a fresh perspective?  :)
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Mar 13
       
      Our philosophy seems more reasonable in that we are utilizing what students already have in their possession and spending the funds toward enhanced online text "rental" and accessibility.  BYOT!
  • $20.5 million
  • $50 million
  • $500 million
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 11 Mar 13
       
      What happens when that device is out-of-date?  Cost of updating?
Candy Boyer

Tom Wolfe, Author and Satirist of America, Dies at 88 | Time - 4 views

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Obituaries Literature Biography author journalism

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  • American maverick who insisted that the only way to tell a great story was to go out and report it.
  • journalism could offer the kinds of literary pleasure found in books.
  • Wolfe scorned the reluctance of American writers to confront social issues and warned that self-absorption and master’s programs would kill the novel. “So the doors close and the walls go up!” he wrote in his 1989 literary manifesto, “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast.” He was astonished that no author of his generation had written a sweeping, 19th century style novel about contemporary New York City, and ended up writing one himself, “The Bonfire of the Vanities.”
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  • “My contention is that status is on everybody’s mind all of the time, whether they’re conscious of it or not,”
  • “new journalism” combined the emotional impact of a novel, the analysis of the best essays, and the factual foundation of hard reporting. He mingled it all in an over-the-top style that made life itself seem like one spectacular headline.
  • pointed look at fund-raising for the Black Panther Party by Leonard Bernstein and other wealthy whites.
  • And no one more memorably captured the beauty-and-the-beast divide between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones: “The Beatles want to hold your hand,” he wrote, “but the Rolling Stones want to burn down your town!”
  • s a child, he did rewrites of the Authurian legends and penned biographies of his heroes.
  • unsuccessful pitching tryout with the New York Giants before
  • The Washington Post, where he won Washington Newspaper Guild awards in 1960 for his coverage of U.S.-Cuban affairs and a satiric account of that year’s Senate civil rights filibuster.
  • The next year, Wolfe was assigned to cover a “Hot Rod & Custom Car” show. He completed a story, the kind “any of the somnambulistic totem newspapers in America would have come up with.” But he knew there was a much richer, and longer story to tell, one about a thriving subculture that captured the post-World War II economic boom and the new freedom to “build monuments” to one’s own style. No newspaper could contain what Wolfe had in mind, so he turned to Esquire magazine, wrote up 49 pages and helped give birth to a new kind of reporter. “For the who-what-where-when-why of traditional journalism, he has substituted what he calls ‘the wowie!'” according to a 1965 Newsweek story.
  • “A Man in Full” turned Wolfe’s smirk to Atlanta society. His 2004 novel, “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” looked at life on a fictional elite college campus rife with drinking, status obsession and sex.
  • Candy Boyer on 22 May 18
     
    includes short VIDEO "Wolfe scorned the reluctance of American writers to confront social issues and warned that self-absorption and master's programs would kill the novel."
Lynn Nesbit

Nonfiction Curriculum Enhanced Reading Skills in New York City Schools - NYTimes.com - 7 views

www.nytimes.com/...-in-new-york-city-schools.html

curriculum

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  • Lynn Nesbit on 13 Mar 12
     
    common core
Kenuvis Romero

Snake venom - encyclopedia article - Citizendium - 0 views

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  • In a case report of a human bite by a king cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, in New York City, a 30 year old reptile importer was struck by a captive in the baggage department of Kennedy Airport. "The patient instantly felt a generalized "warm rush" soon followed by euphoria, "brightly colored visual hallucinations", a distorted perception of the passage of time and "razor-like pain" throughout the right arm." (reference for quote:Warren W. Wetzel and Nicholas P. Christy: A king cobra bite in New York City • SHORT COMMUNICATION, Toxicon, Volume 27, Issue 3, (1989) Pages 393-395)
Sue Sheffer

TEDxNYED | independently organized TED event - 29 views

tedxnyed.com/2011

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  • Sue Sheffer on 30 Nov 10
     
    TEDxNYED, an all-day conference focusing on empowering innovation in education, is being held in New York City on Saturday, March 5, 2011. It will be webcast live here at tedxnyed.com, allowing viewers around the world to join and engage in these ideas worth spreading."
Beth Panitz

9/11 Timeline - History.com Video - 26 views

www.history.com/...911-timeline

History.com timeline video resources

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  • Beth Panitz on 05 Sep 11
     
    5 minute video summarizing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City.
Dan Sitter

New York town's prayers test church-state separation - 19 views

www.usatoday.com/...3323905

separation of church and state socialproblems

shared by Dan Sitter on 07 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • National data on prayer practices at the city, town and village levels do not exist.
  • Dan Sitter on 07 Nov 13
     
    Good update to todays issue with lots of good reference material which the reporter has already started for students.
Brandie Hayes

5 Ideas That Could Have Prevented Flooding in New York - Emily Badger - The Atlantic Ci... - 20 views

www.theatlanticcities.com/...3754

ideas flood prevention sea gates surge barriers elevated infrastructure wave attenuators oysters and sand development patterns

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  • mitigate
  • Wave Attenuators.
  • played a critical role in stabilizing the shoreline
  • Brandie Hayes on 30 Apr 13
     
    Article that describes 5 flood prevention ideas. Each idea includes a visual to aid in understanding (a video, photograph, map or visualization)
mbardoe

Weblogg-ed » The New Story…Who's Doing It? - 20 views

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school technology education

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  • Science Leadership Academy, High Tech High, CIS 339 in New York City, VanMeter High School in Iowa, and Hunterdon Central High School, my old stomping grounds here in NJ
  • Poughkeepsie Day School i
  • mbardoe on 29 Jul 10
     
    Can we make a list please....
Dimitris Tzouris

Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 17 views

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chronicle news apple ipad technology education

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  • So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
  • Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
  • the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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  • only 2 percent of students said they bought an e-textbook this past fall semester.
  • The City University of New York, for instance, is looking closely at encouraging e-textbooks as part of an effort to lower student costs. "At end of the day, it's how do you drive savings for our students, who are feeling a great economic impact," said Brian Cohen, CUNY's chief information officer.
  • If students do buy them and begin to carry them around campus, they could be a more powerful educational tool than laptop computers.
  • Jim Groom, an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington, expressed weariness with all the hype around the Apple announcement. He said he is concerned about Apple's policies of requiring all applications to be approved by the company before being allowed in its store, just as it does with the iPhone. And he said that Apple's strategy is to make the Web more commercial, rather than an open frontier. "It offers a real threat to the Web," he said.
  • He also pointed out that several PC manufacturers have sold tablet computers before, which have been tried enthusiastically in classrooms. Their promise is that they make it easy for professors to walk around classrooms while holding the computer, while allowing them to wirelessly project information to a screen at the front of the room. But despite initial hype, very few PC tablets are being used in college classrooms, he said. Now that Apple's long-awaited secret is out, the harder questions might be whether the iPad is the long-awaited education computer.
Maureen Greenbaum

Andy Kessler: Professors Are About to Get an Online Education - WSJ.com - 2 views

online.wsj.com/...4659404578504761168566272.html

online education online learning onlinelearning cost

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • For the same $7,000 a year that New York City spends per student on school buses, you can now get a master's from one of the most well-respected programs in the country.
  • Students who worked with online content passed at a higher rate than classroom-only students, 91% to 60%
  • Today's job market—whether you're designing new drugs, fracking for oil, writing mobile apps or marketing Pop Chips—requires graduates who can think strategically in real time, have strong cognitive skills, see patterns, work in groups and know their way around highly visual virtual environments. This is the same generation that grew up playing online games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, but who are almost never asked to use their online skills in any classroom.
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  • Online education is about taking the "best in class" teachers and scaling them to thousands or millions of students rather than 25-30 at a time.
SJCNY Trainers

Why Teachers Need Social Media Training, Not Just Rules | Spotlight on Digital Media an... - 6 views

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Social_Media

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  • Peter Beens on 04 Jun 12
     
    Under a new set of social media guidelines (pdf) issued by the New York City Department of Education, teachers are required to obtain a supervisor's approval before creating a "professional social media presence," which is broadly defined as "any form of online publication or presence that allows interactive communication, including, but not limited to, social networks, blogs,  internet websites,  internet forums, and wikis." 
  • SJCNY Trainers on 08 Jun 12
     
    Great insight into educating teachers about the use of social media within their schools so that they can help students navigate these waters as well.
Clint Balsar

Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks - Yahoo! Finance - 4 views

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iPads textbooks schools education

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  • The trend has not been limited to wealthy suburban districts. New York City, Chicago and many other urban districts also are buying large numbers of iPads.The iPads generally cost districts between $500 and $600, depending on what accessories and service plans are purchased.By comparison, Brookfield High in Connecticut estimates it spends at least that much yearly on every student's textbooks, not including graphing calculators, dictionaries and other accessories they can get on the iPads.
  • They include interactive programs to demonstrate problem-solving in math, scratchpad features for note-taking and bookmarking, the ability to immediately send quizzes and homework to teachers, and the chance to view videos or tutorials on everything from important historical events to learning foreign languages.They're especially popular in special education services, for children with autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities, and for those who learn best when something is explained with visual images, not just through talking.Some advocates also say the interactive nature of learning on an iPad comes naturally to many of today's students, who've grown up with electronic devices as part of their everyday world.
  • Clint Balsar on 01 Oct 11
     
    I find the price comparisons interesting.
Deborah Baillesderr

Gamestar Mechanic - 46 views

gamestarmechanic.com

programming game design gaming education resource

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  • Michele Brown on 02 Mar 12
     
    Play, design and share games.  Focuses on game design
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 27 Mar 12
     
    a very popular web-based game design environment. Global Kids http://olpglobalkids.org/ is using it to run social benefits game design contests and badging programs. They are getting 100+ new game design entries per week. From the parents' guide: Gamestar Mechanic is currently supported by a partnership between the Institute of Play and E-Line Media. The game was originally developed by Gamelab in partnership with the Institute of Play and the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab (AADLC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Initial funding for the game and companion learning guides came from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The design of the game is based on research by some of the leading academics in the field including Katie Salen (Executive Director of the Institute of Play and curriculum author for the New York City Public School Quest To Learn) and James Paul Gee (author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy).
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 03 Nov 13
     
    This site has students creating games from scratch and putting them out into the world for feedback within the Gamestar Mechanic community. Students use math, problem solving, writing skills and more to make their games interesting. I think this could be used in the classroom as a theme-based project or just to get students interested in coding.
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