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Roland Gesthuizen

eSmart Training June 2012 (with images, tweets) · rgesthuizen · Storify - 17 views

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storify eSmart training NCAB12 cybersafety

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Nov 12
     
    "During June 2012 I attended an #eSmart training course. Whilst this aggregates collects some of the posts that I made, I have also added some of the tweets by friends at the #NCAB12 conference that was running at the same time."
amy musone

Civil War Quilt Project - 52 views

www.civilwarquilt.com

PBL quilt

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  • amy musone on 08 Jun 13
     
    Greg Wimmer's class combined art and history to create a symbolic Civil War quilt
SJCNY Trainers

Breaking Research: Most Apps Bad - EdTech Researcher - Education Week - 200 views

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iPad iPad_Apps

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  • SJCNY Trainers on 18 Dec 12
     
    "My EdTechTeacher colleagues Beth, Greg, and Tom have been pouring over educational apps. Lots and lots of apps. As practitioners, their instinct is that the vast majority of educational apps are terrible. Shovel-ware. Flashcards. Garbage. Tens of thousands of them."
onepulledthread

Teach the Web (MOOC) - 3 views

www.zythepsary.com/...teach-the-web-mooc

Web 2.0 mozilla blog Webmaker education teaching

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  • onepulledthread on 19 Apr 13
     
    Laura Hilliger blog zythepsary.com here discusses the mozilla Teach the web" MOOC to start may 2. content to include: Introduction to Webmaker is all about community, openness and collaboration. Remix and Contextualize is all about putting web literacy skills into other types of learning plans. Do and Share is about experimenting with collaborative, participatory learning spaces and using the online community to improve your practice. Within each topic are 3 subtopics - Those are the themes we'll be focusing on weekly. 9 themes, 9 week MOOC - nice how that worked out, don't cha think? For each theme, we'll be MAKING things to explore ideas because, you know, you learn lots when you make. We'll have a chance to look at each other's makes, give feedback, and hack on ideas throughout the 9 weeks. There will be several ways to follow along. Here's what we're thinking for communication channels: Sign up to the webmaker.org/teach list to participate Keep your eye on hivenyc.org/teachtheweb Submit your blog for aggregation Join G+ Webmaker Community Use #teachtheweb on Twitter Bookmark the Big Blue Button link for May 2nd, 23rd, and June 13th, 4pm UTC Check the calendar for Twitter chats and Big Blue Button sessions
onepulledthread

NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education - 0 views

www.networkforpubliceducation.com/news

teachers public education education reform

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  • onepulledthread on 24 Apr 13
     
    Useful  aggregation site that provides news briefs for US educators sorted by different regions of the country.  
Jac Londe

wikiriver.org - 12 views

wikiriver.org

wikiriver wiki rss atom xml opml wikileaks aggregator news

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  • wikiriver.org All the news about WikiLeaks in one place,
Matt Renwick

Educational Leadership:Faces of Poverty:Boosting Achievement by Pursuing Diversity - 19 views

www.ascd.org/...ent-by-Pursuing-Diversity.aspx

poverty

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    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      This is a critical point. Allowing middle class families to pick and choose where there kids should go without valid reasons (i.e. work) can hurt high poverty schools.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      Have we?
  • Residential poverty tends to be concentrated, and successful school integration requires either a district with enough socioeconomic diversity within its boundaries or a group of neighboring districts which, when combined, have enough diversity to facilitate an interdistrict integration plan.
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  • A weighted lottery is the simplest way for schools to ensure that they enroll a diverse student body while still relying on choice-based enrollment.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      A possible solution?
  • ndividual success stories and a review of research suggest that it is possible, by offering all students a single challenging curriculum, to reduce the achievement gap without harming the highest achievers (Burris, Wiley, Welner, & Murphy, 2008; Rui, 2009).
  • In the middle grades, students at City Neighbors start their day with half an hour of highly specialized, small-group instruction called intensive. Intensive provides an opportunity for extra support or enrichment in different subjects, allowing teachers to meet different students' needs while still teaching most of the academic time in mixed-ability classrooms.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      Sounds like an intervention block, something many buildings have or are looking at.
  • small but growing number of schools are attempting to boost the achievement of low-income students by shifting enrollment to place more low-income students in mixed-income schools. Socioeconomic integration is an effective way to tap into the academic benefits of having high-achieving peers, an engaged community of parents, and high-quality teachers.
  • A 2010 meta-analysis found that students of all socioeconomic statuses, races, ethnicities, and grade levels were likely to have higher mathematics performance if they attended socioeconomically and racially integrated schools (Mickelson & Bottia, 2010).
  • Research supporting socioeconomic integration goes back to the famous Coleman Report, which found that the strongest school-related predictor of student achievement was the socioeconomic composition of the student body (Coleman et al., 1966).
  • nd results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress in mathematics show steady increases in low-income 4th graders' average scores as the percentage of poor students in their school decreases (U.S. Department of Education, 2011).
  • a number of studies have found that the relationship between student outcomes and the socioeconomic composition of schools is strong even after controlling for some of these factors, using more nuanced measures of socioeconomic status, or comparing outcomes for students randomly assigned to schools (Reid, 2012; Schwartz, 2012).
  • Rumberger and Palardy (2005) found that the socioeconomic composition of the school was as strong a predictor of student outcomes as students' own socioeconomic status.
  • Socioeconomic integration is a win-win situation: Low-income students' performance rises; all students receive the cognitive benefits of a diverse learning environment (Antonio et al., 2004; Phillips, Rodosky, Muñoz, & Larsen, 2009); and middle-class students' performance seems to be unaffected up to a certain level of integration.
  • A recent meta-analysis found "growing but still inconclusive evidence" that the achievement of more advantaged students was not harmed by desegregation policies (Harris, 2008, p. 563).
  • he findings suggested that, more than a precise threshold, what mattered in these schools was maintaining a critical mass of middle-class families, which promoted a culture of high expectations, safety, and community support.
  • istricts have chosen to let school boundaries reflect or even amplify residential segregation.
Matt Renwick

Why Cliques Form at Some High Schools and Not Others - The Atlantic - 37 views

www.theatlantic.com/...2

form schools atlantic design pbis

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  • Schools that grouped students by academics and created other ways to force kids with different backgrounds to cooperate (whether in clubs or on sports teams) were less ruled by segregation and hierarchy.
  • how organizations shape our behavior
  • People are social animals, but we’re also creatures of our environment. Our habitats shape our habits.
Trevor Cunningham

Infomous Explorer | Infomous - 7 views

www.infomous.com/news

Libray Grok searchengine

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  • Trevor Cunningham on 29 Apr 12
     
    A social search aggregator similar to http://www.instagrok.com/
Randolph Hollingsworth

Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards - 16 views

civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/...hoices-without-equity-2010.pdf

charter school civil rights equity educational reform segregation

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 16 Mar 12
     
    by Erica Frankenberg, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Jia Wang January 2010 The Civil Rights Project, UCLA The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 8370 Math Sciences, Box 951521 Los Angeles, California 90095-1521 (ph) 310-267-5562 (fax) 310-206-6293 www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu This report should be cited as: Frankenberg, E., Siegel-Hawley, G., Wang, J. (2010). Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards. Los Angeles, CA: The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA; www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu.
clconzen

MentorMob Lets Instructors Compile Learning Playlists -- Campus Technology - 61 views

campustechnology.com/...ompile-learning-playlists.aspx

technology learning resources tools

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    A new Web 2.0 service facilitates compilation of "learning playlists" containing links to articles and videos that educators can make available to their students and others. MentorMob, from a company by the same name, is a free Web site that provides a repository for aggregating and organizing online educational resources. Once material is added, the viewer, such as a student, can work through the playlist in "steps."
alexis alexander

Pipes: Rewire the web - 2 views

pipes.yahoo.com/pipes

aggregator rss web2.0 mashup pipes

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    powerful search tools and more
Steven Young

Demography and the Future of Secularism - Boston.com - 1 views

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demography religion religious fundamentalism secularism

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      Steven Young on 25 May 12
       
      The American Enterprise Institute is one of the leading conservative think tanks. The AEI, and the conservative movement in general, have an interest in a more religious population, since religious voters are more likely to vote Republican and for conservative parties elsewhere in the world. Therefore, one needs to skeptical of research emanating from a think tank with a strong ideological bias; especially when that research serves the interests of the institution.
  • Across the world, "population change is reversing secularism and shifting the center of gravity of entire societies in a conservative religious direction." The same will be true here in the United States, where religious families have more children than non-religious ones.
  • It's easy to underestimate the role that population change can have in social change, Kaufmann says, but it can have a huge role, especially when differences in values drive differences in fertility
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  • -- demographer
  • Americans and Europeans
  • Americans and European
  • the fringe of ultra-Orthodox pupils in Israel's Jewish primary schools in 1960 has ballooned: they now comprise a third of the Jewish first grade class. They are gaining power: in Jerusalem, Haredim rioted in late December, demanding the right to segregate women on buses, and have already elected the city's first Haredi mayor.
  • the ultra-Orthodox may form a majority of observant American and British Jews by 2050
  • In the United States, Republicans have a similar values-driven fertility advantage -- an advantage, Kaufmann argues, which will outweigh the Democratic advantage of increased immigration, in part because many immigrants are conservative on social issues and maximalist in their family planning.
  • "In Seattle, there are nearly 45 percent more dogs than children. In Salt Lake City, there are nearly 19 percent more kids than dogs.”
  • Steven Young on 25 May 12
     
    Summary of article from the American Enterprise Institute journal, "The American", that claims that future of the U.S. is more religious than secular due to the large family size of religious fundamentalists.
anonymous

The CyberSafety Net - 37 views

cybersafetynet.wordpress.com

cybersafety cyberbullying eSmart ACMA resources

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  • anonymous on 24 Aug 12
     
    Cybersafety @ Coomera Anglican College website. Still under production but designed to be an aggregator website that with curriculum resources for all year levels. Teachers can use the site to keep CyberSafety on the agenda or as the main source of their training for teachers and course work for students. Concepts spiral to be revisited every couple of years. ***Still under construction but will be ready for Term 4 (October)***
Scott Kinkoph

TweetMeme - Search and Retweet the Hottest Stories on Twitter - 0 views

tweetmeme.com

Twitter hashtags socialmedia socialnetworking education meme aggregator tweetmeme trends web2.0

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  • Scott Kinkoph on 28 Jul 12
     
    Twitter research
Erik Stafford

Education Week: Realizing the Promise of New Education Technologies - 31 views

www.edweek.org/...36natriello.h31.html

tech trends

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  • A Web-browser-based tutoring platform called ASSISTments. Developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, ASSISTments, as its name suggests, performs tasks that extend the teacher’s reach in and beyond the classroom. As it generates sets of practice math problems geared to a range of skills, ASSISTments provides hints to students when they cannot answer problems correctly and then furnishes teachers with updated assessments of each student’s progress, as well as aggregated data on the entire class’s performance. The system prompts students to describe the logic they employed in answering specific problems, and teachers can communicate weekly or even daily with parents about their children’s work.
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