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EdTech Toolbox: 8 Ways to Support Teachers Integrate Technology - 198 views
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need feedback from colleagues on what they are doing successfully in the classroom
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need opportunities to share technology learnings
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Web 2.0 List, Web 2 Tools by Task, 100+ Google Tricks
The EdTech Zone: Sketchfu - 66 views
Freakonomics » Women Continue to Make Education, Labor Gains - 25 views
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men are increasingly falling behind women in the U.S.
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more women in the workforce have bachelor’s degrees than men
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36 percent
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Will Common Core Standards Make Students College-Ready? - 54 views
Read Magazine, Ophelia Project Present Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' On Facebook - 47 views
Education Week Teacher: The Courage To Blog With Students - 59 views
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How to start blogging in your classroom
Buying Copyrights, Then Patrolling the Web for Infringement - NYTimes.com - 55 views
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“I was shocked,” Mr. Hill said. “I thought maybe it was a joke or something to scare me. I didn’t know the picture was copyrighted.”
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The article describes a company named Righthaven that purchases the rights to stories and images from newspapers. It then sues anyone who uses the material without copyright clearance. They seem to specialize in non-corporate infringers who are likely to settle before a trial. Bloggers beware!
The EdTech Zone: Park that sticky note over here... - 69 views
The EdTech Zone: Present.me - A New Tool to Harness the Power of Student Presentations - 121 views
Free Everyday Math Apps…Again! - 106 views
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Until May 6, the Everyday Math apps are once more free. Pass it on while you can.
Kindergartners and iPads-Part 2 | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - 36 views
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With parent perspectives like this, 1:1 initiatives had better do things right and ensure that powerful learning is going on in conjunction with powerful tools. Such perceptions must be challenged and teachers must be ready for the challenge
A Better Way to Teach Math - NYTimes.com - 70 views
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NY Times article about reaching math to read later
Educational Technology Guy: Summary of Great Web 2.0 Resources for Students - 191 views
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Summary of Great Web 2.0 Resources for Students
Free Tools Challenge #1: Wallwisher - Words That Stick | Teacher Challenge - 97 views
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An alternative to Lino Pad for collaborative and academic discussion
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The EdTech Zone: iPads - Where do you start? - 92 views
A New Measure for Classroom Quality - NYTimes.com - 84 views
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Test scores are an inadequate proxy for quality because too many factors outside of the teachers’ control can influence student performance from year to year — or even from classroom to classroom during the same year.
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there’s a far more direct approach: measuring the amount of time a teacher spends delivering relevant instruction — in other words, how much teaching a teacher actually gets done in a school day.
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Thirty years ago two studies measured the amount of time teachers spent presenting instruction that matched the prescribed curriculum, at a level students could understand based on previous instruction. The studies found that some teachers were able to deliver as much as 14 more weeks a year of relevant instruction than their less efficient peers.
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5 myths about teachers that are distracting policymakers - The Answer Sheet - The Washi... - 111 views
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Political leaders at every level are demanding we evaluate and pay teachers based on student test scores and value-added statistical formulas. If that turns out to be a bad strategy, the long-term ramifications for the nation could be staggering.
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"Now's the time to transcend the usual debates over how to make our schools better and our teachers more effective - and break free of the myths that keep us fighting 20th century battles. Instead we need to look hard at the realities, framed by research evidence as well as the challenges teachers face everyday"
"We don't think that's how the broader teaching community feels about it." (U... - 56 views
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