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How to Give Your Students Better Feedback in Less Time - 127 views

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shared by Nina Levine on 02 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Nina Levine on 02 Oct 15
     
    Feedback is essential to students' success. By creating a well organized collection of comments/suggestions designed to provide meaningful feedback, and making those comments easily accessible, we can efficiently increase our effectiveness with students.
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Raise the bar with national exam for teachers - chicagotribune.com - 53 views

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shared by Steven Szalaj on 30 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Steven Szalaj on 30 Dec 12
     
    Editorial about a recommendation by the AFT Pres to develop a professional certification for teachers.  It's about time...
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  • Michelle Kassorla on 30 Dec 12
     
    About time for what? For standardized tests to ruin the teaching profession like it has ruined our kids? For the government to control, from the top down, what education departments teach their students? Looks like a HUGE power grab and a very bad way for a Union, who professes to stand against standardized tests to act! Shame on them! Go to Fairtest.org to find out more about the scam of standardized testing. If you think a standardized test can improve education, you must also think you can fatten a calf by weighing it!
  • Mark Smith on 30 Dec 12
     
    Michelle is right. More standardized testing is not the answer for anything, least of all teacher certification. Come on, Steven .. use your critical thinking skills. Don't encourage the bean counters and bureaucrats who are so enamored of things that can be measured and filed into neat categories. The most valuable things cannot be measured in any "objective" way. To focus on what's measurable is to focus on what's shallow.
  • Steven Szalaj on 31 Dec 12
     
    Mark & Michelle, thank you for your comments. When I posted this I knew the words "standardized test" would be a flashpoint. It is for me too. With nearly 40 years in the classroom, teaching a creative art (music) to all different levels (kindergarten through college and well beyond), I have often railed against reducing any education, any student, to a number. Very little in what I have taught can be measured with a pencil-and-paper test. What I see here is different than this. It is the union that she is saying should be the "gate-keeper" to our profession, rather than some generic government standard test. Yes, tests would be a part of the certification, but from what I read, so would much more, including actual classroom work. The certification would be similar to the AMA for physicians or the Bar for attorneys. These are certifications designed and administered by the profession - not the government - and validate a candidate's readiness to practice. Yes, I too am strongly against the government, or any organization outside of our profession, to certify, to validate, a teacher's ability to do the job. But we have to admit there is a problem with teacher certification and validation. There are people who simply should not be in the classroom (haven't we all seen them?). It is very difficult to remove folks who are dragging the respect for our profession down. Yes, there is remediation. Yes, it should be a difficult process to remove someone in order to protect against administrative abuses. But what is talked about here is the profession policing itself - something that the teacher's unions, in general, have steadfastly refused to do. What the AFT Pres is suggesting is that the best thing we can do to raise the status of teaching as a profession is to take action ourselves to make it happen. Really, if we in the profession do not do this, then it will be imposed from those outside who do not know what we do, how we do it and why we do it.
  • Michelle Kassorla on 31 Dec 12
     
    You are still talking about a standardized test. Let's face it--doctors have to have specific knowledge to do their job. Whether or not they are creative or engaging is not as important as their knowledge base. The same with lawyers--knowledge of the law is essential, and everything else is secondary. However, in teaching, although educational theory and knowledge of their subject area is important (and already tested, by the way) the most essential aspect of teaching is how you can creatively engage students, interact with parents and peers, and stay organized and motivated. These things CAN'T BE TESTED. Right now, teachers already go through extensive training, evaluation, and continuing education. Do you REALLY think that a standardized test will really improve teaching? I know a lot of university professors who can easily pass a test, but few of them can teach worth beans.
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When is it a digital story? - 53 views

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shared by Glenn Hervieux on 14 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 14 Feb 13
     
    Sherry Hegstrom, on her blog "Emerging Technologies in Education" asks the question: What makes for a digital story? She brings up some great questions for us to consider and there are some comments that engage the discussion. Check it out!
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Kaizena - Fast, Personal Feedback on Student Work - 45 views

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 21 Jun 16
     
    "Speak instead of type. Voice comments are up to 75% faster than typing, and help you convey tone and emotion in your feedback. Stop repeating yourself Use one of our curated Lessons to explain concepts, or create your own. Track and rate skills Quickly communicate strengths and weaknesses. Google Drive integration Seamlessly add files from Google Drive."
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BalancEdTech - Commenting - 15 views

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shared by Kate Pok on 04 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • BalancEd Tech on 04 Jan 12
     
    Agree ... Question ... Connect ... Extend ... Critique ... Synthesize ... Meta Analyze ... Related Links ...
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Comment apprendre à apprendre ? | InternetActu - 5 views

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shared by Emmanuel Zilberberg on 09 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Comment apprendre à apprendre ?
    • Emmanuel Zilberberg
      Emmanuel Zilberberg on 09 Feb 14
       
      Qu'est ce que cela change ce mode de commentaire éducation ?
  • François Taddéi
    • Emmanuel Zilberberg
      Emmanuel Zilberberg on 10 Feb 14
       
      citation de Poincaré On résout les problèmes que l'on se pose et non les problèmes qui se posent. Henri Poincaré
    • Emmanuel Zilberberg
      Emmanuel Zilberberg on 10 Feb 14
       
      Les machines un jour pourront résoudre tous les problèmes, mais jamais aucune d'entre elles ne pourra en poser un. Albert Einstein Cité dans apprendre à apprendre, A. Giordan, J. Saltet, p.41, Librio, 2011
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What you wanted to KNOW about blogging! | The Edublogger - 64 views

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shared by Kelvin Thompson on 14 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Being a blogger isn’t just about publishing posts. It’s also about reading others posts, taking time to comment on their posts (in meaningful ways), engaging with your readers by commenting back when they leave comments — being a good blog citizen.
  • Because reading posts that talks about other bloggers or their posts but doesn’t include links to them is really frustrating for readers. Readers like to follow the links and check out the information in more detail but without the links they can’t!
  • nowadays increasingly readers are reading blog posts by links shared on twitter rather than RSS.   So it is now a good idea to tweet when you’ve written a new post. If you’re not currently using twitter – here’s how to get started.
  • Kelvin Thompson on 14 Aug 10
     
    All about improving upon blogging by connecting to others, tweaking blog appearance, cultivating Personal Learning Network, etc.
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Ian Bogost - Reading Online Sucks - 38 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 22 Aug 10 - No Cached
  • Even if the text is separated into chunks with comment space following each, that's still not the same as being able to star or underline a particularly provocative sentence with a word or two (or just a "?" or "!") in the margin. This is even more important in some ways if you're a peer reviewing a text than if you're making jottings for your own later use. Perhaps if there were a browser plugin that would allow you to highlight and comment on any text, Word-style? (There probably is one already.) So that each time you come back to the page your comments will be right where you made them? Would that recapture something of the way I interact with my bound books now?
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 22 Aug 10
       
      That would be diigo...
  • Patrick Higgins on 23 Aug 10
     
    Did anyone let him know?
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Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0 - CNET News - 0 views

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shared by yang hongmei on 27 Oct 08 - Cached
  • He suggested a "hybrid" learning approach. Schools can teach essential knowledge and critical thinking through somewhat traditional means. But they should complement that teaching with what Seely Brown called "passion-based learning" that focuses on getting students more engaged with topic experts.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 27 Oct 08
       
      This should be useful way for the less "techy" to accept and accomodate the contribution Web 2 can make.
  • Tom March on 27 Oct 08
     
    Good comments about using Web 2 to connect learners to others (experts) passionate about topics of shared interest.
  • yang hongmei on 24 Nov 08
     
    Good comments about using Web 2 to connect learners to others (experts) passionate about topics of shared interest.
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Navify - Enjoy Wikipedia with images, videos, and comments - 0 views

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shared by Mallory Burton on 15 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Mallory Burton on 15 Jun 09
     
    Navify is an interface for viewing Wikipedia articles with videos, music, photo galleries, and comments. One of the strategies for supporting students' recognition network is using multiple examples and using a variety of media. This resource makes it easy!
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Academic Productivity » Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, a delicious... - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Tsai on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • In my experience, what makes diigo better? it saves the content of the page you bookmark, not only the link. Magnolia used to do that before they lost all their user’s data You can highlight! Important, as sometimes you don’t remember what was interesting in a page Posts are Private by default There’s a bunch of community features behind it. Example: pop psych you can post to other sites, including delicious (they are an example of openness)
  • On top of all this, there’s another feature that may well become revolutionary: adding sticky notes to pages, in a way that other people can see it. When using the Diigo toolbar, you can see what other people have highlighted, and also comments (sticky notes) they added. That means that you are no longer limited to leaving comments on blogs, you can do so in any type of page (even static pages). Diigo enables you to drop your comment exactly where it is relevant, not at the end of a long list.
  • All in all, I’ve never seen an entrance in a monopolized market (social bookmarking) with this strength and resolution. Diigo is very impressive, and my bookmarking tool of choice.
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A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Miguel Rodriguez on 24 Jul 09 - Cached
  • A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing.by Tamim Ansary var addthis_options = 'delicious, digg, facebook, google, reddit, stumbleupon, twitter, more'; Print Forward addthis_pub = 'glef'; Share Comments(38) Comment RSS Click to enlarge pictureThe Muddle Machine Credit: Monte Wolverton Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas. Not so. I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, "The books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone today!" Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. "Who writes these things?" people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, "No one." It's symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business. Textbooks are a core part of the curriculum, as crucial to the teacher as a blueprint is to a carpenter, so one might assume they are conceived, researched, written, and published as unique contributions to advancing knowledge.
    • Miguel Rodriguez
      Miguel Rodriguez on 24 Jul 09
       
      I have worked as an editor for an educational publisher myself and, let me tell you, a lot of this sounds really familiar!
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Educational Leadership:Reading to Learn:Can't Get Kids to Read? Make It Social - 85 views

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shared by Tamara Connors on 19 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Can't Get Kids to Read? Make It Social William M. Ferriter
  • One great tool for creating social reading experiences is Diigo (www.diigo.com), a free online application that allows users to add highlights and comments onscreen to any Web-based text. These comments can be seen by anyone using Diigo and are identified with the commenter's user name. Diigo also enables users to bookmark and "tag" with keywords any online articles that they find fascinating. Classes studying topics together can share their reading. Articles tagged by one user become instantly available to another, providing a source for continued study and ongoing conversations. The best news is that creating secure student accounts in Diigo is easy. Teachers can form a classroom group that enables students to see only the articles bookmarked and the annotations shared by their teachers and peers—instead of the comments of the entire Diigo community.
  • ttp://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Social-Bookmarking-and-Annotating
  • Steve Ransom on 19 Mar 10
     
    Explains how Diigo is used in the classroom to make solitary text-based reading social.
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Office of Educational Technology (OET) - 63 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 12 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Secretary Arne Duncan invites comments on the draft National Educational Technology Plan.
  • This plan is a draft. "We are open to your comments," Secretary Duncan said. "Tell us about how technology has changed your school or classroom." Read the plan. Share your comments, videos and examples of how technology is changing and improving education.
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Dear America - Prac SAC conferencing - 23 views

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shared by Katie Bradley on 20 May 10 - Cached
    • Katie Bradley
      Katie Bradley on 20 May 10
       
      Click on the little blue d icon to access the Diigolet toolbar. You can then use it to apply floating sticky notes to the page, highlight portions of text, leave comments about those portions of text and bookmark comments. Remember, conferencing comments you make need to be constructive.
  • letters
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  • different people respond
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Steve Hargadon: Thoughts on Social Networking in Education - 46 views

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shared by Bob Rowan on 02 Mar 11 - Cached
  • the act of blogging, and becoming a part of the blogging conversation, were important for teacher professional growth
  • blog "to the empty room" for 9 months
  • It would take away the personal benefit of the journeys that they had been on to get where they were
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  • "I don't know anyone here."
  • threaded discussion forum
  • On a blog, the main author is on a pedestal, and blogs tend to favor posts which reflect the self-importance of the blogger or comments which tend toward extremism
  • What makes social networking for professional development so powerfu
  • not geographically or physically bounded
  • takes place 24X7
  • llows for asynchronous contribution
  • contribution by those who would never previously have written an article for a journal or made a formal presentation
  • Bob Rowan on 02 Mar 11
     
    Comments on the founding of Classroom 2.0 and how teachers who were not previously participating in online social networking were more comfortable using the Classroom 2.0 site than maintaining and otherwise participating in blogs
  • Bob Calder on 03 Mar 11
     
    NSDL recently underwent a reorganization into discipline subsections with intense work by degree candidates. One of them from WCU was denied credit for work and publication because there were no page numbers. The head of the project called her advisor and fixed the problem, but they rethought the model and added separate online journals for contributors. At this point, the chemistry portal is a model of how the whole thing should turn out. http://chemdl.org It has moodle modules, a textbook, lessons, virtual labs. I will link to a google spreadsheet with all URIs in a few days. Right now my kids are putting it together. ;-) Bob
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Report Card Comments - 115 views

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shared by anonymous on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 19 Aug 11
     
    free collection of comments to be used on report cards.
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Current Bills in Congress | Votetocracy - 64 views

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shared by Kyle Kauffman on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Votetocracy was created by regular citizens who decided it was time for Americans to have a better, actionable and measurable way to interact with Congress. This is not just a blog with commenting forums. We are about action. By providing Americans the ability to vote on bills in Congress we create a measurable repository of citizens sentiment towards each bill. That's good for all Americans and good for Congress. Truth is - Congress wants to hear from you.
  • Kyle Kauffman on 04 Sep 11
     
    Votetocracy was created by regular citizens who decided it was time for Americans to have a better, actionable and measurable way to interact with Congress. This is not just a blog with commenting forums. We are about action. By providing Americans the ability to vote on bills in Congress we create a measurable repository of citizens sentiment towards each bill. That's good for all Americans and good for Congress. Truth is - Congress wants to hear from you.
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NAEP Gets It One-Third Right -- THE Journal - 15 views

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shared by Ann Darling on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • gets, the more the debate will stir and positive things can come of all this.
  • 9 Gail Desler California I look forward to following this discussion! Currently many school districts have the same keyboarding + MS Office requirement for tech proficiency shared above by Interested Parent. I think to continue with that model well into the 21st century is really the train wreck waiting to happen. I've read through the NAEP draft. as well as some of their referenced documents from ISTE, http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ DOT , and the http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/2 DOT 1stcentdefinition and am hopeful that the NAEP framework will promote the integration of technology literacy across the curriculum. Thanks for starting the conversation.
  • Wed, Sep 9, 2009 Dick Schutz http://ssrn.com/author=1199505 The framework defines technology as "any modification of the natural or designed world done to fulfill human needs or desires." I can't think of any human action that wouldn't fall under that definition The definition of technological literacy is "the capacity to use, understand, and evaluate technology as well as to apply concepts and processes to solve problems and reach one’s goals. It encompasses the three areas of Technology and Society, Design and Systems, and Information and Communications Technology." That's pretty much universal expertise. This is to be measured with a 50 minute test starting at Grade 4. The specs for the tests at Grades 8 and 12 merely get more detailed and more abstract. By the time this gets run through the Item Response Theory wringer we'll have results that are sensitive to racial/SES differences but not to instructional differences. I'll look forward to your forthcoming explanations of how this came to happen.
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  • The problem? Namely, this: With no established federal definition of technological literacy, most states have chosen to follow the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) established by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and to create their curricula and assessments accordingly.
  • gical literacy that is very different from anything any state or No Child Left Behind (NCLB) envisioned. From the draft document: "In recent decades the meaning of technological literacy has taken on three quite different… forms in the United States. These are the science, technology, and society approach, the technology education approach, and the information and communications technology approach. In recognition of the importance, educational value, and interdependence of these three approaches, this framework includes all three under its broad definition of technological literacy."
  • Geoffrey H. Fletcher is the editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Group. He can be reached at gfletcher@1105media.com. Comments
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Taking WordPress Widgets To The Next Level - 56 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • There are initially two options to choose from. Either displaying a widget on selected or displaying a widget on every page except selected
  • Ok, now we need an example. Lets say I want to display the default recent comments widget only on the homepage since that is the only place where it makes sense to display it. I would simply add the recent comments widget to the sidebar, click the edit link, select “Display Only On Selected“, check mark the Homepage box and then, click done. The recent comments will now only show up on the homepage.
  • Mr. Loftus on 24 Oct 09
     
    review on Performancing.com
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