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Brianna Crowley

At Risk of Losing Our Creativity - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 6 views

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  • In the World is Flat by Thomas Friedman he said, "Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait." In the book Out of Our Minds by Sir Ken Robinson, he writes, "Rebuilding the communities that have been left bereft by the recession will depend on imagination, creativity and innovation."
  • Brianna Crowley on 18 Apr 12
     
    Essay on how to not lose sight of the importance of creativity in the classroom--in spite of the current emphasis on testing.
Brianna Crowley

Why Schools Don't Teach Innovation - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Education Week - 10 views

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innovation education

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  • most schools are designed and operated to penalize failure. Yet unless students are allowed to fail, they can't learn.
  • young innovators are intrinsically motivated.
  • Reformers can't have it both ways. If they want schools to develop the next Steve Jobs or J.J. Rowling, they have to let go of their obsession with test scores as indispensable evidence of quality education
Brianna Crowley

Education Week: It's Time for a New Kind of High School - 29 views

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Educational Reform resources

shared by Brianna Crowley on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • We need to tear apart the school day, the high school timetable, the school year, the four-year diploma. We need to rethink credit- and diploma-awarding authority, which need not be the sole purview of the high school.
  • Brianna Crowley on 08 May 12
     
    Food for thought on Educational Reform, however, not a great amount of practical first steps. Similarly, I am skeptical of some of the suggestions that private industry can do education better than public-provided. 
  • Matthew Vander Ark on 09 May 12
     
    I am currently in private education, although I have taught in both. I believe that the school I am at is highly effective in their schooling, but could benefit from these reforms. That being said, I am not sold on the idea that private is better than public, especially as a universal idea ( ie All private education is better than public education). On th other hand I do see it being easier for private education to take on some of these challenges for reform.
dpurdy

Hydrogen vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 13 views

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hydrogen what form infrastructure current

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      dpurdy on 19 Mar 12
       
      Is hydrogen sustainable? depends on the source. see this highlight.
  • While methods of hydrogen production that do not use fossil fuel would be more sustainable
  • The challenges facing the use of hydrogen in vehicles include production, storage, transport and distribution.
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  • The hydrogen infrastructure consists mainly of industrial hydrogen pipeline transport and hydrogen-equipped filling stations like those found on a hydrogen highway. Hydrogen stations which are not situated near a hydrogen pipeline can obtain supply via hydrogen tanks, compressed hydrogen tube trailers, liquid hydrogen tank trucks or dedicated onsite production.
  • Hydrogen use would require the alteration of industry and transport on a scale never seen before in history. For example, according to GM, 70% of the U.S. population lives near a hydrogen-generating facility but has little access to hydrogen, despite its wide availability for commercial use.[64] The distribution of hydrogen fuel for vehicles throughout the U.S. would require new hydrogen stations that would cost, by some estimates approximately 20 billion dollars[65] and 4.6 billion in the EU.[66] Other estimates place the cost as high as half trillion dollars in the United States alone.[67]
  • Hydrogen fuel does not occur naturally on Earth and thus is not an energy source, but is an energy carrier. Currently it is most frequently made from methane or other fossil fuels. However, it can be produced from a wide range of sources (such as wind, solar, or nuclear) that are intermittent, too diffuse or too cumbersome to directly propel vehicles. Integrated wind-to-hydrogen plants, using electrolysis of water, are exploring technologies to deliver costs low enough, and quantities great enough, to compete with traditional energy sources.[2]
  • dpurdy on 19 Mar 12
     
    Fuel cell cars are expensive.  The fuel cell costs a lot
Brianna Crowley

Me! Me! Me! (And My Issues) - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher - 2 views

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  • Brianna Crowley on 24 May 12
     
    This article questions why teachers do not proclaim their expertise in a way that causes those in power to listen. Why do we not take pride in our accomplishments and accolades?
Brianna Crowley

Education Week: Why I Left Teaching - 88 views

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Educational Reform teacher_profession teacher_compensation Teaching2030

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  • There is a difference between learning and education. Learning is a slow, disciplined process, while education is about producing results.
  • I believe I will be happier for having quit teaching. I will make more money. I will have more time. I will no longer sacrifice myself for the sake of others' children. I would like to go back someday when the system finally figures out how lucky it is that people are so dedicated to teaching.
  • Brianna Crowley on 22 Aug 12
     
    This is sad but so true in many places. We need to revive the profession in ways like suggested in the book Teaching 2030. 
ingramhistory

BBC News - Iran: EU oil sanctions 'unfair' and 'doomed to fail' - 0 views

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      ingramhistory on 23 Jan 12
       
      Read and answer this question
  • Iran had "failed to restore international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme", British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint statement.
Brianna Crowley

Education Week: Job Roles Shifting for Districts' Central Offices - 1 views

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Educational Reform teacher_profession education

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  • Mr. Nadelstern recently wrote a paper for the University of Washington center on how New York created networks of autonomous schools. He said rather than fight the heterogeneous practices taking place behind closed doors at schools, central-office administrators should embrace them. "The people closest to the kids in the classroom—the principal, the teachers in consultation with parents—are the best people to make decisions," he said.
  • "It's a value for us not to get caught up in one school type as being preferable to another," she said. "We try to focus not on the differences between these schools but the similar goals."
Brianna Crowley

Transforming Teaching - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week - 0 views

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Educational Reform teacher_profession Rick_Hess education

shared by Brianna Crowley on 23 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Teachers around the country embrace accountability when it comes with the equivalent authority in decision making.
  • For us, "accountability" doesn't simply mean counting test scores - and "autonomy" definitely does not mean that teachers get to close their doors and do what they want.
  • Real change will come teacher by teacher.
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  • We must redefine accountability as relational rather than numerical. Accountability isn't about the numbers we achieve on a test. Real accountability is accepting the trust the public has in America's teachers and embracing our professional and individual responsibility for student learning and well-being.
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