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Teacher Magazine: Teaching Commission Pushes Collaborative Learning Teams - 23 views

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News Flash: High School Students Are Bored - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 51 views

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School....AGAIN?! - 7 views

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School Would Be Great If It Weren't for the Damn Kids - 95 views

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It simply doesn’t make sense to try to “purge ‘ineffective’ teachers and principals.”  His listener, almost giddy with gratitude now, prepares to chime in, as Samuelson, without pausing, delivers the punch line:  That’s right, it’s time to stop blaming teachers and start . . . blaming students!
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His focus is not on students’ achievements (the intellectual accomplishments of individual kids) but only on “student achievement” (the aggregate results of standardized tests)
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As I’ve noted elsewhere, we have reason to worry when schooling is discussed primarily in the context of “global competitiveness” rather than in terms of what children need or what contributes to a democratic culture
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Upon hearing someone castigate students for being insufficiently motivated, a noneconomist might be inclined to ask two questions.  The first is:  “Motivated to do what, exactly”?  Anything they’re told, no matter how unengaging, inappropriate, or, well, demotivating? 
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Whenever I see students made to cram facts into their short-term memories for a test, practice a series of decontextualized skills on yet another worksheet, listen passively to a lecture, or inch their way through the insipid prose of a corporate-produced textbook, I find myself thinking of a comment made by Frederick Herzberg, a critic of traditional workplace management:  “Idleness, indifference, and irresponsibility,” he said, “are healthy responses to absurd work.”
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The more you reward people for doing something, or for doing it well, the less interest they typically come to have in whatever they had to do to get the reward. 
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People who blame students for not being “motivated” tend to think educational success mean little more than higher scores on bad tests and they’re apt to see education itself as a means to making sure our corporations will beat their corporations.  The sort of schooling that results is the type almost guaranteed to . . . kill students’ motivation.
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one thing that’s happened is a concatenation of rewards and punishments, including grades, which teach students that learning is just a means to an end.
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Another thing that’s happened is teaching that’s meant primarily to raise test scores.
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inner-city kids get the worst of the sort of schooling that’s not about exploring and discovering and questioning but only about working hard (often at rote tasks) and being nice (read: obedient).
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“Motivation is weak because more students…don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well.”  But why don’t they like school (which is the key to understanding why, assuming his premise is correct, they don’t succeed)?  What has happened to their desire to figure out how things work, the hunger to make sense of things, with which all children start out? 
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if you want to see (intrinsically) motivated kids, you need to visit classrooms or schools that take a nontraditional approach to education, places where students are more likely to be absorbed and frequently delighted, where what they’re doing is not merely “rigorous” (a word often applied to very difficult busywork) but meaningful.
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Jason Schmidt on 17 Nov 10

Alfie Kohn's commentary on an article written by Robert J. Samuelson. Samuelson argues in his article that the problem with education reform is not the usual suspects like ineffective teachers, but kids who are lazy and unmotivated. Interesting read with thoughtful information about student motivation.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Alfie Kohn's commentary on an article written by Robert J. Samuelson. Samuelson argues in his article that the problem with education reform is not the usual suspects like ineffective teachers, but kids who are lazy and unmotivated. Interesting read with thoughtful information about student motivation.</div>

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Education Week: Backers of '21st-Century Skills' Take Flak - 0 views

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Education Week: N.H. Seeking to Reinvigorate High Schools - 0 views

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One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state.
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One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state.
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One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state.
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One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state.
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To personalize learning for students
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it doesn’t always have to be delivered in the traditional Carnegie [unit] mode of delivery," sai
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The approach, which goes into effect this school year, moves away from the traditional Carnegie-unit system based on seat time.
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Tony Baldasaro on 10 Sep 09

One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state. All earned high school credit for their work outside school, an opportunity available under a burgeoning high school redesign effort in New Hampshire that sets its sights beyond simply stiffening course requirements and graduation standards.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state. All earned high school credit for their work outside school, an opportunity available under a burgeoning high school redesign effort in New Hampshire that sets its sights beyond simply stiffening course requirements and graduation standards.</div>

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Education Week: Research Shows Evolving Picture of E-Education - 0 views

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Research shows that virtual schooling can be as good as, or better than, classes taught in person in brick-and-mortar schools
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But that broad conclusion, which comes mainly from a couple of research syntheses published in 2001 and 2004, masks a lot of variation in the designs of online classes and in who takes them
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to figure out under what conditions, what scenarios, in what content areas, and with what students.”
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draw students at the extremes of the academic spectrum
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high-performing students tend to be younger,
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the best academic records in online classes tend to be in that high-ability group
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adaptive-intelligence technology
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“more a matter of learning style.”
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“Whether that’s 24-hour technical support, tutorial support, parental vigilance, or face-to-face site coordinators or mentors,”
- Mr. Carver on 03 Apr 09
  
  Probably the most important thought in the whole aritcle. Technology (as with anything) is useless on its own. Support needs to be there.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Probably the most important thought in the whole aritcle. Technology (as with anything) is useless on its own. Support needs to be there.</div>
  
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“You pay attention to what’s going on,” she says, “and you respond to them as individuals.”
- Mr. Carver on 03 Apr 09
  
  Isn't that a standard practice of good teaching?
  
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But research has far to go to identify exactly what factors make an online course effective.
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Education Week: Don't Just Rebuild Schools-Reinvent Them - 0 views

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Education Week: Grade Inflation Seen in Evaluations of Teachers, Regardless of System - 0 views

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Education Week's Digital Directions: Tech Literacy Confusion - 0 views

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Digital Directions: Go-to Sites - 0 views

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Education Week's Digital Directions: Students Sound Off on School Tech Use - 42 views

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What Brain Imaging Shows Us About Gifted Learners - Unwrapping the Gifted - Education W... - 91 views

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Education Week's Digital Directions: Whiteboards' Impact on Teaching Seen as Uneven - 31 views

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That finding highlights one of Marzano’s key conclusions from the study. The teachers who were most effective using the whiteboards displayed many of the characteristics of good teaching in general: They paced the lesson appropriately and built on what students already knew; they used multiple media, such as text, pictures, and graphics, for delivering information; they gave students opportunities to participate; and they focused mainly on the content, not the technology.
- Todd Williamson on 12 Jan 10
  
  Interesting list of "good teaching" practices in an explanation of IWB use
  
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Todd Williamson on 12 Jan 10

Article presenting both sides of the IWB story: excellent teaching tool or expensive chalkboard?

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