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Education Week: Framing the School Technology Dream - 1 views

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    So that's why decisions are made that way ...
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Education Week: 'Real World' Social Media Helps Students Bond, Say Researchers - 39 views

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    "Real World" social media helps students be more "real" in making connections
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Education Week: 'Real World' Social Media Helps Students Bond, Say Researchers - 26 views

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    Social media and virtual learning
Brianna Crowley

When Teachers Cheat: Looking Good, Being Bad - Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable - Education... - 16 views

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    Elementary teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year Justin Minkel explores why a system of standardized testing and the desire to look good rather than BE good, causes disasters like the recent cheating scandals. 
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Education Week: Cities Should Embrace After-School Learning - 9 views

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    After school learning is needed in our cities
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Education Week: Proper Role of Ed-Tech in Pre-K a Rising Issue - 17 views

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    Early Learning
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Education Week Teacher: Featured Teaching Channel Videos - 37 views

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    Self directed learning
Brianna Crowley

Education Week: Interpretations Differ on Common Core's Nonfiction Rule - 0 views

  • Ideally, she said, teachers are working in cross-disciplinary teams to decide how to balance those shared responsibilities in a solid curriculum.
  • And Ms. Highfill has not found the guidance on shared, cross-curricular responsibility to be translating into classroom reality. In her district, she said, "there still seems to be more of a focus on English teachers' using nonfiction in classrooms than the other content areas stepping up to the plate."
  • such titles are meant for classes other than English, and seeing them as texts that displace works like The Catcher in the Rye takes titles out of context and ignores the messages of the standards document as a whole.
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  • teachers and local administrators are the ones who must decide how to share responsibility for the increased emphasis on nonfiction. "If a lot of good, close reading of high-quality, challenging texts is going on in science and history classes," she said, "then English/language arts teachers need to carry less of that responsibility."
  • It is English/language arts teachers who will be held accountable for the results, which will drive what happens in their classrooms week to week, he said.
Randy Schultz

Education Week: Colleges Overproducing Elementary Teachers, Data Find - 2 views

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    Are we over producing or are we preparing a workforce for the future when the need for teachers increases?
Brianna Crowley

Do Public Schools, Umm, Suck? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher - 6 views

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    Why the public school should be saved, and why so many people think it is failing. 
Jessica Kolski

Education Week: Common-Core Tests Pose Challenges in Special Ed. - 34 views

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    Common Core pose challenge for 1% of students with severe disabilities
Marc Patton

Education Week: Blended Learning Models Generating Lessons Learned - 3 views

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    A variety of models for mixing face-to-face education and online instruction are generating lessons learned
Kate Lee

The 'Maker' Movement Is Coming to K-12: Can Schools Get It Right? - Education Week - 53 views

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    The movement for more hands-on, student-driven learning is going mainstream, migrating from museums and garages into the highly regulated world of K-12 education.
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