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Judy Robison

Watch colonialism collapse before your eyes in this mesmerizing GIF - Vox - 92 views

www.vox.com/...alism-collapse-gif-imperialism

socialStudies

shared by Judy Robison on 13 May 14 - No Cached
  • Judy Robison on 13 May 14
     
    Watch European colonialism rise and fall in seconds in this GIF. Vox has also written an accompanying text:
Donal O' Mahony

Co-learning…hard work! | eLearning Island - 38 views

donalomahony.edublogs.org/...co-learning-hard-work

shared by Donal O' Mahony on 22 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Donal O' Mahony on 22 Apr 14
     
    A short reflection on co-learning inspired by Howard Rheingold and European Schoolnets Future Classroom Scenarios Course...
Florence Dujardin

Mobile learning is for everyone - 44 views

www.m-learning.org

m-learning mobile_learning elearning edtech

shared by Florence Dujardin on 06 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Florence Dujardin on 06 Jun 10
     
    Look at the report: http://www.m-learning.org/docs/The%20m-learning%20project%20-%20technology%20update%20and%20project%20summary.pdf "The m-learning project - funded by the European Commission, the project partners and (in England) the Learning and Skills Council - was considered highly innovative and unusual. It not only involved developing learning materials to run on handheld devices in a time of rapid technological development, but also targeted reluctant young adult learners with poor literacy or numeracy."
Martin Burrett

The intervention programme that claims to lessen the achievement gap - 4 views

ukedchat.com/...intervention-achievement

research

shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Sep 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Sep 19
     
    "A multi-national European study, looking at over 5,500 students, has found that a novel school intervention programme can not only improve the mathematics scores of primary school children from disadvantaged areas, but can also lessen the achievement gap caused by socioeconomic status. Known as the Dynamic Approach to School Improvement (DASI), the programme is based on the latest findings in educational research. Rather than a one-size-fits-all, top-down approach, DASI works by first assessing a school to identify the specific teaching areas that could be improved and then implementing targeted measures to improve them. This process involves all members of the school community, including teachers, pupils and parents, with support from a specialized Advisory and Research Team."
Mr. Mohan

The Cost of Saving Lives in Bangladesh - Ben W. Heineman Jr. - The Atlantic - 13 views

www.theatlantic.com/...275749

shared by Mr. Mohan on 14 May 13 - No Cached
  • if real reform is to occur on the ground, hard, complex questions must be asked and answered
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 14 May 13
       
      what are these questions in your mind?
  • consumers across the globe looking for cheap prices
    • Mr. Mohan
      Mr. Mohan on 14 May 13
       
      what is OUR responsibility?
  • global garment retailers who want the incur the lowest cost--and offer the lowest price--to compete in developed markets but who do not want to be complicit in publicized worker tragedies in developing markets
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  • $38 dollars per month
  • whether Bangladesh has the means to enforce such laws
  • International Labor Organization
  • Inadequate government is a huge obstacle to change
  • only about one percent of Bangladesh garment factories have good standards.
  • garment factory owners are willing to allow workers to organize in unions or associations in order to have a voice in health and safety conditions
  • "who pays" and "who is accountable"
  • Approximately 60 percent of the clothing made there goes to United States or the European Union
  • there are several problems
  • standards may depend on local law
  • buyers may simply cut off the suppliers rather than helping them improve their practices
  • global buyers simply leave the country when they conclude that conditions are so bad
  • question then becomes whether international buyers are willing to go beyond imposition of standards and supplier cut offs and to pay, in some form, for the undetermined costs
  • actually implementing major substantive change
  • significant challenge in a weak state like Bangladesh.
  • Can a robust consumer movement arise among those shopping for discount clothing in response to the Bangladesh building collapse?
  • What are the standards? What is the cost? Who is accountable?
  • drawn an analogy between the collapse of the Rana Plaza in the Bangladesh Capital of Dhaka and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York which claimed 146 lives
  • Rana Plaza catastrophe represents a more complicated set of fractured global relationships, responsibilities and financial capabilities.
Thieme Hennis

Homepage - Youth on the move - European Commission - 8 views

ec.europa.eu/youthonthemove

culture youth EU europe policy education news

shared by Thieme Hennis on 15 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Thieme Hennis on 15 Feb 13
     
    EU program aimed at youth (unemployment, skill development, intercultural exchange, etc.)
Stacy Olson

Mapping History - 121 views

mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/...index.html

socialstudies history secondary maps

shared by Stacy Olson on 22 Feb 13 - Cached
  • onepulledthread on 22 Feb 13
     
    interactive and animated site to illustrate historical events.  Currently features maps, modules, other  material on American, European, Latin American, and African history.
  • Stacy Olson on 09 Apr 13
     
    Interactive and animated representations of fundamental historical problems and illustrations of historical events.
mspayton68

Culture - 8 views

www.coedu.usf.edu/...culture.html

shared by mspayton68 on 15 Nov 16 - Cached
  • tend to avoid competition or activities that will set them apart from their own group.
  • Many children are taught early that European Americans are not trustworthy.
  • extended family, which plays a major role in each family member's life.
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  • Grandparents, parents, and children may live in the same household or nearby.
  • 0 percent of the current Catholic membership.
  • Protestants account for 18 percent; Catholics, 70 percent; others and those not claiming a religious preference, 12 percent (Religion in America, 1985).
Bob Rowan

Should Students Evaluate Their Teachers? | Edutopia - 66 views

www.edutopia.org/...valuation-teachers-ben-johnson

education teaching

shared by Bob Rowan on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • online survey of 1,883 students from 10 European countries
  • what the students expect
  • what they experience from their instructors
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  • looked at three characteristics
  • personality
  • classroom environment
  • teaching style
  • gap of 35 percent between what students expected and what professors were able to deliver
  • professors did best at being "confident" and "rational"
  • worst at being "inspiring"
  • wanted inspiring teachers that are approachable
  • clear idea of student requirements
  • good communicators
  • be alert to struggling students
  • student evaluations prove to be the most effective at providing specific information for formative evaluations
  • should be an important part of teacher evaluations
  • Informally, teachers are graded all the time
  • you could administer a formal climate survey
  • At the end of every test or quiz, put in a few non-graded questions
  • What did you like most about learning this topic
  • What was most difficult
  • could the teacher have done a better job
  • What would you recommend to improve this course? What do you want to see more of in this class? Less of?"
  • 21st-century education E-newsletter
  • Bob Rowan on 09 May 12
     
    The author reflects on student evaluations, citing a study that asked students what they expect from their professors (also talks about how it applies to K-12 schools)
Trevor Cunningham

Students Find Ways To Hack School-Issued iPads Within A Week : All Tech Considered : NPR - 68 views

www.npr.org/...ool-issued-ipads-within-a-week

shared by Trevor Cunningham on 27 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • "Children are growing up today [with] the iPad used as a device for entertainment. So when the iPad comes into the classroom, then there's a shift in everybody's thinking." And sometimes that shift is hard for everybody. Hobbs says this isn't the first time educators have tried to co-opt things that lots of people use for fun. "Back in the 1930s, there was a big initiative to use radio in education," says Hobbs. "It was the original distance education." But, Hobbs says, that all fizzled out. "Within a decade, we discovered that the commercial use of radio, for soap operas and music shows and game shows, actually eclipsed the educational use of radio. And the entertainment function is just so [dominant]. You can't compete," Hobbs says.
    • Trevor Cunningham
      Trevor Cunningham on 09 Jan 14
       
      This is so very true! Trying to engage students with what adults think are their trends bears terrible potential for perceptual error. A European study recently reported a decline in teen use of Facebook as parents and schools were beginning to get more and more involved. Engagement in learning is accomplished through meaningful experience. The context for which is unique to the learning outcomes and not necessarily what's trending.
anonymous

Shift to the Future: Why BYOT? - 6 views

www.shift2future.com/...why-byot.html

BYOD

shared by anonymous on 17 Jan 13 - No Cached
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      When learning moves to higher order and more critical thinking levels, students tend to internalize information and knowledge more and it "sticks" with them for longer - so it is more likely to become something that is applicable to other situations or to be generalized and applied.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      Isn't it interesting how we put limits on the learning of students and we don't even realize we are doing so?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      Right now, too many teachers are using technology in this more simplified, lower level way.  Instead, we need to be pushing students more to make predictions and take their thinking a step further.  I wonder if we, teachers, are pushing ourselves when it comes to thinking or are we simply teaching the same old, same old in the ways we learned eons ago...
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      Why is it so hard to raise our expectations that students WILL have this technology?  If we consistently expect it, they will - we expect them to have a pencil...
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      key words:  integrated extension
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      Change has to happen.  If we keep doing the same thing, we will continually have the same results.  Do we want different results?  YES!
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Jan 13
       
      I was meeting with a teacher this week who had a wonderful lesson using a few websites to ID European countries and find information about each country.  There was a wee bit of critical thinking added into the mix of the assignment but I was still 'hungry for more' and feeling the need to nudge him and his students to the next level.  The green highlighted information is sort of what I was looking for to nudge him onward with in his lesson.  
Cindy Edwards

TypeIt - Type accent marks, diacritics and foreign letters online - 64 views

www.typeit.org

Languages

shared by Cindy Edwards on 12 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Maureen Chertow Miller on 12 Mar 10
     
    Type in any language, copy and paste to any document.
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Jul 11
     
    A useful site that helps with characters and symbols in European languages not usually found on an English keyboard. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages,+Culture+&+International+Projects
  • Cindy Edwards on 26 Jun 13
     
    Having trouble typing in a foreign language? Try typeit.  You can cut and paste into a word document, also.
marcmancinelli

Think Again: Education - By Ben Wildavsky | Foreign Policy - 31 views

www.foreignpolicy.com/...think_again_education

education international finland

shared by marcmancinelli on 27 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • But when the results from the first major international math test came out in 1967, the effort did not seem to have made much of a difference. Japan took first place out of 12 countries, while the United States finished near the bottom.
  • By the early 1970s, American students were ranking last among industrialized countries in seven of 19 tests of academic achievement and never made it to first or even second place in any of them. A decade later, "A Nation at Risk," the landmark 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, cited these and other academic failings to buttress its stark claim that "if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."
    • marcmancinelli
      marcmancinelli on 27 Feb 11
       
      US has long been mediocre or at the bottom of international comparisons, but it's not a zer-sum game
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  • J. Michael Shaughnessy, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, argues that the latest PISA test "underscores the need for integrating reasoning and sense making in our teaching of mathematics." Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, claims that the same results "tell us … that if you don't make smart investments in teachers, respect them, or involve them in decision-making, as the top-performing countries do, students pay a price."
    • marcmancinelli
      marcmancinelli on 27 Feb 11
       
      People use crises to advance their own agendas...
  • But don't expect any of them to bring the country back to its educational golden age -- there wasn't one.
  • According to the most recent statistics, the U.S. share of foreign students fell from 24 percent in 2000 to just below 19 percent in 2008. Meanwhile, countries like Australia, Canada, and Japan saw increased market shares from their 2000 levels, though they are still far below the American numbers.
  • And even with its declining share, the United States still commands 9 percentage points more of the market than its nearest competitor, Britain.
  • A 2008 Rand Corp. report found that nearly two-thirds of the most highly cited articles in science and technology come from the United States, and seven in 10 Nobel Prize winners are employed by American universities. And the United States spends about 2.9 percent of its GDP on postsecondary education, about twice the percentage spent by China, the European Union, and Japan in 2006.
  • But over the long term, exactly where countries sit in the university hierarchy will be less and less relevant, as Americans' understanding of who is "us" and who is "them" gradually changes. Already, a historically unprecedented level of student and faculty mobility has become a defining characteristic of global higher education. Cross-border scientific collaboration, as measured by the volume of publications by co-authors from different countries, has more than doubled in two decades.
  • marcmancinelli on 27 Feb 11
     
    A great perspective piece on American education compared to the world.
Nancy Jacobson

Browse by MN Academic Standards | MN Video Vault - 0 views

www.mnvideovault.org/standards-results.php

MN_HIstory Settlers

shared by Nancy Jacobson on 01 May 11 - No Cached
    • Nancy Jacobson
      Nancy Jacobson on 01 May 11
       
      "Dakota Conflict"  56:25 min. Explores the causes, events and aftermath of the fierce fighting that broke out in 1862 between MN's white European settlers and the native people of the state. URL:  http://www.mnvideovault.org/index.php?id=8011&select_index=0&popup=yes
  • Nancy Jacobson on 01 May 11
     
    A Gold Mine of videos on Minnesota History!
Martin Burrett

Toporopa - 94 views

www.toporopa.eu

Geography Europe European maps

shared by Martin Burrett on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 28 Oct 11
     
    A well made set of geography and other resources about Europe. Look at maps, Kings and Queens and much more. Resources come in many Europen languages. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
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