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Gregory Wood

The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com - 75 views

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shared by Gregory Wood on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • the day is growing nearer when quality higher education confronts the technological disruptions that have already upended the music and book industries, humbled enterprises from Kodak to the Postal Service (not to mention the newspaper business), and helped destabilize despots across the Middle East.
Steve Ransom

The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 03 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • But we should be careful, in our idealism, not to diminish something that is already a wonder of the world.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 03 Oct 11
       
      Or, on the other hand, we have to be careful to ensure that our education system does not go the way of Kodak for failure of being forward/future thinking...
Jess Hazlewood

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com - 75 views

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shared by Jess Hazlewood on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Jess Hazlewood on 29 Aug 11
     
    Columnist Virginia Heffernan reviews Cathy N. Davidson's book "Now You See It."  Heffernan discusses historical shifts in education in response to the needs of the workforce, and suggests we are in the midst of another shift currently as most of the jobs the grade-school generation will have are not yet in existence.  The larger questions are, "How do we prepare students for a society we can't really imagine," and "What skills can translate and give them the  most flexibility to adapt to the needs of this (most likely) digital landscape."  Heffernan concludes that our current model is outdated and a stronger emphasis should be placed on creativity and critical thinking. 
Michael Hylton

Quality Homework - A Smart Idea - NYTimes.com - 70 views

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shared by Michael Hylton on 12 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The studying that middle school and high school students do after the dismissal bell rings is either an unreasonable burden or a crucial activity that needs beefing up. Which is it? Do American students have too much homework or too little? Neither, I’d say. We ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should matter to parents and educators is this: How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?
  • The quantity of students’ homework is a lot less important than its quality. And evidence suggests that as of now, homework isn’t making the grade. Although surveys show that the amount of time our children spend on homework has risen over the last three decades, American students are mired in the middle of international academic rankings: 17th in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math, according to results from the Program for International Student Assessment released last December.
  • “Spaced repetition” is one example of the kind of evidence-based techniques that researchers have found have a positive impact on learning. Here’s how it works: instead of concentrating the study of information in single blocks, as many homework assignments currently do — reading about, say, the Civil War one evening and Reconstruction the next — learners encounter the same material in briefer sessions spread over a longer period of time. With this approach, students are re-exposed to information about the Civil War and Reconstruction throughout the semester.
Ed Webb

It's Time To Hide The Noise - 35 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • the noise is worse than ever. Indeed, it is being magnified every day as more people pile onto Twitter and Facebook and new apps yet to crest like Google Wave. The data stream is growing stronger, but so too is the danger of drowning in all that information.
  • the fact that Seesmic or TweetDeck or any of these apps can display 1,200 Tweets at once is not a feature, it’s a bug
  • if you think Twitter is noisy, wait until you see Google Wave, which doesn’t hide anything at all.  Imagine that Twhirl image below with a million dialog boxes on your screen, except you see as other people type in their messages and add new files and images to the conversation, all at once as it is happening.  It’s enough to make your brain explode.
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  • all I need is two columns: the most recent Tweets from everyone I follow (the standard) and the the most interesting tweets I need to pay attention to.  Recent and Interesting.  This second column is the tricky one.  It needs to be automatically generated and personalized to my interests at that moment.
  • search is broken on Twitter.  Unless you know the exact word you are looking for, Tweets with related terms won’t show up.  And there is no way to sort searches by relevance, it is just sorted by chronology.
Cathy Stutzman

Op-Ed Columnist - The New Untouchables - NYTimes.com - 20 views

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21st Century Skills Public Schools Global Economy

shared by Cathy Stutzman on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
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  • “Our education failure is the largest contributing factor to the decline of the American worker’s global competitiveness, particularly at the middle and bottom ranges,”
  • But those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work were being retained. They are the new untouchables.
  • Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive.
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  • the right education
  • So our schools have a doubly hard task now — not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.
  • Cathy Stutzman on 24 Oct 09
     
    Article about public education and its role in fixing our economy through the teaching of entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. 
Suzanne Rogers

National Geographic Education - National Geographic Education - 68 views

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shared by Suzanne Rogers on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • This is an early preview of our new website. You are seeing only some of the planned features and content. New things will continue to roll out—and your opinion matters!
Susanna Livingston

The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Susanna Livingston on 01 May 11
     
    Interesting read...
David Garcia

A Better Way to Teach Math - NYTimes.com - 70 views

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shared by David Garcia on 04 May 11 - No Cached
  • David Garcia on 04 May 11
     
    NY Times article about reaching math to read later
Josh Flores

12 Most Common Themes in Literature - Life123 - 121 views

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shared by Josh Flores on 06 May 11 - Cached
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 06 May 11
       
      First, begin with a wall poster stating the difference between Theme, Topic, and Plot
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 06 May 11
       
      Narrow it down to 3-6 examples of a Theme Poster for a classroom resource.
  • Most Common Themes in Literature
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  • What Is a Theme?
  • differs from the plot
  • plot is what the characters do
  • a message
  • theme is the lesson or moral
  • describes an opinion about life, human nature or elements of society
  • Man Struggles Against Nature
  • Man Struggles Against Societal Pressure
  • Crime
  • Does Not Pay
  • Overcoming Adversity
  • The Importance of Family
  • balance
  • Human Beings All Have the Same Needs
  • Death
  • Sacrifices
  • Love is
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 06 May 11
       
      Love: Use Romeo & Juliet movie poster? http://skyview.vansd.org/bquestad/rjhomepg.jpg
Steven Szalaj

The Common Core - Who's Minding the Schools? - NYTimes.com - 57 views

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shared by Steven Szalaj on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Steven Szalaj on 10 Jun 13
     
    An essay on the effects of implementing Common Core Standards and testing related to those standards.
tom campbell

Banned Unless Required - 59 views

I think the most salient point is to create learning experiences that captivate students and are compelling so that they use the devices as a way to learn what they want to learn. It's about the i...

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Andrew McCluskey

Teachers - Will We Ever Learn? - NYTimes.com - 182 views

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shared by Andrew McCluskey on 15 Apr 13 - No Cached
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  • George Hess on 16 Apr 13
     
    I get very tired of having people point to Singapore as a good model for education. Singaporeans score well on tests because their life depends on it. Doing poorly on the PSLE taken at the end of sixth grade virtually guarantees you will never attend university and will limit your income for the rest of your life. Parents in Singapore spend thousands every year on private tuition, the sole goal of which is to produce high test scores. Singapore also recognizes that they are not producing creative students. In fact they wish they were more like the US.
Margaret FalerSweany

More Than Half of Students 'Engaged' in School, Says Poll - Education Week - 46 views

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shared by Margaret FalerSweany on 10 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • A broad focus on testing and new standards can lead schools to neglect the individualized needs of students,
  • unless U.S. schools can better align learning strategies and objectives with fundamental aspects of human nature, they will always struggle to help students achieve their full potential
  • Researchers classified 31 percent of teachers as “engaged” at work under that index, compared with 30 percent of respondents overall. But, among all occupations tracked in the survey, teachers were the least likely to say that their opinions counted at work.
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