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Kimberley Tempest

Teaching in America's highest-need communities isn't rocket science. It's harder. - 52 views

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teaching

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  • Kimberley Tempest on 02 Jan 14
     
    Great article on requirements of teachers
smilex3md

MOOCs need to go back to their roots. - 14 views

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mooc moocs Education disruption rethink critical

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  • smilex3md on 26 Sep 13
     
    MOOCs Need to Go Back to Their Roots They were supposed to be educational communities, not hypertextbooks.
Steven Szalaj

Schools need to teach students to maintain attention - chicagotribune.com - 6 views

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Education attention schools

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  • Steven Szalaj on 02 Oct 13
     
    Schwartz is a professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College.  Here he presents a case for working at sustained attention in schools.
Jennie Snyder

Creativity is rejected: Teachers and bosses don't value out-of-the-box thinking. - 47 views

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creativity thinking innovation

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  • This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don’t actually like it. Studies confirm what many creative people have suspected all along: People are biased against creative thinking, despite all of their insistence otherwise.
  • Staw says most people are risk-averse. He refers to them as satisfiers.
  • Satisfiers avoid stirring things up, even if it means forsaking the truth or rejecting a good idea.
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  • Uncertainty is an inherent part of new ideas, and it’s also something that most people would do almost anything to avoid. People’s partiality toward certainty biases them against creative ideas and can interfere with their ability to even recognize creative ideas.
  • Unfortunately, the place where our first creative ideas go to die is the place that should be most open to them—school. Studies show that teachers overwhelmingly discriminate against creative students, favoring their satisfier classmates who more readily follow directions and do what they’re told.
  • It’s ironic that even as children are taught the accomplishments of the world’s most innovative minds, their own creativity is being squelched.
  • All of this negativity isn’t easy to digest, and social rejection can be painful in some of the same ways physical pain hurts. But there is a glimmer of hope in all of this rejection. A Cornell study makes the case that social rejection is not actually bad for the creative process—and can even facilitate it.
  • Truly creative ideas take a very long time to be accepted. The better the idea, the longer it might take.
  • Most people agree that what distinguishes those who become famously creative is their resilience. While creativity at times is very rewarding, it is not about happiness. Staw says a successful creative person is someone “who can survive conformity pressures and be impervious to social pressure.”
  • To live creatively is a choice.
  • You have to let go of satisfying people, often even yourself.
  • Jennie Snyder on 08 Dec 13
     
    We say we like creativity, but we really don't. Thoughtful post on the resistance to creative thinking.
leijosa

Gun-death tally: Every American gun death since Newtown Sandy Hook shooting (INTERACTIVE). - 42 views

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gun statistics deaths map

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  • leijosa on 22 Jun 15
     
    Number of gun related deaths in the US by gender and location since Newtown 
Elizabeth Huck

K-5 Computer Lab Green Screen Chroma Key Image Editing by Steve Lee Ignacio - 52 views

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computer green screen slate technology web2.0

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  • Annemarie Rodriguez on 09 Dec 10
     
    Is this only for Microsoft/PC Platforms? Does it work on the Mac Platform?
Suzanne Nelson

IWB Classroom Management Solutions « classroom2point0 - 81 views

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  • When the overhead projector was introduced, teachers everywhere celebrated.
  • With the introduction of Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs),
  • The slate is portable, wireless, and designed to respond to an electromagnetic (or similar technology) pen.
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  • Home Office Bundle – $15-$150 Buy a cordless mouse and keyboard bundle that utilizes a USB port or bluetooth technology.
  • As much as possible, have your students use your IWB. Your students should be front and center, writing vocabulary words, solving equations, drawing pictures, making diagrams, and transcribing classroom discussions.
Maureen Greenbaum

SNHU: How Paul LeBlanc's tiny school has become a giant of higher education. - 1 views

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future education higher higher education

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  • Students are referred to as “customers.”
  • t deploys data analytics for everything from anticipating future demand to figuring out which students are most likely to stumble.
  • “Public institutions will not see increasing state funding and private colleges will not see ever-rising tuition.”
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  • tackle what colleges were doing poorly: graduating students. Half the students who enroll in post-secondary education never get a degree but still accumulate debt
  • school spends millions to employ more than 160 “admissions counselors” who man the phones, especially on weekends, guiding prospective students into the right degree program
  • vast majority are working adults, many with families, whose lives rarely align with an academic timetable.
  • “College is designed in every way for that 20 percent—cost, time, scheduling, everything,” says LeBlanc. He set out to create an institution for the other 80 percent, one that was flexible and offered a seamless online experience
  • low completion rate can be blamed partly on the fact that college is still designed for 18-year-olds who are signing up for an immersive, four-year experience replete with football games and beer-drinking. But those traditional students make up only 20 percent of the post-secondary population.
  • online courses are created centrally and then farmed out to a small army of adjuncts hired for as little as $2,200 a class. Those adjuncts have scant leeway in crafting the learning experience.
  • An instructor’s main job is to swoop in when a student is in trouble. Often, they don’t pick up the warning signs themselves. Instead, SNHU’s predictive analytics platform plays watchdog, sending up a red flag to an instructor when a student hasn’t logged on recently or has spent too much time on an assignment
  • highly standardized courses, and adjuncts who act more like coaches than professors
  • Maureen Greenbaum on 04 Jan 14
     
    The Amazon of Higher Education- How tiny, struggling Southern New Hampshire University has become a behemoth.
anonymous

College papers: Students hate writing them. Professors hate grading them. Let's stop as... - 69 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 17 Dec 13
     
    "Nobody hates writing papers as much as college instructors hate grading papers (and no, having a robot do it is not the answer)."
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