Classrooms Go High-Tech to Engage Students - US News and World Report - 0 views
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destroyed the boundaries of classrooms
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Some may see this as a distraction, but students are used to multitasking
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.
Carpenters Middle poetry students share at coffeehouse - 10 views
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Poetry Reading/Coffeehouse
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Thank you for sharing this article. We held a "coffee house" poetry presentation last year at our middle school and it was wonderful. We plan to do it again and I am always looking for ideas. We held ours during the school day and had tables with table clothes and battery operated candles. We incorporated some beatnik themes - some of us wore berets and we had the students snap instead of clap. It was great fun.
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Thank you for sharing this article. We held a "coffee house" poetry presentation last year at our middle school and it was wonderful. We plan to do it again and I am always looking for ideas. We held ours during the school day and had tables with table clothes and battery operated candles. We incorporated some beatnik themes - some of us wore berets and we had the students snap instead of clap. It was great fun.
ActionBioscience - 52 views
Educational Leadership:Reading to Learn:Can't Get Kids to Read? Make It Social - 85 views
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Can't Get Kids to Read? Make It Social William M. Ferriter
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One great tool for creating social reading experiences is Diigo (www.diigo.com), a free online application that allows users to add highlights and comments onscreen to any Web-based text. These comments can be seen by anyone using Diigo and are identified with the commenter's user name. Diigo also enables users to bookmark and "tag" with keywords any online articles that they find fascinating. Classes studying topics together can share their reading. Articles tagged by one user become instantly available to another, providing a source for continued study and ongoing conversations. The best news is that creating secure student accounts in Diigo is easy. Teachers can form a classroom group that enables students to see only the articles bookmarked and the annotations shared by their teachers and peers—instead of the comments of the entire Diigo community.
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ttp://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Social-Bookmarking-and-Annotating
iPad vs Kindle vs Netbooks vs Books: What's Best for Students? | AceOnlineSchools.com -... - 51 views
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Textbooks
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3G wireless for $130 plus $15 or $30 per month
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imagine not being able to listen to music or read an e-book while surfing the web
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By all accounts, the iPad will be running current iPhone OS 3.1 which does allow you to listen to music while doing other things...the rub will be creating a presentation in Keynote for iPad without direct access to the web for photos...or having to shut down Safari to check your Twitter client, etc.
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I think a big miss on this article is any discussion of content creation capabilities of netbooks and iPad. Kindle and Dead Tree books don't allow extensive content creation, the iPad has limited capabilities, but netbooks open up a whole range of creative possibility. Also, it's obvious this article is geared toward college students, not middle or high school.
Education Week: It's the Classroom, Stupid - 52 views
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Without these instructional supports, expectations for teachers and students are unrealistic, and the system is set up for failure.
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Instead, outside management systems and managers must be imported.
Social Bookmarking in Education with Diigo - 66 views
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Diigo lets you do more than just bookmark web pages online. For instance, if you install the Diigo toolbar, or toolbar button, you have the ability to highlight text and pictures in a variety of colors, or add sticky notes to a bookmarked page.
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Voici un site intéressant sur l'utilisation de Diigo en enseignement
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Social bookmarking in education is a new and exciting opportunity for teachers and students to connect and collaborate online. Using Diigo Educator accounts is one of the best ways to achieve this.\n\nRead more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/62228.aspx#ixzz0uRC5IDei
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Measuring Hell - 25 views
Dissent Magazine - Winter 2011 Issue - Got Dough? Public Scho... - 59 views
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To justify their campaign, ed reformers repeat, mantra-like, that U.S. students are trailing far behind their peers in other nations, that U.S. public schools are failing. The claims are specious. Two of the three major international tests—the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and the Trends in International Math and Science Study—break down student scores according to the poverty rate in each school. The tests are given every five years. The most recent results (2006) showed the following: students in U.S. schools where the poverty rate was less than 10 percent ranked first in reading, first in science, and third in math. When the poverty rate was 10 percent to 25 percent, U.S. students still ranked first in reading and science. But as the poverty rate rose still higher, students ranked lower and lower. Twenty percent of all U.S. schools have poverty rates over 75 percent. The average ranking of American students reflects this. The problem is not public schools; it is poverty. And as dozens of studies have shown, the gap in cognitive, physical, and social development between children in poverty and middle-class children is set by age three.
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Drilling students on sample questions for weeks before a state test will not improve their education. The truly excellent charter schools depend on foundation money and their prerogative to send low-performing students back to traditional public schools. They cannot be replicated to serve millions of low-income children. Yet the reform movement, led by Gates, Broad, and Walton, has convinced most Americans who have an opinion about education (including most liberals) that their agenda deserves support.
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THE COST of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive influence, it turns out. A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year
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Texting teenagers are proving 'more literate than ever before' - Times Online - 88 views
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using colloquial words, informal phrases and text-messaging shorthand — such as m8 for ‘mate’, 2 instead of ‘too’ and u for ‘you’.
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Despite this, the two-year study found that today’s teenagers are using far more complex sentence structures, a wider vocabulary and a more accurate use of capital letters, punctuation and spelling.
Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 41 views
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found that students who read a passage, then took a test asking them to recall what they had read, retained about 50 percent more of the information a week later than students who used two other methods.
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I think that learning is all about retrieving, all about reconstructing our knowledge,
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When they are later asked what they have learned, she went on, they can more easily “retrieve it and organize the knowledge that they have in a way that makes sense to them.”
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Disrupting College - 3 views
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Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
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Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
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Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
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An article showing how online learning is a disruptive technology. Shining [the challenges of today's higher ed] through the lens of these theories on innovation will provide some insights into how we can move forward and a language that allows people to come together to frame these challenges in ways that will create a much higher chance of success. This report assumes that everyone is adept at online learning. This is not the case and students will have to be trained on how to be effective online learners. Courses will also have to address multiple learning styles and not just the read/write that most online courses currently are programmed for. Despite this missing piece, this is a very important article that focuses on some very key issues of our current higher ed system. The recommendations at the end of the article for policy makers are very apt. Highly recommended reading!
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Are high schools preparing students for success in college and careers when what we do is so very different from what they will experience when they leave our little boxes?
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