Digital Domain - Computers at Home - Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality - NYTimes.com - 32 views
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Economists are trying to measure a home computer’s educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households.
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little or no educational benefit is found. Worse, computers seem to have further separated children in low-income households, whose test scores often decline after the machine arrives, from their more privileged counterparts.
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few children whose families obtained computers said they used the machines for homework. What they were used for — daily — was playing games.
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The Default Major - Skating Through B-School - NYTimes.com - 41 views
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Dr. Mason, who teaches economics at the University of North Florida, believes his students are just as intelligent as they’ve always been. But many of them don’t read their textbooks, or do much of anything else that their parents would have called studying. “We used to complain that K-12 schools didn’t hold students to high standards,” he says with a sigh. “And here we are doing the same thing ourselves.”
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all evidence suggests that student disengagement is at its worst in Dr. Mason’s domain: undergraduate business education.
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“Business education has come to be defined in the minds of students as a place for developing elite social networks and getting access to corporate recruiters,”
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40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies - 105 views
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See Readicide for a powerful argument of how we as teachers, while well-intentioned, can “schoolify” reading and viewing and learning to the point that it’s unrecognizable to anyone anywhere on the planet outside of the classroom, and make students think they hate what they’re doing in the process.
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You can’t watch a video like you read a book; the modalities couldn’t be much different.
Media and Technology Resources for Educators | Common Sense Media - 15 views
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Digital citizenship curriculum targets 4th, 5th graders
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Lesson plans, articles, and tools to teach Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety
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Internet safety FREE curriculum and implementation guides. The site has admin, teacher, and student resources. Digital Passport is one of the Internet Safety programs available.
California Bill Would Force Colleges to Honor Online Classes - NYTimes.com - 13 views
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Being in this world I was happy to see our innovations being shared. When I read the comments (unfortunately closed ATM) I became aware of the largely unfavorable reactions to solutions that we are a part of. I was shocked. So many people willing to throw stones and to assign conspiratorial motivations to the "improvements" being introduced.
The Nerdy Teacher: What Makes Project Based Learning Effective? #Edchat #EngChat - 132 views
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1. OWNERSHIP is key. For this project, the students were not listening to me on why Twain was or was not a racist, they were showing me and the rest of class what they thought. They were invested in winning their argument. They knew that their work was going to determine if he was guilty or not. Although I gave the assignment, the students were in charge the rest of the way. It was their project and they wanted to do it win. When students feel they own what they are doing, they will work harder. When the audience is larger, they want to impress everyone. These are not crazy ideas, they are the results of owning the work they are doing. OWNERSHIP is a major factor in the value of PBL. 2. CREATIVITY is the another major part of the PBL and is closely linked with OWNERSHIP. Students were allowed to be creative in their work as a lawyer or witness. Witnesses needed to stay within character, but could add their own elements on the witness stand. Allowing the students to create gives them a bigger sense of OWNERSHIP. 3. Another part of the PBL is the COLLABORATION. Students were working with each other trying to decide the best plan of attack. Witnesses would meet with their lawyers and discuss how the questions they were going to ask and how they should dress. The Jury worked on group projects researching the previous public opinions on Twain and his writing. Students were sharing ideas freely with one another. I had three sections of American Lit at the time, so I had three trails running. Lawyers would help others in the other classes and trash talk the opposing lawyers as well. It was all in good fun, but the collaboration had students working hard with one another to accomplish this goal. 4. Depending on how you set up your project, CRITICAL THINKING, is also an important part of PBL. With my Twain Trail, students needed to think about both sides of the argument. Students needed to prepare their witnesses for potential cross-examination questions. They needed to
How to Teach a Novel: Six Ways to Improve Close Readings - 176 views
Future proof your Education - 115 views
Teacher Magazine: Boys Trail Girls in Reading; Can Fart Jokes Help? - 32 views
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Parents of reluctant readers complain that boys are forced to stick to stuffy required school lists that exclude nonfiction or silly subjects, or have teachers who cater to higher achievers and girls. They're hoping books that exploit boys' love of bodily functions and gross-out humor can close the gap.
Seven Language Moves for Learning - The Learner's Way - 9 views
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Our language choices communicate both intended and unintended messages. In the choices we make, in the subtlety of these choices, lies a truth more powerful than that conveyed by a literal reading of our words. When we look closely and critically at our use of language, we begin to see particular patterns which reveal much about what we genuinely value and expect from our learners.
Student Engagement and Closing the Opportunity Gap: An Action Plan, Part 1 - Reading By... - 62 views
Russ on Reading: PARCC Tests and Readability: A Close Look - 33 views
Shift to the Future: What Kids Say About Blogging - 6 views
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The cool thing about this is that family members can far more easily be involved in her learning and in providing regular feedback than they could be if her writing was only contained in the traditional paper journal.
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Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You? - 1 views
Students tap into technology - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 1 views
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use their laptops to read "Don Quixote" and Dante's "Divine Comedy" on the Internet
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Technology is the wave of the future
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a computer program
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Brief meditative exercise helps cognition - 5 views
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"Simply stated, the profound improvements that we found after just 4 days of meditation training- are really surprising," Zeidan noted. "It goes to show that the mind is, in fact, easily changeable and highly influenced, especially by meditation."
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The meditation training involved in the study was an abbreviated "mindfulness" training regime modeled on basic "Shamatha skills" from a Buddhist meditation tradition
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"Findings like these suggest that meditation's benefits may not require extensive training to be realized, and that meditation's first benefits may be associated with increasing the ability to sustain attention,"
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CBI: Our education systems are not delivering - while average performance rises gently,... - 0 views
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Spending on education accelerated still further after 1997, rising in real terms by 71% by 2010-11.
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UK ranks among the highest spending OECD countries measured in terms of percentage of GDP on education.
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