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NAEP Gets It One-Third Right -- THE Journal - 15 views

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shared by Ann Darling on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • gets, the more the debate will stir and positive things can come of all this.
  • 9 Gail Desler California I look forward to following this discussion! Currently many school districts have the same keyboarding + MS Office requirement for tech proficiency shared above by Interested Parent. I think to continue with that model well into the 21st century is really the train wreck waiting to happen. I've read through the NAEP draft. as well as some of their referenced documents from ISTE, http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/ DOT , and the http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/2 DOT 1stcentdefinition and am hopeful that the NAEP framework will promote the integration of technology literacy across the curriculum. Thanks for starting the conversation.
  • Wed, Sep 9, 2009 Dick Schutz http://ssrn.com/author=1199505 The framework defines technology as "any modification of the natural or designed world done to fulfill human needs or desires." I can't think of any human action that wouldn't fall under that definition The definition of technological literacy is "the capacity to use, understand, and evaluate technology as well as to apply concepts and processes to solve problems and reach one’s goals. It encompasses the three areas of Technology and Society, Design and Systems, and Information and Communications Technology." That's pretty much universal expertise. This is to be measured with a 50 minute test starting at Grade 4. The specs for the tests at Grades 8 and 12 merely get more detailed and more abstract. By the time this gets run through the Item Response Theory wringer we'll have results that are sensitive to racial/SES differences but not to instructional differences. I'll look forward to your forthcoming explanations of how this came to happen.
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  • The problem? Namely, this: With no established federal definition of technological literacy, most states have chosen to follow the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) established by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and to create their curricula and assessments accordingly.
  • gical literacy that is very different from anything any state or No Child Left Behind (NCLB) envisioned. From the draft document: "In recent decades the meaning of technological literacy has taken on three quite different… forms in the United States. These are the science, technology, and society approach, the technology education approach, and the information and communications technology approach. In recognition of the importance, educational value, and interdependence of these three approaches, this framework includes all three under its broad definition of technological literacy."
  • Geoffrey H. Fletcher is the editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Group. He can be reached at gfletcher@1105media.com. Comments
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Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 57 views

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shared by Janice Stearns on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Instead, powerful learning depends on the quality of the conversation that develops around the content being studied together.  That means teachers must systematically introduce students to a set of collaborative dialogue behaviors that can be easily implemented online.
  • While these early interactions are simplistic processes that by themselves aren't enough to drive meaningful change in teaching and learning, they are essential because they provide team members with low risk opportunities to interact with one another around the topics, materials and instructional practices that should form the foundation of classroom learning experiences.
  • Janice Stearns on 23 Oct 09
     
    An in depth article on social bookmarking and the new way it is influencing reading and writing. This article has suggestions for strategies to use in the classroom with students. via Alice Barr on Diigo
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Technology + mentoring helps failing schools achieve - 50 views

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shared by Mr. Loftus on 07 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • Amid growing pressure on public school districts to improve performance of chronically struggling schools, two nationally recognized education organizations have formed a consortium to offer a research-based approach for transforming  these schools into successful learning environments without requiring mass dismissals of staff, school closures or turnover to charters or outside management organizations.
  • The new initiative, called SetPoint, pairs classroom technology with intensive coaching to build capacity for sustained change within the local district.
  • With the SetPoint process, most staff members remain in their positions and receive intensive coaching and modeling in best instructional practices from experienced principals and school leaders.
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untitled - 23 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • In this HASTAC forum, three Scholars invite you to consider evaluation and assessment in the face of new forms of digital media, new kinds of skills and technologies, and the ever-changing landscape of education and academia.
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A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2 - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 56 views

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shared by Abir Qasem on 09 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Increasingly, students are buying an "experience" instead of earning an education, and, in the competition to attract customers, that's what's colleges are selling.
  • The common experience is that getting admitted is the most exhausting part. After that, the struggle mainly is financial. But at the major universities, most professors are too busy to care about individual students, and it is easy to become lost amid a sea of equally disenchanted undergraduates looking for some kind of purpose—and not finding it.
  • Academically Adrift ends on a depressing note: "A renewed commitment to improving undergraduate education is unlikely to occur without changes to the organizational cultures of colleges and universities." Institutions are inherently conservative; they do not change easily. Many leaps of faith are necessary, and the people involved—teachers, students, parents, administrators, lawmakers, and others—have so many fundamental disagreements about the purposes of higher education that it is hard to know where to begin the conversation. It's far easier to make cuts to an inherently broken system than to begin building something new.
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  • The student as consumer
  • Changing forms of literac
  • Declining academic engagement.
  • Alienation from professors
  • Expanding social and extracurricular commitments.
  • The escalating cost of education.
  • Students feeling disillusioned, bored, apathetic, scared, and trapped
  • Anxiety about future employment.
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The Creativity Killer: Group Discussions - David Sherwin - Life - The Atlantic - 76 views

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shared by D. S. Koelling on 19 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Yes, group activity can provide the impetus for better framing of problems, which can lead to original solutions. But creativity is the "end result of many forms of intelligence coming together, and intelligence born out of collaboration and out of networks," to quote one of my co-workers, Robert Fabricant. When we collaborate with different kinds of thinkers, sometimes from different cultures and backgrounds, we individually struggle with ingrained behaviors that reduce our likelihood of manifesting creativity.
  • Instead of holding an hour-long meeting with a facilitator at the whiteboard, pen poised to capture ideas called out, what would happen if every person in the room were provided five minutes to generate ideas individually?
  • When we lose track of time in group discussion, we are often crafting an enjoyable group experience at the cost of surfacing everyone's unique perspectives and voices. We risk filling the time with consensus, rather than exploring divergent, multi-disciplinary viewpoints. It is in the friction between these views that we explore new patterns of thought.
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  • this kind of teamwork requires knowing when not to work in teams. This sounds obvious, but we constantly struggle with the belief that we must be inclusive to succeed. When to diverge and when to converge: that is the question.
  • A useful tool to combat open-ended group dialogue is "timeboxing," the use of short, structured sprints to reach stated goals for individuals or teams.
  • D. S. Koelling on 19 Apr 11
     
    A case for rethinking how we generate ideas.
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Brain Food: Realistic Lateral Thinking Puzzles - 201 views

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shared by A Gardner on 06 Apr 11 - Cached
  • A Gardner on 06 Apr 11
     
    Link from coxmath.blogspot
  • Sigrid Murphy on 07 Apr 11
     
    These puzzles are not for me. Perhaps I'm too right-brained.
  • Mark Falcon on 07 Apr 11
     
    It's probably my Engineering background but some of these assume (incorrectly) alot. For example. "A man is lying dead in a room. There is a large pile of gold and jewels on the floor, a chandelier attached to the ceiling, and a large open window." "Lying" leads one to believe the man is being held down by weight. If we assume he properly set his ballasts for zero/neutral buoyancy he would be floating especially given his now empty tank. Also most wreckage divers use some form of balloon or cabling system attached to a boat to help "carry" heavy loads to the surface. So he wouldn't have been held down by the find. Finally, only the most experienced divers, with the proper training dive for salvage. An experience diver would never be caught out with no air. Not to mention the problems states there is an easy access path with the "large window" so even if things went completely wrong, the diver could have at least tried for the surface. I'm with Sigrid, not for me. ;-)
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What Is a Book? The Definition Continues to Blur: Tech News and Analysis « - 45 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • a whole series of ongoing attempts to reimagine the entire industry of writing and selling books. If you’re an author, it’s a time of incredible chaos, but also incredible opportunity.
  • a market where Amazon is already publishing what it calls “Singles,” or short book-length publications that virtually anyone can produce.
  • author Barry Eisler, after publishing a number of books through the traditional route, said recently he’s going to start self-publishing, because he will have more control over the process and will keep more of the revenue.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Apr 11
     
    "It used to be so easy to define what a book was: a collection of printed pages bound inside a cover (hard or soft) that you could place on a shelf in your library, or in a store. Now, there are e-books, and blogs that turn into books, and long pieces of journalism that are somewhere between magazine articles and short books"
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 22 Apr 11
     
    Good article that notes the increase of self-publication with eBooks that can be purchased from Amazon
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101 Puzzles from Richard Wiseman - 124 views

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shared by Gerald Carey on 24 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 24 Apr 11
     
    All 101 puzzles are there - but they are also available in book form.
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Technology Integration: Project Planning Form - 135 views

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  • Technology Integration: Unit Planning
    • camillenapierbernstein
      camillenapierbernstein on 05 May 11
       
      Many of the links are broken -- this site is outdated.
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Direct Object Pronouns: Part Three - 0 views

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shared by Erin DeBell on 17 Jul 11 - Cached
    • Erin DeBell
      Erin DeBell on 17 Jul 11
       
      Scroll down for a really important rule about sentences with MORE THAN ONE VERB!
  • When a sentence has two verbs, the first verb is conjugated and the second verb remains in the infinitive form.
  • Puedo pagar
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  • prefiere hablar
  • In sentences with two verbs, there are two options regarding the placement of the direct object pronoun.
  • Here are the two methods side by side. Neither method is "better" than the other.
  • These same rules apply for questions and negative statements. ¿Lo debemos comprar? ¿Debemos comprarlo? Should we buy it? Juan no lo necesita lavar. Juan no necesita lavarlo. John doesn't need to wash it.
    • Erin DeBell
      Erin DeBell on 17 Jul 11
       
      Do you get it?  Test yourself here:   http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/dopro3.htm
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Indirect Object Pronouns: Part Three - 0 views

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shared by Erin DeBell on 17 Jul 11 - No Cached
    • Erin DeBell
      Erin DeBell on 17 Jul 11
       
      SCROLL DOWN FOR AN IMPORTANT RULE FOR SENTENCES WITH MULTIPLE VERBS (BACK TO BACK VERBS)
  • When a sentence has two verbs, the first verb is conjugated and the second verb remains in the infinitive form.
  • Puedo pagar
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  • prefiere hablar
  • In sentences with two verbs, there are two options regarding the placement of the indirect object pronoun.
  • Here are examples of the indirect object pronoun placed before the conjugated verb:
  • Here are examples of the indirect object pronoun attached directly to the infinitive:
  • Here are the two methods side by side. Neither method is "better" than the other.
  • you must learn to recognize whole groups of words, rather than inspecting each word independently.
  • Your success in being able to recognize these groups is largely dependent upon having learned previous material -- namely verb conjugation.
  • You need to be able to quickly recognize a conjugated verb and an infinitive. You need to automatically recognize "necesito comprar" as "I need to buy."
  • If you can do that, it is just one small step to recognize "te necesito comprar" as "I need to buy for you." From there, the final step is easy: "Te necesito comprar un regalo."
    • Erin DeBell
      Erin DeBell on 17 Jul 11
       
      How quickly are you able to recognize and produce conjugations of key verbs?  Most students are not as confident with conjugation as they should be when they start studying object pronouns.  No wonder it does not come easy!  Want to fix this?   Visit this link to practice conjugating common irregular verbs in the present tense.  If you like it, keep practicing all the other tenses you need to know!
    • Erin DeBell
      Erin DeBell on 17 Jul 11
       
      http://conjuguemos.com/home/docs/nologin/spanish_verbs_verbs_6.html This link also includes regular verbs, FYI.  Follow the link and click START to begin!
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The Accelerated Modular Learning Project: The Evolution into Web-based Courses - 49 views

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shared by Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      To consider about the students: Time, place and style of learning.
  • Information and knowledge
  • paradigm shift
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  • formal kind of learning
  • lifelong learning
  • job, learning from others, learning constantly, learning in any place, and at any time.
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      Types of learning: job, from others (group), mobile
  • how to reconfigure courses into modules
  • enhance the learning process
  • ncorporation of multimedia
  • other technologies
  • 1997-98 academic year
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      Is the goal to move up this chain or to have a wide variety of types?
  • online, multimedia presentations and interactive exercises with instructors and peers
  • synchronous and asynchronous learning,
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      This sound very similar to the CTER program at U of I.
  • attendance by students is not required
  • materials are being developed throughout the semester
  • online testing, various forms of assessment, and groupware discussions.
  • fail a module exam are required to retake the exam
  • two scores are averaged.
  • Students are able to learn at their own pace,
  • progress
  • take the lead
  • help others reinforce what they have learned.
  • enhancing/extending
  • learner-centered environment
  • pace to match individual learning needs and styles
  • Web-presence
  • support new learning environments
  • increasing on/off-campus access to the teaching-learning community
    • Tricia Rodriguez
      Tricia Rodriguez on 19 Oct 11
       
      And here is where you can see that this was written in 1998 :)
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For Children of Same-Sex Couples, a Student Aid Maze - NYTimes.com - 28 views

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shared by Maughn Gregory on 15 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Because these students cannot fully portray their family’s finances, the amount of aid they receive may not fairly reflect their needs.
  • officials from the Department of Education, which issues it, said that applicants with two married mothers or fathers must fill out the Fafsa as if the couple were divorced.
  • For Children of Same-Sex Couples, a Student Aid Maze
  • Maughn Gregory on 15 Oct 11
     
    " Because these students cannot fully portray their family's finances, the amount of aid they receive may not fairly reflect their needs."
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Get the Most out of Online Quizzes « classroom2point0 - 156 views

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shared by Suzanne Nelson on 23 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Unfortunately, life is not multiple choice; it’s a story problem. If we want to prepare our students for the demands of college and the real world, we cannot afford to whittle away their knowledge to a, b, c, d, or e: all of the above. At the same time, our time as teachers is at a premium and very few of us can afford to spend hours grading essay tests.
  • Fortunately, the powers that be are aligning in the classroom teacher’s favor, and there are two great tools you can use to reduce your grading time.
  • So what does QuizStar have that other sites don’t? My favorite feature of QuizStar by far is the “choose all that apply” option. You can create a
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  • Edmodo has finally created a quiz application!
  • Edmodo’s quiz feature allows you to create a quiz that mixes multiple choice, short answer, true/false, and fill in the blank.
  • But like QuizStar, Edmodo also analyzes results for you.
  • Rules for ALL Online Quizzes 1.  Never, ever, EVER copy a question from a textbook or a quiz you found online. I can almost guarantee that some enterprising student somewhere has copied the question and placed an answer key online.
  • Getting the Most out of Formative Assessments 1.  Set a time limit that will simultaneously allow students enough time to an
  • Getting the Most out of Open Note Formal Assessments 1.  If you are going to permit students to use notes and worksheets from class, design your questions so that they must apply the information they have at their fingertips. I
  • Getting the Most out of Closed Note Formal Assessments 1.  If no notes are permitted, reduce the amount of time students have to take the test. For multiple choice at the high school level, 45 seconds per question is fairly standard.
  • Experimentation and Feedback As you play around with online quizzes, ask your students to give you feedback. They’ll let you know what’s working and what isn’t.
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Student Acceptable Use Agreement - Consent Forms and Templates - Learning On Line - Dep... - 103 views

www.education.vic.gov.au/...aua.htm DEECD AUP netiquette policy template student
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 04 Apr 12
     
    "The Department has provided these templates to assist school communities to develop agreements as to what constitutes acceptable use of internet, Ultranet, netbooks and other online and digital technologies in their communities. These agreement are templates. Schools can add and/or delete information where necessary to make them relevant to their school environment."
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Comment le Royaume-Uni risque de perdre davantage en ayant triplé les frais u... - 1 views

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shared by Emmanuel Zilberberg on 30 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Mais le taux d’impayés est récemment grimpé à 45 % au lieu des 28% à 30% prévus lorsque la réforme a été adoptée
    • Emmanuel Zilberberg
      Emmanuel Zilberberg on 30 Mar 14
       
      Les opportunités gagnées par le gouvernement étaient claires. L'internalisation d'un coût supplémentaire par les étudiants représentaient des coûts évités en se transformant en actifs financiers sous forme de prêts à très long termes accordés aux étudiants. Le risque est que ces prêts ne soient pas remboursés et qu'ils faillent transformer une partie de ces créances (45%) en charges (pertes sur créances irrécouvrables).
  • Le gouvernement a, dans le même temps, réduit de 40 % ses subventions à ces établissements et promis aux étudiants des prêts à taux avantageux, d’une durée maximale de trente ans, garantis par l’Etat
    • Emmanuel Zilberberg
      Emmanuel Zilberberg on 30 Mar 14
       
      L'abondement des prêts par le gouvernment britannique est la contrepartie de la diminution des subventions aux établissements créant ainsi des besoins de financement qui seront financés par les frais de scolarité augmentés.
  • apprend que le service d’Etat chargé de recouvrer lesdits paiements est assez peu outillé et efficace
    • Emmanuel Zilberberg
      Emmanuel Zilberberg on 30 Mar 14
       
      Une partie des coûts de financement de l'éducation évité est compensé par l'accroissement des coûts de recouvrement de ces prêts.
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  • Un effet pourtant bien prévisible et néfaste de la forte augmentation des frais d’inscription est la baisse, en 2012-2013, du nombre d’étudiants : -5,5 %, soit 27 000 nouveaux étudiants de moins qu’en 2011-2012
    • Emmanuel Zilberberg
      Emmanuel Zilberberg on 30 Mar 14
       
      De manière assez prévisible, la hausse des prix de l'éducation fait diminuer la demande. Quelle est dans ces conditions l'évolution de la marge contributive réalisée par les universités qui doivent couvrir des coûts fixes élevés.
  • de « full cost », qui consiste à faire payer aux étudiants le coût réel de leur enseignement
    • Emmanuel Zilberberg
      Emmanuel Zilberberg on 30 Mar 14
       
      Il me semble que puisque le gouvernement britannique subventionne encore, bien que dans une proportion moindre, les universités, on ne peut prétendre qu'il s'agit d'une "expérimentation grandeur nature du concept de full cost"
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Digital Student Portfolios: A Whole-School Approach | MiddleWeb - 73 views

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shared by Ross Davis on 28 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Matt Renwick on 28 Jul 14
     
    The particular software and services used to create these portfolios is a subject of some interest, to be sure, but it is secondary to the "big idea" itself: compiling a dynamic collection of information from many sources, in many forms and with many purposes, all aimed at presenting the most complete story possible of a student's learning experience.
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