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Steve Ransom

CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students - NYTimes.com - 21 views

www.nytimes.com/...04remedial.html

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  • “The course is really a refresher, but they aren’t ready for a refresher. They need to learn how to learn.”
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      Steve Ransom on 04 Mar 11
       
      Learning how to learn... this is the real problem, isn' it? If K-12 is failing, this is it.
  • The knowledge gap at community colleges is increasingly being recognized as a national problem.
  • “Many, many community college presidents will say that math developmental education is the most difficult problem they’re facing,”
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  • “There’s no question that the more remediation a student needs, the less likely they are ever to graduate.”
  • only about 25 percent of full-time students at the community colleges graduate within six years
  • “I embrace developmental education because it pivots lives,” Dr. Mellow said. “If students get an associate’s degree, they can become nurses, making $85,000 a year. If they don’t make it through that developmental class, they’ll barely make minimum wage.”
  • “For those who make it to the exit line, to see the beam on their faces is really incredible.”
Betty Powell

Video- VoiceThread for K-2 - 90 views

www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php

voicethread web2.0

shared by Betty Powell on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Betty Powell on 19 Oct 09
     
    Examples from teacher on how to use VoiceThread
mgranger

Media and Technology Resources for Educators | Common Sense Media - 15 views

www.commonsensemedia.org/educators

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shared by mgranger on 01 Apr 11 - Cached
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  • Marc Patton on 01 Apr 11
     
    Digital citizenship curriculum targets 4th, 5th graders
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