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Jason Finley

E-learning tools and resources for schools and education - Mind Map - 256 views

www.mindomo.com/...511abbfb7e4145a33dbe6453d0f8af

web2.0

shared by Jason Finley on 06 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 06 Jan 12
     
    The person that put this together did an amazing job. "This is a collection of usefull web . and social media applications for anyone in education. I have tried them all and I have seen the potential in them. Now it is up to you and your imagination to use them in your teaching or when studying!"
Steve Ransom

Idaho Teachers Fight a Reliance on Computers - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...t-a-reliance-on-computers.html

shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • how teachers would be trained when some already work long hours and take second jobs to make ends meet.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 05 Jan 12
       
      The stark reality policy makers seem to ignore
  • Giving them easy access to a wealth of facts and resources online allows them to develop critical thinking skills, he said, which is what employers want the most.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 05 Jan 12
       
      No... TEACHERS help students develop critical thinking skills. Information and tools are but opportunities to be leveraged..
  • said there was no proof that the technology improved learning
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 05 Jan 12
       
      A typical politician who doesn't bother to really investigate the full body of research. There's also no proof that pencils, football, and textbooks improve learning either.
Marc Patton

Why the Chromebook? - 57 views

www.wheatonacademy.org/...Why_the_Chromebook%3f.htm

Planning Google

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  • Marc Patton on 15 Jan 14
     
    Supporting student learning is the primary goal and a non-negotiable factor of our 1:1 program.  In light of this principle, the following questions were asked in determining what kind of device we wanted at Wheaton Academy:
  • Matthew Rosenberg on 16 Jan 14
     
    Excellent article. Our school is going Chromebook next year and this article does a great job explaining Wheaton's Academies reasoning for their adoption of Chromebooks.
Maureen Greenbaum

Calls from Washington for streamlined regulation and emerging models | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...regulation-and-emerging-models

higher ed higher regulation competency based innovation accreditation

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 02 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • more of online “innovations” like competency-based education.
  • reauthorization of the Higher Education Act might shake out.
  • flow of federal financial aid to a wide range of course providers, some of which look nothing like colleges.
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  • give state regulators a new option to either act as accreditors or create their own accreditation systems.
  • “States could accredit online courses, or hybrid models with elements on- and off-campus.”
  • any new money for those emerging models would likely come out of the coffers of traditional colleges.
  • cut back on red tape that prevents colleges from experimenting with ways to cut prices and boost student learning.
  • decentralized, more streamlined form of accreditation.
  • regional accreditors are doing a fairly good job. They are under enormous pressure to keep “bad actors” at bay while also encouraging experimentation. And he said accreditors usually get it right.
  • Andrew Kelly, however, likes Lee’s idea. Kelly, who is director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Higher Education Reform, said it would create a credible alternative to the existing accreditation system, which the bill would leave intact.
  • eliminating bureaucracy in higher education regulation is a top priority
  • “Accreditation could also be available to specialized programs, individual courses, apprenticeships, professional credentialing and even competency-based tests,”
  • “The gateway to education reform is education oversight reform,”
  • broad, bipartisan agreement that federal aid policies have not kept pace with new approaches to higher education.
  • expansion of competency-based education. And he said the federal rules governing financial aid make it hard for colleges to go big with those programs.
  • accreditors is that they favor the status quo, in part because they are membership organizations of academics that essentially practice self-regulation.
  • “The technology has reached the point where it really can improve learning,” he said, adding that “it can lower the costs.”
  • changes to the existing accreditation system that might make it easier for competency-based and other emerging forms of online education to spread.
  • offering competency-based degrees through a process called direct assessment, which is completely de-coupled from the credit-hour standard.
John Evans

21st Century Pedagogy | 21st Century Connections - 1 views

www.21centuryconnections.com/...653

shared by John Evans on 16 Dec 08 - Cached
  • How we teach must reflect how our students learn. It must also reflect the world our students will move into. This is a world which is rapidly changing, connected, adapting and evolving. Our style and approach to teaching must emphasise the learning in the 21st century.
    • John McMillen
      John McMillen on 17 Dec 08
       
      One paragraph, very simple and staright forward but very powerful.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 06 Mar 09
       
      Absolutely. I think most teachers are doing a good job with sentence one. It's the second statement that we need to attend to!
Matt Renwick

Principal: What I've learned about annual standardized testing - The Washington Post - 36 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...ut-annual-standardized-testing

new-tests principal annual testing washington post

shared by Matt Renwick on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • the Department of Education should not be “a national school board.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 Feb 15
       
      Quote from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island)
  • to think that first-graders fluently reading would “cure poverty” is not only indefensible, it trivializes the great economic inequities that are the root cause of our nation’s greatest challenge.
  • I have witnessed schools move from progressive practices such as inclusion, to the grouping of special education students with ELLs and other struggling learners into “double period” classes where they are drilled to pass the test.
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  • There is now minimal support from the research community for the use of annual test scores in teacher evaluations, often referred to as VAM.
  • When teachers begin losing their jobs based on test scores, how easy will it be to attract excellent teachers to schools with high degrees of student mobility and/or truancy? Who will want to teach English language learners with interrupted education, or students with emotional disabilities that make their performance on tests unpredictable?
Jennifer Carey

My First Attempt at Employing Digital Storytelling in the Classroom « Indiana... - 175 views

indianajen.com/...-storytelling-in-the-classroom

digital storytelling classroom web2.0 technology resources history teaching learning tools

shared by Jennifer Carey on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Carey on 17 Sep 11
     
    Would love colleagues' thoughts and input on this lesson!
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  • Irene Reynolds on 17 Sep 11
     
    Thank you, Jennifer, for sharing your process on digital storytelling. I teach middle school English and am not as tech-savvy as you, but I know the value of a well-planned multimedia project for students. I am inspired to plan out a similar project, now that I see how to do it. I like that they create a storyboard and script to emphasize the "meat" of their project and not the glitzy stuff. Their narrated videos are quite impressive. Your students are lucky to have you!
  • Jennifer Carey on 17 Sep 11
     
    Thanks Irene! The students did such an amazing job. You really don't have to be tech-saavy to employ this in your classroom. The software is already so user-friendly. The person who taught me how to do this was an English teacher - she would use it with poetry, so that students would have to emphasize emotion in their reading. Very effective!
  • bruce schwartz on 17 Sep 11
     
    Jennifer, this is wonderful! I love how you give your students choices of which app to use and how you place the onus on them to learn it and to troubleshoot on their own. This is something that I teach in my computer classes because students have to acquire and feel comfortable with that skill. Thanks!
Maureen Greenbaum

Andy Kessler: Professors Are About to Get an Online Education - WSJ.com - 2 views

online.wsj.com/...4659404578504761168566272.html

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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • For the same $7,000 a year that New York City spends per student on school buses, you can now get a master's from one of the most well-respected programs in the country.
  • Students who worked with online content passed at a higher rate than classroom-only students, 91% to 60%
  • Today's job market—whether you're designing new drugs, fracking for oil, writing mobile apps or marketing Pop Chips—requires graduates who can think strategically in real time, have strong cognitive skills, see patterns, work in groups and know their way around highly visual virtual environments. This is the same generation that grew up playing online games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, but who are almost never asked to use their online skills in any classroom.
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  • Online education is about taking the "best in class" teachers and scaling them to thousands or millions of students rather than 25-30 at a time.
Tonya Maier

How high-school decisions can affect your career - 72 views

www.careerbuilder.com/...cisions-can-affect-your-career

Careers

shared by Tonya Maier on 02 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • According to research cited in the book, high-school seniors who worked 20 hours per week had annual earnings as young adults that were 25 to 30 percent higher than those seniors who didn't work.
  • Increased chance of being hired More hours of work over the year Higher hourly or annual earnings Increased benefits offerings, such as health insurance Greater employment stability Better upward mobility Increased chances of employer-supported training
  • four key issues that need to be addressed in high school to help set students up for career success.
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  • "The problem for many students, and even parents, is that they fail to think of high-school education as an investment good," according to the book "College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs."
  • Pay levels can also vary based on how much higher learning is obtained. As the book explains, graduates of two-year degree programs earn 22 percent more per year than high-school graduates with no degree. Bachelor's degree holders earn about 66 percent more per year than their high-school graduate counterparts.
Maureen Greenbaum

A growing industry caters to college cheats - 26 views

www.marketplace.org/...industry-caters-college-cheats

cheating college

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 30 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • More than two-thirds of college students admit to having cheated on an assignment.
  • TakeYourClass.com and NoNeedtoStudy.com
  • .“The students and the people who are selling these services have the idea that all that really matters is the end, and that the processes that get you there, aren’t really significant.”To fight cheating, she said, colleges need to do a better job of teaching the value and relevance of learning.
Brianna Crowley

Why Schools Don't Teach Innovation - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Education Week - 10 views

blogs.edweek.org/..._schools_teach_innovation.html

innovation education

shared by Brianna Crowley on 18 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • most schools are designed and operated to penalize failure. Yet unless students are allowed to fail, they can't learn.
  • young innovators are intrinsically motivated.
  • Reformers can't have it both ways. If they want schools to develop the next Steve Jobs or J.J. Rowling, they have to let go of their obsession with test scores as indispensable evidence of quality education
Bob Rowan

Should Students Evaluate Their Teachers? | Edutopia - 66 views

www.edutopia.org/...valuation-teachers-ben-johnson

education teaching

shared by Bob Rowan on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • online survey of 1,883 students from 10 European countries
  • what the students expect
  • what they experience from their instructors
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  • looked at three characteristics
  • personality
  • classroom environment
  • teaching style
  • gap of 35 percent between what students expected and what professors were able to deliver
  • professors did best at being "confident" and "rational"
  • worst at being "inspiring"
  • wanted inspiring teachers that are approachable
  • clear idea of student requirements
  • good communicators
  • be alert to struggling students
  • student evaluations prove to be the most effective at providing specific information for formative evaluations
  • should be an important part of teacher evaluations
  • Informally, teachers are graded all the time
  • you could administer a formal climate survey
  • At the end of every test or quiz, put in a few non-graded questions
  • What did you like most about learning this topic
  • What was most difficult
  • could the teacher have done a better job
  • What would you recommend to improve this course? What do you want to see more of in this class? Less of?"
  • 21st-century education E-newsletter
  • Bob Rowan on 09 May 12
     
    The author reflects on student evaluations, citing a study that asked students what they expect from their professors (also talks about how it applies to K-12 schools)
Steve Ransom

The fantasies driving school reform: A primer for education graduates - The Answer Shee... - 5 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQA5vwzLU_blog.html

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shared by Steve Ransom on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • Richard Rothstein
  • In truth, this conventional view relies upon imaginary facts.
  • Let me repeat: black elementary school students today have better math skills than white students did only twenty years ago.
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  • As a result, we’ve wasted 15 years avoiding incremental improvement, and instead trying to upend a reasonably successful school system.
  • But the reason it hasn’t narrowed is that your profession has done too good a job — you’ve improved white children’s performance as well, so the score gap persists, but at a higher level for all.
  • Policymakers, pundits, and politicians ignore these gains; they conclude that you, educators, have been incompetent because the test score gap hasn’t much narrowed.
  • If you believe public education deserves greater support, as I do, you will have to boast about your accomplishments, because voters are more likely to aid a successful institution than a collapsing one.
  • In short, underemployment of parents is not only an economic crisis — it is an educational crisis. You cannot ignore it and be good educators.
  • equally important educational goals — citizenship, character, appreciation of the arts and music, physical fitness and health, and knowledge of history, the sciences, and literature.
  • If you have high expectations, your students can succeed regardless of parents’ economic circumstances. That is nonsense.
  • health insurance; children are less likely to get routine and preventive care that middle class children take for granted
  • If they can’t see because they don’t get glasses to correct vision difficulties, high expectations can’t teach them to read.
  • Because education has become so politicized, with policy made by those with preconceptions of failure and little understanding of the educational process, you are entering a field that has become obsessed with evaluating only results that are easy to measure, rather than those that are most important. But as Albert Einstein once said, not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.
  • To be good educators, you must step up your activity not only in the classroom, but as citizens. You must speak up in the public arena, challenging those policymakers who will accuse you only of making excuses when you speak the truth that children who are hungry, mobile, and stressed, cannot learn as easily as those who are comfortable.
  • Steve Ransom on 14 May 12
     
    An important read for anyone who truly wants to understand what's really important in education and the false reform strategies of our current (and past) administration.
Sandy Dewey

Libraries: More Than Books | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - 35 views

www.youtube.com/watch

nonprofits activism internet learning computer centers education public computer centers computer skills computer access

shared by Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12
     
    Libraries provide more than books, computers and Internet. Librarians are partners in job search, skills building and career exploration. Libraries change the way we connect.
anonymous

Kids Create at Google I/O Youth | TIME For Kids - 35 views

www.timeforkids.com/...245831

ArticleOfTheWeek time

shared by anonymous on 08 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Google I/O conference, now in its seventh year.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 08 Jun 15
       
      Who knew that there was a Google I/O conference for youth?  How do you get invited to such?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 08 Jun 15
       
      Where does one go to study to be a web developer?  What kind of degree is that?  Where would one intern?  What other companies hire web developers?  
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  • A web developer’s job
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 15
       
      I notice that the more the folks in my department try to create, individualize, or make unique for our users, the more we need to access embed codes.  So, to learn the language of coding may really be an important part of what students need to know in the near future.
  • “Curiosity is the key to unlocking anything you’re interested in,”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 15
       
      Isn't this the key to engaging students?  Period.
  • “Mistakes mean that you can improve your ideas.”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 09 Jun 15
       
      Perhaps this should be posted in classrooms!
Beth Hartranft

Education & Career: Tips for Teachers, Parents & Job Seekers - 24 views

www.suite101.com/educationandcareer

teaching education resources learning tips

shared by Beth Hartranft on 26 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Beth Hartranft on 26 Aug 10
     
    "...your site for all things "educational" - with great teacher resources and career help." blog site with multiple feature writers
pseudandry

NJEA has it WRONG for NJ school librarians! - 36 views

On December 7, 2010, NJEA President Barbara Keshishian announced "research-based education reform." One of the aspects of the proposed plan involves Educational Technology Coaches. [ http://www.nj...

NJEA librarians professional development technology

started by pseudandry on 08 Dec 10 no follow-up yet
Dallas McPheeters

Serious Reading for Serious Futurists | World Future Society - 39 views

wfs.org/...ious-reading-serious-futurists

oecd ebook future education trends outlook

shared by Dallas McPheeters on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • free pdf
  • Trends Shaping Education 2010. OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Paris: OECD Publishing, Sept 2010, 90p, free pdf.
  • free pdf
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  • Learning for Jobs.
  • Dallas McPheeters on 13 Dec 10
     
    Education Today 2010: The OECD Perspecive. OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Paris: OECD Publishing, Oct 2010, 86p, free pdf.
Ed Webb

Dawn of the cyberstudent | University challenge | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...cyberstudent

news resources review tools web2.0 pedagogy

shared by Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09 - Cached
  • students often have more experience of using new technologies than many university managers — even if they need guidance in using them effectively
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      And there's the rub. Students can often read, too, in the basic sense. But our job as higher educators is to get them to really read, to read critically and do something with that reading. So, too, with the affordances of web2.0.
  • the research process is likely to become much more open
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      We can hope
  • a balance that suits them, which may lead to more varying degrees of face-to-face and online contact,
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  • "If you are in Second Life listening to a lecture, your ability to fly through a bush isn't that relevant,
  • All this will put added pressure on university staff, with increasing demands to respond to students 24/7. Read suggests one answer could be for universities in different parts of the world to share the load so that, as often happens already in industry "the work moves around with the sun".
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      Interesting concept. Dickinson and other internationally-connected institutions would be in good shape to innovate here.
  • learning culture
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    Guardian on how higher ed will have to adapt. Not sure the revolution is here quite yet.
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    "Cyberstudent" is a hideous term.
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