Inquire Within | It's not about getting the right answers but rather, asking really goo... - 7 views
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If we live in a collaborative world, why do we often wait until the work environment before we learn from others? Why do teachers fight the system, or more likely just ignore it?
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How can we create the desire to inquire? That is a hard issue to grapple with (and worthy of much inquiry by educators), but I'm sure that: 1) it's not grades, and 2) there's no silver bullet to get students motivated to dig deeper and extend their own learning. However, I think one great way to create deep motivation for some learners is encouraging them to leave a legacy.
Connect to a Chorus of Voices - 35 views
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"A collection of stories is the way to rewrite a singular history that has been in textbooks....I think it takes a lot of people telling a lot of stories about what their experience has been, what the experience of their ancestors has been." The speaker is Tommy Orange, an Oakland-based media consultant, writer, and digital storyteller who is an enrolled member of the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and describes himself as "a father, a son, a brother, an uncle, a partner, a storyteller, and a committed member and servant of his community." For Issue #3 of The Republic of Stories, our quarterly online publication, Arlene Goldbard interviewed Tommy and Tony Platt, author of books inlcuding Grave Matters: Excavating California's Buried Past, who lives in Berkeley and Big Lagoon, California, and serves as secretary of the Coalition to Protect Yurok Cultural Legacies at O-pyuweg (Big Lagoon).
LibreSSL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 6 views
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The site also links to a YouTube video of Bif Naked singing a cover version of the Twisted Sister song "We're Not Gonna Take It."[4]
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We're not gonna take it? Many underground areas have been talking about how this whole heartbleed thing has actually, just for quite a while, been something that was used internally by various gathering entities. So we're not gonna take it would be appropriate. Also earlier in the article you will notice they striped a lot of legacy support by forking LibreSSL from OpenSSL. They essentially took the same code and got rid of a bunch of stuff including legacy support for old ass OS's. This suggests that the vulnerability lied in some of that code.
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EarthEcho Expeditions: What's the Catch? - 5 views
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"Teachers in England are being invited to join a professional development opportunity through EarthEcho International sponsored by the Northrop Grumman Foundation. The 'EarthEcho Expeditions: What's the Catch?' programme leverages the rich Cousteau legacy of exploration and discovery to bring Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education alive for today's 21st-century learners and their educators. The free, expenses-paid opportunity is planned to allow secondary school teachers to participate as Expedition Fellows to learn first-hand from scientists and engineers the consequences of fisheries mismanagement and how this can be changed for the better with new technological approaches and discoveries."
New Podcast: Classroom Identity and Authenticity - 11 views
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As a former Bailey student and current community college professor, Soza has been inspired to spend seven years researching Dr. Bailey's life and work, particularly her unshakeable belief in her students' potential and profoundly effective non-traditional teaching approaches. Professor Soza explains how Bailey's authenticity and willingness to share so much of her self-her paintings, her scholarship, her travel experiences, and even her home-left behind a legacy of students whose lives were transformed by their professor's faith and personal investment in them.
The union wants an evaluation deal - NY Daily News - 1 views
Audacious Software: Books - 41 views
Freeh Report: Joe Paterno exposed as Penn State's Cowardly Lion - NCAA Football - Sport... - 42 views
World Class - What is World Class? - 42 views
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BBC World Class helps UK schools to twin with schools around the globe as part of its educational legacy for the 2012 Olympics. Our mission is to support teachers in developing school-to-school partnerships, encouraging pupils to share creative work inspired by the Olympics. World Class encourages and helps children and schools get their stories on-air and online across the BBC. We provide the inspiration and resources to help teachers bring their projects to life through reports, blogs and features. Schools can also use our wealth of assembly resources - film clips, scripts and discussion ideas - on topics inspired both by the Olympics and international stories. The Schools World Service provides stories every month for schools to share. We work in partnership with the British Council and other organisations outside the BBC which facilitate school twinning. BBC World Class offers support and advice to help schools twin successfully.
When the 'A' in U.C.L.A. Stands for 'Achievement' - Campaign Spotlight - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The campaign, now getting under way, is for the University of California, Los Angeles. The campaign proclaims that U.C.L.A. is the home of “the optimists,” people who are risk-takers, rule-breakers and game-changers.
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The campaign is the first for U.C.L.A. from an agency named 160 Over 90, which is based in Philadelphia and recently opened an office in Newport Beach, Calif.
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That work underscores the growing presence of universities and colleges as advertisers in the media. Their goals include selling themselves to prospective students and the parents of those students, seeking donations from alumni, recruiting faculty members and improving their standings in various surveys.
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That work underscores the growing presence of universities and colleges as advertisers in the media. Their goals include selling themselves to prospective students and the parents of those students, seeking donations from alumni, recruiting faculty members and improving their standings in various surveys.
Cellular Transport Overview - 43 views
Websites 'must be saved for history' | Technology | The Observer - 0 views
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while the Domesday Book, written on sheepskin in 1086, is still easily accessible, the software for many decade-old computer files - including thousands of government records - already renders them unreadable. The ephemera of emails, text messages and online video add to the headache of the 21st-century archivist.
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personal digital disorder
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In 2007 the library worked with Microsoft and the National Archives at Kew to prevent a "digital dark age" by unlocking millions of unreadable stored computer files. Microsoft installed the Virtual PC 2007, allowing users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same computer and unlock what are called "legacy" Microsoft Office formats dating back 15 years or more.
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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - 1 views
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Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
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today's students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors
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we can say with certainty that their thinking patterns have changed
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Do Schools Really Need Principals? - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 50 views
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few are prepared for the demands of a system that can't afford free riders
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few are prepared for the demands of a system that can't afford free riders
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few are prepared for the demands of a system that can't afford free riders
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Economic Scene - Study Rethinks Importance of Kindergarten Teachers - NYTimes.com - 19 views
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Early this year, Mr. Chetty and five other researchers set out to fill this void. They examined the life paths of almost 12,000 children who had been part of a well-known education experiment in Tennessee in the 1980s. The children are now about 30, well started on their adult lives.
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Just as in other studies, the Tennessee experiment found that some teachers were able to help students learn vastly more than other teachers. And just as in other studies, the effect largely disappeared by junior high, based on test scores. Yet when Mr. Chetty and his colleagues took another look at the students in adulthood, they discovered that the legacy of kindergarten had re-emerged.
Culture of East Africa | USA Today - 1 views
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Up until the 15th century, the cultures of Eastern Africa lived in relative isolation, building up kingdoms and empires, spreading agriculture and civilization throughout the region.
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n the 15th century, the Portuguese began exploring the coast of East Africa, seeking to seize control of the spice trade from the Muslim presence in the Middle East. Islamic resistance to this led to a large-scale Arab colonization of the coast, which lasted until European colonialism began in earnest in the 19th century.
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There are hundreds of languages spoken throughout East Africa, ranging from those spoken by only a few thousand to those spoken by millions. The most widely-spoken language, by far, is Swahili, with more than 5 million native speakers, and millions more who speak it as a secondary trade language. The island nations of East Africa, such as Madagascar, do not speak Swahili, instead speaking their own native languages, such as Malagasy.
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Creative Educator - Connecting Curricula for Deeper Understanding - 34 views
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Most schools will say that they want students to have an understanding of their world as a whole, but they seldom look at topics with an interdisciplinary focus. Why? It is easy to find reasons why this disjointed approach to learning happens: · Some argue that there is so much content and so many skills to be learned in each discipline that they don’t have time to integrate subjects. · Others say that the each discipline has a body of knowledge and skills that should stand on its own and not be muddied by the intrusion of other disciplines. · Secondary educators say that there is insufficient common planning time to combine their efforts to teach an interdisciplinary course. · Still others say that the whole system is geared toward separate subjects and to break out of this would require a monumental effort. · Others are guided by “the tests,” which are presented by separate disciplines.
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The ultimate goal for the study of any subject is to develop a deeper understanding of its content and skills so that students can engage in higher-level thinking and higher- level application of its principles. When students dig deeper and understand content across several disciplines, they will be better equipped to engage in substantive discussion and application of the topic. They will also be better able to see relationships across disciplines.
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They organize students into interdisciplinary teams and coordinate lessons so that what happens in math, science, language arts, and social studies all tie to a common theme. Many times these teachers team-teach during larger blocks of time. Advocates of this more holistic approach to curriculum argue that it helps students:
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Contemplating the consequences of Constructivism - The Learner's Way - 21 views
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learning is a process which occurs within the mind of the individual as they process stimuli arriving from their sensory buffer from their environment (broadly speaking), into working memory and onward into long-term memory.
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self-guided learning or self-initiated learning
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what is significant
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Constructivism is one of those ideas we throw around in educational circles without stopping to think about what we mean by it. They are the terms that have multiple meanings, are at once highly technical and common usage and are likely to cause debate and disagreements. Constructivism in particular carries a quantity of baggage with it. It is a term that is appropriated by supporters of educational approaches that are in stark contrast to the opposing view; constructivism vs didactic methods or direct instruction. The question is what are the origins of constructivism and does a belief in this as an approach to understanding learning necessitate an abandonment of direct instruction or is this a false dichotomy?
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