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Richard Lane

Technology will change education - 37 views

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    • Richard Lane
      Richard Lane on 25 Sep 13
       
      This is the Flipped Learning model.
  • begin implementing policies that allow for experimentation and reform rather than protecting the status quo
  • Preliminary indications are that emerging technologies can markedly improve many of the problems observed in education.
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    • Richard Lane
      Richard Lane on 25 Sep 13
       
      We need to be careful that technology does not become the focus here. It can facilitate change, but not drive it. We as educators, and students as learners (among others) will drive it. Technology is simply a tool/vehicle to assist us along the way.
Glenn Hervieux

My View of the PISA Scores | Diane Ravitch's blog - 42 views

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  • Glenn Hervieux on 13 Dec 13
     
    "The news reports say that the test scores of American students on the latest PISA test are "stagnant," "lagging," "flat," etc. The U.S. Department of Education would have us believe-yet again-that we are in an unprecedented crisis and that we must double down on the test-and-punish strategies of the past dozen years. The myth persists that once our nation led the world on international tests, but we have fallen from that exalted position in recent years." BUT....is what we're being told really the whole story? This blog post will help you see that our nation's creativity and innovation has NOTHING to do with our place nationally & internationally with test scores. So...how should that influence our approach to education?
George Hess

The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education - Forbes - 108 views

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  • George Hess on 23 Jul 13
     
    A great article. This is what SHOULD be happening in education. Not CCSS, not HST
Sharin Tebo

How Do We Transform Our Schools? - Education Next : Education Next - 26 views

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shared by Sharin Tebo on 07 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • And yet the machines have made hardly any impact.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 07 Feb 15
       
      Why would they? It is PEOPLE, not programs or 'things' that make a difference!
  • An organization’s natural instinct is to cram the innovation into its existing operating model to sustain what it already does. This is the predictable course, the logical course—and the wrong course.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 07 Feb 15
       
      This idea of 'nonconsumption' is exactly what the authors of Blended discuss. This is the opportune moment to disrupt and innovate. 
  • The way to implement an innovation so that it will transform an organization is to implement it disruptively—not by using it to compete against the existing paradigm and serve existing customers, but to let it compete against “non-consumption,” where the alternative is nothing at all.
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  • At first glance there appears to be little non-consumption of education in the United States since students are required to receive schooling. Looking deeper, however, reveals many pockets of non-consumption where students would be delighted with computer-based learning rather than the alternative, nothing at all. Take Advanced Placement (AP) courses for starters. According to a 2005 report by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 33 percent of schools nationwide offered no AP classes in 2002–03. Those that do provide AP courses today only offer a fraction of the 34 courses for which AP exams are available, because they lack the resources to hire more AP teachers or there is not enough student demand to justify a dedicated course and teacher.
  • Credit recovery is another big opportunity.
Frances Brisentine

I Education Apps Review - I Education Apps Review - 44 views

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  • Frances Brisentine on 28 Jun 10
     
    educational apps review community
Jonathan Wylie

The Benefits of Google Apps for Education in Schools - 88 views

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  • Jonathan Wylie on 24 Nov 10
     
    With so many schools adopting Google Apps for Education, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. This article explores exactly what you can look forward to if your school or district decides to 'go Google'.
C CC

One in four boys fails writing test for seven-year-old pupils - Education News, Educati... - 0 views

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shared by C CC on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Girls swept the board in national curriculum tests for seven-year-olds, beating boys in every paper – reading, writing, speaking and listening, maths and science. The biggest gap was in writing, where one in four boys failed to reach the standard expected, compared with just 13 per cent of girls.
    • C CC
      C CC on 27 Aug 09
       
      I find it a very sad state of affairs in the UK that this article constitutes a story. It has been widely acknowledged amongst child developmentalists that there is going to be a gulf between the sexes at such an age due to the internal developments taking place. Although testing is 'voluntary' in the UK, it is clearly still widespread to accountability purposes. We are talking about 7-year-olds here. What is disappointing also, is the fact further on in the article that a politician sees this as capital to attack the government, rather than the whole 'testing' regime for 7 year olds.
Virginia Meadow

Tom Snyder Productions: Product Details - 0 views

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  • Virginia Meadow on 05 Sep 09
     
    Website for Tom Snyder Productions, a Scholastic company, creator of education software for the k-12 educational market. Major products include Scholastic Keys, Thinking Reader, TimeLiner, Graph Master, Graph Club, Neighborhood MapMachine, Community Construction Kit, Decisions Decisions, Reading for Meaning, FASTT Math, GO Solve Word Problems, Science Court, Workshop Book Series
Miguel Rodriguez

A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing.by Tamim Ansary var addthis_options = 'delicious, digg, facebook, google, reddit, stumbleupon, twitter, more'; Print Forward addthis_pub = 'glef'; Share Comments(38) Comment RSS Click to enlarge pictureThe Muddle Machine Credit: Monte Wolverton Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas. Not so. I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, "The books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone today!" Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. "Who writes these things?" people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, "No one." It's symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business. Textbooks are a core part of the curriculum, as crucial to the teacher as a blueprint is to a carpenter, so one might assume they are conceived, researched, written, and published as unique contributions to advancing knowledge.
    • Miguel Rodriguez
      Miguel Rodriguez on 24 Jul 09
       
      I have worked as an editor for an educational publisher myself and, let me tell you, a lot of this sounds really familiar!
Miss Miller

Teachers TV - 0 views

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  • Miss Miller on 07 Apr 09
     
    Thousands of education videos on TV and online, an invaluable resource for any busy education professional.
Tanya Windham

Dissent Magazine - Winter 2011 Issue - Got Dough? Public Scho... - 59 views

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  • To justify their campaign, ed reformers repeat, mantra-like, that U.S. students are trailing far behind their peers in other nations, that U.S. public schools are failing. The claims are specious. Two of the three major international tests—the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and the Trends in International Math and Science Study—break down student scores according to the poverty rate in each school. The tests are given every five years. The most recent results (2006) showed the following: students in U.S. schools where the poverty rate was less than 10 percent ranked first in reading, first in science, and third in math. When the poverty rate was 10 percent to 25 percent, U.S. students still ranked first in reading and science. But as the poverty rate rose still higher, students ranked lower and lower. Twenty percent of all U.S. schools have poverty rates over 75 percent. The average ranking of American students reflects this. The problem is not public schools; it is poverty. And as dozens of studies have shown, the gap in cognitive, physical, and social development between children in poverty and middle-class children is set by age three.
  • Drilling students on sample questions for weeks before a state test will not improve their education. The truly excellent charter schools depend on foundation money and their prerogative to send low-performing students back to traditional public schools. They cannot be replicated to serve millions of low-income children. Yet the reform movement, led by Gates, Broad, and Walton, has convinced most Americans who have an opinion about education (including most liberals) that their agenda deserves support.
  • THE COST of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive influence, it turns out. A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year
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  • Hundreds of private philanthropies together spend almost $4 billion annually to support or transform K–12 education, most of it directed to schools that serve low-income children (only religious organizations receive more money). But three funders—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eli and Edythe Broad (rhymes
  • marcmancinelli on 16 Jan 11
     
    A great analysis of the problems with financial giants supporting educational reform.
  • kathy shieldsk on 16 Jan 11
     
    This is one juicy article which may change your view of the big picture of ed reform or help you get others to see it more clearly. Pass it on.
Brian Mull

Education Week's Digital Directions: Educators Move Beyond the Hype Over Skype - 52 views

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      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      This isn't just for Skype. Anything we do in the classroom should be targeting specific educational goals.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      ...or connecting with university professors or experts in the field.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      Some, such as brian Crosby have done this. http://learningismessy.com/blog/?p=196
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  • In Virginia’s Albemarle County district, Fisher encourages her teachers to use Skype and other collaboration tools because she believes there is no equivalent for giving students an audience for their work. She compares it to a team sport, in which the Skype activity is game day, and other days of class spent in preparation are like after-school practices. “The fact that there’s a game on Friday night ramps up practice on Monday afternoon,” says Fisher. “When you look at what the Web allows us to do, every kid in your classroom can have a worldwide audience. That’s true for writing, and that’s true for some of these oral-presentation types of things,” such as videoconferencing.
  • But according to research funded by Skype Technologies, finding other teachers to connect with remains more frustrating for educators interested in using Skype than gaining permission from administrators and school technology personnel to use the software.
    • Brian Mull
      Brian Mull on 08 Feb 11
       
      But make no mistake - the latter is still a frustrating sticking point in many schools and districts.
Carleen Shaffer

Justin Tarte - Life of an Educator...: 10 reasons to get educators blogging... - 84 views

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      Carleen Shaffer on 23 Mar 11
       
      A good resource for support of blogging by educators, especially good are 5 for why to read blogs
  • Chris Betcher on 24 Jan 11
     
    Great post about why teachers should blog
Brian C. Smith

Lee Kolbert: We Can Do Better Than Matt Damon - 1 views

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  • What bothers me is that he was rude to the reporter and her cameraman when they were trying to engage him in a conversation.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Get passed it.  This isn't an elementary school conversation and we don't know the context before the question was asked.  Let's not forget that reporters provoke to get the sound bite.  
  • But it's a little muddy now because Matt was rude. And we applauded.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Please.  We don't know the context based on the clip we all viewed.  I think this absolutely adds to the conversation.  
  • the folks at Education Nation are holding an essay contest
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      How, uh... educational of them.
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  • Enter the essay contest and if you win, they will fly you out to NYC in September to attend the Teacher Town Hall
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Another Race to the Top! 
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Where were all the other educators at the Save Our Schools March?  I am guilty, and feel guilty for having not attended, but really, where were we all?   No, Matt Damon isn't, and shouldn't be our poster child for education reform.  You cannot fault him for representing us and using a naughty word.  Instead of poo-pooing Matt, I applaud his courage to do so, to tell it like it is, and for defending our profession.  I will not put him on a pedestal as if he speaks for me as one of my own, however, he did defended teachers. I appreciate that, a lot.   Don't make this more than what it is, even if you think he did it in a shitty way.  
Jim Lengel

Scoop.it Education | Scoop.it - 7 views

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  • Jim Lengel on 26 Sep 11
     
    Curating the best "scooped" education topics from Scoop.it.
Jenny Staley

NBC News' Education Nation Challenge | visualizing.org - 31 views

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  • Jenny Staley on 30 Aug 11
     
    Graduating from high school means better job prospects and higher earning potential for individuals, but what does it mean for the community or country as a whole? In partnership with NBC News' Education Nation, and using data from the Alliance for Excellent Education, Visualizing.org challenges you to visualize the projected benefits and economic ripple effects that would result from improving America's graduation rates.
Donna Baumbach

Diigo - 21 views

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  • Donna Baumbach on 09 Nov 09
     
    How do you use Diigo in education (responses from educator)
Jonathan Wylie

The Top 5 Educational Preschool Apps - 4 views

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  • Jonathan Wylie on 18 Jul 11
     
    Try these awesome preschool apps for a great educational experience on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
D. S. Koelling

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part I - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 40 views

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  • at least 45 percent of undergraduates demonstrated "no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills in the first two years of college, and 36 percent showed no progress in four years."
  • What good does it do to increase the number of students in college if the ones who are already there are not learning much? Would it not make more sense to improve the quality of education before we increase the quantity of students?
  • students in math, science, humanities, and social sciences—rather than those in more directly career-oriented fields—tend to show the most growth in the areas measured by the Collegiate Learning Assessment, the primary tool used in their study. Also, students learn more from professors with high expectations who interact with them outside of the classroom. If you do more reading, writing, and thinking, you tend to get better at those things, particularly if you have a lot of support from your teachers.
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  • Increasingly, undergraduates are not prepared adequately in any academic area but often arrive with strong convictions about their abilities.
  • It has become difficult to give students honest feedback.
  • As the college-age population declines, many tuition-driven institutions struggle to find enough paying customers to balance their budgets. That makes it necessary to recruit even more unprepared students, who then must be retained, shifting the burden for academic success away from the student and on to the teacher.
  • Although a lot of emphasis is placed on research on the tenure track, most faculty members are not on that track and are retained on the basis of what students think of them.
  • Students gravitate to lenient professors and to courses that are reputedly easy, particularly in general education.
  • It is impossible to maintain high expectations for long unless everyone holds the line in all comparable courses—and we face strong incentives not to do that.
  • Formerly, full-time, tenured faculty members with terminal degrees and long-term ties to the institution did most of the teaching. Such faculty members not only were free to grade honestly and teach with conviction but also had a deep understanding of the curriculum, their colleagues, and the institutional mission. Now undergraduate teaching relies primarily on graduate students and transient, part-time instructors on short-term contracts who teach at multiple institutions and whose performance is judged almost entirely by student-satisfaction surveys.
  • Contingent faculty members, who are paid so little, routinely teach course loads that are impossible to sustain without cutting a lot of corners.
  • Many colleges are now so packed with transient teachers, and multitasking faculty-administrators, that it is impossible to maintain some kind of logical development in the sequencing of courses.
  • Students may be enjoying high self-esteem, but college teachers seem to be suffering from a lack of self-confidence.
  • Steve Ransom on 28 Feb 11
     
    So many issues here to deal with. Good read.
Rafael Morales_Gamboa

Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond - 38 views

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  • So a lot of public education was, in fact, concerned with trying to teach independent people to become workers in an industrial system.
  • we have to train them in obedience and servility, so they're not going to think through the way the world works and come after our throats.
  • One can at least be suspicious that skyrocketing student debt is a device of indoctrination
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
      Rafael Morales_Gamboa on 27 Nov 14
       
      My landlord in Edinburgh, Peter Sinclair, used to say that students do not protest these days because they all have loans to pay.
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  • "the failures of the institutions responsible for indoctrinating the young."
  • It's not just you learned how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things. And that can be done from kindergarten on
  • There are a lot of factors. And one of them, probably, is just that students are trapped
  • First of all, the existence of the advertising industry is a sign of the unwillingness to let markets function. If you had markets, you wouldn't have advertising. Like, if somebody has something to sell, they say what it is and you buy it if you want. But when you have oligopolies, they want to stop price wars
  • there's no real economic reason for high-priced higher education and skyrocketing student debt
  • It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself
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