gets, the more the debate will stir and positive things can come of all this.
NAEP Gets It One-Third Right -- THE Journal - 15 views
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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.
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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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Technology Integration: Project Planning Form - 135 views
English Companion Ning - 5 views
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A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends.
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A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends.
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A thriving community of teachers and others involved in teaching English Language Arts. Has abundant support, resources, a several thousand members who offer encouragement, job news, curriculum, and community. A great place to be.
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Social network for English teachers: "Where English teachers meet to help each other." Created and maintained by Jim Burke. See also www.englishcompanion.com, his other website for his own work.
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A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. A cafe without walls or coffee: just friends.
Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » Five Questions to Ask ... - 29 views
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Daniel Pink observed, traditionally neglected talents, which he refers to as Right-brained directed skills, including design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning, will become more valuable (Pink, 2006).
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international assessments such as PISA and TIMSS, which are mostly left-brained cognitive skills.
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Common Core does not include an element to prepare the future generations to live in this globalized world and interact with people from different cultures.
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MIT App Inventor | Explore MIT App Inventor - 73 views
What Are You Going To Do To Inspire Students? - 73 views
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so we focus more on the stuff we can change: curriculum, assessment, and instruction.
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It can be marked by creativity, innovation, or curiosity.
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(You’re not going to see a teacher-dominated classroom full of inspired students; the teacher’s enthusiasm is only useful as an initial catalyst.)
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Advocacy/Top_Ten_in_10.htm - 87 views
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Establish technology in education as the backbone of school improvement
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Leverage education technology as a gateway for college and career readiness
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Ensure technology expertise is infused throughout our schools and classrooms.
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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."
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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?
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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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Categories in Diigo Groups - 83 views
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm excited about the tagging feature, and think that this will be the best way to organize the group. If anyone is interested, I will be presenting a live Ustream bro...
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Home - www.TeachEngineering.org - 54 views
Want to improve literacy in your school? Here's how | eSchool News - 23 views
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the district adopted the McGraw Hill curriculum for ELA.
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we teach students how to build an argument and develop critical-thinking skills using five steps: Claims, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterarguments, and Audience.
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To evaluate the effectiveness of our school-wide initiative, we now administer quarterly writing assessments for each content area. We analyze student writing samples at the end of each quarter and include norming as a department, using the district writing rubric to determine strengths and areas requiring improvement.
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The Problem with "Formative Assessment Tools" (part 1 of 2) - Cooper on Curriculum - 58 views
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