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Martin Burrett

Projectile Motion Game - 84 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 04 May 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 May 12
     
    Try to launch a rocket onto the target by adjusting the velocity and angle in this fun maths game. Play full screen at http://www.mathplayground.com/ProjectTRIG/ProjectileMotion.swf http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Steve Ransom

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

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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.
Maureen Greenbaum

San Antonio College officials debate online office hours | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • The rest of the broader six-point policy was adopted, including a clause saying professors must maintain a five-day presence on the physical campus
  • . His college is in the midst of transitioning to a faculty-based advising system in which students will have to meet with an instructor before registering for classes
  • “What gets missed in the conversation is that my face-to-face instructors, if they’re teaching five classes, they’re seeing students for 12-and-a-half hours. That needs to be demonstrated in the online instruction before we talk about office hours.”
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  • McCrary sees moving formal office hours to the Web as the next natural step in that digital evolution. “I think this is the way of the future,” she said. “I think it will be coming one way or another.”
Steve Ransom

The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests - The Answer Sheet - ... - 7 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 01 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • focus so narrowly
  • measure only “low level” thinking processes
  • they put the wrong people — test manufacturers — in charge of American education
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  • allow pass-fail rates to be manipulated by officials for political purposes
  • simplify and trivialize learning
  • they provide minimal to no useful feedback
  • keyed to a deeply flawed curriculum
  • lead to neglect of physical conditioning, music, art, and other, non-verbal ways of learning
  • unfairly advantage those who can afford test prep
  • penalize test-takers who think in non-standard ways
  • radically limit their ability to adapt to learner differences
  • encourage use of threats, bribes, and other extrinsic motivators
Martin Burrett

Science Friday - 73 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 03 Jul 12 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 03 Jul 12
     
    An extensive science site with articles, videos and audio featuring the latest research. There is a good 'For Teachers' section with lesson plans and ideas. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
trisha_poole

The Sad Reality Of Education Technology | Edudemic - 100 views

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shared by trisha_poole on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • This technological revolution is different; it has the potential to fundamentally change the way we teach and the way students learn.
  • The sad reality is that most schools still believe that they are “teaching with technology” because they have a computer lab where they teach students important skills like word processing and how to create Power Point presentations.
  • we need to teach them how to find information and more importantly what to do with the information that they find
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  • It’s no longer about who has the most information in their heads, it’s about who can find that information the fastest and who can do something with the information that they find.
  • The only way to do this is to make the fundamental change from teaching how to use technology to using technology to learn.
  • This model is fundamentally flawed because it teaches our students to be passive participants in the learning process.
  • With the advent of personal technology devices, we have the best opportunity of our careers to help students become more active participants in the learning process.
  • Nick Schlotter on 07 Sep 12
     
    I actually think this is way over-hyped. A textbook is a great source of information, the web is a great source of information. Unless you can comprehend what is being said the method of delivery of the information is not very important. As was mentioned above - being able to do something with the information has always been the important point. There are times when I am sure that we could do better with a piece of chalk at the blackboard - I learn a lot from making demos in Mathematica and using PHET active java apps for chemistry and physics - the students enjoy them, but how much do they learn? There is plenty of evidence that until you sit down and work out the problems in a course you haven't learned much. I suspect much of this is driven by the prospect of sales of electronics - there is nothing you can do on a tablet that you shouldn't be able to do on a laptop. Especially with Win 8 coming and laptops with touch screens....
Holly Barlaam

#SciDo Collaborative - 67 views

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shared by Holly Barlaam on 09 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Holly Barlaam on 09 Dec 11
     
    First Chat then Do! The SciDo Collaborative is a loose affiliation of science teachers coming together to help support the teaching of science in k12 classrooms. It is an attempt to make the ideas shared during #scichat into something tangible and useful.
Martin Burrett

Cosmo Learning - 65 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Nov 11
     
    A superb site with a large amount of lecture videos for college students and teachers. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
Gerald Carey

Quantum Levitation - YouTube - 69 views

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shared by Gerald Carey on 11 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 11 Nov 11
     
    An amazing video even if you are not a Physicist. 
Marc Patton

PEC: Lesson Plans for Physical Education - 0 views

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shared by Marc Patton on 18 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Marc Patton on 18 Jul 12
     
    Receiving a DWT: Driving While Texting
Mark Gleeson

Handheld learning in Physical Education | Emerging Technologies For a 21st Ce... - 108 views

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shared by Mark Gleeson on 12 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Mark Gleeson on 12 Feb 12
     
    Some goods resources and ideas for linking  PE and technology. 
Clark Sarge

New Scientist TV: Animation reveals the worlds hidden equations - StumbleUpon - 9 views

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shared by Clark Sarge on 07 Mar 12 - No Cached
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      Clark Sarge on 07 Mar 12
       
      This is a cool website on the electromagnetic formulas that changed our world!
  • Clark Sarge on 07 Mar 12
     
    electromagnetic equations animation
Julie Whitehead

Symphony of Science - 162 views

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shared by Julie Whitehead on 08 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Julie Whitehead on 08 Jun 12
     
    a whole set of videos on science that are educational and beautiful
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