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New Jersey Department of Education Releases 2010 School Report Cards; Revamping of Data... - 9 views

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shared by Kevin Jarrett on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Kevin Jarrett on 09 Feb 11
     
    Comparative spending & performance data by NJ district.
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Drill Down: Mobile Devices in Education -- THE Journal - 105 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 14 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 14 Feb 11
     
    "As educators continue to weigh the many considerations attached to allowing student-owned handheld devices on campus, Speak Up asked parents what good they think the use of mobile technologies would have on their children's education."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 14 Feb 11
     
    Interesting to look over the perceptions reported by parents.
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Shared Governance Is a Myth - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

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shared by D. S. Koelling on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • It takes years of rank and the bitter­sweet experience of extensive committee service to realize that faculty influence on the operation of the university is an illusion, and that shared governance is a myth.
  • Committees report to administrative officers who are at liberty to accept, reject, or substantially alter faculty recommendations.
  • One would think that faculty senates exercise jurisdiction over a range of college life and policy. In reality, the right of many senates does not extend beyond making recommendations to the president, who is under no obligation to accept them.
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  • A more probable source of this way of doing business is the residue of an old ideal of the university. Such survivals of previous practices are not unusual in social life. Physicians, for example, experience a struggle between two competing understandings of their field: the prevalent view that treating patients is a business, and the residue of the old ideal that it is a calling. Ministers live the same ambiguity. Faculty committees constitute the respect that today's university pays to the old notion that it is a community of students and scholars. The impotence of the committees is acknowledgment that at this time in history, institutions of higher education are business ventures, in certain ways similar to factories.
  • If education is primarily a business, managers hire the faculty. If universities are communities of students and scholars, faculty members hire the managers.
  • The growing disempowerment of the faculty is accelerated by the distance of governing boards from campus processes.
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Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 64 views

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shared by trisha_poole on 22 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • trisha_poole on 22 Jan 11
     
    Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
  • Bob Calder on 22 Jan 11
     
    The problem is that it is "testing research" that uses testing to measure learning. This is always a proxy for learning and notoriously unreliable. I'm hoping to see the report when it is actually published. Right now it is pre-publication.
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Learn How To Take a Screenshot On a Mac: Tips & Tricks - 79 views

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shared by Jonathan Wylie on 14 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Jonathan Wylie on 14 Feb 11
     
    This guide will walk you through all the steps you need in how to take a screenshot on a Mac with keyboard shortcuts, the Grab utility and 3rd party software options.
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In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many - NYTimes.com - 29 views

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shared by Nigel Robinson on 17 Mar 11 - Cached
  • In a sentiment no doubt echoed by news organizations everywhere, an MSNBC editor acknowledged that the four-missile picture was initially welcomed with open arms. “As the media editor working the msnbc.com home page yesterday, I was frustrated with the quality of a fuzzy video image we published of the Iranian missile launch,” said Rich Shulman, the network’s associate multimedia editor. “So I was thrilled when the top image crossed the news wires.”
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      Nigel Robinson on 17 Mar 11
       
      Is hasty journalism going to continue to reduce the quality reporting? If a skilled graphic designer manipulated an image used by the news media could it be detected?
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CK12.ORG - FlexBooks - 26 views

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shared by Seth Bowers on 11 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Christian King on 16 Jul 12
     
    Flexbooks has just been updated to version 2.0 New features include concepts, mapping, student progress reports with quizzes, simple and elegant interface, Facebook and twitter integration and ability to upload resources and submit questions. The update is quite incredible for anyone involved in STEM or interested in the future of education..
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Course: Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites - 49 views

newmediaresearch.educ.monash.edu.au/...view.php teenagers socialmedia socialnetworking report study statistics risk privacy education
shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 21 Mar 11
     
    Further evidence (as if we needed it) that all educators need to be addressing these issues in targeted and developmentally appropriate ways.
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Disrupting College - 3 views

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shared by webExplorations on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
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  • Recommendations for existing institutions of higher education also emerge from an understanding of disruptive innovation. These colleges and universities should: Apply the correct business model for the task. These institutions have conflated value propositions and business models, which creates significant, unsustainable overhead costs. Drive the disruptive innovation. Some institutions have this opportunity, but to do so, they need to set up an autonomous business model unencumbered by their existing processes and priorities. They can leverage their existing fixed resources in this autonomous model to give themselves a cost advantage over what to this point have been the low-cost disruptive innovators. Develop a strategy of focus. The historical strategy of trying to be great at everything and mimic institutions such as Harvard is not a viable strategy going forward. Frame online learning as a sustaining innovation. Institutions can use this new technology to disrupt the existing classroom model to extend convenience to many more students as well as provide a better learning experience.
  • webExplorations on 25 Mar 11
     
    An article showing how online learning is a disruptive technology. Shining [the challenges of today's higher ed] through the lens of these theories on innovation will provide some insights into how we can move forward and a language that allows people to come together to frame these challenges in ways that will create a much higher chance of success. This report assumes that everyone is adept at online learning. This is not the case and students will have to be trained on how to be effective online learners. Courses will also have to address multiple learning styles and not just the read/write that most online courses currently are programmed for. Despite this missing piece, this is a very important article that focuses on some very key issues of our current higher ed system. The recommendations at the end of the article for policy makers are very apt. Highly recommended reading!
  • Jason Finley on 26 Mar 11
     
    Are high schools preparing students for success in college and careers when what we do is so very different from what they will experience when they leave our little boxes?
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Return to Sender -- THE Journal - 60 views

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shared by Kevin Jarrett on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The upshot of this neglect, the report goes on to say, is to leave students unsuited for a work environment in which knowing core subject content can be secondary to being able to use technology to demonstrate the so- called 21st century skills that employers now demand:
  • increasingly value people who can use their knowledge to communicate, collaborate, analyze, create, innovate, and solve problems."
  • it's also about turning information into knowledge through Web searching and vetting. It's about developing effective multimedia presentations. It's about seamlessly using digital tools to collaborate and problem-solve.
  • Tony Bollino on 08 Mar 11
     
    Great article on the need for greater use of technology in instruction.
  • Kevin Jarrett on 16 Mar 11
     
    Send this to your principal, superintendent or school board member...
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Sari Horwitz plagiarizes: Washington Post reporter admits to copying from the Arizona R... - 39 views

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shared by Laura Pearce on 18 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Laura Pearce on 18 Mar 11
     
    even at the Washington Post . . . off with their heads!
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Failure is an Option: Helping Students Learn from Mistakes | Faculty Focus - 113 views

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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 29 May 11 - No Cached
  • instead of using failure as a valuable teaching tool, education discourages it as, well, a sign of failure
  • each assignment is graded based on its proximity to success, and the final grade is determined by the aggregate of each individual grade, failure is preserved and carried with the student throughout the course. The result is that students become failure-adverse, demoralized by failure, and focused more on the grade than the education.
  • reverse this trend is by using gaming in education. Students who fail in video games do not suffer the same blow to their self-esteem as those who receive a low grade on an exam or report card. They simply try it again
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  • when a student hands in a paper he is given comments and told to rewrite it, and must rewrite it over and over until it is an A-quality paper. Only then it is accepted.
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News: Decline of 'Western Civ'? - Inside Higher Ed - 25 views

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shared by Javier E on 20 May 11 - No Cached
  • Fifty years ago, 10 of the 50 "top" colleges mandated a Western Civ course, while students at 31 of them could choose a "Western Civilization" course from among a group of courses that would fulfill general education requirements. The situation is different today, according to the report. None of those "top 50" colleges and only one of the 75 public universities, the University of South Carolina, mandates one semester of "Western Civ." The association did not count Columbia University and Colgate University as offering the traditional "Western Civ" course, even though those institutions require two-semester courses on Western thought, because those courses include non-Western texts. Sixteen of the "Top 50" list Western Civ among several choices for a general education curriculum, as do 44 of the 75 large public institutions.
  • The "traditional Western Civ course," he said, was especially well suited for the student population of the 1960s. But he said today's student body is radically different and might not be as interested in such courses. He also attributed the change to an increasing specialization among professors, which affects how well they can teach broad survey courses and how much they enjoy doing so.
  • Whereas many colleges in the 1960s had standard core curriculums, more and more universities have moved to a model where students select from a broad range of courses in thematic areas.
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  • "The notion that the cultural traditions of our population reside in Western Civilization is belied by the demographic changes in the American population," Grossman said. He said it is knowledge of world history, a perspective that encompasses Western Civilization, that students are going to need in order to be successful in business, nonprofit, and government jobs.
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U.S. History 2010 - NAEP report card for grades 4, 8, 12 - 0 views

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shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 20 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 20 Jun 11
     
    Nationally representative samples of more than 7,000 4th graders, 11,000 8th graders, 12,000 12th graders participated in the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in U.S. History. Summary: Lowest performing 4th graders make greatest gain from 1994 + scores incr since 2006 for male as well as for Black and Hispanic 8th graders Avg scores for 8th & 12 graders increase from 1994 Less than 1/4 of students perform at or above Proficient level in 2010
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7 in 10 Students Have Skipped Buying a Textbook Because of Its Cost - Students - The Ch... - 22 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • "Students recognize that textbooks are essential to their education but have been pushed to the breaking point by skyrocketing costs,"
  • does not measure the academic consequences for students who do not purchase textbooks
  • 78 percent of those students who reported not buying a textbook said they expected to perform worse in that class, even though some borrowed or shared the textbook.
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