Data Nuggets - 42 views
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rbuzzell on 25 Jan 16graphing and inquiry activities
with the active support of the Obama administration, the NCLB wrecking ball has become a means of promoting privatization and community fragmentation
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Wikipedia - what are we afraid of? - 43 views
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This blog post discusses data found in an infographic about Wikipedia and challenges Education to embrace Wikipedia instead of restricting its use.Pros and cons,practical suggestions and solutions are discussed.
Characterising one-to-one conservatoire teaching: Some implications of a quantitative a... - 12 views
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Quantitative video data of one-to-one
Primers - The Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL) - 14 views
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Useful resources on varied topics of importance today. Computational thinking, data science, citizen science etc.
Ravitch: No Child Left Behind and the damage done - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 59 views
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NCLB cannot be fixed. It has failed. It has imposed a sterile and mean-spirited regime on the schools. It represents the dead hand of conformity and regulation from afar. It is time to abandon the status quo of test-based accountability and seek fresh and innovative thinking to support and strengthen our nation's schools.
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"This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters about what matters most in education. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of the bestselling "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," an important critique of the flaws in the modern school reform movement that she just updated."
Public Library of Science - 35 views
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Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a nonprofit publisher, membership, and advocacy organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Our core objectives are to: Provide ways to overcome unnecessary barriers to immediate availability, access, and use of research Pursue a publishing strategy that optimizes the openness, quality, and integrity of the publication process Develop innovative approaches to the assessment, organization, and reuse of ideas and data
Turning links into a library with Diigo - 64 views
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My bookmarks are my digital memory.
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Unclutter your mind. I’m all for not having to remember tech tutorials or the tour company we used in NYC, bookmarks allow me to archive that knowledge. They are my digital library.
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Your browser enables you to save a link, place it in a folder, and possibly add a few tags (which you probably don’t use). Can you annotate a link? How about highlighting a portion of the page? Does it take a snapshot of the page? Will it create lists? Generate reports? How effectively can you search your bookmarks? How much more useful and complete would your links become with these tools?
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Anant Agarwal Discusses Free Online Courses Offered by a Harvard/M.I.T. Partnership. - ... - 4 views
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Granted, there are no papers to grade, and assignments aren’t free-form, but how does one professor handle so many students? We had four teaching assistants, and my initial plan was that they would spend a lot of time on the discussion forum, answering questions. One night in the early days, I was on the forum at 2 a.m. when I saw a student ask a question, and I was typing my answer when I discovered that another student had typed an answer before I could. It was in the right direction, but not quite there, so I thought I could modify it, but then some other student jumped in with the right answer. It was fascinating to see how quickly students were helping each other. All we had to do was go in and say that it was a good answer. I actually instructed the T.A.’s not to answer so quickly, to let students work for an hour or two, and by and large they find the answers.
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Most students who register for MOOCs don’t complete the course. Of the 154,763 who registered for “Circuits and Electronics,” fewer than half even got as far as looking at the first problem set, and only 7,157 passed the course. What do you make of that?
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EdX operates under an honor code, with no way to verify that the student who registered is the one doing the work. Is that likely to change? It’s quite possible employers would be happy with an honor certificate. We’re looking at various methods of proctoring. We have talked about people going to centers to take exams. There are also companies that use the cameras inside a laptop or iPad to watch you and everything else that’s happening in the room while you take an exam, and that may be more scalable.
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The Archivist Desktop By Mix Online - 4 views
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I'll be using this to collect data for my summer research project.
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Trends in Bullying and Peer Victimization - 1 views
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"In this bulletin, we will summarize the trends, from youth sur‐ veys that have tracked bullying specifically, and also those that have tracked closely related phenomena such as school assaults, school thefts, school fighting and school hate speech."
12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 5 views
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Gathering Data
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Creative Story Theme
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Polls
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A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.
Vital Signs - 37 views
Turning links into a library with Diigo - 94 views
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My bookmarks are my digital memory.
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From Links to Library
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Hyperlinks are pieces of information, we need context. What was important about the link? What we need is a library that has information about the data we collecting.
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Mendeley sells out; I'm moving to Zotero | Life and Data - 23 views
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"it was confirmed that Elsevier bought Mendeley for an amount between $69-100 million. This announcement opened the floodgates of people denouncing the deal and Mendeley people's promises that they won't change. It was sad to see them try to promise something they will have no control over and never talking about any evidence or contractual obligations to protect what Mendeley is from what most people perceive Elsevier is."
U.S. high school dropout rate reaches record low, driven by improvements among Hispanic... - 12 views
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Just 7% of the nation’s 18-to-24 year olds had dropped out of high school, continuing a steady decline in the nation’s dropout rate since 2000, when 12% of youth were dropouts.
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The decline in the size of the Hispanic dropout population has been particularly noteworthy because it’s happened at the same time that the Hispanic youth population is growing.
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census data show that Hispanics have reached a record high school completion rate.
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Colleges use FAFSA information to reject students and potentially lower financial aid p... - 34 views
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When would-be college students apply for financial aid using the FAFSA, they are asked to list the colleges they are thinking about attending. The online version of the form asks applicants to submit up to 10 college names. The U.S. Department of Education then shares all the information on the FAFSA with all of the colleges on the list, as well as state agencies involved in awarding student aid. The form notes that the information could be used by state agencies, but there is no mention that individual colleges will use the information in admissions or financial aid -- and there is no indication that students could be punished by colleges for where they appear on the list.
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Now, some colleges use this “FAFSA position” when considering students’ applications for admission, which may affect decisions about admission or placement on the wait list, said David Hawkins, director of public policy and research for the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
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So the institution is disinclined to use up a precious admissions slot for a student who is unlikely to enroll. “The student has no idea that this information is being used in this context,” Hawkins said. The federal government "doesn’t indicate it. Institutions certainly aren’t telling students they are using it. Certainly, this is a concern from this association’s standpoint.”
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Robert Marzano and Interactive Whiteboards - The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution - 131 views
The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Maga... - 0 views
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The effects of growing up in poverty, particularly for children raised in socially isolated, economically depressed urban areas, warrants greater concern, especially given that one out of every three Black children is raised in a poor household.(20) Here the evidence is clear that the risks faced by children, particularly African American males, in terms of health, welfare, and education, are substantially greater.(21) A recent longitudinal study on the development of children whose mothers used drugs (particularly crack cocaine) during pregnancy found that when compared to children residing in similar neighborhoods from similar socio-economic backgrounds, the children in the sample showed no greater evidence of long term negative effects. This is not because the incidence of physical and cognitive problems among the sample was not high, but because it was equally high for the control group. The stunned researchers, who fully expected to observe noticeable differences between the two groups, were compelled to conclude that the harmful effects of living within an impoverished inner-city environment outweighed the damage inflicted by early exposure to drugs.(22)
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This observational data seems to be confirmed by this study using EEG results - http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/12/02_cortex.shtml
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The Trouble with Black Boys - - by Pedro A. Noguera / Education Rights / In Motion Magazine
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