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Julia Gardiner

Lateline - 29/10/2012: PMs plan for every child to learn an Asian language - 14 views

www.abc.net.au/...s3621224.htm

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    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The rationale or thinking behind introducing languages early in primary school
  • Gillard Government's Asian Century white paper sets an aspiration for Australia to rank as the world's 10th biggest economy by 2025, capitalising on the rapid economic growth in the region.
  • education will be the key and wants all school students to study an Asian language.
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  • funded
  • where all the new teachers might come from
  • where all the new teachers might come from.
  • the gold standard
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
       The gold standard =any excellent example of something, like how Olympians are the gold standard for athletes
  • If you understand through the learning of language how people think, how they construct meaning, what is important to them culturally, then I think that gives us better insights into the people that we're going to be working with in the future and negotiating with.
  • The Prime Minister says she'll force the curriculum changes by tying them to Commonwealth funding to state and private schools.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Is this  good policy making? Some would  consider  it 'blackmail'!
  • Broadly, teachers and education experts have welcomed the plan, but question where the money is going to come from.
  • catchcry of the Hawke and Keating governments
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The Hawke-Keating Government refers to the Federal Government of Australia from 11 March 1983 to 11 March 1996. It was a Labour government
  • Currently across all levels of schooling there's around 18 per cent of our young people who are studying one of the four priority Asian languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean. And that diminishes to fewer than 6 per cent by the time they get to Year 12.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      How do we encourage students to  continue  learning an Asian language into the final years  of high school and  eyond?
  • say we simply don't have enough Asian language teachers to deliver the Prime Minister's vision and for the last decade the numbers of graduates have been declining.
  • hat's happened because universities have been under these budget constraints and when they've made decisions about what to cut, they cut courses with low enrolments and there goes the languages.
  • JEANNIE REA, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL TERTIARY EDUCATION UNION
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Suggested reasons for the decline in language graduates and therefore  in language teachers. 
  • will help.JULIA GILLARD: We live in an age of different learning possibilities and choices. What we can do through the National Broadband Network, what we can do through having the world's first online national curriculum, which is what the Australian curriculum is, means we can get a deeper penetration of language, literacy and learning.
  • e Prime Minister acknowledges the shortages, but says technology
  • will help.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      This argument t can be debated.  It would suggest that technology in itself will be a solution!
  • we need to be looking very carefully at what sort of encouragement and incentives we can provide to students so they continue doing a language, go on and major in a language in university and then go on to teach in the area.
  • JEANNIE REA:
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      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      What type of incentive scan be offered/
  • Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
     
    The Prime Minister wants all school students to study an Asian language to secure Australia's future in the Asian Century.
  • nadinebailey on 11 Mar 15
     
    Completely deluded. Even here in Singapore, surrounded supposedly by chinese speakers the international schools are not getting it right and success stories are unusual ...
Tiffany Armstrong

Lit2Go: MP3 Stories and Poems - 96 views

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lit 2 go mp3 books listen audiobooks literature podcasts audio

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  • Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go
  • Joanna Gerakios on 16 Aug 10
     
    from Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse
  • Tiffany Armstrong on 22 Jun 11
     
    Listen to books.
Allison Haeussler

Digital storytelling - ICT for learning - 77 views

www.icttalk.co.uk/digitalstorytelling

storytelling digital storytelling technology web2.0 education

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  • Allison Haeussler on 13 Dec 10
     
    Good article along with links to various applications for digital story-telling
smilex3md

The Plot Against Public Education - Bob Herbert - POLITICO Magazine - 57 views

www.politico.com/...t-public-education-111630.html

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  • smilex3md on 07 Oct 14
     
    More on how the money of billionaires is changing American education.
Eric Sanders

New Tech City: Screens and Kids: Do Techies Have Different Rules than the Rest of Us? -... - 46 views

www.wnyc.org/...chies-raise-their-own-children

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  • Eric Sanders on 09 Oct 14
     
    Recommended by David Allen
dmassicg

Elementary Math Websites To Practice Mixed Operations/Story Problems - A Listly List - 4 views

list.ly/...mixed-operationsstory-problems

math websites

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  • A list of websites to help students practice using their problem solving skills to practice mixed operation equations. The list was compiled by Cindy Lawrence, 3rd grade teacher, at Barton Creek Elementary School. The list accompanies unit 8 of the 3rd Grade Everyday Math Curriculum.
Patricia Christian

E-Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning on Vimeo - 33 views

vimeo.com/23513397

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  • Patricia Christian on 18 Mar 12
     
    Dr. Helen Barret shares on Metacognition and Reflective Electronic Portfolios
carmelladoty

Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement | Edutopia - 35 views

www.edutopia.org/...stories-heather-wolpert-gawron

education edtech

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 May 12
     
    What students think.... and they are correct.
  • Andrew McCluskey on 21 Oct 13
     
    What students say engages them in the classroom.
  • carmelladoty on 25 Jan 14
     
    Students were asked "What engages you in school?" This article discusses the results.
Randy Schultz

Controlling a classroom isn't as easy as ABC -- latimes.com - 77 views

www.latimes.com/...ol14-2009dec14,0,5354521.story

class management

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  • Randy Schultz on 15 Dec 09
     
    Among the top reasons why teachers are deemed unsuccessful or leave the profession is their inability to effectively manage student behavior, experts say.
Clint Heitz

Screen Reading Worse for Grasping Big Picture, Researchers Find - Digital Education - E... - 27 views

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reading digital resources

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  • Among young adults who regularly use smartphones and tablets, just reading a story or performing a task on a screen instead of on paper led to greater focus on concrete details, but less ability to infer meaning or quickly get the gist of a problem,
  • The findings align with other emerging research on how students process information differently in print and digital forms. A 2014 series of experiments found that while taking more notes overall was better than taking fewer, students who typed notes on their laptops rather than writing them on paper tended to take down information verbatim rather than summarizing concepts, and the more students wrote verbatim, the less they remembered a week later. 
  • For example, she said, teachers should consider the format of information when designing different types of activities, to help students focus on details or overall themes. 
fachdidaktik

Cube Creator - 203 views

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  • Tanya Hudson on 04 Jan 13
     
    Create 6-sided biography cubes, mystery cubes, story cubes, or your own custom cube. Fun way to share information or plan out a project! Includes graphic organizer (pdf) and lets you print and save a pdf of your cube when you're finished.
jedimind

Life, Death, and Best Elliptical under 500 - Best Elliptical - 1 views

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  • Using an elliptical machine provide a total body workout.
Jørgen Mortensen

Three Reasons Students Should Own Your Classroom's Twitter and Instagram Accounts - EdS... - 51 views

www.edsurge.com/...twitter-and-instagram-accounts

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  • Three Reasons Students Should Own Your Classroom’s Twitter and Instagram Accounts
  • We must think more critically about how we communicate via social media.
  • 1. Genuine Digital Citizenship Opportunities
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  • 2. Publishing for the World (and the Classroom Across the Hall) is Powerful
  • 3. Establishing Your Classroom Brand
  • According to educators Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis, branding can be defined as “the marking practice of creating a name, symbol or design that identifies and differentiates a product from other products.” Within the past few years, this idea of branding our schools/classrooms has become extremely valuable, as it promotes transparency by painting an accurate, live picture of what is taking place. Yet, in reality, the majority of the time the educators are the ones telling these stories. While this certainly has its place, ultimately what matters most is how students feel about their experiences. Social media has allowed my students to share our classroom happenings through their eyes. It has allowed my students the opportunity to both establish and share the culture of our classroom and our school, and ultimately create our “brand”.
  • Liz Dodds on 09 Feb 16
     
    Steve- do your students run your Twitter and Instagram accounts? How many students contribute regularly? any problems with parents?
Clint Heitz

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens - Scientific ... - 25 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...reading-paper-screens

reading digital resources

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  • The matter is by no means settled. Before 1992 most studies concluded that people read slower, less accurately and less comprehensively on screens than on paper. Studies published since the early 1990s, however, have produced more inconsistent results: a slight majority has confirmed earlier conclusions, but almost as many have found few significant differences in reading speed or comprehension between paper and screens. And recent surveys suggest that although most people still prefer paper—especially when reading intensively—attitudes are changing as tablets and e-reading technology improve and reading digital books for facts and fun becomes more common.
  • Compared with paper, screens may also drain more of our mental resources while we are reading and make it a little harder to remember what we read when we are done. A parallel line of research focuses on people's attitudes toward different kinds of media. Whether they realize it or not, many people approach computers and tablets with a state of mind less conducive to learning than the one they bring to paper.
  • Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
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  • At least a few studies suggest that by limiting the way people navigate texts, screens impair comprehension.
  • Because of their easy navigability, paper books and documents may be better suited to absorption in a text. "The ease with which you can find out the beginning, end and everything inbetween and the constant connection to your path, your progress in the text, might be some way of making it less taxing cognitively, so you have more free capacity for comprehension," Mangen says.
  • An e-reader always weighs the same, regardless of whether you are reading Proust's magnum opus or one of Hemingway's short stories. Some researchers have found that these discrepancies create enough "haptic dissonance" to dissuade some people from using e-readers. People expect books to look, feel and even smell a certain way; when they do not, reading sometimes becomes less enjoyable or even unpleasant. For others, the convenience of a slim portable e-reader outweighs any attachment they might have to the feel of paper books.
  • In one of his experiments 72 volunteers completed the Higher Education Entrance Examination READ test—a 30-minute, Swedish-language reading-comprehension exam consisting of multiple-choice questions about five texts averaging 1,000 words each. People who took the test on a computer scored lower and reported higher levels of stress and tiredness than people who completed it on paper.
  • Perhaps, then, any discrepancies in reading comprehension between paper and screens will shrink as people's attitudes continue to change. The star of "A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work" is three-and-a-half years old today and no longer interacts with paper magazines as though they were touchscreens, her father says. Perhaps she and her peers will grow up without the subtle bias against screens that seems to lurk in the minds of older generations. In current research for Microsoft, Sellen has learned that many people do not feel much ownership of e-books because of their impermanence and intangibility: "They think of using an e-book, not owning an e-book," she says. Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version. This reminds Sellen of people's early opinions of digital music, which she has also studied. Despite initial resistance, people love curating, organizing and sharing digital music today. Attitudes toward e-books may transition in a similar way, especially if e-readers and tablets allow more sharing and social interaction than they currently do.
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