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D. S. Koelling

Shared Governance Is a Myth - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

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  • 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.
Randolph Hollingsworth

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
Roland Gesthuizen

Why A Badge Is Better Than an A+ - Getting Smart by Alison Anderson - badges, EdTech, I... - 61 views

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badge assessment blog

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • A traditional “A-F” report card doesn’t inspire that type of insight for the students or the people they need to share it with in order to get into high school or college or get a job. A collection of badges from classroombadges.com would be much more like sharing a personal “yearbook” of academic accomplishments. I love that idea.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Nov 12
     
    "I admit this title makes a pretty bold statement for a society that pretty much uses the first five letters of the alphabet to define every child from about age 5 until adulthood. But, I am hearing more and more about the use of badges in the classroom, especially in conversations about gamification and self motivation."
  • Erin Crisp on 08 Nov 12
     
    I have been trying out some grading apps and am intrigued by ActivGrade because instead of being focused on a letter grade A-F, I could see students being more concerned with mastering a goal. Their "grade" is a color toward mastery of a standard. Red means I have a lot of work to do to master this, yellow means I'm making progress toward mastery and green means I've mastered this goal at this point. One grading algorithm to choose from in the app is a calculation which puts a 75% weight on the student's most recent assignment for a given concept. This means that as I get better at a skill, my most recent attempt at showing my mastery over the skill is worth more for my grade than my prior attempts. This seems like smart grading practice to me.
Greta Oppe

Going Google at TCE - 96 views

Going Google at TCEA 2011   Amidst the freezing weather, teachers were amazed, astonished, and astounded by the things teachers and students can do using Google Apps. One of these Apps is ...

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started by Greta Oppe on 17 Feb 11 no follow-up yet
Derrick Grose

There's a map for that - 41 views

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  • Derrick Grose on 14 Jun 13
     
    The Royal Canadian Geographical Society reports on how students can explore the history and geography of Canada using maps that weigh 45 kilograms and cover half of a school gym!
Enid Baines

What English classes should look like in Common Core era - 99 views

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shared by Enid Baines on 10 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • The National Assessment for Educational Progress does not measure performance in English class. It measures performance in reading, reading across the disciplines and throughout the school day.
  • research reports that young people ages 8-18 consume on average 7 ½ hours of entertainment media per day: playing video games, watching television, and social networking. These are the same students who tell their teachers they don’t have time to read. Children have time. Unfortunately like Bartleby, they would simply prefer not to.
Bill Gumula

Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? : The New Yorker - 10 views

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shared by Bill Gumula on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • California researchers in the early nineteen-eighties conducted a five-year study of teacher-skill development in eighty schools, and noticed something interesting. Workshops led teachers to use new skills in the classroom only ten per cent of the time. Even when a practice session with demonstrations and personal feedback was added, fewer than twenty per cent made the change. But when coaching was introduced—when a colleague watched them try the new skills in their own classroom and provided suggestions—adoption rates passed ninety per cent. A spate of small randomized trials confirmed the effect. Coached teachers were more effective, and their students did better on tests.
Sandy Dewey

Adaptive Curriculum - 0 views

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shared by Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Sandy Dewey on 09 Sep 12
     
    Adaptive Curriculum's award winning instructional solution builds middle and high school Math and Science mastery through dynamic and interactive learning. Incorporating rich multimedia, real-world scenarios and proven research-based pedagogy, Adaptive Curriculum's digital lessons are created to engage today's 21st Century learners and prepare students for post-secondary pursuits. AC Math and AC Science complements existing curricula through state standards, Core, NCTM, NCTA and textbook alignments. It is easy and flexible for whole or small group or individual instruction, and provides real-time feedback, progress reporting and assessment.
Philip Pulley

Report Sets K-12 Broadband Goals for 2014-15 - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

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    • Philip Pulley
      Philip Pulley on 09 Jun 12
       
      We have talked about providing WiFi access to students/parents at home that do not have it.
    • Philip Pulley
      Philip Pulley on 09 Jun 12
       
      We are upgrading with fiber optic line to one of our district towns next year, and to all by the year after.
Marc Patton

WizIQ | Making Online Teaching & Learning Easier and Affordable - 73 views

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shared by Marc Patton on 30 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Organizations can Create and manage teacher accounts Give or attend a class without signing up Download class recordings or host with us View attendance and other reports Give synchronous classes in Moodle Use our API for Virtual Classroom integration
  • Teachers can Teach in the free Virtual Classroom Earn more by teaching online Upload and Share Online Tutorials Create and Share Online Tests Build visibility in Communities List and sell courses with WiZiQ
  • Students can Learn in live, Online Classes Enroll in Online Courses View Online Tutorials Practice Online Tests Find Teachers to Learn Access Free Learning Resources
  • Marc Patton on 30 Jul 12
     
    Making online teaching and learning easier for everyone Over 150,000 teachers and 2 million learners are using WizIQ
Steve Ransom

Digital Age Damaging Learning | Nicholas Carr - 72 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • excessive use of the internet and other forms of technology diminishes our capacity for deep, meditative thinking, "the brighter the software, the dimmer the user", a counter-revolution may be required.
  • curricula must be developed not only with the potential benefits of technology linked to every learning outcome in mind, but also the costs.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 10
       
      The Faustian bargain that Postman so often wrote about
  • available where there is clear utility, to remove it when there is not
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 10
       
      And who do we leave this decision up to? The individual? If so, we are in big trouble.
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  • we must be mindful of any cost associated with allowing ourselves to devolve to a more machine-like state.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 10
       
      NO ONE is striving for this. Just the opposite.
  • Of greatest importance, however, is the status of our thinking, understanding how we think and the effect new technologies have on our cognitive processes. This debate extends beyond the neuroscience to questions relating to what is worth knowing and what mental functions are worth preserving at their present level of development
  • As a senior high school teacher, one of my greatest bugbears is the reluctance of students to reflect on the information they have collected and plan their essays. Rather, some expect to Google their entire essay, often skipping from one hyperlink to the next until they find something that appears to be relevant, then pasting it into their essay, frequently oblivious to academic honesty and coherence of argument. The ability to discern reliability of sources is also severely lacking
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 10
       
      This is a by-product of failing to address and teach good research methods in a digital world and assigning work that can simply be cut and pasted. We must move beyond "reporting" in a digital, information-rich, and connected world.
  • A primary role of educators is to foster qualities that are distinctly human: our ability to reflect, reason and imagine
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 10
       
      Exactly... and this must happen, regardless of the types of information that we have access to. To say that technology impedes this is laughable.
  • In the curricula of tomorrow this may entail identifying topics and tasks that begin with an instruction to turn all electronic devices off.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 13 Oct 10
       
      No- it should begin with teachers establishing and negotiating meaningful, interesting, and powerful learning opportunities with access to all available tools. The computer as a learning tool is meant to extend physical human capabilities, not weaken them. It is the low-level, rote tasks that we require that weaken them. It's time to recognize this and wake up. Blaming the technology does little more than preserve the status quo.
Adrienne Michetti

2009 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Mobiles - 0 views

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shared by Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Students can respond to open-ended or multiple-choice questions, and their answers can be immediately tabulated, graphed and displayed to the class via a website without proprietary equipment.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      very cool!
Mr. Carver

What Arne Duncan Thinks of No Child Left Behind - US News and World Report - 0 views

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  • creating better student assessments, and improving teacher quality
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09
       
      Well, sure - but the devil's in the detail, as always. If better assessment means fewer standardized tests, then I'm sure we're all for it, right? And if improving teacher quality means giving teachers more time and space and less bureaucracy, then great. But I suspect he may not mean what I wish he meant.
  • dummy those standards down
  • rebrand
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09
       
      Because rebranding changes everything, right?
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  • the problem by developing better tests.
    • Mr. Carver
      Mr. Carver on 02 Apr 09
       
      So apparently they are not going to revise much, just change the company writing the tests.
Sam Gliksman

Welcome to Shelfari! Read, Share, Explore! - 1 views

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books socialnetworking

shared by Sam Gliksman on 14 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Miss Miller on 14 Apr 09
     
    Students can put book reports on this site and discuss books with other readers
Seth Bowers

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..
Kevin Jarrett

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...
Glenda Baker

Student Help Center - Police Report Writing Template - 63 views

www.wadsworth.com/...WADCJ_StHelpCtr_Report.html

PBL forensic Scenarios

shared by Glenda Baker on 02 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Glenda Baker on 02 Sep 11
     
    Sample scenario
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