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Miguel Rodriguez

A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine

shared by Miguel Rodriguez on 24 Jul 09 - Cached
  • A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education A former schoolbook editor parses the politics of educational publishing.by Tamim Ansary var addthis_options = 'delicious, digg, facebook, google, reddit, stumbleupon, twitter, more'; Print Forward addthis_pub = 'glef'; Share Comments(38) Comment RSS Click to enlarge pictureThe Muddle Machine Credit: Monte Wolverton Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas. Not so. I got a hint of things to come when I overheard my boss lamenting, "The books are done and we still don't have an author! I must sign someone today!" Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. "Who writes these things?" people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, "No one." It's symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business. Textbooks are a core part of the curriculum, as crucial to the teacher as a blueprint is to a carpenter, so one might assume they are conceived, researched, written, and published as unique contributions to advancing knowledge.
    • Miguel Rodriguez
      Miguel Rodriguez on 24 Jul 09
       
      I have worked as an editor for an educational publisher myself and, let me tell you, a lot of this sounds really familiar!
Diana Irene Saldana

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 111 views

www.tagxedo.com

wordcloud clouds Web2.0

shared by Diana Irene Saldana on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
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  • Welcome to Tagxedo, word cloud with styles Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
  • Cindy Sheets on 15 Apr 10
     
    word clouds with style. Create shapes with word clouds
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  • kathy adkisson on 09 May 10
     
    "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
  • Karen Wester on 04 Jul 10
     
    Imagine a site like "Wordle" but on steroids - Tagxedo allows you to make word clouds with images. Really cool possibilities as an ice breaker to the new school year.
  • Karen Wester on 04 Jul 10
     
    "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
  • mikecolletti529 on 16 Sep 10
     
    Does it only work on PCs...I tried to run this on my mac but can't get past the home page; when I go to create, I am asked to download Microsoft SilverLight, which I do. Then, nothing else happens.
  • Jane on 01 Jan 11
     
    The site allows you to choose or upload an image to go along with the tag cloud generated.
  • Chelsie Jolley on 04 Mar 11
     
    Similar to Wordle but now you can make them into images!
  • Bob Hiles on 02 May 11
     
    Tag Clouds
  • Gerald Carey on 19 May 11
     
    I genuinely want to ask: what is the educational point of 'word clouds'? To me there are useful as 'word searches' which have to be the almost useless. How have I got this so wrong?
  • Patricia Lukacs on 19 Jun 11
     
    The site for creating text shapes.
  • Donna Canuel on 20 Jun 11
     
    I genuinely want to ask: what is the educational point of 'word clouds'? To me there are useful as 'word searches' which have to be the almost useless. How have I got this so wrong? Totally agree!
  • Marc Patton on 19 Jul 12
     
    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud
  • Kerri Harris on 19 Jul 12
     
    To Gerald Carey - As an English teacher, word clouds are a great tool. Taking text from literature or even from your own students' writing and placing it in a word cloud builder allows students to find theme words because the words used the most often are bigger than the others. I've used my students' quickwrite entries about a chosen piece of text and shown them that they are all thinking through the literature the same way. It's pretty eye opening for an English class!
  • Diana Irene Saldana on 19 Apr 13
     
    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Deb White Groebner

Education Week: Will We Ever Learn? - 37 views

www.edweek.org/...29lerman.h29.html

education education_reform standards NCLB

shared by Deb White Groebner on 24 Apr 10 - Cached
  • All students should master a verifiable set of skills, but not necessarily the same skills. Part of the reason high schools fail so many kids is that educators can’t get free of the notion that all students—regardless of their career aspirations—need the same basic preparation. States are piling on academic courses, removing the arts, and downplaying career and technical education to make way for a double portion of math. Meanwhile, career-focused programs, such as Wisconsin’s youth apprenticeships and well-designed career academies, are engaging students and raising their post-high-school earnings, especially among hard-to-reach, at-risk male students.
  • Maintaining our one-size-fits-all approach will hurt many of the kids we are trying most to help. Maybe that approach, exemplified in the push for common standards, will simply lead to yet more unmet education goals. But it won’t reduce, and might increase, the already high rate at which students drop out of school, or graduate without the skills and social behaviors required for career success.
  • Deb White Groebner on 24 Apr 10
     
    Well-written commentary for anyone interested in the impact of Common Core Standards. "What's Wrong With the Common-Standards Project" "We need rigorous but basic academics, homing in on skills that will be used, and not short-shrifting the "soft skill" behaviors that lead to success in college and careers. The management guru Peter Drucker got it right: "The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work 10 years later."
trisha_poole

Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate... - 236 views

www.slate.com/...all

grammar english esl englishusage blog tesol eml426 eml305 resources

shared by trisha_poole on 15 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • trisha_poole on 15 Jan 11
     
    Good foundation for why two spaces after a period is wrong. Supported by historical evidence and common sense.
  • Beth Panitz on 15 Jan 11
     
    Actually the new 6th Edition of APA Manual now says you MUST put 2 spaces after a period when writing for publication. Go figure.
marcmancinelli

The Wrong Stuff | Show All Your Work - 88 views

showallyourwork.wordpress.com/...the-wrong-stuff

shared by marcmancinelli on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • marcmancinelli on 03 Feb 11
     
    The misguided focus of the educational conversation...
Marsha Ratzel

What makes a good diagnostic question? | Getting Results -- The Questionmark Blog - 14 views

blog.questionmark.com/-a-perfect-diagnostic-question

diagnostic question formative assessment

shared by Marsha Ratzel on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Marsha Ratzel on 07 Aug 11
     
    "So suggests Dr. Dylan William in his excellent new book, Embedded Formative Assessment (published by Solution Tree Press, and recommended). A common use for diagnostic questions is to find out whether participants have understood your instruction - telling you whether you can go onto another topic or need to spend more time on this topic. And if participants get it wrong, you want to understand why they have done so in order to correct the misconception. Good diagnostic questions involve deep domain knowledge, as you have to understand why learners are likely to answer in a particular way"
Justin Medved

How schools get it wrong - thestar.com - 19 views

www.thestar.com/...8262--how-schools-get-it-wrong

for:dharter for:mdil

shared by Justin Medved on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Zachary Stein, who is doing his Ph.D. in human education and development at Harvard University's graduate school of education, notes that when he and a colleague tried to persuade a school board in Texas to change their tests so that they actually captured what children understood, those most strongly pitted against the changes were real estate brokers.
Roland Gesthuizen

COMP8440 - ANU - College of Engineering and Computer Science - 24 views

cs.anu.edu.au/...lectures.php

anu college programming opensource curriculum FLOSS projectmanagement

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 10 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 10 Apr 11
     
    This course provides an overview of the historical and modern context and operation of free and open source software (FOSS) communities and associated software projects. The practical objective of the course is to teach students how they can begin to participate in a FOSS project in order to contribute to and improve aspects of the software that they feel are wrong. Students will learn some important FOSS tools and techniques for contributing to projects and how to set up their own FOSS projects.
Roland Gesthuizen

Degrees and Dollars - NYTimes.com - 50 views

www.nytimes.com/...07krugman.html

education career NYTimes policy blog

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Mar 11
     
    "It is a truth universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success. Everyone knows that the jobs of the future will require ever higher levels of skill .. But what everybody knows is wrong"
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Mar 11
     
    Opinion piece describing how modern technology is reducing the need for highly educated workers and the implication for education policy.
Roland Gesthuizen

Everything You've Ever Been Told About How You Learn Is A Lie | Australian Popular Science - 151 views

www.popsci.com.au/...d-about-how-you-learn-is-a-lie

learning memory psychology research popsci

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Sep 13
     
    "You know everyone learns differently. Do you think you learn better through words or pictures? Did you know you learn different subjects with different sides of the brain? Welp, they were wrong. Many of the theories of "brain-based" education, a method of instruction supposedly based on neuroscience, have been largely debunked by rigorous science."
  • David Simpson on 24 Sep 13
     
    Thanks for sharing .This is well done! I teach a Psychology course designed to develop students' critical thinking about such "myths." Here is a list of others: Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Ruscio, J., and Beyerstein, B. L (2010). 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
spartan76

Museum Box - 106 views

museumbox.e2bn.org

museum box history events people places

shared by spartan76 on 28 Mar 10 - Cached
  • anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others. More... Our inspiration Thomas Clarkson The project was inspired by the anti-slavery campaigner - Thomas Clarkson, who did exactly as described above. Thomas Clarkson's Box He carried around a box of items (ranging from African produce to diagrams of transportation ships) to illustrate his arguments during his campaign. Create your own
  • Lauren Rosen on 27 Apr 10
     
    Create a box demonstrating what you know about any subject. Incorporate text, images, video or audio. Great for describing an artist, author, character, location...
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  • Lauren Rosen on 27 Apr 10
     
    Create a box demonstrating what you know about any subject. Incorporate text, images, video or audio. Great for describing an artist, author, character, location...
  • Angela McDurmon on 16 Jun 10
     
    Place files, images, text, movies, or sounds concerning a particular topic in a virtual box.
  • Deb White Groebner on 20 Dec 10
     
    Make a virtual collection of artifacts to interpret any topic, including yourself.
  • Kelly Boushell on 02 Apr 11
     
    This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others
  • Bob Rowan on 02 Dec 11
     
    Their description ... provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others Shared by Kathy Walker with the following note: "Attached is a cool idea for projects & assessments that can be used with any subject area."
  • Kim Cline on 19 Nov 12
     
    This is a great social studies site for students to collect "artifacts" about an historical person or event.  Site has some bugs, but the finished product is very unique!
  • spartan76 on 02 Jul 14
     
    Create mini histories in a box.
Martin Burrett

7 Plenary Activities for Newly Qualified Teachers by @RichardJARogers - 8 views

ukedchat.com/...plenary-activities

NQT new teachers teachers RQT plenary

shared by Martin Burrett on 19 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 19 Mar 18
     
    "I loved competitions when I was a kid. Anything involving puzzles, quizzes or games really excited me. In truth: I loved being right and I hated being wrong! School can be quite a competitive environment. Some of our students can really feel the pressure when it comes to scoring highly on tests, exams and extra-curricular tournaments and events."
Nigel Coutts

Avoiding Assessment Mistakes - The Learner's Way - 57 views

thelearnersway.net/...avoiding-assessment-mistakes

assessment learner education teaching learning

shared by Nigel Coutts on 16 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 16 Jul 17
     
    Assessment is arguably the piece of the learning cycle we get most wrong. Whether looked at from the perspective of the learner, the teacher, the school administrator, the politician or the parent, assessment is misunderstood and poorly utilised as a tool for learning. The importance of changing this situation is only made more salient in light of the countless research studies from the likes of Jon Hattie & Dylan Wiliam that points to the power of effective assessment. So, what are the common mistakes and how might we avoid them?
Martin Burrett

All About Explorers - 18 views

ukedchat.com/...all-about-explorers

explorers e-safety e-savvy fake news

shared by Martin Burrett on 09 Oct 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 09 Oct 18
     
    "This is an interesting history site about explorers… except it isn't. If you look at the information it is wildly wrong and the site is designed to teach about fact checking and to show children that not all information on the Internet is trustworthy."
Nigel Coutts

Our curious ideas about intelligence - The Learner's Way - 21 views

thelearnersway.net/...rious-ideas-about-intelligence

intelligence learner education teaching Learning

shared by Nigel Coutts on 01 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 01 Apr 18
     
    We have some strange ideas about intelligence, many of them are wrong. Some of our ideas can have a damaging effect on the people we label as intelligent. When we look at some of the research behind intelligence we find that our assumptions based on what we were once told about it need to be updated. 
Jeff Andersen

low motivation - 7 resources for addressing low motivation - 55 views

teachinginhighered.com/...low-motivation

teaching and engagement motivation and Learning

shared by Jeff Andersen on 15 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • Jeff Andersen on 15 Feb 17
     
    Despite your best efforts, your entire class seems to start experiencing a huge decline in motivation. What started out well, as you watched your students' curiosities be heightened, now feels like an attempt to lift something well beyond your capacity. You're experiencing "the dip," and it is a common occurrence. You may very well not have done anything wrong, to cause this to happen. However, there are plenty of strategies you can use to bring the motivation back in a course.
Martin Burrett

Imaginary Geometry - Kanizsa Figures by @CambridgeMaths - 32 views

ukedchat.com/...izsa-figures-by-cambridgemaths

maths optical illusion

shared by Martin Burrett on 29 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 29 Dec 16
     
    "Italian psychologist Geatano Kanizsa first described this optical illusion in 1955 as a subjective or illusory contour illusion. The study of such optical illusions has led to an understanding of how the brain and eyes perceive optical information and has been used considerably by artists and designers alike. They show the power of human imagination in filling in the gaps to make implied constructions in our own minds. Kanizsa figures and similar illusions are a really useful way to encourage learners to 'say what they see' and to explain how they see it. It offers a chance for others to become aware of the different views available in a diagram and share their own thoughts without the 'danger' of being wrong; many people see different things."
Brianna Crowley

Trance Encounters - Michelle Rhee is Wrong - 68 views

prosserjohn.tumblr.com/...michelle-rhee-is-wrong

logical_fallacy teacher_profession Educational Reform MRhee

shared by Brianna Crowley on 10 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Brianna Crowley on 10 Mar 13
     
    After Michelle Rhee posted a completely misleading op-ed in the Seattle Times, this teacher (also a lawyer) dismantles the fallacies of her argument. Excellent example for AP language teachers. Essential read for ALL teachers who care about the impact of standardized testing in our schools. 
Martin Burrett

The Positive Power of Negative Thinking - 16 views

ukedchat.com/...sitive-power-negative-thinking

thinking

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Dec 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Dec 17
     
    "Fads in education come and go, with many settings being full of optimism, hope, and trying to instil a positive mindset among their pupils. Yet, all these positive, happy signals sometimes fall short of providing individuals the skills to think more critically within the world they engage in. Many people believe that thinking negatively is a bad thing, and do not consider it as a positive force for good. Expecting things to go wrong can be a great force for good, and with grades and expectations in schools set very high, what happens when things don't go to plan? People are completely stuffed. If exams scores do not reach expected levels, then deciding on a college, university, or vocational options can throw individuals off-course, but having considered the negative outcome options can provide a backup plan of which they still have some control."
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