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Lee Kolbert: We Can Do Better Than Matt Damon - 1 views

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shared by Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • What bothers me is that he was rude to the reporter and her cameraman when they were trying to engage him in a conversation.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Get passed it.  This isn't an elementary school conversation and we don't know the context before the question was asked.  Let's not forget that reporters provoke to get the sound bite.  
  • But it's a little muddy now because Matt was rude. And we applauded.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Please.  We don't know the context based on the clip we all viewed.  I think this absolutely adds to the conversation.  
  • the folks at Education Nation are holding an essay contest
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      How, uh... educational of them.
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  • Enter the essay contest and if you win, they will fly you out to NYC in September to attend the Teacher Town Hall
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Another Race to the Top! 
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Where were all the other educators at the Save Our Schools March?  I am guilty, and feel guilty for having not attended, but really, where were we all?   No, Matt Damon isn't, and shouldn't be our poster child for education reform.  You cannot fault him for representing us and using a naughty word.  Instead of poo-pooing Matt, I applaud his courage to do so, to tell it like it is, and for defending our profession.  I will not put him on a pedestal as if he speaks for me as one of my own, however, he did defended teachers. I appreciate that, a lot.   Don't make this more than what it is, even if you think he did it in a shitty way.  
Brian C. Smith

Meredith Ely: Blaming Teachers or Finding Solutions? - 34 views

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shared by Brian C. Smith on 22 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Progressive reformers
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 22 Oct 10
       
      Love to know Ely's definition of "progressive reformer" here.
Brian C. Smith

The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 48 views

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shared by Brian C. Smith on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The age-old belief that the arts have a special claim to creativity is unfounded.
  • When scholars gave creativity tasks to both engineering majors and music majors, their scores laid down on an identical spectrum, with the same high averages and standard deviations. Inside their brains, the same thing was happening—ideas were being generated and evaluated on the fly.
  • The lore of pop psychology is that creativity occurs on the right side of the brain. But we now know that if you tried to be creative using only the right side of your brain, it’d be like living with ideas perpetually at the tip of your tongue, just beyond reach
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  • those who diligently practice creative activities learn to recruit their brains’ creative networks quicker and better. A lifetime of consistent habits gradually changes the neurological pattern.
  • The home-game version of this means no longer encouraging kids to spring straight ahead to the right answer
  • The new view is that creativity is part of normal brain function.
  • “As a child, I never had an identity as a ‘creative person,’ ” Schwarzrock recalls. “But now that I know, it helps explain a lot of what I felt and went through.”
  • In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.
  • fact-finding
  • problem-finding
  • Next, idea-finding
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