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SOPHIA and the Flipped Classroom - 21 views

www.sophia.org/flipped-classroom

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  • Jason Schmidt on 06 Jun 12
     
    Become a certified flipped classroom teacher.
Jason Schmidt

Help us connect all US schools with international communities. | Connect all Schools - 48 views

www.connectallschools.org

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  • Jason Schmidt on 19 Jan 11
     
    Connect All Schools shares stories and connections made by classrooms in the US. Their goal is to connect every classroom in the country with an international partner.
Jason Schmidt

Curriki - 6eslessonplan - 73 views

www.curriki.org/...6eslessonplan

curriki 6eslessonplan lesson planning framework

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  • Jason Schmidt on 01 Dec 10
     
    6E+S lesson plan format. Encourages constructivist, student-centered learning and instruction.
Jason Schmidt

School Would Be Great If It Weren't for the Damn Kids - 95 views

www.alfiekohn.org/...damnkids.htm

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  • It simply doesn’t make sense to try to “purge ‘ineffective’ teachers and principals.”  His listener, almost giddy with gratitude now, prepares to chime in, as Samuelson, without pausing, delivers the punch line:  That’s right, it’s time to stop blaming teachers and start . . . blaming students!
  • His focus is not on students’ achievements (the intellectual accomplishments of individual kids) but only on “student achievement” (the aggregate results of standardized tests)
  • As I’ve noted elsewhere, we have reason to worry when schooling is discussed primarily in the context of “global competitiveness” rather than in terms of what children need or what contributes to a democratic culture
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  • Upon hearing someone castigate students for being insufficiently motivated, a noneconomist might be inclined to ask two questions.  The first is:  “Motivated to do what, exactly”?  Anything they’re told, no matter how unengaging, inappropriate, or, well, demotivating? 
  • Whenever I see students made to cram facts into their short-term memories for a test, practice a series of decontextualized skills on yet another worksheet, listen passively to a lecture, or inch their way through the insipid prose of a corporate-produced textbook, I find myself thinking of a comment made by Frederick Herzberg, a critic of traditional workplace management:  “Idleness, indifference, and irresponsibility,” he said, “are healthy responses to absurd work.”
  • The more you reward people for doing something, or for doing it well, the less interest they typically come to have in whatever they had to do to get the reward. 
  • People who blame students for not being “motivated” tend to think educational success mean little more than higher scores on bad tests and they’re apt to see education itself as a means to making sure our corporations will beat their corporations.  The sort of schooling that results is the type almost guaranteed to . . . kill students’ motivation.
  • one thing that’s happened is a concatenation of rewards and punishments, including grades, which teach students that learning is just a means to an end.
  • Another thing that’s happened is teaching that’s meant primarily to raise test scores.
  • inner-city kids get the worst of the sort of schooling that’s not about exploring and discovering and questioning but only about working hard (often at rote tasks) and being nice (read: obedient).
  • “Motivation is weak because more students…don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well.”  But why don’t they like school (which is the key to understanding why, assuming his premise is correct, they don’t succeed)?  What has happened to their desire to figure out how things work, the hunger to make sense of things, with which all children start out? 
  • if you want to see (intrinsically) motivated kids, you need to visit classrooms or schools that take a nontraditional approach to education, places where students are more likely to be absorbed and frequently delighted, where what they’re doing is not merely “rigorous” (a word often applied to very difficult busywork) but meaningful.
  • Jason Schmidt on 17 Nov 10
     
    Alfie Kohn's commentary on an article written by Robert J. Samuelson. Samuelson argues in his article that the problem with education reform is not the usual suspects like ineffective teachers, but kids who are lazy and unmotivated. Interesting read with thoughtful information about student motivation.
Jason Schmidt

dianeravitch.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - 25 views

audio.edtechlive.com/...dianeravitch.mp3

dianeravitch audio futureofed interview blog archive

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  • Jason Schmidt on 28 Oct 10
     
    In case you missed Steve Hargadon's interview with Diane Ravitch on October 26, 2010.
Jason Schmidt

Classics for Kids - 81 views

classicsforkids.com

classics education music classics for kids interactive listening history resources

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  • Jason Schmidt on 26 Oct 10
     
    Great music education resource. Provides the opportunity to listen to classical music and gives excellent support materials.
Jason Schmidt

Wikiversity - 76 views

en.wikiversity.org/...Wikiversity:Main_Page

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  • Jason Schmidt on 26 Oct 10
     
    Open educational content
Jason Schmidt

Underground Railroad--History of Slavery, Pictures, Information - 111 views

www.nationalgeographic.com/...j1.html

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  • Jason Schmidt on 23 Oct 10
     
    Great interactive about the Underground Railroad.
Jason Schmidt

Online Professional Development | iEARN-USA: International Education and Resource Network - 41 views

us.iearn.org/...index.php

online professional development education iearn

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  • Jason Schmidt on 24 Sep 10
     
    Work together with educators from all over the world to develop a collaborative project. Online course.
Jason Schmidt

Collaborative Learning Home - Collaborative Learning - 78 views

collaborativelearning.wetpaint.com

collaboration collaborative learning blog wiki

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  • Jason Schmidt on 14 Sep 10
     
    Wiki from 2009 Learning@School conference. Contains lots of great collaborative tools and ideas for using collaboration in the classroom.
Jason Schmidt

Identity Day Presentation - Google Docs - 45 views

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identity day george couros resources

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  • Jason Schmidt on 04 Aug 10
     
    Notes and links from George Couros identity day presentation for Reform Symposium 2010.
Jason Schmidt

Global SchoolNet: Home - 27 views

www.globalschoolnet.org/index.cfm

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  • Jason Schmidt on 20 Jul 10
     
    Looking for partners for a global project? Global School net allows you to search for partners from all around the world. Volunteer your class for projects and look for other classes to work with you.
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