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Electronic Devices Redefine Quality Family Time - NYTimes.com - 31 views

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  • “The family was in the same room, but not together,”
  • One family. One room. Four screens. Four realities
  • Never has there been so much to consume, on so many devices.
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  • The transformation of the American living room into a multiscreen communication and entertainment hub” promises to “change our domestic sphere
  • Individual family members might find themselves contently connected to parallel worlds almost all the time.
Steve Ransom

For teachers on Facebook, professionalism trumps fun - The Globe and Mail - 32 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 29 Apr 11
     
    Lots to wrestle with here: Bottom line - be wise, professional, kind, and have integrity. If we all followed these, there would be on problem
Steve Ransom

Connected, exhausted - Boston.com - 32 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 26 Apr 11
     
    A Pew Research Center study from 2010 reported that more than four out of five teens with cellphones sleep with the phone on or near the bed, sometimes falling asleep with it in their hands in the middle of a conversation.
Steve Ransom

The Games Adults Play | China Power - 31 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 25 Apr 11
     
    Eye-opening perspective on the impact of the numbers game in college rankings and recruitment.
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The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge on Vimeo - 29 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 24 Apr 11
     
    Great lecture by Lessig on open access knowledge and copyright.
Steve Ransom

What Students Want: Characteristics of Effective Teachers from the Students' Perspectiv... - 135 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11
     
    Respect your students.
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Teacher-Led Professional Development: Eleven Reasons Why You Should be Using Classroom ... - 108 views

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  • "I'm done talking ... it's time to take this training into the classroom - that's where the teaching is going on. Besides, you need to build your local capacity."
  • f the large group is "the lecture," the CWT is the "lab."
  • Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11
     
    Another great post by Peter Pappas
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Budget Idea: Divert Money From Prisons to Schools | Miller-McCune | Miller-McCune - 16 views

www.miller-mccune.com/...-from-prisons-to-schools-30187

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  • Over the last 40 years, America’s inmate population has quadrupled, from 500,000 to 2.3 million, giving the U.S. 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of its prisoners. The country now spends $70 billion a year — $50 billion of it at the state level — locking up all of these people, many of whom are nonviolent offenders snagged in the war on drugs.
  • Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11
     
    "Over the last 40 years, America's inmate population has quadrupled, from 500,000 to 2.3 million, giving the U.S. 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of its prisoners."
Steve Ransom

Pedagogy of Fear - Guest Post by Morna M. Mcdermott « Cooperative Catalyst - 72 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 12 Apr 11
     
    An important post. Related to how technology goes under-used, misused, and used primarily to "deliver" instruction a la BrainPop, Khan Academy,....
Steve Ransom

What Can Be Done to Boost Academic Rigor? | Faculty Focus - 61 views

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  • Fifty percent of sophomores reported that they had not taken a single course the prior semester that required more than 20 pages of writing over the course of the semester; One-third did not take a single course the prior semester that required, on average, more than 40 pages of reading per week.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 11 Apr 11
       
      Is the "amount" of reading and writing directly correlated with academic rigor? And then, is such academic rigor directly correlated with learning, problem-solving, and relevance?
  • Today’s students are spending … half of what they did several decades ago
Steve Ransom

SlideFest Do & Don't - 156 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 10 Apr 11
     
    5 great videos that mock the misuse of any presentation tool... along with tips to improve
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Teachers: Watch this and Try not to Cry - Then DO SOMETHING! : Stager-to-Go - 97 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 04 Apr 11
     
    Incredible story and woman who has a heart for kids. Please watch. Are you missing opportunities to touch the kids' lives around you?
Steve Ransom

PrimaryWall - Web based sticky notes for schools - 2 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 01 Apr 11
     
    Seems much more responsive and sortable!!) than WallWisher... can't embed links or other media, though.
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Amid Layoffs, City to Spend More on School Technology - NYTimes.com - 28 views

www.nytimes.com/...30schools.html

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  • At P.S. 97, a popular 800-student elementary school in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the Internet has been running slowly because the school went from just three interactive white boards — popularly known as Smart boards — to 16 this year. It also has a computer lab and one computer per classroom.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 31 Mar 11
       
      I guess no teacher ever thought of using a projector to access online content before. Sad that this is mostly what happens with expensive IWB hardware.
Steve Ransom

Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide - 67 views

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  • she'd rather "move on" and focus class time on other topics.
  • choosing to teach cursive is not about aesthetics or preference, but about giving children the mental tools needed read English.
  • hreaded letter strokes help guide students' eyes left-to-right and definitively correlates reading with writing:
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  • "I absolutely get that we're moving in a world that's technology-based," she says. "But I'm of the old school that believes you can't forget where you came from to get where you're going. There could be a day the computer crashes."
  • Steve Ransom on 31 Mar 11
     
    "Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide"
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Obama 'locked out' of White House - 1 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 24 Mar 11
     
    "news"? Is there nothing else of significance going on in the world? CNN (live) praised his ability to remain cool and think on his feet. If trying another door is a key presidential skill, we are indeed in trouble.
Steve Ransom

Smart Boards: A classroom asset? - Local News from Myrecordjournal.com - 5 views

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  • most common SmartBoard uses were showing videos and information from the Web.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 22 Mar 11
       
      Yes... to project stuff. A wall would be a whole lot cheaper!
  • oschese now prefers the "$2 whiteboard," a two- by two-and-a-half foot dry-erase whiteboard a small group of students can use while working on a problem. That type of board is truly interactive, he said, and makes learning social.
  • "Interactive whiteboards don't really lend themselves to that kind of pedagogy," Noschese said. "I think the teaching style has a lot more impact on the kids than a piece of equipment."
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  • "It's still just showing them something on a screen," Noschese said. "It needs to be more student-centered."
  • Noschese still uses his SmartBoard, mainly as a projector.
  • Teacher training can reduce the risk of the devices being used as glorified projectors or reinforcing the lecture model.
Steve Ransom

Mother hopes others will opt out of standardized testing - CNN.com - 3 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 22 Mar 11
     
    Parents opting out of yearly grueling 2 weeks of standardized testing.
Steve Ransom

Paper Rater: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More - 72 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 21 Mar 11
     
    Free tool
Steve Ransom

Course: Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites - 49 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 21 Mar 11
     
    Further evidence (as if we needed it) that all educators need to be addressing these issues in targeted and developmentally appropriate ways.
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