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10 years after laptops come to Maine schools, educators say technology levels playing f... - 73 views

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laptops techintegration provingthecase

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  • We have math teachers doing online skill-based type of things and online quizzes,” Robinson said. Students use a site called, Glogster where they create digital posters, and upload photos and music for reports.
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      Steve Ransom on 20 Mar 11
       
      Pretty low-level use for math... there are so many more powerful things that laptops could be used for.
  • Having laptops means all students can do the same quality report, regardless of their parents' income, “because they all have the same tools,”
  • We tried filtering. It's a losing battle,” Robinson said. “There's always a way around it. Now our approach is teaching responsibility.”
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  • “At our house, there are signs, 'No Facebook from 7 to 9:30,'” Angus King said. “Part of it is supervision, he said. You don't hand the keys to your car to your teenager without rules.
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U.S. Urged to Raise Teachers' Status - NYTimes.com - 77 views

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  • “Teaching in the U.S. is unfortunately no longer a high-status occupation,”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 16 Mar 11
       
      Was it ever?
  • “Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.”
  • In South Korea, teachers are known as ‘nation builders,’ and I think it’s time we treated our teachers with the same level of respect,” Mr. Obama said in a speech on education on Monday.
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  • “Make a concerted effort to raise the status of the teaching profession”
  • University teaching programs in the high-scoring countries admit only the best students, and “teaching education programs in the U.S. must become more selective and more rigorous,”
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10 Must-Have Mac Apps for Amateur Musicians | Mac.AppStorm - 72 views

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music apps mac osx

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  • Steve Ransom on 15 Mar 11
     
    Some great free ones here in the list.
Steve Ransom

Classroom Creativity : The Frontal Cortex - 87 views

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creativity students kids classroom

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  • Steve Ransom on 14 Mar 11
     
    Yes.. I think most prefer compliance than creativity... or at least teacher-defined and controlled creativity...when it fits and is convenient.
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Middle School Students Find Their Voice with Digital Cameras | Edutopia - 90 views

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students photography digitalcamera camera education technology writing multimedia learning relevance

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Mar 11
     
    Wow... a must read. When technology is used in powerful ways to make learning and thinking about the world relevant, great things happen!
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Daily Kos: Notice to All Banker Types from a Teacher - 97 views

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humor teacherevaluation teachereffectiveness highstakes rating teachers education satire blogpost

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    Sadly funny.
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Salman Khan, Transformer | Connected Principals - 57 views

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khan blogpost

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  • Steve Ransom on 08 Mar 11
     
    See comment #1 by Will Richardson. Need to be so careful when glorifying what on the surface may appear transformational, while under the shiny wrapper it is nothing all that new. These new forms of just in time information delivery are great student supports; no more.
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How the iPad 2 Will Revolutionize Education | Fast Company - 105 views

www.fastcompany.com/...olutionize-classroom-education

ipad ipad2 promo rationale future

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  • Steve Ransom on 05 Mar 11
     
    Not compelling at all. When a company tells you how a technology will revolutionize education, think very carefully, deeply, and critically.
Steve Ransom

CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students - NYTimes.com - 21 views

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  • “The course is really a refresher, but they aren’t ready for a refresher. They need to learn how to learn.”
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      Steve Ransom on 04 Mar 11
       
      Learning how to learn... this is the real problem, isn' it? If K-12 is failing, this is it.
  • The knowledge gap at community colleges is increasingly being recognized as a national problem.
  • “Many, many community college presidents will say that math developmental education is the most difficult problem they’re facing,”
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  • “There’s no question that the more remediation a student needs, the less likely they are ever to graduate.”
  • only about 25 percent of full-time students at the community colleges graduate within six years
  • “I embrace developmental education because it pivots lives,” Dr. Mellow said. “If students get an associate’s degree, they can become nurses, making $85,000 a year. If they don’t make it through that developmental class, they’ll barely make minimum wage.”
  • “For those who make it to the exit line, to see the beam on their faces is really incredible.”
Steve Ransom

BBC News - Plagiarism: The Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V boom - 87 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...magazine-12613617

plagiarism remix

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  • "There's no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity."
  • "Being 'original' does not mean having novel ideas never before expressed by a human. It simply means doing the work for yourself."
  • Steve Ransom on 04 Mar 11
     
    "There's no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity." Carroll agrees: "Being 'original' does not mean having novel ideas never before expressed by a human. It simply means doing the work for yourself."
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Student suspended for politely holding door open - Boing Boing - 107 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 02 Mar 11
     
    CRAAAAA-ZY implementation of policy here.
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A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part I - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 40 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 28 Feb 11
     
    So many issues here to deal with. Good read.
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Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter - NYTimes.com - 30 views

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  • too busy to write lengthy posts
  • uninspired by a lack of readers
  • social networking did a good enough job keeping them in touch with friends and family
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  • Blogs went largely unchallenged until Facebook reshaped consumer behavior with its all-purpose hub for posting everything social. Twitter, which allows messages of no longer than 140 characters, also contributed to the upheaval.
  • quick updates
  • If you’re looking for substantive conversation, you turn to blogs
  • With blogging you have to write
  • Some people write some phrases or some quotes, but that’s it
  • bloggers often use Facebook and Twitter to promote their blog posts to a wider audience. Rather than being competitors, he said, they are complementary.
  • While the younger generation is losing interest in blogging, people approaching middle age and older are sticking with it.
  • Steve Ransom on 22 Feb 11
     
    The gist of this is that blogging takes 2 much time & thought... with the younger more interested in quick soundbytes and informal social interaction
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David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts » Late penalties are 'off the m... - 30 views

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late assignment grading punctuality timeliness time responsibility

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    When is it appropriate to penalize students with grade reduction for submitting work late and when is it not?
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Ken And Barbie Update Their Status : All Tech Considered : NPR - 73 views

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barbier ken Facebook twitter socialmedia dolls toys kids

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  • Steve Ransom on 16 Feb 11
     
    If dolls can be using social media, you'd think schools and teachers could, too??
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Defining Active Learning | Faculty Focus - 40 views

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learning engagement

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  • Most faculty know that active learning is important even though many still lecture pretty much exclusively.
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    Words Matter: "The process of having students engage in some activity that forces them to reflect upon ideas and how they are using those ideas. Requiring students to regularly assess their own degree of understanding and skill at handling concepts or problems in a particular discipline. The attainment of knowledge by participating or contributing. The process of keeping students mentally, and often physically, active in their learning through activities that involve them in gathering information, thinking and problem solving."
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Download Free NaturalReader---Free online text to speech software with Natural Voices o... - 66 views

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texttospeech windows mac

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  • Steve Ransom on 09 Feb 11
     
    mac/windows Free versions available. Paid education version has nice options, including speak as you type (typing echo) and saving as audio file.
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The Plaza Hotel providing iPads for all guests - 19 views

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ipad hotel 1:1

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  • Steve Ransom on 08 Feb 11
     
    Just like the real world. No 1:1 anything... but desks and pencils, at Super 8.
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FERPA and Social Media | Faculty Focus - 21 views

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FERPA socialmedia guidelines rules privacy law

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    "FERPA cannot be interpreted as building a total and complete wall between the school and the community. We would have really bad schools if that happened and very disengaged students.
Steve Ransom

Despite Obama's Urging, Policy Stymies Science Students, Teachers Say - NYTimes.com - 18 views

www.nytimes.com/...05science.html

science sciencefair pressure standards highstakes curriculum

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  • In middle school, science fair projects are typically still required — and, teachers lament, all too often completed by parents.
  • In many schools, science fairs depend on teachers who shoulder the extra work. They supervise participants and research, raise the money for medals and poster boards, and find judges — all on their own time.
  • Steve Ransom on 07 Feb 11
     
    Sad statement of the lack of sufficient time to really get into science that leads naturally to the display of learning... on class time, not extracurricular time. The US DOE is really not interested in deep learning at all...
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