How might policymakers remove barriers and support enabling conditions for optimizing learning for each student’s unique needs — both inside and outside of classroom walls?
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Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project - 23 views
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Synthesis of research concerning issues and ethics or online use by youth.
Horizon Report -2014 Higher Ed Edition - NMC - 33 views
Guide to New Office 2012 - 1 views
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PDF Guide of all the new features in Office 2013 and how to use them.
Cracking the Credit Hour, report by Amy Laitinen, New America Foundation - 5 views
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includes history of Carnegie Unit - highlights the new competency-based learning pilots in measuring levels of acquired learning (instead of seat/clock time), Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) and the Tuning USA initiative
New Blog Series: Promising Policies for Personalized Learning - iNACOL - 15 views
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That is the KEY question, as teachers don't have control over systems' barriers and policies.
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Personalized learning is tailoring learning for each student’s strengths, needs and interests — including enabling student voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn — to provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of the highest standards possible.
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According to this RAND study, students attending schools using breakthrough, personalized learning models “made gains in mathematics and reading over the past two years that were significantly greater than a comparison group made up of similar students selected from comparable schools.”
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Blogs and Online Social Networks as User Centric Service Tools in Academic Libraries: An Indian Library Experience - 0 views
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Abstract: Modern academic libraries cater the information needs of a more demanding and tech-savvy new generation user group that prefers to reside in an open, self-generated online environment largely supported by Web 2.0 technologies. To reach the users where they are, the libraries should revamp their service strategies by incorporating tools like blogs and online social networks. Blog is a handy technology for library professionals which can be reshaped as an information and publicity tool, as a feedback instrument, as an interactive and collaborative learning medium and as a facility for library promotion. Online social networks connect like minded people who share information, ideas and feelings. The unparalleled growth of user bases of these networks presents an opportunity before academic libraries that may be harnessed by making the library an active member of these communities. The experience of an academic library in India shows that reaching the user at their own time and space is more easy and productive when we adapt new web technologies.
Education Week: Job Roles Shifting for Districts' Central Offices - 1 views
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Mr. Nadelstern recently wrote a paper for the University of Washington center on how New York created networks of autonomous schools. He said rather than fight the heterogeneous practices taking place behind closed doors at schools, central-office administrators should embrace them. "The people closest to the kids in the classroom—the principal, the teachers in consultation with parents—are the best people to make decisions," he said.
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"It's a value for us not to get caught up in one school type as being preferable to another," she said. "We try to focus not on the differences between these schools but the similar goals."
Innovating Pedagogy | Open University Innovations Report #1 - 0 views
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The first report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education. You can see a summary of each innovation at the menu on the right.
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"The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation."
Why Teachers Need Social Media Training, Not Just Rules | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning - 6 views
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Under a new set of social media guidelines (pdf) issued by the New York City Department of Education, teachers are required to obtain a supervisor's approval before creating a "professional social media presence," which is broadly defined as "any form of online publication or presence that allows interactive communication, including, but not limited to, social networks, blogs, internet websites, internet forums, and wikis." -
Great insight into educating teachers about the use of social media within their schools so that they can help students navigate these waters as well.
Teaching the Controversy: Why the Creationism Vs. Evolution Debate Should Stay Out of Science Classrooms - Yahoo! News - 56 views
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teaching controversy? Really?
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14 percent of high school biology teachers personally reject not only the theory of evolution but also scientific method, which teaches rigorous critical thinking skills and draws a clear path to the discovery of real truths and how to separate them from merely apparent truths.
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I don't understand how this can be rejected with the CCSS?
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Great for ten page paper
Motivation Matters - 124 views
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How new research can help teachers boost student engagement. Excellent article, well researched and written.
Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation - 0 views
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Take a look at the conclusions - incentive pay for teachers doesn't work. Study occurred in Portugal.
What Makes a Good Project? - new articles : Stager-to-Go - 1 views
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Nice concise article on project based learning
UCSD: Global Information Industry Center - 13 views
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In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes. These estimates are from an analysis of more than 20 different sources of information, from very old (newspapers and books) to very new (portable computer games, satellite radio, and Internet video). Information at work is not included.
Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density - 1 views
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Sara Lazar's report on the brain scan research they've done on meditators.
Parts Of New Mass - 45 views
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