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Siri Anderson

What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic (January/February 2010) - 71 views

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EdPsych teacher-education assessment value-added ROI

shared by Siri Anderson on 15 Jan 10 - Cached
  • hey avidly recruited students and their families into the process; they maintained focus, ensuring that everything they did contributed to student learning; they planned exhaustively and purposefully—for the next day or the year ahead—by working backward from the desired outcome; and they worked relentlessly, refusing to surrender to the combined menaces of poverty, bureaucracy, and budgetary shortfalls.
  • one way that great teachers ensure that kids are learning is to frequently check for understanding: Are the kids—all of the kids—following what you are saying? Asking “Does anyone have any questions?” does not work,
  • Students are not always the best judges of their own learning.
  • Chris Sloan on 15 Jan 10
     
    "For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels ahead in a year and others can't. Now, as the Obama administration offers states more than $4 billion to identify and cultivate effective teachers, Teach for America is ready to release its data."
  • Siri Anderson on 02 Feb 10
     
    Article on teacher effectiveness as studied through Teach for American data. Thrilling and scary in implication all at the same time.
Javier E

Question Of The Week: "The Organization Kid" - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - 44 views

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generation organization youth values morality conformity

shared by Javier E on 31 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Javier E on 31 Dec 10
     
    In answer to the question: "Is there a book or article that changed your life?"
Javier E

The Elite Personified - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - 24 views

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generation organization youth values morality conformity

shared by Javier E on 31 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • life isn't as simple as it once appeared. Career and Marriage are transformed from abstract hopes into concrete decisions. Every one that is made closes off other possibilities. And every so often, we take stock of life, pondering its purpose, what it is that makes us happy, our responsibilities to others, whether meaning can be found in our work, etc.
  • prep schools and top tier colleges traffic in a perverse illusion: that building a perfect resume is the same thing as building a perfect life
  • since every subculture has its pathologies, you're probably not doing things right unless the other people in your world are at least slightly uncomfortable with some way in which you're challenging its assumptions.
Javier E

Barry Sanders, Matt Biondi, and the Tiger Mom - James Fallows - Culture - The Atlantic - 36 views

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fun performance proficiency pleasure excellence motivation activity

shared by Javier E on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.'"An interesting idea, but is it true? Are activities only fun when we get good at them? And, conversely, does that mean that if we're good at something, it must also be fun--at least at some level?
  • research by Mihaily Csikszentmihalyi (of "Flow" fame) regarding what makes an activity fun. "The place where people are most engaged in an activity," McCann says, "and where they're having the most optimal experience, is where the challenge is about equal to your ability." 
  • "People are motivated by different things," explains Dr. David B. Coppel, a clinical and sport psychologist at the University of Washington. "There are some individuals who are process oriented, and some who are outcome-oriented. Individuals who are absorbed in the experience of being active or competing can have a great experience even if they don't win. But for those who derive their success and pleasure from successful outcomes, winning is more important."
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  • The best results, McCann says, have to come from an internally motivated sense of fun and love of what you're doing.
Marsha Ratzel

A Beginner's Guide to Infographics and Data-Driven Storytelling - Maria Popova - Life - The Atlantic - 139 views

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infographics storytelling plpconnectu

shared by Marsha Ratzel on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Marsha Ratzel on 26 Jul 11
     
    "a practical guide to creating data graphics that mean something, that captivate and illuminate and tell stories of what matters-a pinnacle of the discipline's sensemaking potential in a world of ever-increasing information overload."
D. S. Koelling

The Creativity Killer: Group Discussions - David Sherwin - Life - The Atlantic - 76 views

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education creativity

shared by D. S. Koelling on 19 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Yes, group activity can provide the impetus for better framing of problems, which can lead to original solutions. But creativity is the "end result of many forms of intelligence coming together, and intelligence born out of collaboration and out of networks," to quote one of my co-workers, Robert Fabricant. When we collaborate with different kinds of thinkers, sometimes from different cultures and backgrounds, we individually struggle with ingrained behaviors that reduce our likelihood of manifesting creativity.
  • Instead of holding an hour-long meeting with a facilitator at the whiteboard, pen poised to capture ideas called out, what would happen if every person in the room were provided five minutes to generate ideas individually?
  • When we lose track of time in group discussion, we are often crafting an enjoyable group experience at the cost of surfacing everyone's unique perspectives and voices. We risk filling the time with consensus, rather than exploring divergent, multi-disciplinary viewpoints. It is in the friction between these views that we explore new patterns of thought.
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  • this kind of teamwork requires knowing when not to work in teams. This sounds obvious, but we constantly struggle with the belief that we must be inclusive to succeed. When to diverge and when to converge: that is the question.
  • A useful tool to combat open-ended group dialogue is "timeboxing," the use of short, structured sprints to reach stated goals for individuals or teams.
  • D. S. Koelling on 19 Apr 11
     
    A case for rethinking how we generate ideas.
Ruth Howard

The World’s Schoolmaster - Atlantic Mobile - 0 views

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    • Ruth Howard
      Ruth Howard on 24 Jun 11
       
      PISA invest in selectively sought high trained educators, and invest in poorest sectors equally. high PISA
Craig Campbell

Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers - Scott Samuelson - The Atlantic - 18 views

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plato plumbers

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  • Craig Campbell on 01 May 14
     
    Liberal arts for everyone.
Paul Klym

How Black Students Tend to Learn Science - The Atlantic - 47 views

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students science atlantic beliefs+practices

shared by Paul Klym on 05 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • limits students’ sense of isolation and fosters communal feeling among classmates
  • active learning limits students’ sense of isolation and fosters communal feeling among classmates.
  • active learning limits students’ sense of isolation and fosters communal feeling among classmates
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  • So why are students relegated to lectures when it’s proven that active learning can significantly enhance the educational experience?
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 05 Dec 14
       
      Simple. They don't have instructional beliefs that they all agree upon. These teachers work as independent contractors, and take any criticism of their practice personally. But they forget that it is not about them. It's about the students.
    • Paul Klym
      Paul Klym on 08 Dec 14
       
      I think that you have forgot to include a lack of professional development (training) to demonstrate successful educational strategies.  Telling someone (a teacher) they must change is just like a lecture.  Showing them how they can change their practice to make a difference is needed as well.
Matt Renwick

What Happens When Students Control Their Own Education? - The Atlantic - 64 views

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students control education atlantic

shared by Matt Renwick on 17 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • some staff members rejected
  • eliminated the principal position and instead installed two deans at the helm
  • strong leaders, supported teachers, and an engaged community
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  • no longer in the bottom 5 percent
  • incredibly freeing
  • I’m a better teacher
Stephanie Holt

The Rad New Words Added to the Dictionary in the 90s: Where Are They Now? - 24 views

www.theatlantic.com/...279145

dictionaries neologisms AMEweek11 technology Atlantic specialistEnglishes E&Pweek2

shared by Stephanie Holt on 29 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Stephanie Holt on 29 Apr 14
     
    From the Atlantic, a quick, instructive survey of established, passing, and redefined words, drawn largely (but not exclusively) from tech language.
George Hess

Using Music to Close the Academic Gap - Lori Miller Kase - The Atlantic - 73 views

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shared by George Hess on 13 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • George Hess on 13 Oct 13
     
    Why isn't music in the Common Core
  • Bob Calder on 14 Oct 13
     
    Research demonstrates that music doesn't help as such. The same effect can be got from any discipline where practice and persistence are important. The musical component can be duplicated with explicit phonemic instruction in a short time. You would be better off drawing because it is the only non-academic that has a direct academic relationship - with geometry. The evidence for that has to do with the above, plus junction recognition and visualization. The only thing I didn't touch on is openness to new experience which has a strong correlation to measured intelligence. That's a component of the arts in general.
  • George Hess on 15 Oct 13
     
    I'm aware of the studies and also of the garbage science like the "Mozart Effect." While they don't support the correlation, they are also not definitive. This appears to be a valid study and it is working. Whether the reasons are because they learn practice and persistence or something else is irrelevant, a correlation still exists. Maybe it's just that music is fun and the way we learn music--practice, reflect, refine, repeat--is a good model for learning in general. It's certainly better than standardized tests. Personally, I don't feel a need to justify music's existence by its value to other subjects. It represents some of humanity's greatest achievements. That should be enough.
Liane St. Laurent

Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads - The Atlantic - 49 views

www.theatlantic.com/...375567

google chromebook ipad

shared by Liane St. Laurent on 08 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Liane St. Laurent on 08 Aug 14
     
    "While nobody hated the iPad, by any means, the iPad was edged out by some key feedback, said Joel Handler, Hillsborough's director of technology. Students saw the iPad as a "fun" gaming environment, while the Chromebook was perceived as a place to "get to work.""
Maureen Greenbaum

When People Feared Computers - The Atlantic - 27 views

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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 30 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Allow yourself to be a little ignorant for a while. Plan to spend some time learning; give the computer a chance to prove itself before you decide you can't use it; take things a step at a time; make sure you read the documentation carefully; and finally, don't forget that you're in charge, not the computer."
    • Maureen Greenbaum
      Maureen Greenbaum on 30 Mar 15
       
      Same advice as learning to use twitter, a new LMS, or educational software or any new thing!
chad even

Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic - 133 views

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google_earth

shared by chad even on 24 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • chad even on 24 Jan 12
     
    Looking at the world through via Google Earth offers striking images of the diversity of our planet and the impact that humans have had on it. Today's entry is a puzzle -- part 2 in a series (part 1 here), this time offering multiple choices. We're challenging you to figure out where in the world each of the images below is taken. North is not always up in these pictures, and, apart from a bit of contrast, they are unaltered images provided by Google and its mapping partners. So I invite you to have a look at the images below, make your guesses, and see your score at the end. Good luck!
anonymous

The Internet's Dark Ages - The Atlantic - 51 views

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archives archiving digital citizenship

shared by anonymous on 13 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness.
  • It’s unstable.
  • “Except when it goes, it really goes,” said Jason Scott, an archivist and historian for the Internet Archive. “It’s gone gone. A piece of paper can burn and you can still kind of get something from it. With a hard drive or a URL, when it’s gone, there is just zero recourse.”
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  • The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has a trove of cached web pages going back to 1996.
  • It is not just access to knowledge, but the knowledge itself that’s at stake.
  • Ephemerality is built into the very architecture of the web, which was intended to be a messaging system, not a library.
  • And yet there are no robust mechanisms for libraries and museums to acquire, and thus preserve, digital collections.
  • Vaughan was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
  • The Internet is now considered a great oracle, a place where information lives and knowledge is stitched together.
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