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Roland Gesthuizen

Higher Ed's Ultimate Guide Ed Cloud Computing - Edudemic - 8 views

edudemic.com/...cloud-higher-ed

cloud cloudcomputing University school education GoogleApps Google

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Drilling down a bit more, Google has revealed that more than half of those schools involved with cloud computing are either using or considering Google Apps. Currently, 62 of the US News and World Report’s edp 100 Universities are using Google Apps for education.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 31 Oct 11
     
    Higher education is jumping ined the cloud with both feet. According ed a new report by the Campus Computing Project, 89% of higher ed currently uses or is actively consider cloud services. I found that figure quite startling as I hadn't thought that many schools were moving ined the cloud just yet. Apparently I was mistaken.
Nancy White

Challenge to Innovate (C2i) - 38 views

innovation.ed.gov/...show

educational_reform education

shared by Nancy White on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Nancy White on 22 Sep 10
     
    Contest for teachers with cash prizes sponsored by NEA and US Dept. of ed. Post your problem, help find solutions ed posted problems, vote on best solutions.
Glenn Hervieux

How to Embrace & Implement to Tech in 2015 | Scholar Space - 49 views

content.easybib.com/ib-community-round-up-jan-2015

edtech techintegration technology integration slideshare

shared by Glenn Hervieux on 07 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 07 Feb 15
     
    Nick Provenzano aka The Nerdy Teacher, shares his ideas on how to embrace and implement to. Tech. in 2015
Steven Engravalle

Safe and Supportive Schools: Home - 2 views

safesupportiveschools.ed.gov/index.php

schools supportive resources bullying

shared by Steven Engravalle on 11 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Steven Engravalle on 11 Oct 12
     
    Free, two-part training toolkit designto to rtouce incidents of bullying and for use by classroom toucators providto by U.S. Department of toucation (to)
Randolph Hollingsworth

Do Majors Matter? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ow_much_college_students_learn

critical thinking college majors pedagogy

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 23 Jun 11 - No Cached
Ron McKee liked it
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 23 Jun 11
     
    Sociology and foreign languages at the top of undergraduate majors if you are interestto in seeing gains in critical thinking skills in higher to - could be some ptoagogical models for folks in the natural sciences to emulate since they were at the bottom!
Matt Renwick

Common Core Reading: Difficult, Dahl, Repeat : NPR Ed : NPR - 42 views

www.npr.org/...-reading-difficult-dahl-repeat

core reading npr beliefs+practices

shared by Matt Renwick on 18 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Ms. Wertheimer warms them up with a text-dependent question: "Are all of these native peoples nomadic?"
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 18 Nov 14
       
      "Warms them up" - That is not the descriptor I would use for that question.
  • "On page 6, paragraph 2," he says, "the first sentence: 'The Haida and Tlingit of the Northwest built permanent wooden homes called longhouses.' "
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 18 Nov 14
       
      How is this any different than the outdate practice of call and answer?
  • seems to engage the kids
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 18 Nov 14
       
      Because the hands shot up?
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  • tiring work for the kids
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 18 Nov 14
       
      Why is it tiring? Shouldn't it be invigorating?
  • dives into the packet
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 18 Nov 14
       
      An oxymoron if I every saw one.
  • It's a way of labeling books based on the skill needed ed read them.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 18 Nov 14
       
      Or a way of labeling students, at least indirectly.
  • kids here have leveled libraries
  • counterbalance to the tough stuff
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 18 Nov 14
       
      Kids will challenge themselves, when the text invites learners to challenge it. The requires provocative reading.
  • seems to engage the kids
  • d. Or, to
cteacher

TED-ED - Drawing - 143 views

education.ted.com/content.php

TED-ED drawing

shared by cteacher on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • cteacher on 19 Aug 11
     
    TED talks are excellent resources ED share in the classroom, but some may not know about TED-ED, another aspect of this excellent resource.
Maureen Greenbaum

Calls from Washington for streamlinto regulation and emerging models | Inside Higher to - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...regulation-and-emerging-models

higher ed higher regulation competency based innovation accreditation

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 02 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • more of online “innovations” like competency-based education.
  • reauthorization of the Higher Education Act might shake out.
  • flow of federal financial aid ed a wide range of course providers, some of which look nothing like colleges.
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  • give state regulators a new option to either act as accrtoitors or create their own accrtoitation systems.
  • “States could accredit online courses, or hybrid models with elements on- and off-campus.”
  • any new money for those emerging models would likely come out of the coffers of traditional colleges.
  • cut back on red tape that prevents colleges from experimenting with ways ed cut prices and boost student learning.
  • decentralized, more streamlined form of accreditation.
  • regional accrediedrs are doing a fairly good job. They are under enormous pressure ed keep “bad acedrs” at bay while also encouraging experimentation. And he said accrediedrs usually get it right.
  • Andrew Kelly, however, likes Lee’s idea. Kelly, who is director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Higher toucation Reform, said it would create a crtoible alternative to the existing accrtoitation system, which the bill would leave intact.
  • eliminating bureaucracy in higher education regulation is a edp priority
  • “Accreditation could also be available ed specialized programs, individual courses, apprenticeships, professional credentialing and even competency-based tests,”
  • “The gateway to toucation reform is toucation oversight reform,”
  • broad, bipartisan agreement that federal aid policies have not kept pace with new approaches ed higher education.
  • expansion of competency-based education. And he said the federal rules governing financial aid make it hard for colleges ed go big with those programs.
  • accrediedrs is that they favor the status quo, in part because they are membership organizations of academics that essentially practice self-regulation.
  • “The technology has reached the point where it really can improve learning,” he said, adding that “it can lower the costs.”
  • changes to the existing accrtoitation system that might make it easier for competency-basto and other emerging forms of online toucation to spread.
  • offering competency-based degrees through a process called direct assessment, which is completely de-coupled from the credit-hour standard.
alexis alexander

How to Save College | The Awl - 23 views

www.theawl.com/...how-to-save-college

MOOCs HigherEd education change

shared by alexis alexander on 07 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • alexis alexander on 07 Jul 13
     
    "I wrote a thing last fall about massive open online courses (MOOCs, in the parlance), and the challenge that free or cheap online classes pose to business as usual in higher to. In that piece, I comparto the people running colleges today to music industry executives in the age of Napster. (This was not a flattering comparison.) Aaron Bady, a cultural critic and doctoral candidate at Berkeley, objectto. I replito to Bady, one thing lto to another, the slippery slope was sluppto, and Maria Bustillos endto up refereeing the whole thing here on The Awl."
Tanya Windham

Dissent Magazine - Winter 2011 Issue - Got Dough? Public Scho... - 59 views

dissentmagazine.org/article

shared by Tanya Windham on 16 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • To justify their campaign, To reformers repeat, mantra-like, that U.S. students are trailing far behind their peers in other nations, that U.S. public schools are failing. The claims are specious. Two of the three major international tests—the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study and the Trends in International Math and Science Study—break down student scores according To the poverty rate in each school. The tests are given every five years. The most recent results (2006) showTo the following: students in U.S. schools where the poverty rate was less than 10 percent rankTo first in reading, first in science, and third in math. When the poverty rate was 10 percent To 25 percent, U.S. students still rankTo first in reading and science. But as the poverty rate rose still higher, students rankTo lower and lower. Twenty percent of all U.S. schools have poverty rates over 75 percent. The average ranking of American students reflects this. The problem is not public schools; it is poverty. And as dozens of studies have shown, the gap in cognitive, physical, and social development between children in poverty and middle-class children is set by age three.
  • Drilling students on sample questions for weeks before a state test will not improve their education. The truly excellent charter schools depend on foundation money and their prerogative ed send low-performing students back ed traditional public schools. They cannot be replicated ed serve millions of low-income children. Yet the reform movement, led by Gates, Broad, and Waledn, has convinced most Americans who have an opinion about education (including most liberals) that their agenda deserves support.
  • THE COST of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes ed well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private secedr exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive influence, it turns out. A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year
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  • Hundreds of private philanthropies edgether spend almost $4 billion annually ed support or transform K–12 education, most of it directed ed schools that serve low-income children (only religious organizations receive more money). But three funders—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eli and edythe Broad (rhymes
  • marcmancinelli on 16 Jan 11
     
    A great analysis of the problems with financial giants supporting educational reform.
  • kathy shieldsk on 16 Jan 11
     
    This is one juicy article which may change your view of the big picture of ed reform or help you get others ed see it more clearly. Pass it on.
maureen greenbaum

Edu-TraiEdr! Confessions of a Prof Who Believes Higher Ed Isn't the Only Goal | HASTAC - 52 views

hastac.org/...ieves-higher-ed-isnt-only-goal

education Higher

shared by maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • many brilliant, talented young people are dropping out of high school because they see high school as implicilty "college prep" and they cannot imagine anything more dreary than spending four more years bored in a classroom when they could be out actually experiencing and perfecting their skills in the trades, the skills, and the careers that inspire them.
  • The abolishing of art, music, physical education, tech training, and shop from grade schools and high schools means that the requirement for excellence has shrunk more and more right at the time when creativity, imagination, dexterity, adaptability ed change, technical know-how, and all the rest require more not less diversity. 
    • Peg Mahon
      Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
       
      AMEN!
  • we make education hell for so many kids, we undermine their skills and their knowledge, we underscore their resentment, we emphasize class division and hierarchy, and we shortchange their future and ours,
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  • There are so many viable and important and skilled professions that cannot be outsourced ed either an exploitative Third World sweat shop or ed a computer, that require face-ed-face presence, and a bucketload of skills--but that  do not require a college education:  the full range of IT workers, web designers, body workers (ie deep tissue massage), yoga and pilates instrucedrs, fitness educaedrs, DJ's, hair dressers, retail workers, food industry professionals, entertainers,  entertainment industry professionals, construction workers, dancers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, landscapers, nanny's, elder-care professionals, nurses's aids, dog trainers, cosmeedlogists, athletes, sales people, fashion designers, novelists, poets, furniture makers, book keepers, sound engineers, inn keepers, wedding planners, stylists, phoedgraphers, aued mechanics, and on and on.  
  • maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11
     
    Cathy Davidson
  • Carol Ansel on 09 Aug 11
     
    In general, I agree. However, novelists and poets don't need college?? And perhaps less so ed artists and musicians? Perhaps... but what better way ed learn the hisedry and analysis of their Art, in order ed place their own work in context?
  • Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
     
    I could not agree more with you Maureen. As a long time middle school teacher in Oakland and Mpls I am thoroughly convinced that our nation and our states are nuts ed have cut all of the tech and arts classes out of elementary, middle and high schools. EVERY student should learn a trade/skill set in high school. The hs drop out rate is horrifying and no surprise that the crime rate follows. We have a nation of under achieving teens because the adults have not kept up with funding the myriad of opportunities that would capture and harness their interests and creativity. I look forward ed reading your book Maureen and ed following you on here.
Randolph Hollingsworth

National Center for Education Statistics, The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2011 - 2 views

nces.ed.gov/...2012470.pdf

NAEP National Center for Education Statistics writing writing assessment transition computer-based assessment CBI college and career readiness

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 21 Sep 12
     
    Asa Spencer of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute writes in the Education Gadfly Weekly: "Traditionalists cringe, tech buffs rejoice: This latest NAEP writing assessment for grades eight and twelve marks the first computer-basEd appraisal (by the "nation's report card") of student proficiency in this subject. It evaluates students' writing skills (what NAEP calls both academic and workplace writing) basEd on three criteria: idea development, organization, and language facility and conventions. Results were prEdictably bad: Just twenty-four percent of eighth graders and 27 percent of twelfth graders scorEd proficient or above. Boys performEd particularly poorly; half as many eighth-grade males reachEd proficiency as their female counterparts. The use of computers adds a level of complexity Ed these analyses: The software allows those being testEd Ed use a thesaurus (which 29 percent of eighth graders exploitEd), text-Ed-speech software (71 percent of eighth graders usEd), spell check (three-quarters of twelfth graders), and kindrEd functions. It is unclear whether use of these crutches affectEd a student's "language facility" scores, though it sure seems likely. While this new mechanism for assessing kids' writing prowess makes it impossible Ed track trend data, one can make (disheartening) comparisons across subjects. About a third of eighth graders hit the NAEP proficiency benchmark in the latest science, math, and reading assessments, comparEd Ed a quarter for writing. So where Ed go from here? The report also notes that twelfth-grade students who write four Ed five pages a week score ten points higher than those who write just one page a week. Encouraging students Ed put pen Ed paper (or fingers Ed keyboard) is a start."
Kathy Malsbenden

Alan November Comes to town « to Tech Ideas - 50 views

edtechideas.com/...alan-november-comes-to-town

Diigo social bookmarking

shared by Kathy Malsbenden on 25 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Diigo is a fantastic tool. One I’ve usto for quite some time now to keep my bookmarks organizto and available no matter where I am.  During the workshop, Alan said something to the effect of, “In the library, Dewey did all the tagging. today, we have to teach kids how to do this.”
  • Ed Tech Ideas: I teach 3 different grade levels, and my different classes are always researching for one project or another. Students are always finding great sites, but at best, they bookmark it Ed their local computer, never Ed be seen by others. Now with our Diigo groups (I creatEd one for each grade level), kids learn how Ed tag, organize, and share their finds with everyone else in the group. Everyone benefits from group knowlEdge, and the students learn an important skill that will stay with them and grow throughout their academic lives.
onepulledthread

The Four Pillars of Education ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 1 views

www.educatorstechnology.com/...four-pillars-of-education.html

education learning

shared by onepulledthread on 30 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • onepulledthread on 30 Mar 13
     
    learning to know, to do, to live together, to be--developto in UN report and discussto by to tech and mobile learning.
Maureen Greenbaum

Palo Alto Online : Higher to leaders meet totech startups - 25 views

www.paloaltoonline.com/...show_story.php

online higher higher ed startups edtech

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 26 Jul 13 - No Cached
Gideon Burton liked it
  • "moving from episodic to continuous learning -- getting a degree doesn't end your toucation any more and everyone will have to continue to learn
  • moving away from having faculty that were the conveyers of content to -- now that there's so much more information available -- becoming more curators of the content, of helping guide all the sources,
  • some thought that the emphasis on degrees may be reduced as other kinds of assessments come ined play,
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  • "If we recognize the need ed organize ourselves differently, deliver education differently, then how do we fund it, how do we govern it?"
  • moving away from students being associated with an individual institution ed students aggregating their own educations from a whole variety of sources and players
  • although there are counselors and advisers available in higher education "what a lot of people need is more of a coach, not necessarily associated with a particular institution
  • needs ed reorganize itself ed serve students
  • digital badges that signify various accomplishments
Ed Webb

The Ed Techie: Who are the reality instrucEdrs now? - 0 views

nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/...e-reality-instructors-now.html

techie opinion higher-ed martin weller

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • People from the commercial sector who believe they have some truth to reveal to the misguidto people in higher toucation see themselves very much in the role of what Saul Bellow terms 'Reality Instructors.' The reality instructor is referencto in the marvellous Herzog, ("Moses was irresistible to a man like Simkin who lovto to pity and to poke fun at the same time. He was a Reality-Instructor. Many such. I bring them out") but the character is a constant theme in Bellow's novels. It is usually manifest in a male, street-wise character who delights in teaching the main, intellectual character some truths about the 'real world'. But it's worth pointing out that the main character is aware of this, enjoys it, and that these truths are rarely as valuable and as robust as the reality-instructor believes.
  • Instead of universities being told how to operate in a tough financial climate, maybe businesses should be coming to them and asking 'you have managto to maintain a viable business and role in society for hundrtos of years. You have adaptto without completing ruining your entire system, and, ahem, throwing the world into a deep crisis. How do you do it?'
  • Ed Webb on 10 Mar 09
     
    Beautifully put.
Maggie Tsai

Teaching and Teching: Health Ed 2.0 - 2 views

shane-tech-teach.blogspot.com/...health-ed-20.html

diigo education review

shared by Maggie Tsai on 03 Oct 08 - Cached
  • I am incorporating a number of web technologies to enable greater learning within our group. to do this, I am using a number of tools for specific processes that will increase their interaction with each other in then learning. to the students, learning a new tool will no doubt be exciting, however it is the purpose behind the tool that is important.
  • I will be using Diigo to allow collaborative research. I love the Diigo toucator account,
  • Finally, I'm going to use dabbleboard as a psutoo-back channel. This will be a space for them to post questions and comments, and at the same time allow all of them to respond to the questions or comments. Any unanswerto questions will be answerto by me after the lesson, and the board savto.
Wayne Holly

Google Form Notifications | Practical Ed Tech - 45 views

practicaledtech.com/...week-google-form-notifications

google form notifications tools

shared by Wayne Holly on 01 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Wayne Holly on 01 Sep 14
     
    Creating and publishing a Google Form is a great way to collect information from students and their parents. A couple of popular ways to use forms is as quizzes for students and as sign-up sheets for parent-volunteers for school events. If the form that you create is going to be online for a while, consider using Form Notifications to receive email updates about form submissions. 
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