Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or urlt r u t h o u t | Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling - 0 views
-
Unless Duncan is willing to reinvent himself, the national agenda he will develop for education embodies and exacerbates these problems and, as such, it will leave a lot more kids behind than it helps.
-
Well, if the point is to help them, it doesn't look good. But if the point is to produce 'disciplined bodies' (so much Foucault in this piece) or productive citizens in a narrow sense, perhaps Arne is the man for the job. Seems likely higher ed will have to continue undoing the damage for the ones lucky enough to get there, if it's more of the corporate, test-driven model on offer.
-
On Uncle Sam's role in public schools, Republicans have it backward - Yahoo! News - 0 views
-
And NCLB takes a surprisingly narrow view of "proficiency" itself, measuring it by standardized tests alone. As any teacher could tell you, such tests frequently fail to capture the real achievement – and the real deficiencies – of flesh-and-blood children. But when it comes to assessment, it's Washington's way or the highway.
Beyond School: From Red Pen to Invisible Ink: Assessing Student Blogs with Diigo Groups - 6 views
-
Somehow find a way to use Diigo to assess student web-log writing without defacing the students' "intellectual property" and turning writing into "schooliness."
-
My students have joined the Group. Now when they go to their web-logs, after logging in to their Diigo account and setting "Show Annotations > Show Group Annotations" on their Diigo toolbar, they will see the highlights of specific passages from their writing that I have left (and I can start students doing this too, it occurs to me in a very attractive flash), and my annotations will pop up on their screen when they hover their mouse over the highlights.Also good, our Diigo Groups Bookmarks page records all highlights and annotations I have made on one page. Students can use that to see all feedback I have given to specific strengths and weaknesses on all students writings.And since they're using anagrams instead of first-name usernames on their blogs, there's less of a chance of any embarrassment resulting from this "public feedback"--with "invisible ink."
Social-Networking Sites Draw Teens In | Edutopia - 0 views
-
Social-Networking
-
"Teens gather in networked public spaces to negotiate identity, gossip, support one another, jockey for status, collaborate, share information, flirt, joke, and goof around,"
-
Teens
- ...1 more annotation...
English Teachers Find an Online Friend: the English Companion Ning - National Writing Project - 0 views
-
"The first semester I was groping my way along, trying to not completely implode," said Rachel E., who is teaching high school students in El Cajon, California, for the first time. "But second semester something amazing happened. I found this Ning. And it has literally changed the way I teach. I feel like I have insight from some of the best teachers out there. I can listen in to conversations that would never happen in my staff room."
Are you a planner, problem solver or a pinball? - Page 1 - IT Workplace - 47 views
-
“The idea that learning happens via training is questionable and we knew that going in and we supported that with our findings,” she said.
-
The study also identified six types of learners: purposive planners, explorers, visionaries, problem solvers, reluctant learners and pinballs. The January 2010 issue of Impact published by the Ivey Business School defines the categories as follows:
-
“Visionaries are people who find out about new technologies and think about what these could do for them personally and in their organizations. Visionaries are sometimes explorers. They tend to be lateral thinkers, and look at technology from a very strategic perspective.”
The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching - 25 views
-
Almost a third of those students are failing.
-
For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
-
the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
- ...4 more annotations...
Educational Leadership:Reading to Learn:Can't Get Kids to Read? Make It Social - 45 views
-
"How can we possibly teach reading when our kids just won't read?"
-
classrooms are one of the only text-driven environments that our students experience. Beyond school, U.S. students spend most of their time with media consuming digital information from televisions, radios, and computers. Much of this electronic information is visual or is processed passively, in small bites.
-
So how can you drag the wayward brains in your classroom back to deeper reading? Begin by recognizing that today's students are driven by opportunities to interact with one another. Conversations—whether they are started on Facebook, through text messages, or in the hallways—play a central role in adolescents' lives. Understanding that participation is a priority, the best teachers create social reading experiences and blur lines between fun and work.
- ...4 more annotations...
How Librarians Can Save The World : NPR - 81 views
Wikispaces - Private Label - Case Study - Birmingham Public Schools - 40 views
-
Building sustainability through engagement The !gnite team realizes that the ultimate success of the program will be measured by how thoroughly it is adopted. So getting everyone on board with how powerful wikis and other web tools can affect pedagogy and content has been a priority.
Font Size May Not Aid Learning, but Its Style Can, Researchers Find - NYTimes.com - 110 views
-
Is it easier to remember a new fact if it appears in normal type, like this, or in big, bold letters, like this?
-
Font size has no effect on memory, even though most people assume that bigger is better. But font style does.
-
New research finds that people retain significantly more material — whether science, history or language — when they study it in a font that is not only unfamiliar but also hard to read.
- ...6 more annotations...
Educational Leadership:Best of Educational Leadership 2004-2005:Pathways to Reform: Start With Values - 18 views
-
Common ends, diverse pathways.
-
what makes life worth living
-
between the science of learning and the practice of teaching lie important value judgments
- ...4 more annotations...
Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond - 38 views
-
So a lot of public education was, in fact, concerned with trying to teach independent people to become workers in an industrial system.
-
we have to train them in obedience and servility, so they're not going to think through the way the world works and come after our throats.
-
One can at least be suspicious that skyrocketing student debt is a device of indoctrination
- ...6 more annotations...
Gamestar Mechanic - 46 views
-
Play, design and share games. Focuses on game design
-
a very popular web-based game design environment. Global Kids http://olpglobalkids.org/ is using it to run social benefits game design contests and badging programs. They are getting 100+ new game design entries per week. From the parents' guide: Gamestar Mechanic is currently supported by a partnership between the Institute of Play and E-Line Media. The game was originally developed by Gamelab in partnership with the Institute of Play and the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab (AADLC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Initial funding for the game and companion learning guides came from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The design of the game is based on research by some of the leading academics in the field including Katie Salen (Executive Director of the Institute of Play and curriculum author for the New York City Public School Quest To Learn) and James Paul Gee (author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy).
-
This site has students creating games from scratch and putting them out into the world for feedback within the Gamestar Mechanic community. Students use math, problem solving, writing skills and more to make their games interesting. I think this could be used in the classroom as a theme-based project or just to get students interested in coding.
Great Teachers Don't Teach | Edutopia - 13 views
-
great teachers engineer learning experiences that maneuver the students into the driver's seat and then the teachers get out of the way.
-
great teacher will devise a way to give the students an urgent reason to learn skills or knowledge and then let them show they have learned it by what they can do. This is called project-based learning.
-
Students learn best when they are in control of their learning
- ...4 more annotations...
« First
‹ Previous
161 - 180 of 183
Next ›
Showing 20▼ items per page