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Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Matthew Ripley-Moffitt on 28 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Responsible teaching and scholarship must become cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.
    • Matthew Ripley-Moffitt
      Matthew Ripley-Moffitt on 28 Apr 09
       
      Why wait to work top down - raison d'etre for integrated humanities approach @ middle school
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Our Courts - Homepage - 6 views

www.ourcourts.org civics government middle_school writing
shared by Liz Dodds on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Kimberly LaPrairie on 02 Sep 09
     
    A free computer game for teenagers created with the help of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has made its online debut. "Supreme Decision," the first of several planned web-based games, went online in August as part of a project called Our Courts. In it, students can play a Supreme Court law clerk helping a justice with a tie-breaking vote over a First Amendment case. Backed by the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and Georgetown University, the Our Courts project is designed to teach middle school students about the Constitution and the courts. O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, has said more people can name an "American Idol" judge than the three branches of government. Besides teaching about civics, she hopes the Our Courts project will help students learn how to analyze problems and develop arguments. In "Supreme Decision," students play a law clerk and must help fictional Justice Irene Waters write the majority opinion on whether a school can ban students from wearing music band T-shirts. Another game, called "Do I Have a Right," will be released soon. In that game, students will play the director of a constitutional law firm who must decide which amendment resolves a problem posed by a client.
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Diigo - Powerful Online Research Tool - 0 views

www.online-tech-tips.com/...diigo-online-research-tool diigo review
shared by Helen Mowers on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
  • an online research tool will be very helpful in organizing gathered information while at the same time making it available to others for collaborative purposes
  • Diigo, in my opinion, is not only an online research tool; it is a living knowledge sharing community.
    • Helen Mowers
      Helen Mowers on 26 Mar 09
       
      I love this comment about diigo--"living knowledge sharing community"--this is what it's all about. Learning should be organic and collaborative.
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Schools Matter: A Teacher in Florida - 37 views

www.schoolsmatter.info/...teacher-in-florida.html teaching florida accountability opinion education
shared by Sydney Lacey on 12 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Sydney Lacey on 12 Apr 10
     
    A Teacher in Florida by Jamee Cagle Miller 2009 Seminole County Teacher of the Year This poem has reached the office of a Senator and may be read at the next voting of the bill (if it gets back to the senate). It is in the hands of the Orlando Sentinal and could be published there. She wrote the words many of us want to shout out:-)
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Magazine Preview - The Teachers' Unions' Last Stand - NYTimes.com - 18 views

www.nytimes.com/...23Race-t.html
shared by tom campbell on 19 May 10 - Cached
    • tom campbell
      tom campbell on 19 May 10
       
      assessment and observation together is the right combo but not very easy to translate in popular opinion, nor easy to implement successfully.
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Today's Meet - 125 views

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shared by Heidi Ames on 22 May 10 - Cached
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    • Melissa Cameron
      Melissa Cameron on 31 Jul 10
       
      I'm going to try this with a couple of my classes next week. I promise to let you know how it goes!
    • Ginger Lewman
      Ginger Lewman on 05 Sep 10
       
      We'll be using this on our snowdays. Kids and teachers will meet in scheduled classes and continue to work using this as one of our tools.
    • Betsy Barnhart
      Betsy Barnhart on 15 Mar 11
       
      could also be used if you are sick and have a sub... maybe questions could be answered from home
    • John Marr
      John Marr on 04 Aug 11
       
      This is great for PD or extra help. I am going to try it out.
    • Oktavian Mantiri
      Oktavian Mantiri on 12 Oct 11
       
      Will definitely try this... especially with my extesion classes
    • Ann Lusch
      Ann Lusch on 05 Dec 11
       
      I once held a department meeting when I was out of the building using this. I have also used it while showing a movie to classes; students can comment and get questions answered right away.
    • Brad Klitzke
      Brad Klitzke on 06 Dec 11
       
      I've used it during a video in class. Kids are able to pose questions to each other, provide comments, state their opinions and express themself. Worked great.
    • Brad Klitzke
      Brad Klitzke on 06 Dec 11
       
      I have also used this at a conference so that our group could backchat during a key presenter
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 25 Apr 12
       
      Plan to use it for discussion during class movie showing, for which I have in the past used Meebo rooms (no longer available) or piratepad: http://the-ed-rush.blogspot.com/2008/11/talking-through-movie.html This looks like it might work very well.
    • Ann Lusch
      Ann Lusch on 25 Apr 12
       
      Recently I had 9th graders talking to each other and me while they read a selection from their text. A couple of students did not like it, but most said it was helpful in understanding the material they were reading.
    • Paul Solarz
      Paul Solarz on 01 Sep 12
       
      I use this often during my PBL activities. As students are researching, they post links to websites that are helpful for others and they post their ideas. At the end of the lesson, we look over the list one last time and make our whole-class decision based on our findings. My 5th graders love it and it has made their problem solving much better since it is based on research and collaboration.
  • Darren H on 17 May 11
     
    Instant chat room (with Twitter integration), for class "discussions"
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  • Jan Wells on 05 Dec 11
     
    4th graders used Today's Meet during Social Studies. They provided details related to a topic's main idea while studying a region of the United States. Worked great!
  • Trevor Cunningham on 08 Sep 12
     
    Quick chat rooms on the fly.
  • Heidi Ames on 08 Sep 12
     
    Kids communicate without talking and see each others words...very cool.
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TALL blog » Blog Archive » Does the Technology Matter? - 39 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 18 May 10
     
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Teachers' Views on Technology in the Classroom - Video Feature - NYTimes.com - 78 views

www.nytimes.com/...20101121-brain-teachers.html teaching technology web2.0 teachers classroom education opinion
shared by trisha_poole on 13 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • trisha_poole on 13 Jan 11
     
    The Times asked teachers to submit videos on how the use of technology has changed the way they teach.
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Dissent Magazine - Winter 2011 Issue - Got Dough? Public Scho... - 59 views

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shared by Tanya Windham on 16 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • To justify their campaign, ed 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) showed the following: students in U.S. schools where the poverty rate was less than 10 percent ranked first in reading, first in science, and third in math. When the poverty rate was 10 percent to 25 percent, U.S. students still ranked first in reading and science. But as the poverty rate rose still higher, students ranked 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 to send low-performing students back to traditional public schools. They cannot be replicated to serve millions of low-income children. Yet the reform movement, led by Gates, Broad, and Walton, 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 to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector 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 together spend almost $4 billion annually to support or transform K–12 education, most of it directed to 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 to see it more clearly. Pass it on.
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Gone With the Myths - Civil War and Slavery - 56 views

www.nytimes.com/...19Ball.html SocialStudies History CivilWar Slavery
shared by BalancEd Tech on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • BalancEd Tech on 21 Dec 10
     
    NY Times Op Ed piece
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Wikipedia Comes of Age - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 38 views

chronicle.com/...125899 wikipedia research pre-research
shared by D. S. Koelling on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Not all information is created equal. The bottom layers (the most ubiquitous, whose sources are the most ephemeral, and with the least amount of validation) lead to layers with greater dependability, all the way to the highest layers, made up mostly of academic resources maintained and validated by academic publishers that use multiple peer reviews, trained editors, and scholarly reviewers. When the system is effective, the layers serve to reinforce one another through clear pathways that allow queries to move from one layer to another with little resistance.
  • Most of the nearly 2,500 students who responded said they consult Wikipedia, but when questioned more deeply, it became clear that they use it for, as one student put it, "pre-research." In other words, to gain context on a topic, to orient themselves, students start with Wikipedia. That makes perfect sense. Through user-generated efforts, Wikipedia is comprehensive, current, and far and away the most trustworthy Web resource of its kind. It is not the bottom layer of authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal vetting. In this unique role, it therefore serves as an ideal bridge between the validated and unvalidated Web.
  • Most of the nearly 2,500 students who responded said they consult Wikipedia, but when questioned more deeply, it became clear that they use it for, as one student put it, "pre-research." In other words, to gain context on a topic, to orient themselves, students start with Wikipedia.
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  • My opinion of Wikipedia, like the tool itself, has radically evolved over time. Not only am I now supportive of Wikipedia, but I feel that it can play a vital role in formal educational settings
  • The key challenge for the scholarly community, in which I include academic publishers such as Oxford University Press, is to work actively with Wikipedia to strengthen its role in "pre-research." We need to build stronger links from its entries to more advanced resources that have been created and maintained by the academy.
  • D. S. Koelling on 11 Jan 11
     
    C. Grathwohl argues that Wikipedia plays a vital middle layer of authority for students conducting pre-research; scholars, he says, should work to assure that links in Wikipeida lead students to more advanced research that's been validated by the academic community.
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Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com - 33 views

www.nytimes.com/...27taylor.html university education
shared by Joline Blais on 19 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).
  • Patrick Higgins on 19 Jan 11
     
    This is a must read. Taylor's push to eliminate departments sounds much like what Liz Coleman did at Bennington a few years ago.
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Editorial: Why snow days for schools should become obsolete | MLive.com - 62 views

www.mlive.com/...rial_why_snow_days_for_sc.html
shared by Mat Brown on 05 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Just about every district provides online tools for students and families, including parent portals that show things such as grades, missing assignments, even the balance in lunch accounts.
  • One big concern in online learning is the digital divide. Wealthier households tend to have the full complement of computers and high-tech stuff; poorer households do not.
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Why the weak students end up as teachers: Education programs lack intellect. - CSMonito... - 205 views

www.csmonitor.com/...cation-programs-lack-intellect
shared by Wayne Holly on 06 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Wayne Holly on 06 Mar 11
     
    Education courses don't challenge students' intellect as others do . . .
  • Lori Armstrong on 06 Mar 11
     
    I don't know many teachers that thought their teacher education program was worth their time, so I would totally disagree with this -- weak students end up as teachers. I once had a teacher educator tell me that 'grades' were the most significant indicator of a good teacher. I laughed at her because I won the top teaching award and a year earlier I wouldn't have been accepted because my grades wouldn't have made their particular cut.
  • Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D. on 06 Mar 11
     
    I have to agree with Lori. I have several colleagues who were not admitted into teacher education programs, yet have become amazing instructional leaders. Granted, there has to be a cutoff for programs, but frankly, grades are indeed not the best indicator. I was not allowed to take an advance-level French course because of my overall GPA during my undergraduate education. Later as a high school French teacher, my students consistently placed out of university language requirements, and while with me, often placed in declamation contests for their spoken abilities. Our teacher educations programs still need work. They are not where we want them to be. Now to get to work on how to make that happen! :-)
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