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Teaching 'The Crucible' With The New York Times - NYTimes.com - 42 views

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shared by Larissa Wright-Elson on 29 Oct 12 - No Cached
    • Larissa Wright-Elson
      Larissa Wright-Elson on 29 Oct 12
       
      used for essay test
  • g so often the hardest thing? What is the true meaning of integrity?
  • opening to lukewarm, if not downright hostile, reviews, Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” continues to be mounted and taught worldwide because it speaks to universal fears of social isolation and the unknown – fears especially present in a rapidly changing world, not to mention in the topsy-turvy social order of school.
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  • What is “The Crucible” telling audiences now? How have fears about terrorism created modern-day “witches”? What is it about human nature that makes such hysteria possible? How and why does John Proctor embody the American tragic hero? What does it take to do the right thing? Why is doing the right thin
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Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? : The New Yorker - 10 views

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shared by Bill Gumula on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • California researchers in the early nineteen-eighties conducted a five-year study of teacher-skill development in eighty schools, and noticed something interesting. Workshops led teachers to use new skills in the classroom only ten per cent of the time. Even when a practice session with demonstrations and personal feedback was added, fewer than twenty per cent made the change. But when coaching was introduced—when a colleague watched them try the new skills in their own classroom and provided suggestions—adoption rates passed ninety per cent. A spate of small randomized trials confirmed the effect. Coached teachers were more effective, and their students did better on tests.
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Michael Fullan on What Doesn't Work in School Reform on Vimeo - 62 views

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» 9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn :zenhabits - 20 views

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shared by Adrienne Michetti on 15 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • We can’t give our children a set of data to learn, a career to prepare for, when we don’t know what the future will bring. But we can prepare them to adapt to anything, to learn anything, to solve anything, and in about 20 years, to thank us for it.
  • Kids in today’s school system are not being prepared well for tomorrow’s world.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 19 Apr 12
       
      big assumption, but largely uncontested now.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Feb 12
     
    We have never been good at predicting the future, and so raising and educating our kids as if we have any idea what the future will hold is not the smartest notion. How then to prepare our kids for a world that is unpredictable, unknown? By teaching them to adapt, to deal with change, to be prepared for anything by not preparing them for anything specific.
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Digital Learning Day :: Home - 67 views

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  • Ron Evans on 16 Dec 11
     
    you tube intro to digital learning day
  • Bob Rowan on 11 Jan 12
     
    Join us as we create a national awareness campaign to celebrate innovative teachers and instructional strategies. Technology has changed the way we do everything from grocery shopping, to listening to music, and reading books. It's time to take action to leverage this potential with more innovative uses of technology in our nation's schools to ensure every student experiences personalized learning with great teaching.
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The (Coming) Social Media Revolution in the Academy - Daniels and Feagin - Fast Capital... - 6 views

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  • Scholars now completing PhD’s have likely never known a world without the Internet and social media.
  • Ultimately, this technological transformation is going to have major implications on expert knowledge. The Internet increases voices and knowledge available to all. Elitism in the expert knowledge world is declining; the Internet democratizes knowledge building and use. Much more knowledge has become available, and the distinction between experts and ordinary folks, what Gramsci might have called “organic intellectuals,” is declining.
  • Academic bloggers frequently use blogs to keep up with the relevant literature in their field, thereby providing a kind of public note-taking and research-sharing exercise. Academic bloggers also use blogging as a rough draft for ideas they later develop fully for peer-reviewed papers or books.
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  • bloggers have embraced Internet technologies in ways that broaden the scope of their research work beyond college walls and in ways reaching beyond old disciplinary silos. This is partly about reaching audiences in disparate geographic locations
  • Academics, like others who use Twitter, have found short updates a useful way to find and maintain connections to others who share their research and other interests
  • For academics that may toil in relative isolation from others who share their immediate interests, the social connection of blogging and microblogging can also provide an opportunity to curate the ideal academic department.  While in another era, scholars may have identified strongly with their PhD-granting university, the college or university, or the academic department in which they are currently employed, the rise of social media allows for a new arrangement of colleagues.
  • Our colleagues in the humanities have embraced digital technologies much more readily than those of us in sociology or the social sciences more generally.  A casual survey of the blogosphere reveals that those in the humanities (and law schools) are much more likely to maintain academic blogs than social scientists.  In terms of scholarship, humanities scholars have been, for more than ten years, innovating ways to combine traditional scholarship with digital technologies.
  • scholars in English have established a searchable online database of the papers of Emily Dickinson and historians have developed a site that offers a 3D digital model showing the urban development of ancient Rome in A.D. 320.
  • Kate Pok on 04 Jan 12
     
    Great article on coming changes in digital scholarship.
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Inform Yourself: Social Networking and You - 85 views

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  • academia is just scratching the surface about the implications of social networking and what exactly it is, what it means, and how it happens
  • scholarly speculation
  • "Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective?"
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  • "students were using Facebook to increase the size of their social network, and therefore their access to more information and diverse perspectives. "
  • "Powerful new technologies provide great benefits, but they also change the way we live, and not always in ways that everyone likes. An example is the spread of air conditioning, which makes us more comfortable, but those who grew up before its invention speak fondly of a time when everyone sat on the front porch and talked to their neighbors rather than going indoors to stay cool and watch TV. The declining cost of information processing and communication represents a powerful new technology, with social networking as the most recent service to be provided at modest cost. It can be expected to bring pluses and minuses."
  • social networking technologies support and enable a new model of social life, in which people’s social circles will consist of many more, but weaker, ties
  • Social networking technologies provide people with a low cost (in terms of time and effort) way of making and keeping social connections, enabling a social scenario in which people have huge numbers of diverse, but not very close, acquaintances.
  • trisha_poole on 06 Nov 11
     
    A brief look at social networking theory with interesting views of SNs and where academia are "at" with regards to the emerging field. The post is a little old (Aug 2010) but much is still relevant and the link through to the Freakonomics blog is worthwhile following.
  • Scott Perloff on 07 Nov 11
     
    I'm not sure how the connection between social networking and Chritianity will fit in a school environment.
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*An Introduction to Technologies Commonly Used by College Students - 101 views

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  • Ann Lusch on 20 Jul 12
     
    The best advice here is to talk to students, because it seems that patterns of use change fairly quickly. My high school students talk a lot about Twitter, not even mentioned here, and probably not popular at all when these studies were done.
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Clintondale High School - Changing Education, One Class, One Student at a Time - 4 views

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  • Our teachers do not spend a lot of time on classroom lectures.
  • analysis and higher-order thinking
  • Gwen Eden on 21 Jun 12
     
    Resources to flip classroom
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When the Computer Takes Over for the Teacher - The Atlantic - 9 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 29 Apr 15
     
    When kids can get their lessons from the Internet, what's left for classroom instructors to do? The Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher is something we need to discuss amongst each other now.
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Habits and Habitats: Rethinking Learning Spaces for the 21st Century - 92 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 28 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The question is how will you change the school from a collection of classrooms to a robust multidimensional learning space capable of fostering well-educated, 21st Century citizens?
  • As Sir Ken Robinson stated, “If we are looking for new pedagogical practices, we have to have facilities that will enable those to happen.”
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 29 Nov 10
     
    In many classrooms, the picture is all too familiar: desks in rows, a clear front of the classroom, podium off-center in the front, etc.. Does this image speak to the beliefs we state about 21st Century Learning? Are these spaces best capable of fostering the development of our vision for a well-educated global citizen? Have the spaces been intentionally designed in a way that supports learning and teaching?
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How Does The World Work? - 44 views

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      BalancEd Tech on 19 Oct 10
       
      Students blogging about how they think the world works. It'll be interesting to see how their views change as they look at world events throughout the school year.
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How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education le... - 40 views

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  • Steve Ransom on 08 Oct 10
     
    We are in trouble if folks like Klein, Rhee, and others dictated this conversation...
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Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind - ChronicleReview.com - 0 views

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  • National School Boards Association measures social networking at nine hours per week, much of it spent on homework help
    • Bill Genereux
      Bill Genereux on 03 Feb 09
       
      This is the first year I have ever had students contact me via Facebook for help with assignments.
  • I continue to believe in the linear, author-driven narrative for educational purposes. I just don't believe the Web is optimal for delivering this experience. Instead, let's praise old narrative forms like books and sitting around a flickering campfire
  • Educators must keep a portion of the undergraduate experience disconnected, unplugged, and logged off.
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    • Michael Ritter
      Michael Ritter on 05 Feb 09
       
      And just how do pencils and blackboards form intellegence? I find the the whole "sitting around a flickering campfire" nonsense. Article seems to be written by one who wants to ignore the cultural changes taking place in how information is created and distributed. The linear, author-driven narrative is nothing more than an attempt to keep authortarian control over information and the learning process. Much of science cannot be approached in a linear fashion but has to recognize a web of relationships and interactions.
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Wired Up: Tuned out | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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  • Compared to us, I believe their brains have developed differently," says Sheehy. "If we teach them the way we were taught, we're not serving them well."
    • Tony Baldasaro
      Tony Baldasaro on 24 Aug 09
       
      Whether their brains have developed differently or not, we still need to teach our students differently than we were taught. They are living in different times with different demands and expectations. If we teach to the demands and expectations of our childhood would not meet our students needs.
  • children were much more likely to have connections between brain regions close together while older subjects were more likely to feature links between parts of the brain that are physically farther apart.
  • "media multi-tasking."
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  • Recent reports from the Pew Internet and American Life Project show that 93 percent of youth ages 12 to 17 go online. Of those kids, 55 percent use social-networking sites (like Facebook and MySpace), and 64 percent are creating their own original content (such as blogs and wikis)
    • Tony Baldasaro
      Tony Baldasaro on 24 Aug 09
       
      Is this all happening outside of the classroom?
  • Unlike watching television, using the Internet allows young people to take an active role; this move from consumption to participation affects the way they construct knowledge, develop their identity, and communicate with others.
  • "Computers give you different ways to solve problems, the opportunity to run and test simulations, and a way to offload processing. . . . We need kids to think about problems in innovative and creative ways. We need to change the emphasis of education to focus on higher-order kinds of thinking."
  • "It's a shift from how to memorize and retrieve data in one's mind to how to search for and evaluate information out in the world
  • Even if we're duplicating a real-life scenario in a virtual environment, the fact that students are engaged with technology and performing through a semblance of anonymity lends itself to a deeper level of discourse.
    • Tony Baldasaro
      Tony Baldasaro on 24 Aug 09
       
      Why do we need anonymity to get to a deeper level of discourse?
  • "If we fail to do so, our kids are going to look at what they're learning in schools and see that it is irrelevant to the future they see before them."
  • Davis says today's teachers are seeking information when they need it instead of waiting for more formal professional development workshops.
    • Casey Finnerty
      Casey Finnerty on 25 Aug 09
       
      Sounds like a quick learner. Does this 15 minute approach really work?
  • Tony Baldasaro on 24 Aug 09
     
    acob is your average American 11-year-old. He has a television and a Nintendo DS in his bedroom; his family also has two computers, a wireless Internet connection, and a PlayStation 3. His parents rely on e-mail, instant messaging, and Skype for daily communication, and they're avid users of Tivo and Netflix. Jacob has asked for a Wii for his upcoming birthday. His selling point? "Mom and Dad, we can use the Wii Fit and race Mario Karts together!"
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English Teachers Find an Online Friend: the English Companion Ning - National Writing P... - 0 views

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shared by Rachel Ernst on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  •  "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."
    • Rachel Ernst
      Rachel Ernst on 06 Apr 09
       
      Hey that's me! If you haven't joined the Ning, you really should. It has helped my teaching immensely!
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Document View - 0 views

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shared by Holim Song on 11 Jun 09 - Cached
  • There were three research questions that were used to guide the organization of this study. The first question sought to determine the level of digital literacy present in schools based upon their state accountability rating. Statistically significant differences between digital literacy levels of students according to their state accountability rating were investigated in the second question. The third question examined the statistically significant changes in elementary students' levels of digital literacy over a period of time
  • Holim Song on 11 Jun 09
     
    Web-based instruction
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