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Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 10 views

www.wired.com/altschool
shared by Lisa C. Hurst on 05 May 15 - No Cached
  • Lisa C. Hurst on 05 May 15
     
    "AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15. 05.04.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION Click to Open Overlay Gallery Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it. At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird. On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about. Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say. And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat
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Percent Worksheets | Converting Between Percents, Decimals, and Fractions Worksheets - 113 views

www.math-aids.com/...Convert_Between_PDF.html percent worksheets decimals fractions
shared by Ed B. on 16 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Ed B. on 16 Nov 12
     
    Website that generates great worksheets 
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The future of the classroom - Fortune Tech - 5 views

tech.fortune.cnn.com/...the-future-of-the-classroom Education adaptive epersonaized
shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 15 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • the future of education really hinges on the shifting roles of teacher and student.
  • students will learn at their own pace, using software that adapts to their strengths and weaknesses. In other words: aided by emerging technology, the teacher-student relationship—and the classroom itself—will be remade. That is the coming education revolution.
  • front of a classroom, a teacher would monitor students' progress and assist those who are struggling on an ad-hoc basis.
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  • Gates Foundation has invested just under $9 million in a program administered by education nonprofit EDUCAUSE that will allow 20 schools to figure out a solid, financially sustainable way to achieve personalized learning as part of a program called Next Generation Learning Challenges. All of the schools awarded grants will use some combination of digital and traditional instruction.
  • every move a student makes in a digital course will be tracked and analyzed to not only change a program to meet a student's current needs, but to track a student's progress—and determine their educational needs—not just during a given course, but throughout their lives.
  • "The old model of getting educated in four years and coasting for the next 40 years" is growing increasingly less relevant, says Andrew Ng, co-CEO
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Let's Go Back to Grouping Students by Ability - Barry Garelick - The Atlantic - 3 views

www.theatlantic.com/...274362 tracking atlantic
shared by David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13 - No Cached
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Terribly generalized.  
  • treated accordingly.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Mistreated accordingly.
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  • Students were tracked into the various curricula based largely on IQ but sometimes other factors such as race and skin color.
  • public schools have done away with "tracking"
  • deemed low achievers or of low cognitive ability?
  • Jonathan Kozol brought accusations against a system they found racist and sadistic.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      He condemns a lot more than the eduction system.  His approach to reform is much more like Finland's, holistic.
  • to restore equity to
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      As if it ever existed?!
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      This is an essential issue.  Are we doing it well?
  • Kozol and others did not go away, and the progressive watchword in education has continued to be "equality."
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      I never knew that equality had such a nasty undertone to it.
  • -- a practice viewed by many in the education establishment as synonymous with tracking
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      It is "tracking." I'm not sure what his point is here.
  • Unfortunately, the efforts and philosophies of otherwise well-meaning individuals have attempted to eliminate the achievement gap by eliminating achievement.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Again, a nasty generalization.  Not only that, but the following practices he cites aren't products of heterogeneous grouping.  
  • In other words, the elimination of ability grouping has become a tracking system in itself that leaves many students behind.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Now he's just not making sense.
  • Dallas Independent School District
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Ed research from Texas??  They want to teach evolution in science classes.
  • The rise of computer-aided learning might make it easier for them to instruct students who learn at different rates.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Is this a for or against grouping statement?
  • this enables students placed in lower-ability classes to advance to higher-ability classes based on their performance and progress.
    • David Hochheiser
      David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
       
      Practices do not support this assertion.  Upward trajectory is very limited.
  • David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
     
    "Mark Bowden on Being in the Slow Kids' Class"
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Graphing Worksheets | Four Quadrant Graphing Characters Worksheets - 68 views

www.math-aids.com/...drant_Graphing_Characters.html graphing resources math
shared by Debra Spear on 16 May 13 - No Cached
  • Debra Spear on 16 May 13
     
    4 quadrant graphing cartoon characters - free resource -
  • Debra Spear on 16 May 13
     
    4 quadrant graphing cartoon characters - free resource -
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PRESS RELEASE: USDLA 2013 International Awards Presented for Excellence in Distance Lea... - 1 views

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shared by Cindy Edwards on 01 May 13 - No Cached
  • Cindy Edwards on 01 May 13
     
    Congratulations to all those receiving a USDLA 2013 award for their work in distance learning.
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How Educators and Schools Can Make the Most of Google Hangouts | Edutopia - 167 views

www.edutopia.org/...oogle-hangouts-mary-beth-hertz google hangouts collaboration google google+
shared by Elizabeth Resnick on 02 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Imagine a teacher holding "office hours" once a week in the evenings for students who need extra help.
  • . If your students are working on a project and are stuck on a particular section or concept, you can connect them with an expert to help them through it.
  • This is where Hangouts can aid in connecting people without the need for travel.
  • onepulledthread on 02 Feb 13
     
    good tips for elementary through university and for administrators too
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What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades - TIME - 4 views

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shared by Dan Robinson on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • What Facebook Users Share: Lower Grades By Anita Hamilton Tuesday, Apr. 14, 2009 Print var artId= "1891111"; var chn = "bizTech"; var contType = "article"; Email Reprints Digg Facebook time:http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1891111,00.html Twitter MORE Add to my: del.icio.us Technorati reddit Google Bookmarks Mixx StumbleUpon Blog this on: TypePad LiveJournal Blogger WordPress MySpace var ad = adFactory.getAd(88, 31); ad.setPosition(8) ad.write(); Forget the widely unloved redesign. Facebook has committed a greater offense. According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University
  • Dan Robinson on 15 Apr 09
     
    Finally someone has admitted it, Facebook makes you dumber.
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Council for Aid to Education - 12 views

www.cae.org/...pro_collegework.htm college ready CWRA testing education
shared by Tra Hall on 11 Apr 12 - Cached
  • Tra Hall on 11 Apr 12
     
    College and Work Readiness Assessment
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The fantasies driving school reform: A primer for education graduates - The Answer Shee... - 5 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • Richard Rothstein
  • In truth, this conventional view relies upon imaginary facts.
  • Let me repeat: black elementary school students today have better math skills than white students did only twenty years ago.
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  • As a result, we’ve wasted 15 years avoiding incremental improvement, and instead trying to upend a reasonably successful school system.
  • But the reason it hasn’t narrowed is that your profession has done too good a job — you’ve improved white children’s performance as well, so the score gap persists, but at a higher level for all.
  • Policymakers, pundits, and politicians ignore these gains; they conclude that you, educators, have been incompetent because the test score gap hasn’t much narrowed.
  • If you believe public education deserves greater support, as I do, you will have to boast about your accomplishments, because voters are more likely to aid a successful institution than a collapsing one.
  • In short, underemployment of parents is not only an economic crisis — it is an educational crisis. You cannot ignore it and be good educators.
  • equally important educational goals — citizenship, character, appreciation of the arts and music, physical fitness and health, and knowledge of history, the sciences, and literature.
  • If you have high expectations, your students can succeed regardless of parents’ economic circumstances. That is nonsense.
  • health insurance; children are less likely to get routine and preventive care that middle class children take for granted
  • If they can’t see because they don’t get glasses to correct vision difficulties, high expectations can’t teach them to read.
  • Because education has become so politicized, with policy made by those with preconceptions of failure and little understanding of the educational process, you are entering a field that has become obsessed with evaluating only results that are easy to measure, rather than those that are most important. But as Albert Einstein once said, not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.
  • To be good educators, you must step up your activity not only in the classroom, but as citizens. You must speak up in the public arena, challenging those policymakers who will accuse you only of making excuses when you speak the truth that children who are hungry, mobile, and stressed, cannot learn as easily as those who are comfortable.
  • Steve Ransom on 14 May 12
     
    An important read for anyone who truly wants to understand what's really important in education and the false reform strategies of our current (and past) administration.
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AFJROTC Grant - 0 views

www.afa.org/rotc.asp Grants STEM
shared by Marc Patton on 28 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Marc Patton on 28 Jun 12
     
    The AFJROTC Grant was established to promote aerospace education throughout classrooms and units.
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25 TED Talks Perfect For Classrooms | Edudemic - 163 views

edudemic.com/...d-talks-perfect-for-classrooms
shared by Brandy Worster on 30 May 12 - No Cached
  • entertaining as math gets.
    • Brandy Worster
      Brandy Worster on 30 May 12
       
      Maybe a good TED talk for Mrs. Lamkin or Mrs. Case???
  • beautiful world of bioluminescent sea animals and shows some examples.
  • important social issues.
    • Brandy Worster
      Brandy Worster on 30 May 12
       
      Possibly good TED before class debates? - Ms Worster
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  • raises the call for more aid to poverty-stricken Africa.
  • peaceful protests in the Palestinian conflict
  • Svitak says the world needs to think more like kids
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5 Must-Have iOS Apps For Writers | Edudemic - 91 views

edudemic.com/...must-have-ios-apps-for-writers writing apps
shared by Steven Engravalle on 14 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Steven Engravalle on 14 Sep 12
     
    Check out these top 5 Apple applications for essay writing to make getting organizing and presenting your thoughts in a coherent manner a much easier process.
  • June Griffin on 17 Sep 12
     
    These apps strike me as aids to plagiarism, not to writing. I wouldn't recommend them.
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Math Worksheets | Dynamically Created Math Worksheets - 113 views

www.math-aids.com math worksheets
shared by Roberta Bandfield on 13 Nov 11 - Cached
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  • Martin Burrett on 13 Nov 11
     
    A large maths worksheet site where you can create sheets for a range of primary and secondary topics. [Be aware - site contains advertising and pop-ups] http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
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Seven Community Colleges and Two National Organizations Join Forces to Aid Workforce in... - 6 views

www.achievingthedream.org/...s_join_forces_to_aid_workforce
shared by Frederick Williams on 27 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Frederick Williams on 27 Nov 13
     
    Not related to my PLC, but I thought this was a nice article.
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Scholastic Canada Education-Teaching Tip of the Month * January 2012 - 21 views

www.scholastic.ca/...january2012.html thinking curiosity inquiry
shared by Sharin Tebo on 13 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • the power of compelling questions that drives deep interest, understanding, caring, and the application of 21st century skills.
  • During a whole group inquiry, students gain competence by being guided through the process and develop necessary skills and tools to aid in self-initiated inquiries. Often students don't have the necessary background knowledge to pose their own questions or lack understanding in identifying a question worthy of investigation so the large group approach is essential when getting started.
  • Begin by examining your curriculum and identifying a topic that you think will be interesting to students.
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  • Questions are open-ended in nature with no 'correct' answer; in fact, the answer is unknown. Inquiry questions represent what is at the "heart of the matter" and frame the unit as a puzzle or problem to be solved.
  • Your role in the large group inquiry is one of coach or facilitator.
  • Sharin Tebo on 13 Jan 15
     
    Getting Started with Inquiry Learning in Your Classroom
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