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Dallas McPheeters

Questions That Evoke Wonder in Our Students | Faculty Focus - 8 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...t-evoke-wonder-in-our-students

shared by Dallas McPheeters on 09 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • “If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.” Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder
    • Dallas McPheeters
      Dallas McPheeters on 09 Mar 19
       
      Evoking wonder motivates students to engage in a quest.
Devin Page

Henry Clay and the American System for kids *** - 6 views

www.american-historama.org/...american-system.htm

resources

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  • Taxing all foreign goods, to boost the sales of US products and protect manufacturers from cheap British goods
  • ● Introducing a protective Tariff to enable the nation to raise money from these taxes and at the same time protect the nation's goods from cheaper priced foreign items
    • Devin Page
      Devin Page on 11 Apr 18
       
      Which region of the country did not like tariffs that were meant to help manufacturers in the north?
  • Roads and canals were built that enabled Americans to travel and the Cumberland Road, the Erie Canal were constructed
    • Devin Page
      Devin Page on 11 Apr 18
       
      Where did the Cumberland Road take travelers? How about the Erie Canal?
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  • The American System helped to fuel the belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States
    • Devin Page
      Devin Page on 11 Apr 18
       
      So which region probably benefited from the American system?
  • The American System helped to fuel the belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States
  • ● Henry Clay's American System eventually ran out of steam during the administration of President Jackson
    • Devin Page
      Devin Page on 11 Apr 18
       
      Which region of the country seemed to most supprt Andrew Jackson?
Jeff Andersen

CBS head predicts TV, digital will battle for NFL rights | Marketing Dive - 5 views

www.marketingdive.com/...437728

sports marketing sports TV

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  • Jeff Andersen on 09 Mar 17
     
    Les Moonves, chairman, president and CEO of CBS Corp., told an audience at the Deutsche Bank 2017 Media & Telecom Conference that TV networks will face off against digital properties like Facebook and Google in the next bidding battle for the rights to the NFL, according to Ad Age. The NFL's current deals are in place through 2022.
Javier E

Obama's War on Inequality - The New York Times - 16 views

www.nytimes.com/...obamas-war-on-inequality.html

inequality Democratic party gop great depression New Deal obama obamacare

shared by Javier E on 20 May 16 - No Cached
  • what can policy do to limit inequality? The answer is, it can operate on two fronts. It can engage in redistribution, taxing high incomes and aiding families with lower incomes. It can also engage in what is sometimes called “predistribution,” strengthening the bargaining power of lower-paid workers and limiting the opportunities for a handful of people to make giant sums.
  • We can see this in our own history. The middle-class society that baby boomers like me grew up in didn’t happen by accident; it was created by the New Deal, which engineered what economists call the “Great Compression,” a sharp reduction in income gaps.
  • Obamacare provides aid and subsidies mainly to lower-income working Americans, and it pays for that aid partly with higher taxes at the top. That makes it an important redistributionist policy — the biggest such policy since the 1960s.
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  • between those extra Obamacare taxes and the expiration of the high-end Bush tax cuts made possible by Mr. Obama’s re-election, the average federal tax rate on the top 1 percent has risen quite a lot. In fact, it’s roughly back to what it was in 1979, pre-Ronald Reagan, something nobody seems to know.
  • What about predistribution? Well, why is Mr. Trump, like everyone in the G.O.P., so eager to repeal financial reform? Because despite what you may have heard about its ineffectuality, Dodd-Frank actually has put a substantial crimp in the ability of Wall Street to make money hand over fist.
  • these medium-size steps put the lie to the pessimism and fatalism one hears all too often on this subject. No, America isn’t an oligarchy in which both parties reliably serve the interests of the economic elite.
  • Money talks on both sides of the aisle, but the influence of big donors hasn’t prevented the current president from doing a substantial amount to narrow income gaps — and he would have done much more if he’d faced less opposition in Congress.
joanmay

The US Presidents in Google Earth - 54 views

puls.ly/4h1BKg

research google earth presidents

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  • joanmay on 15 Feb 16
     
    contains links an images on each President - a google file (kmz)
Joe Hirsch

What Teachers Can Learn From Lincoln - 19 views

www.edutopia.org/...-learn-from-lincoln-joe-hirsch

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  • Joe Hirsch on 15 Feb 16
     
    Learning from Lincoln...lessons for teachers this Presidents' Day.
Joe Hirsch

What Teachers Can Learn From Lincoln - 29 views

tinyurl.com/jkban2x

Lincoln Presidents Day

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  • Joe Hirsch on 28 Jan 16
     
    As Presidents' Day approaches, teachers everywhere should learn from Lincoln. Here's how.
smilex3md

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. - The Washington Post - 32 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...dity-stop-treating-it-like-one

college commodity highered teaching waspost article socy201 socy402

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  • What truly makes an education valuable: the effort the student puts into it.
  • Unlike a car, college requires the “buyer” to do most of the work to obtain its value. The value of a degree depends more on the student’s input than on the college’s curriculum.
  • Yet most public discussion of higher ed today pretends that students simply receive their education from colleges the way a person walks out of Best Buy with a television.
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  • If colleges are responsible for outcomes, then students can feel entitled to classes that do not push them too hard, to high grades and to material that does not challenge their assumptions or make them uncomfortable.
  • This point is made succinctly by an apocryphal story about a university president who said this to new freshmen each year: “For those of you who have come here in order to get a degree, congratulations, I have good news for you. I am giving you your degree today and you can go home now. For those who came to get an education, welcome to four great years of learning at this university.”
  • smilex3md on 18 Jun 15
     
    "College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one."
Lisa C. Hurst

Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 9 views

www.wired.com/altschool

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  • 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
Julia Gardiner

Lateline - 29/10/2012: PMs plan for every child to learn an Asian language - 14 views

www.abc.net.au/...s3621224.htm

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    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The rationale or thinking behind introducing languages early in primary school
  • Gillard Government's Asian Century white paper sets an aspiration for Australia to rank as the world's 10th biggest economy by 2025, capitalising on the rapid economic growth in the region.
  • education will be the key and wants all school students to study an Asian language.
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  • funded
  • where all the new teachers might come from
  • where all the new teachers might come from.
  • the gold standard
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
       The gold standard =any excellent example of something, like how Olympians are the gold standard for athletes
  • If you understand through the learning of language how people think, how they construct meaning, what is important to them culturally, then I think that gives us better insights into the people that we're going to be working with in the future and negotiating with.
  • The Prime Minister says she'll force the curriculum changes by tying them to Commonwealth funding to state and private schools.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Is this  good policy making? Some would  consider  it 'blackmail'!
  • Broadly, teachers and education experts have welcomed the plan, but question where the money is going to come from.
  • catchcry of the Hawke and Keating governments
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      The Hawke-Keating Government refers to the Federal Government of Australia from 11 March 1983 to 11 March 1996. It was a Labour government
  • Currently across all levels of schooling there's around 18 per cent of our young people who are studying one of the four priority Asian languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean. And that diminishes to fewer than 6 per cent by the time they get to Year 12.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      How do we encourage students to  continue  learning an Asian language into the final years  of high school and  eyond?
  • say we simply don't have enough Asian language teachers to deliver the Prime Minister's vision and for the last decade the numbers of graduates have been declining.
  • hat's happened because universities have been under these budget constraints and when they've made decisions about what to cut, they cut courses with low enrolments and there goes the languages.
  • JEANNIE REA, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL TERTIARY EDUCATION UNION
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      Suggested reasons for the decline in language graduates and therefore  in language teachers. 
  • will help.JULIA GILLARD: We live in an age of different learning possibilities and choices. What we can do through the National Broadband Network, what we can do through having the world's first online national curriculum, which is what the Australian curriculum is, means we can get a deeper penetration of language, literacy and learning.
  • e Prime Minister acknowledges the shortages, but says technology
  • will help.
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      This argument t can be debated.  It would suggest that technology in itself will be a solution!
  • we need to be looking very carefully at what sort of encouragement and incentives we can provide to students so they continue doing a language, go on and major in a language in university and then go on to teach in the area.
  • JEANNIE REA:
    • Julia Gardiner
      Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
       
      What type of incentive scan be offered/
  • Julia Gardiner on 10 Mar 15
     
    The Prime Minister wants all school students to study an Asian language to secure Australia's future in the Asian Century.
  • nadinebailey on 11 Mar 15
     
    Completely deluded. Even here in Singapore, surrounded supposedly by chinese speakers the international schools are not getting it right and success stories are unusual ...
Joe Hirsch

What teachers can learn from Lincoln - 26 views

joehirsch.me/...eachers-can-learn-from-lincoln

lincoln

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  • Joe Hirsch on 15 Feb 15
     
    What 21st century educators can learn from a 19th century president.
Sasha Thackaberry

E-learning on the rise - 28 views

www.ccdaily.com/...e-on-rise.aspx

survey results NACCE elearning increasing trend

shared by Sasha Thackaberry on 18 May 14 - No Cached
  • ​E-learning is a growing trend at community colleges, according to survey results from the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) and Hewlett-Packard (HP).
  • E-learning is already used at 47 percent of community colleges and is expected to increase to 55 percent within two years. The survey of 578 community college faculty was conducted by Eric Liguori, an assistant professor at California State University.
  • Eighty-four percent of respondents believe e-learning is a valuable educational tool.
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  • The top five benefits of e-learning identified by respondents are: It increases access through location and time-flexible learning. More resources and information are available to students 24/7. Teachers can use a wide variety of tools and methods for teaching. It is a good supplement to face-to-face curriculum. It can lead to a richer learning experience if integrated correctly, freeing up class time for more engaging activities. This experience is often referred to as “flipping the classroom.”
  • When asked about the barriers to adopting online learning, faculty cited such concerns as doubt about its capability and reliability, acceptance by students and teachers, and lack of resources, such as time and technical support.
  • Twenty-three percent of respondents said the effectiveness of e-learning depends on the resources available, including the format and features of courses. For example, e-learning is best when teachers are adequately trained to use it, there is high-quality content and curriculum design, it’s used in conjunction with real-world situations and there is opportunity for student-teacher interactions, discussion boards and collaborative projects.
  • “Our survey looked at how community college faculty members are using e-learning as a cost-effective means” to increase completion rates and ensure that “students walk away with credentials that are meaningful in the workplace and that they are prepared for the careers they hope to pursue, including, for many, the start of entrepreneurial endeavors,” said NACCE President and CEO Heather Van Sickle.
onepulledthread

Former Indiana Governor Seeks Censorship of Howard Zinn - Validated Independent News - 44 views

www.projectcensored.org/r-seeks-censorship-howard-zinn

Howard Zinn Mexico People's History censorship

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  • onepulledthread on 03 Jan 14
     
    project censored article on former Indiana gov Mitch Daniels now president of Purdue's effort to root out Zinn's work from being used by teachers.  article notes contrast of Ziinn's treatment of US imperialism compared with a standard history text used in Indiana that devotes all of two paragraphs to the US war with Mexico that ended with Mexico "ceding" i(n the euphemistic curricular language) almost 1/2 it's territory to the US--while not mentioning any dissent about this war.  In contrast, Zinn's people's history devotes a whole chapter to the conflict. 
richweitkamp

U. S. Electoral College, Official - What is the Electoral College? - 32 views

www.archives.gov/...about.html

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    • richweitkamp
      richweitkamp on 25 Jul 13
       
      What do you think "qualified citizens" means?
  • The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President.
  • you are actually voting for your candidate’s electors.
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    • richweitkamp
      richweitkamp on 25 Jul 13
       
      Why might some think that this is unfair?
  • if any
smilex3md

The Gates Effect - Special Reports - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 39 views

chronicle.com/...140323

education teaching value highered GatesFoundation mooc MOOCs

shared by smilex3md on 17 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • "The notion of the faculty member as the deliverer of learning—that's the piece that we pull out," says Paul J. LeBlanc, Southern New Hampshire's president.
  • smilex3md on 17 Jul 13
     
    How the Gates Foundation is working to remake higher education, often without the support of educators.
Catherine O'Kane

Here's My Vision, and Here's Yours. Let's Make It Work. - NYTimes.com - 5 views

mobile.nytimes.com/...tting-workers-find-a-path.html

leadership vision

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  • Catherine O'Kane on 03 Jun 13
     
    excellent articulation of the need to give people scope and space as part of leadership
psmiley

Kid President Dance-A-Thon - YouTube - 2 views

www.youtube.com/watch

kid president youtube

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  • psmiley on 22 May 13
     
    Kid President video
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