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Why We Celebrate School Successes When Education Seems to Be Going to Hell | Edutopia - 0 views

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How we define success may vary -- building 21st-century learning skills, closing the achievement gap, reinventing the learning process. But the tonic effect of success on teachers does not change. Everywhere we go, we hear it: There is no greater reward than knowing you have enhanced a child's chances of succeeding in life.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">How we define success may vary -- building 21st-century learning skills, closing the achievement gap, reinventing the learning process. But the tonic effect of success on teachers does not change. Everywhere we go, we hear it: There is no greater reward than knowing you have enhanced a child's chances of succeeding in life.</div>

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Like Facebook, but for learning | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 12 views

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Aiming to engage students who are multitasking with different forms of technology, companies are creating collaborative learning spaces online where students can help one another solve homework problems and study—all while building important 21st-century skills.
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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 15 views

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shared by Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached

Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
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Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside
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We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
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In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
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And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
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“schools in the cloud,”
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There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
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as the kids blasted through the questions, they couldn’t help noticing that it felt easy, as if they were being asked to do something very basic.
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Randy Rodgers on 30 Oct 13

Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.</div>

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Fair Use: You Be The Judge | Teaching Copyright - 27 views

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Allow your students to learn about Copyright via a simulated legal debate Walt Disney Studios Vs Faden.s

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AJET 26(3) Drexler (2010) - The networked student model for construction of personal le... - 18 views

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WatchKnow - Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students - 6 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 08 Aug 09 - Cached

Jennifer Dorman on 08 Aug 09

WatchKnow a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.

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Randy Rodgers on 20 Oct 09

Brand new site that puts videos from YouTube, TeacherTube, SchoolTube, National Geographic, etc. all in one place, organized by age, subject, and curriculum order. VERY cool class resource!

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Dean Mantz on 16 Dec 10

Private, secure online learning environment.

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