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Rebecca Patterson

News: A New Model Community College - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • In contrast, there has been relatively little controversy over a different kind of partnership between a company and a private college: a joint effort of Tiffin University, a small private institution in northeast Ohio, and Altius Education, a for-profit company based in San Francisco.
    • Rebecca Patterson
      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      This could be DR!!
  • every Ivy Bridge student is assigned a “personal success coach” — a non-instructional employee — who helps with everything from course selection to academic support to career counseling.
  • he is cautiously optimistic about the preliminary student success figures.
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  • One fear many educators have had about privatizing the community college model is that doing so might serve only wealthy, white students.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      And if we make it cheaper and asynchronous??
  • “Still, we wanted to ramp up our associate degree program but didn’t want to put start-up money into it. We thought we had an interesting concept and looked to partner with an investment group to get start-up funds and also get the enrollment moving along faster. We’ve always been a fairly entrepreneurial institution and have been willing to look at new options and opportunities.”
  • I wanted a partner that we would be comfortable with and for them to understand our commitment to keeping our reputation.”
  • All academic responsibilities and management, including course design and instruction, are controlled by Tiffin, which has hired additional faculty for Ivy Bridge. The “Cadillac enrollment management” of the college, as Slone calls it, is controlled by Altius.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      I realize that this is a different setup than one we have entertained, but I think we can extrapolate here. :-)
  • he says his biggest challenge is determining how much remediation the institution should offer its least prepared students.
  • Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
     
    Cooperation between a company and a community college. Hmm...
Rebecca Patterson

PlanetMath - 0 views

planetmath.org

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shared by Rebecca Patterson on 26 Aug 11 - Cached
  • PlanetMath is a virtual community which aims to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible. PlanetMath's content is created collaboratively:
  • Rebecca Patterson on 26 Aug 11
     
    Cool creative commons math site.
Rebecca Patterson

Jiang Xueqin: The Test Chinese Schools Still Fail - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Rebecca Patterson on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The failings of a rote-memorization system are well-known: lack of social and practical skills, absence of self-discipline and imagination, loss of curiosity and passion for learning.
  • According to research on education, using tests to structure schooling is a mistake.
  • Students lose their innate inquisitiveness and imagination, and become insecure and amoral in the pursuit of high scores.
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  • Tests are less relevant to concrete life and work skills than the ability to write a coherent essay, which requires being able to identify a problem, break it down to its constituent parts, analyze it from multiple angles and assemble a solution in a succinct manner to communicate across cultures and time.
  • Rebecca Patterson on 05 Jan 11
     
    Chinese and the effects of rote-memorization.
Rebecca Patterson

Education Week: Common-Core Math Standards Don't Add Up - 0 views

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shared by Rebecca Patterson on 01 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • “Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution.”
  • “Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations.”
  • “Use appropriate tools strategically. Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem.”
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  • “Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace.”
  • “Attend to precision. Mathematically proficient students try to communicate precisely to others. They try to use clear definitions in discussion with others and in their own reasoning.”
  • “Look for and make use of structure. Mathematically proficient students look closely to discern a pattern or structure,” and “Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. Mathematically proficient students notice if calculations are repeated, and look both for general methods and shortcuts.”
  • Missing entirely from the practice standards is a discussion of how to pose problems, and, more generally, how to ask powerful questions. This is a telling oversight. Unlike in school, real problems are not served up on a platter, fully formed. The standards-writers overlooked the most basic fact of people with genuine math expertise: They find problems!
  • Is it too late to change this? I hope not. Solving our problem of poor mathematics education depends upon it.
  • Rebecca Patterson on 01 Oct 11
     
    Interesting opinion piece about how the new standards in math miss the mark.
Rebecca Patterson

PBS Program Will Promote Engineering to Middle School Students -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Rebecca Patterson on 26 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • PBS program "Design Squad Nation" has announced it will partner with Rocket21 to engage its community of tweens in the show's content and activities to help meet the demand for engineers in the job market in the years to come.
  • The use of social media is important to the venture, both through the Design Squad Nation and Rocket21 sites and through other social media sites. More information on Rocket21 can be found by liking Rocket21 on Facebook at facebook.com and by following Rocket21 on Twitter at twitter.com. Viewers also can follow Design Squad Nation on Facebook at facebook.com and through Design Squad Nation’s Twitter feed at twitter.com.
  • Rebecca Patterson on 26 Aug 11
     
    News of new engineering possibilities.
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