Group items tagged issues - E09Fall2012

shared by Megan Cleary on 10 Sep 12 - No Cached

virtually nobody disputes that socioeconomic status, cultural identity and the educational level of parents — especially mothers — are linked to the stubborn achievement gap between students of different races and ethnicities.
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research has shown that outside factors are generally more powerful than any teacher and that it is the exception rather than the rule that students facing myriad social issues can do well at school
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The persistent gap in the District reflects on the questionable nature of some of the reforms that have been implemented in the city
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shared by Kelsey Agett on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached

No one went into teaching to climb much higher than the lower reaches of the middle class.
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- Kelsey Agett on 19 Sep 12
  
  Or maybe remedied...developed? Staff development isn't the answer to this problem, but maybe weak teachers who are willing to learn can learn to be better before they get the boot.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Or maybe remedied...developed? Staff development isn't the answer to this problem, but maybe weak teachers who are willing to learn can learn to be better before they get the boot.</div>
  
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And certainly weak teachers must be eliminated
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Still, while Brooks supports the persistent modern inclination to think of schools as businesses, it's important to remember that they're not. And students aren't products, and teachers aren't factory workers
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shared by Alexander Hendrix on 04 Dec 12 - Cached

shared by Megan Cleary on 10 Sep 12 - No Cached

They’re going to lose learning time
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I appreciate it, but he’s going to be just watching TV, not learning,” she said. “I don’t want that because he’s going to get behind (in his studies).
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only schooling her children might get for a while would come from that packet
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shared by Benjamin Hindman on 03 Oct 12 - No Cached

educators (including myself) have found that Twitter is an effective way to broaden participation in lecture.
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“It’s been really exciting because, in classes like this, you’ll have three people who talk about the discussion material, and so to actually have 30 or 40 people at the same time talking about it is really interesting,”
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digital communication helps overcome the shyness barrier.
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students dive deep into class readings and argue contentious issues outside of class, is difficult to create if discussion ends when class is over. Fortunately, Twitter has no time limit
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conversations continued inside and outside of class,” Parry wrote. “Once students started Twittering I think they developed a sense of each other as people beyond the classroom space, rather than just students they saw twice a week for an hour and a half.”
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shared by Kylee Ponder on 07 Nov 12 - No Cached

shared by Shally Ackerman on 04 Sep 12 - No Cached

We leave a digital trail of breadcrumbs and establish our digital selves by sharing, commenting, and communicating like never before
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Digital Citizenship is a principle that helps users understand how to utilize technology in an appropriate way
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But in classrooms, teachers monitor the activities of students as they always have. In regards to students adding or accessing inappropriate content, we have software that reports this information to us.
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f students violate our acceptable use policy, we have ramifications that range from loss of Internet access to suspension
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However, the bigger issue is education and letting students know that these comments will become part of their digital footprint and could hamper them down the road
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