Skip to main content

Home/ English Companion Ning Group/ Group items tagged ads

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Mark Smith

t r u t h o u t | "Value-Added" Assessment: Tool for Improvement or Educational "Nuclea... - 4 views

www.truth-out.org/ducational-nuclear-option63244

shared by Mark Smith on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The growing enthusiasm over value-added assessment, however, belies what is actually a damaging policy for public education. Value-added assessment promises, rather, to dismantle teachers' unions, deintellectualize teachers' jobs, to refashion schools according to corporate-profit-making initiatives and to burn out experienced teachers at ever faster rates. What its proponents fail to realize is that value added contributes to the destruction of public education by 1) participating in a broader corporate reform scheme of privatization and 2) objectifying knowledge, or turning knowledge into "things," that is, units that can be measured, compared and transmitted at the expense of genuine learning.
    • Mark Smith
      Mark Smith on 16 Sep 10
       
      Amen!
  • There are two basically different ideas of educational value at play in this debate. For proponents of value-added assessment, standardized tests contain certain, verifiable and numerically quantifiable knowledge. The tests are mistakenly thought to be objective.
Caroline Bachmann

The Living Room Candidate - For Teachers - Lessons - 12 views

www.livingroomcandidate.org/lessons

Lesson Plans Advertising persuasion president

shared by Caroline Bachmann on 29 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Caroline Bachmann on 29 Dec 11
     
    Persuasion in political ads for President
anonymous

Resources: ADText - An Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Advertising - 0 views

www.adtextonline.org/index.html

advertising media culture society history literacy ethics images

shared by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 15 Jul 09
     
    Sleek interactive site about media in society. Here is their description: ADText is authored by Professor William M. O'Barr, Ph.D. Professor O'Barr (mack@duke.edu) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in advertising and its relation to society, culture and history. He is author of Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising (1994). He is also founding editor of the online journal, Advertising & Society Review.
James Miscavish

twitter4teachers / FrontPage - 0 views

twitter4teachers.pbworks.com

twitter resources wiki education teachers twitter4teachers twittertools technology

shared by James Miscavish on 09 Aug 09 - Cached
  • James Miscavish on 09 Aug 09
     
    If you feel a subject area is missing and you think a page needs to be added, feel free to tweet or e-mail your suggestions or comments to the author of this wiki: gina.hartman@fhsdschools.org or ghartman on Twitter
Leslie Healey

Students Know Good Teaching When They Get It, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com - 11 views

www.nytimes.com/...11education.html

teaching writing SAT learning teen

shared by Leslie Healey on 11 Dec 10 - No Cached
    • Leslie Healey
      Leslie Healey on 11 Dec 10
       
      we are teaching an added SAT review class to all juniors this year--there has been much consternation about the conflict between teaching to a test in SAT and our methods teaching lit and writing in the Brit Lit course.
  • One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who incessantly drill their students to prepare for standardized tests tend to have lower value-added learning gains than those who simply work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics. Teachers whose students agreed with the statement, “We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for the state test,” tended to make smaller gains on those exams than other teachers. “Teaching to the test makes your students do worse on the tests,” Ms. Phillips said. “It turns out all that ‘drill and kill’ isn’t helpful.”
Karen LaBonte

Education Week: The Case for Literature by Nancie Atwell - 4 views

www.edweek.org/...21atwell_ep.h29.html

literature atwell reading

shared by Karen LaBonte on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Karen LaBonte on 09 Feb 10
     
    "A few weeks ago, I received an urgent e-mail: The National Council of Teachers of English is looking for volunteers for an ad hoc task force whose charge is to gather evidence about why literature should continue to be taught in the 21st century."
Teresa Ilgunas

Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment - 5 views

lab.arc90.com/...readability

internet readability reading webpages free tool toolbar

shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 03 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 03 Dec 09
     
    Wow...hate distracting ads when you're trying to read? This website allows you to read just the text. You pick the size, then drag the icon to your browser's toolbar. Nice.
Dennis OConnor

projeqt \ how great stories are told - 7 views

www.projeqt.com

story storytelling digital_storytelling

shared by Dennis OConnor on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 05 Sep 11
     
    From Mark Rounds: Web-Ed Tools Paper.li: "The art of online storytelling is all about presentation. As a non-linear storytelling engine, Projeqt gives creatives the ability to weave together stories dripping with style and personality from Flickr photos, RSS feeds, tweets, YouTube or Vimeo videos, and any media stored on their own computers.Users can craft "projeqts," whatever their purpose may be, by adding content in the form of slides. Create a slide, name it, add tags, and fill the slide with a photo, text, video or feed. Slides are published to create the web story and be can reordered via drag and drop. Users can also create a projeqt within a projeqt to serve as a story inside a story.In private beta right now... It took me a week to get my invite."
Teresa Ilgunas

Bookmarklets | Readability - 11 views

www.readability.com/bookmarklets

resources web2.0 education tools free readability classroom reading languagearts

shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 21 Apr 11
     
    This tool is fantastic when I want to have the class read a paper version of an internet article, OR when the ads are so distracting that I can't concentrate on what I'm reading.
Teresa Ilgunas

All Edublogs Blogs Are Now Advertisement Free - Help Us Keep It That Way! - 4 views

us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=53a1e972a043d1264ed082a5b&id=2aeb083dc2&e=4cb3152090

edublogs web2.0 blogs free

shared by Teresa Ilgunas on 18 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Teresa Ilgunas on 18 Jul 11
     
    Now ad-free, even for the free blogs. Yes!
Gary Plumley

Top 10 Tips For Booking Gatwick Airport Car Hire in Oxford - 0 views

www.classifiedads.com/cars-ad182549460.htm

Limo hire Oxford

shared by Gary Plumley on 18 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Gary Plumley on 18 Aug 15
     
    We provide wide range of limousine for hire from, 16 seated pink limousines, black limos, white limousine and the all new party bus limousine in oxford. We are now ready to take any kind bookings for your Special Occasions in Oxford.
Gary Plumley

Best Airport Limo Service in Reading | Cheapest Limo - 0 views

www.adlandpro.com/...ation_372__around_reading.aspx

Limo hire Maidenhead Limo hire in Slough Limo hire Reading Limo hire Oxford Limo Hire London

shared by Gary Plumley on 25 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Gary Plumley on 25 Aug 15
     
    Welcome to the all of the Thames Valley and London's most trusted limousine hire provider. Our Limo hire service is available across all towns of all of the Thames Valley and London, providing the best limousine hire service to our clients. We ensure that our limos are styled according to the occasion.
James Miscavish

My Bookmarks - 54 views

Yeah, I'm adding all my ELA appropriate bookmarks, then going back through and fixing the titles. Should be quite helpful for all of us! Jim Burke wrote: > My plan is to revise all my bookmarks s...

started by anonymous on 15 Jul 09 1 follow-up, last by James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09
Mrs. Lenker

Survival Guides at Bionic Teaching - 10 views

bionicteaching.com/?p=1561

writing

shared by Mrs. Lenker on 17 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Mrs. Lenker on 17 Jul 10
     
    "lots of English and history applications. It'd be fun to write survival guides for self-destructive historical or literary figures- maybe Edgar Allen Poe or Custer."
  • Mark Smith on 17 Jul 10
     
    Custard?
  • Mrs. Lenker on 17 Jul 10
     
    :) That's embarrassing! I guess I was hungry when I added that. General Custer not Custard.
Sheri Edwards

CMS Test results invite scrutiny - CharlotteObserver.com - 0 views

www.charlotteobserver.com/...853533.html

charlotteobserver testing assessment standards national

shared by Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Staff at both schools will collect 10- to 15-percent pay hikes based on this year's scores, money that goes away next year. The raises, paid for by county commissioners eager to see kids succeed at low-performing schools, illustrate the rewards and penalties that can hang on test scores.
  • In 2006, a principal split Garinger into five academies with specialized themes. The New Technology school emerged strong, but the rest of the campus struggled.
  • She was convinced the dismal pass rate could change but believed many needed stronger skills to pass exams. “We really had to put the brakes on things,” she said. That meant letting strong students go straight into the EOC classes. But weaker ones took a semester or more of preparatory classes designed to boost their reading, math or science skills.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • The Observer analysis shows an unusually large number of Garinger International students sidestepped EOC courses in 2008-09. (See box.)
  • This year the school added juniors, which meant enrollment grew by almost 50 percent. Yet the school gave 46 fewer tests.
  • In English I, which all ninth-graders must take, Garinger International's pass rate went from 67 to 81 percent.
  • the only thing we have to vary is the time it takes to attain the standards. We do not all learn at the same rate.
  • It sounds like the principal is trying to help all her kids be successful. Why must that be cause for suspicion??
  • Sheri Edwards on 27 Jul 09
     
    What do you think?
Kyle Tavares

Kyle Tavares is a High Quality Jewelers and Diamonds Designer - 0 views

storify.com/...s-equals-big-profits-kyle-tava

Kyle Tavares Kyle Richard Tavares

shared by Kyle Tavares on 21 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Kyle Tavares on 21 Feb 15
     
    Now I wish to share my knowledge with other potential gem lovers and buyers of beautiful jewellery. I truly love what I do and I bring my heart and soul to every piece I work on.
1 - 20 of 20
Showing 20▼ items per page