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James Miscavish

Evaluating 'No Child Left Behind' - 0 views

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education NCLB

shared by James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09 - Cached
  • James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09
     
    . What happened? Most discussions focus on the details of the more than 1,000-page law, which has provoked widespread criticism for the myriad issues it has raised. All of its flaws deserve scrutiny in the reauthorization debate, but it's also worth takin
Allan Briggs

Welcome to Debatepedia! - Debatepedia, the Wikipedia of Debates - 13 views

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debate issues

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  • Allan Briggs on 15 Aug 11
     
    pros and cons are done
anonymous

'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 23 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Here's the kicker, though: The biggest resistance to Mr. Bowen's ideas has come from students, some of whom have groused about taking a more active role during those 50-minute class periods.
  • Introduce issues of debate within the discipline and get the students to weigh in based on the knowledge they have from those lecture podcasts, Mr. Bowen says.
  • "Strangely enough, the people who are most resistant to this model are the students, who are used to being spoon-fed material that is going to be quote unquote on the test," says Mr. Heffernan. "Students have been socialized to view the educational process as essentially passive. The only way we're going to stop that is by radically refiguring the classroom in precisely the way José wants to do it."
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  • "inverted classroom."
  • 'I paid for a college education and you're not going to lecture?'"
  • PowerPoint is not the problem. It is how PPt is used.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 24 Jul 09
       
      That's exactly the point. Of course we do need discussions in classrooms, but we also need to enable students to perform well in them, and here is where technology comes in: You can facilitate it in the learning process. - The headline of this article makes things far too easy...
  • Patrick Higgins on 23 Jul 09
     
    I like how Bowen is questioning the use of tech for tech's sake. This further shows how it's not about the technology, but about the teaching.
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.
Mary Worrell

Why Class Sizes of 50 Could Be Better - Synthesizing Education Blog - 4 views

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education class_size debates

shared by Mary Worrell on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Mary Worrell on 12 Jan 10
     
    Interesting post by Aaron Eyler about whether a larger class size might benefit students. I don't agree, but the comments offer an interesting read.
  • Mary Worrell on 12 Jan 10
     
    Interesting post by Aaron Eyler about whether a larger class size might benefit students. I don't agree, but the comments offer an interesting read.
Mary Worrell

Search Engine's YouTube channel launches: Does the Internet make you dumber? Boing Boing - 4 views

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education web2.0 technology learning

shared by Mary Worrell on 14 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Mary Worrell on 14 Jan 10
     
    This video is funny and does a good job of questioning why we care about rote memorization. Why isn't it good enough just to go and look up information? Why must we scold ourselves if we don't have it memorized? Has some great applications to educational debate today and where technology fits.
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