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Leslie Healey

Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated | Cory Doctorow | Technology ... - 6 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...-death-of-blogging-exaggerated

blogging technology writers

shared by Leslie Healey on 16 Jul 10 - Cached
  • t was coined in 1913 by Wolfgang Riepl. It's as true now as it was then.
  • Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling says: "The future composts the past." There's even a law to describe this, Riepl's Law – which says "new, further developed types of media never replace the existing modes of media and their usage patterns. Instead, a convergence takes place in their field, leading to a different way and field of use for these older forms."
  • Leslie Healey on 16 Jul 10
     
    doctorow's take on why we need not just twitter and facebook and diigo but also older methods of socialmedia--blogging
  • Leslie Healey on 16 Jul 10
     
    this is the best analysis on why we need the varied forms of social media in the classroom--and in life
Mary Worrell

The Future Of Reading | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

www.wired.com/...the-future-of-reading-2

reading 21stcenturyskills e_books technology

shared by Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • I sometimes wonder why I’m only able to edit my own writing after it has been printed out, in 3-D form. My prose will always look so flawless on the screen, but then I read the same words on the physical page and I suddenly see all my clichés and banalities and excesses
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10
       
      I have the same issue. As a business reporter out of college, my first copy editor pushed me to start printing out my drafts for my first round of edits. My editing was much more in-depth and thoughtful, which made her job a lot easier.
  • Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10
     
    Just another person's opinion on the future of reading and the future of books, but I found it interesting!
Kristin Bergsagel

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...29language-t.html

language linguistics cognition science

shared by Kristin Bergsagel on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about.
  • When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers of other languages may not be required to think about all the time. And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and orientation in the world.
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.
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  • 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?
Mary Worrell

digitalresearchtools / FrontPage - 3 views

digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com

research tools wiki education teaching web2.0

shared by Mary Worrell on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Karen LaBonte on 22 Feb 10
     
    This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
  • Mary Worrell on 30 Sep 10
     
    Great wiki of research tools!
Katie Anderson

Monitor: The net generation, unplugged | The Economist - 6 views

www.economist.com/...displaystory.cfm

digital natives generation digital internet technology education economist

shared by Katie Anderson on 28 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Katie Anderson on 28 Mar 10
     
    Questions raised: Who actually makes up the population of digital natives? What do we really know about them? What are their behaviors actually demonstrating online?
Adam Babcock

The Failure of American Schools - Magazine - The Atlantic - 3 views

www.theatlantic.com/...8497

education politics

shared by Adam Babcock on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • recalcitrant
  • From 1960 to 1980, our supply of college graduates increased at almost 4 percent a year; since then, the increase has been about half as fast. The net effect is that we’re rapidly moving toward two Americas—a wealthy elite, and an increasingly large underclass that lacks the skills to succeed.
  • in education, despite massive increases in expenditure, we don’t see improved results
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  • That leads too many people to suspect that poverty is destiny, that schools can make only a small difference, and that therefore we’re unable to fix this problem, regardless of its seriousness. So why try?
  • That Kafkaesque outcome demonstrates precisely the way the system is run: for the adults. The school system doesn’t want to change, because it serves the needs of the adult stakeholders quite well, both politically and financially.
  • “Listen, they’re trying to get rid of a principal in my district who runs a Democratic club for us. If you protect him, you’ll never have a problem with me.” This kind of encounter was not rare.
  • President Obama was on to something in 2008 when he said: “The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of [students’] skin or where they come from. It’s not who their parents are or how much money they have. It’s who their teacher is.” Yet, rather than create a system that attracts and rewards excellent teachers—and that imposes consequences for ineffective or lazy ones—we treat all teachers as if they were identical widgets and their performance didn’t matter.
  • The result: too few effective math and science teachers in high-poverty schools.
  • Many have candidly told me they are burned out, but they can’t afford to leave until their pension fully vests. So they go through the motions until they can retire with the total package.
  • And why give all teachers making $80,000, or more, a 10 percent raise? They’re not going to leave, since they’re close to vesting their lifetime pensions. By contrast, increasing starting salaries by $8,000 (rather than $4,000) would help attract and retain better new teachers.
Dennis OConnor

Memrise vocabulary learning and memorable dictionary - 13 views

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language vocabulary foreign language flashcards edtech spanish esl ell tesol english

shared by Dennis OConnor on 15 Sep 11 - No Cached
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