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Donnie Smith

The Way We Live Now - I Tweet, Therefore I Am - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...01wwln-lede-t.html

shared by Donnie Smith on 01 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Donnie Smith on 01 Aug 10
     
    I saw this yesterday and plan to use it as an Article of the Week with my High School 9th grade students in September.
Leslie Healey

Harnessing the Necessary Evil-Cell Phones in the Classroom - 11 views

blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/...94cell-phones-in-the-classroom

phones tools resources web2.0 teaching

shared by Leslie Healey on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Leslie Healey on 09 Sep 10
     
    a considered, thoughtful approach to cell phone use in school from a teacher, especially if you are teaching in a no-cellphone school. Something's gotta give!
Adam Babcock

The Texting Revolution Is Here - WSJ.com - 2 views

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writing edtech mobile research

shared by Adam Babcock on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • We default to text to relay difficult information. We stare at our phone when we want to avoid eye contact.
  • has named "micro-coordination"—"I'll txt u in 10mins when I know wh/ restrnt."
  • it steals from quiet reflection. "When people have a mobile device and have even the smallest increment of extra time, they will communicate with someone in their life,"
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  • If I were to call someone, it would have to be urgent," she says. "Otherwise, it's sort of rude and invasive.
  • "American Idol put texting on the map," says AT&T's Mr. Collins.
Adam Babcock

College Applications Continue to Increase. When Is Enough Enough? - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...07HOOVER-t.html

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shared by Adam Babcock on 07 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • “They want you so they can reject you,” says Mr. Stewart, a senior in Burnsville, Minn., who has a 3.5 grade-point average and scored a 27 (out of 36) on the ACT. Those numbers are well below the freshman averages at some of the big-name colleges that sent him applications along with brochures.
Adam Babcock

EdTech by Bloom's Taxonomy levels - 23 views

www.usi.edu/bdt.htm

edtech

shared by Adam Babcock on 13 Nov 10 - No Cached
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  • Dana Huff on 13 Nov 10
     
    This chart includes Web 2.0 tools to be used with each level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and hyperlinked to the the tools' websites.
  • Leslie Healey on 14 Nov 10
     
    This is fantastic--I already sent it to everyone in my department. Thx
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.”
Sheri Edwards

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

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

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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?
Dennis OConnor

10 Digital Writing Opportunities You Probably Know and 10 You Probably Don't | edte.ch - 13 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 28 Feb 10 - Cached
  • It was a meeting all about ideas (my favourite) and we discussed the best ways that technology could support the process of writing and drive the eventual outcomes. In this post I have included a list of 10 literacy/writing tools or outcomes that, in my opinion, teachers should currently be aware of. Many of them are basic yet still powerful tools in the classroom that support children’s writing. They are in no particular order.
  • Dennis OConnor on 28 Feb 10
     
    "It was a meeting all about ideas (my favourite) and we discussed the best ways that technology could support the process of writing and drive the eventual outcomes. In this post I have included a list of 10 literacy/writing tools or outcomes that, in my opinion, teachers should currently be aware of. Many of them are basic yet still powerful tools in the classroom that support children's writing. They are in no particular order."
  • Melody Velasco on 27 Mar 10
     
    "...10 alternative tools that either offer a different perspective on digital writing or are a little known tool, that may have huge potential in the classroom. Not everything is free nor is it online - but the list will hopefully provide food for thought when you are looking at your next non-fiction or narrative unit with your class."
Victoria Keech

28 things to do with a digital image - 22 views

docs.google.com/...view

writing resources

shared by Victoria Keech on 19 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • Victoria Keech on 19 Dec 09
     
    Dreat resource for using digital images for creative writing
Mary Worrell

Teacher Magazine: Giving Classrooms a Purpose - 11 views

www.edweek.org/...ln_ferlazzo_effectiveness.html

classroom theory education educational_reform student_choice teaching learning instruction

shared by Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • “Never do for someone what they can do for themselves. Never.”
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
       
      This is something every teacher, myself included, should keep in mind when students struggle. Help them, but only enough so they can finish the race on their own. Zone of proximal development.
  • On our overhead, I enter the choices in side-by-side columns and give examples of the difference between the two.
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
       
      I love this idea! Making our teaching processes and decisions transparent to students gives them more ownership in the classroom.
  • Mary Worrell on 21 Jan 10
     
    I really enjoyed this post by Larry Ferlazzo (thanks to Meredith Stewart's retweet). Got me thinking about the sort of classroom culture I'd like to help create with my students.
Dana Huff

Tagxedo - Tag Cloud with Styles - 5 views

www.tagxedo.com

wordcloud tagxedo wordclouds cloud text

shared by Dana Huff on 10 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 10 Apr 10
     
    Create word clouds from texts in a variety of shapes. Requires Microsoft Silverlight.
Clifford Baker

2¢ Worth » It Was Good Enough for Me - 4 views

davidwarlick.com/2cents

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shared by Clifford Baker on 11 Apr 10 - Cached
  • We are not working under these conditions because of our zip code or because of some unavoidably cyclical function of our reality. These constraints do not happen like weather patterns that we simply have to hunker down and wait out. They happen because of decisions that people make due to greed, misinformation, politico-social agendas, or ignorance.
  • “What was good enough for me is good enough for ‘your’ children.”
  • What interests me are products that help students learn to learn by empowering them to gaze upon the world they are learning about and to interact with the world, not by giving them better access to the classroom and instructor.
meenoo rami

isnoop.net's fridge 3.0. Play with my magnetic words. - 8 views

isnoop.net/magwords.php

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shared by meenoo rami on 17 May 10 - Cached
  • meenoo rami on 17 May 10
     
    magnetic poetry - possible intro. to poetry unit
Dana Huff

Trouble with Shakespeare? Try it on The iPad. « Shakespeare In Bits - Blog - 12 views

blog.shakespeareinbits.com/...shakespeare-on-the-ipad

shakespeare education literature technology reading

shared by Dana Huff on 15 May 10 - Cached
  • Dana Huff on 15 May 10
     
    If this is the future of studying a Shakespeare play, sign me up.
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