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High schools need engaging classes | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register - 1 views

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reform highschool schools high engagement enrichment

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  • daniel rezac on 07 Dec 10
     
    Shadow a high school student for half a day, suggested Tony Wagner, featured speaker at the Iowa Association of School Boards convention Thursday, during a question-and-answer session after his speech. "Count the number of minutes you are awake in class," continued the national school reform expert, responding to a woman wondering about the connection between boredom and dropouts.
daniel rezac

Green Change : I want my five hours back: the case against homework - 0 views

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homework edreach parents

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  • daniel rezac on 07 Dec 10
     
    There are 24 hours in each day. Between school and sleep, I have five hours to spend with my school-aged kids. One would think that those are five hours in which we could decide to play a game, go to a sporting event, read books, cook dinner together, do our family chores, go to a movie, attend religious education classes, play a pick-up game with friends or even (gasp!) watch television. One might think five hours is a long time. One would be wrong.
judith epcke

The Answer Sheet - First blame the teachers, then the parents - 0 views

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edreach accountability parents

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  • judith epcke on 06 Dec 10
     
    The U.S. Department of Education blames teachers for low test scores, and parents could be next, writes Maine educator Maja Wilson. She argues that rather than looking for ways to boost achievement, officials are assigning blame through a so-called "accountability movement." She writes that Education Secretary Arne Duncan's next move might be to implement a system he saw while working in Chicago schools that graded parents on whether they were involved in schools and their students were prepared to learn
daniel rezac

Sources: Google-branded Chrome OS netbook to launch on December 7th -- Engadget - 0 views

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ednews edreach news chrome

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  • daniel rezac on 04 Dec 10
     
    The Google Crome Netbook! Could a Cloud based OS be the answer to the school's 1-1 initiative?  Technically - a school could create their own version of Chrome OS and control the atmosphere for students. This way students could bring in their own devices that are running Chrome OS for your school. 
James O'Hagan

Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey goes high-tech, giv... - 0 views

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school learningspace 21st-century-learning

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  • If you were to walk around our classes, you’d see students using Google Docs to share documents, to peer edit their papers. You’d walk into a science classroom and they may be using a Wiki space so that they can their data that they’re getting from an experiment
  • Now we’ve had students that have been collaborating on projects with students in Taiwan, China, and we have an Italian class that holds class very early in the morning every Friday morning with a school in Italy
  • Basically, in every class, we’re using laptops to take notes on Microsoft Word
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 28 Mar 11
       
      That is an AWFUL lead in!
James O'Hagan

Tina Barseghian: Napa New Tech High: 5 Reasons This is the School of the Future - 0 views

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    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 08 Jan 11
       
      Correct me if I'm wrong but how is the objective turning the traditional high school model on it's ear?
  • 93 percent of students bring their own laptops, though 33 percent are on free or reduced lunch.
  • a student is graded on four different criteria: content, written communication (even in subjects like math), critical thinking, and work ethic.
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    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 08 Jan 11
       
      Nothing in this article leads me to believe this is a school of the future, or just another Montissori program that's plugged in. Maybe we are all closer to the education nirvana than what this article states. 
James O'Hagan

Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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education_policy

shared by James O'Hagan on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Go up to any adult with a good life, no matter what his or her station, and ask if a teacher made a difference, and you’ll always see a face light up. The human element, a magical connection, is at the heart of successful education, and you can’t bottle it.
  • My father would have been spat out by today’s test-driven educational regime.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      Really? Would he?
  • Probe one of those illuminated faces further, and you can also usually elicit memories of a particularly bad teacher.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      Mrs. Souza, fifth grade, but we still did some awesome projects around Haley's Comet. She was just mean.
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  • Trusting teachers too much also has its perils. For every good teacher who is too creative to survive in the era of “no child left behind,” there’s probably another tenacious, horrid teacher who might be dethroned only because of unquestionably bad outcomes on objective tests.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      Just as there are people bad in their profession in any field- private sector, government, education. Remember Windows ME and Vista, Microsoft Boy?
  • How do we use the technologies of computation, statistics and networking to shed light — without killing the magic?
  • Nothing kills music for me as much as having some algorithm calculate what music I will want to hear. That seems to miss the whole point.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      I wonder if this guy has a TiVo or an Amazon account, or has ever taken a suggestion from a friend of a band to listen to or see?
  • nventing your musical taste is the point, isn’t it?
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      And part of the exploration is suggestions. Some people live in cultural enclaves that don't have readily available "culture."
  • Education — in the broadest sense — does what genes can’t do. It forever filters and bequeaths memories, ideas, identities, cultures and technologies. Humans compute and transfer nongenetic information between generations, creating a longitudinal intelligence that is unlike anything else on Earth. The data links that hold the structure together in time swell rhythmically to the frequency of human regeneration. This is education.
  • The future of education in the digital age will be determined by our judgment of which aspects of the information we pass between generations can be represented in computers at all. If we try to represent something digitally when we actually can’t, we kill the romance and make some aspect of the human condition newly bland and absurd.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      Example?
  • The crucial choice of which intergenerational information is to be treated as computational grist is usually not made by educators or curriculum developers but by young engineers.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      Schoology? :)
  • Some of the top digital designs of the moment, both in school and in the rest of life, embed the underlying message that we understand the brain and its workings. That is false. We don’t know how information is represented in the brain. We don’t know how reason is accomplished by neurons. There are some vaguely cool ideas floating around, and we might know a lot more about these things any moment now, but at this moment, we don’t.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      So as an educator I should not use my professional judgements on what technologies I should try to use to help my students understand the intergenerational material that is so important?
  • We are tempted by the demons of commercial and professional ambition to pretend we know more than we do.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      Oh, I completely agree on this one... i.e. MIE, ADE, GCE, DEN...
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      In addition, professional EdTech speakers.... AKA sell-outs.
  • We see the embedded philosophy bloom when students assemble papers as mash-ups from online snippets instead of thinking and composing on a blank piece of screen.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      Is this REALLY any different, at a rudementary level then what happened in the past. It is just easier to copy and paste. The stupid prompts teachers use should garner the need for thought. It is just that teachers continue to use the same dumb prompts in a world where Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha can provide the easy answer.
  • What is wrong with this is not that students are any lazier now or learning less.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      Is this even a sentence?!
  • What is really lost when this happens is the self-invention of a human brain. If students don’t learn to think, then no amount of access to information will do them any good.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      I don't see this as a technology issue, at all. This is a teacher issue. This is an educational issue. This is a systemic problem that if we took all high tech tools out of the schools this would STILL be a problem.
  • I am a technologist, and so my first impulse might be to try to fix this problem with better technology.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      People applying technologies can solve a problem though. The ultimate example is the Printing Press and what that did to promote education around the world. 
  • it might now lull us into hypnotic complacency.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      You only have to read 1984 to understand that statement. That one I do agree with.
  • Learning at its truest is a leap into the unknown.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      So Learning is a leap into the unknown, but we cannot use technology, which produces unknowns, to leap into the unknown of Learning? Am I missing the point?
  • Right now the first way is ubiquitous, but the virtual spaceships are being built only by tenacious oddballs in unusual circumstances. More spaceships, please.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      I honestly was not agreeing with Lanier, by and large, until this last statement. He really is a Papert-kinda-guy just by that last statement alone. Computers should transform pedagogy and the curriculum. Computers do not have to serve our 20th century curriculums and make people believe that if a computer is involved that this is 21st century learning.
  • a partner architect at Microsoft Research and the innovator in residence at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 18 Mar 11
       
      WHO MAKES UP THESE TITLES?!?!?!?!
judith epcke

Heather Wolpert-Gawron: The Education of Student Success: Top 10 Family Responsibilitie... - 0 views

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edreach student_success education_policy

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  • judith epcke on 06 Dec 10
     
    Teachers, students and parents all have roles in ensuring student success, says teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron, who lists the top 10 responsibilities of each in three blog posts. For teachers, it is important to be experts in your field, make lessons engaging and relevant and be strong role models. Wolpert-Gawron writes that students must be their own advocates, ask questions and communicate with teachers. Families, she writes, are responsible for making sure students attend school ready to learn. However, a fourth party -- policymakers and voters -- must support education if students are to succeed, Wolpert-Gawron writes.
judith epcke

730 U.S. schools trying to reinvent themselves | Funding | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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edreach reform transforming_education

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  • judith epcke on 13 Dec 10
     
    Another "where do you stand on this issue?" thought. Might make for interesting discussion.
daniel rezac

Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

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writing blog edtech web2.0

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  • Scratch, a free iconic programming language and active learning community provided by MIT, is a learning platform EVERYONE involved in education should know how to use. This is a bold claim, but I'm ready to defend it more than ever after spending four weeks working with Scratch this past semester with my UNT pre-service education students. Together, we learned about the primary Scratch project types (Animations, Games, Simulations, Music, Art, and Stories) as well as other possibilities. Teaching about Scratch and with Scratch enabled me to model project-based learning for my students, and enabled them to learn first-hand the power (as well as challenges) of discovery learning. Scratch challenged all of us, since it took everyone outside our comfort zones. When you ask students to create a word processing document, a spreadsheet, or a presentation, there's a VERY high likelihood they have past experiences with those activities. None of my students had ever used Scratch prior to our class, and many had never tried any kind of computer programming previously. Scratch is a very open environment, so it is ripe for creativity and creative expression. Our schools are too often devoid of opportunities for creative expression, and the invitation for students to demonstrate their learning with Scratch can change this. Few things made me happier this semester than my students discovering how THEY could be successful using Scratch to communicate with others, and resolving to share it with their own students when they begin teaching. This is one example from a student's blog reflection about Scratch and Chris Betcher's 2010 K-12 Online Conference presentation, "Teaching Kids To Think Using Scratch."
    • daniel rezac
      daniel rezac on 22 Dec 10
       
      a VERY Bold claim.
  • daniel rezac on 22 Dec 10
     
    Scratch, a free iconic programming language and active learning community provided by MIT, is a learning platform EVERYONE involved in education should know how to use. This is a bold claim, but I'm ready to defend it more than ever after spending four weeks working with Scratch this past semester with my UNT pre-service education students.
  • James O'Hagan on 08 Jan 11
     
    I will be attempting to use Scratch with my high school sped class. I think I can scaffold this appropriately.
daniel rezac

Mother hopes others will opt out of standardized testing - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • "Testing is a parent's ally" and that in order to compete with countries such as China and India, U.S. schools need to be held to a higher standard. And testing, he says, is the way to do it.
    • daniel rezac
      daniel rezac on 22 Mar 11
       
      Testing is a parent's ally? 
J B

TeachPaperless: IEP Recommendation: Mobile Access - 0 views

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mobile mlearning app development special education: technology

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  • mobile tech is the single best vehicle for addressing the confidence and practical needs of many of our kids with learning differences
  • I don't mean to say that the tech itself is the 'difference', what I am trying to say is that the tech -- and especially the personalized and always-on facet of mobile tech -- will provide the connection to the tools, the teachers, and the interventions that will make the difference in a way both unique and also requiring a re-thinking in terms of how we offer relevant services to students with learning differences.
  • we need to explain to developers what we and our students need from them
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  • Even better, we should be calling for Ed Schools to provide instruction in app making and digital design so that we -- the teachers -- have the capacity to program our own teaching.
  • we need to push now for an end to the access issues facing all of our schools
  • Let's make districts come to the realization that mobile devices and mobile access are the point-of-entry for learning right now. Let's put state funded devices in the hands of kids who need them and let all kids bring their own INTELLECTUAL EMPOWERMENT DEVICES to class.
James O'Hagan

The Creativity Crisis: Why American Schools Need Design - Laura Seargeant Richardson - ... - 0 views

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  • The European Union declared 2009 as the Year of Creativity, and Chinese faculty actually laughed when they found out the U.S. education trends were in "standardized curriculum, rote memorization, and nationalized testing."
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 13 Apr 11
       
      As we continue to centralize control, the less diverse we become. It's like 1984 with Newspeak.
  • here are approximately 170 occupational classifications that make up "New Work," which can be grouped into five major categories based on the types of knowledge, skills, and aptitudes needed. They are Creative, Education, Social, Technical, and Strategic
  • Ideal job candidates at these companies must now show they can "think with their hands" by having expertise or a second major in a musical instrument, auto repair, or sculpture
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 13 Apr 11
       
      I never considered the music education that I had would improve my three dimensional thinking. That is a fascinating idea that is more like a Duh moment when I think about it now.
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  • STEM's biggest flaw is that it continues to shine a bright light on all things engineering while relegating art and design to a dusty corner.
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