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Google's 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • What employees valued most were even-keeled bosses who made time for one-on-one meetings, who helped people puzzle through problems by asking questions, not dictating answers, and who took an interest in employees’ lives and careers.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 15 Mar 11
       
      How many principals, or superintendents, do you know who are like this?
  • James O'Hagan on 15 Mar 11
     
    Something we can all learn from since many are administrators.
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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? 
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Rival Philosophies, Both Compelling - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Is there an app for improving America’s educational system? Will watching a PowerPoint presentation about the nation’s educational challenge help to understand the opportunities and difficulties facing the country?
  • Two college dropouts, Steve Jobs (Reed College) and Bill Gates (Harvard University) have articulated theories about education. And their viewpoints are as different as are their companies (Apple and Microsoft, respectively), presenting a contrast in style and philosophy.
  • Gates hopes to analyze and adjust the education system in order to produce a more efficient and effective learning environment.
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  • Jobs is focused more on individual learning and less on systemic education. Technology is his way to get a well-integrated mind flowing in multiple directions. His learning philosophy gives each person the ability to chart his own course.
  • Gates’ recent speech to the nation’s governors stressed assessment, measuring outcomes and tracking students’ progress. Technology and benchmarking are joined at the hip
  • Jobs’ approach allows for individual experimentation to find a unique solution to each person’s quest. It is the symbol of intellectual multi-tasking. This is a more experimental, integrated search for a holistic view of the universe, one that has multiple access points. Each student becomes his or her own teacher.
  • Gates is studying the science of education. Jobs is creating the art of learning. I’m sure there is an app for teaching arithmetic by watching the heavens and counting the stars
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film music | mobygratis.com - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 22 Mar 11 - Cached
  • James O'Hagan on 22 Mar 11
     
    Excellent music for a student or teacher or presenter to add to their NON-PROFIT presentation. Learn about licensing. Does require a lot of information to register.
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Will Richardson: A Pep Rally for Tests? What We Need Is a 'Prep' Rally - 0 views

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  • f all we want for our kids is to pass the test, we really don't need schools any longer. Just load 'em up with a computer, an Internet connection and some test prep guides, and send them to Khan Academy or any number of other similar sites, and let them go crazy.
  • daniel rezac on 19 Apr 11
     
    Just load 'em up with a computer, an Internet connection and some test prep guides, and send them to Khan Academy or any number of other similar sites, and let them go crazy.
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Tell the Kids, "I Stand with Gilbert!" : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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  • judith epcke on 25 Mar 11
     
    Possible BlogWatch discussion? Gary makes some interesting points. Could led with Wes' post on the subject then get to Gary's. Maybe for the News segment?
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http://webobjects.cdw.com/webobjects/media/pdf/21st-Century-Classroom-Ref-Guide.pdf - 0 views

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  • James O'Hagan on 28 Mar 11
     
    According to private industry, this is a 21st Century Classroom
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Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey goes high-tech, giv... - 0 views

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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!
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Predicting success in football and teaching : The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by James O'Hagan on 06 Apr 11 - Cached
  • There are certain jobs where almost nothing you can learn about candidates before they start predicts how they’ll do once they’re hired. So how do we know whom to choose in cases like that? In recent years, a number of fields have begun to wrestle with this problem, but none with such profound social consequences as the profession of teaching.
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Fundamentally Reforming Math Curriculum with Computer-Based Math - 0 views

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  • James O'Hagan on 22 Mar 11
     
    This is the response to Khan almost six months earlier.
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EdTechTrek - 0 views

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  • Educon is described as “both a conversation and a conference”. Although I don’t want to romanticize Educon as a learning event, one of the things I appreciate the most is the nature of the presentations. They are indeed conversations. Dialog and open thinking are essential to the “structure” of the sessions. And, often, the conversations spill over to the hallways, the stairways, the meals, and of course, in virtual spaces. Back to the quotation above, it resonates greatly on a number of dimensions. The essence of its message to me is that innovation happens as a result of continued open exchange of ideas in conjunction with intentional and serendipitous expansion of one’s learning network. It is this open and networked exchange of ideas that leads to the creation of new ideas.
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How Does New Tech Measure Up to Traditional Standards? | MindShift - 0 views

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    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 08 Jan 11
       
      Sounds peachy, but let's dig a little further. I've worked in the smoke and mirrors school before...
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sitconference.org | February 12, 2011 | The Students Involved with Technology Conferenc... - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 07 Dec 10
     
    Great opportunity in Illinois for students.
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StudentsFirst.org - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 07 Dec 10
     
    I see some good ideas with Michelle Rhee's work here but I have to say it appears to me to be more of a political ploy tool than anything. Why not join pre-exisiting resources / movements? Why does it have to be something created by her?
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Guideline for External Use of Web 2.0 - 0 views

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  • This guideline is designed to provide specific guidance to Government of Canada departments on the use of externally facing Web 2.0 tools and services
  • James O'Hagan on 28 Nov 11
     
    Wow, Canada is really trying to clamp down on Web 2.0 while at the same time claiming they are promoting use.
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Education Week Teacher: Best Practice: Think Globally-or Locally? - 0 views

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  • judith epcke on 23 Dec 10
     
    Do digital tools and the Web's ability to connect classrooms to global society detract from or enhance teaching and learning? Two teacher leaders offer divergent views. Always an interesting discussion.
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With iPads, Olympia students have world at their fingertips - Olympia School District -... - 0 views

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  • “Textbooks have really great things, but they’re also very limiting,” said Underwood, who is in her 24th year of teaching at Olympia High. “Our kids are digital kids. They respond very well to this kind of tactile environment, where they can get immediate feedback.”
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      Again, the focus is on the stuff. Not the pedagogy, or the changes in teaching. Really?
  • hasn’t used iPads because they don’t work with the district’s technology system
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      And this technology system is some proprietary POJ from Albania?
  • as well as a pilot program at Olympia High where students in an intensive college readiness course known as AVID were issued district-owned iPads to use throughout the year for note-taking, research and organization.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      And what has been done with teacher training? Shifts in pedagogy?
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  • The district is still training many teachers on how to incorporate the use of mobile devices in their classrooms,
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      GOOD!
  • “They put them back where they’re supposed to,” she added. “They never put French books back where they’re supposed to.
  • We have a French Blog where the students' class projects (videos, comics, writing, etc... all created on the iPads) are posted. This allows for students from different class periods to observe and interact not only with what their other peers are doing but also what the other levels of the language are working on. Another really useful hands-on learing experience.
    • James O'Hagan
      James O'Hagan on 20 Dec 11
       
      Glad to see the students getting in on making this the story it should have been.
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 0 views

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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.
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Why Our Kids Don't Get Math - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 19 Dec 10
     
    The comment comparing rigor with difficulty is very important.
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