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Bradley Yust

School of One Revolutionizes Traditional Classroom Model | MindShift - 0 views

  • The system completely subverts the traditional classroom model of one teacher for 25- 30 students per classroom. And each student learns in different modalities throughout the day: individually with computer software, with groups, with a virtual tutor, with a live tutor, and so on
  • . And each student learns in different modalities throughout the day: individually with computer software, with groups, with a virtual tutor, with a live tutor, and so on. “There are so many ways that kids can learn,” Rush said. “It could be the best way is with a teacher, but that’s not the only way. There have to be choices.” Based in three public schools in New York, the School of One system is ripe for scaling — but only when the algorithm is as smart as it could possibly be, Rush says. “We have to build in time to try new things,” he said. “Some will work and some won’t, and that’s okay.” When it comes to creating a models of schools for the future, this could very well be it. It combines much of what forward-thinking education reformers say is key: individualized learning, the best of technology, and a flexible learning system that adapts to what students learn day by day. Check out the video to see more of how it works. MORE POSTS ABOUT Learning Methods individualized learning School of One How Do You Measure Learning? Getty It’s not a new question, but it’s certainly a divisive one — how to best measure student learning. As the Department of Education works toward finding a way to assess student learning beyond what most agree are sub-par standardized … Read More Facing Challenges as Dual-Language Programs Grow Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? view all Learning Methods posts Should Students Advance At Their Own Pace? Flickr:Kreative Eye- Dean McKoy What if student learning wasn’t based on age, but on proficiency? That might happen soon in Oregon’s public schools if Senate Bill 909 unfolds as planned. Oregon governor John Kitzhaber ushered a group of education bills … Read More A Day in the Life of a Virtual School Student Can Learning Really Be Fun and Games? view all individualized learning posts New Startup Launches High-Tech Math Program School of One The folks behind The School of One, famous for creating daily playlists as lesson plans for students, have launched a non-profit that will allow any school to use its high-tech, personalized learning model. New Classrooms, a non-profit … Read More Will School of One Expand to a School of Many? Wireless Generation Awarded $27 Million Contract by NY Schools view all School of One posts Newer PostUpdate: California Graduation and Dropout Rates → Older Post← Step One: Start With What Kids Want 5 Responses to “School of One Revolutionizes Traditional Classroom Model” Sarah Peduzzi says: December 10, 2010 at 8:36 pm WOW this is so cool. I hope Scho
  • We have to build in time to try new things,” he said. “Some will work and some won’t, and that’s okay.
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  • individualized learning, the best of technology, and a flexible learning system that adapts to what students learn day by day.
Lauren Paras

TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM: TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? by Bonnie Thone Boylan | NY Teac... - 0 views

  • The newest technology to enter the education arena, however, is the interactive whiteboard, or SMART Board. These combine multimedia functions with internet access and offer educational, interactive programs for teachers and students.
  • But the pitfalls of too much technology in the classroom are quickly becoming evident. For children, the drawbacks of technology in general, and of the internet in particular, have resulted in cyber bullying and the threat of sexual predators.  Daily newscasts provide a quick glimpse of the perils of technology and in the classroom it can be no less treacherous.
  • r research, which is often its purpose, much time is wasted sifting through the numerous websites for the one that offers the most relevant information
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  • When students in the younger grades use computers fo
ajmichel_10

7 Stories From Educators About Teaching In The Flipped Classroom | Emerging Education T... - 0 views

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    This may or may not help with whoever is doing "flipping the classroom"
ajmichel_10

4 Great Twitter Applications for Teachers Using Twitter In The Classroom | Emerging Edu... - 0 views

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    This could possibly help with whoever is doing Twitter in the classroom...
ajmichel_10

Flipping Your Classroom With Free Web Tools - 1 views

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    This could be helpful for the person teaching about flipped classrooms.
Brittney Horlacher

Wikis for Everyone - Wikispaces - 0 views

  • Over 6 million students and teachers have used Wikispaces in their classrooms since 2005
  • plan events and share best practices in a flexible, accessible, easy-to-update online resource.
  • ollaborate on projects that address real-world questions
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  • Teachers post homework, group work, and classroom goals
  • Classroom schedules and lesson plans can be tweaked from any computer or mobile device
  • accessible anytime from anywhere in the world.
  • tudent accounts with or without email addresses
  • Projects for group work
Deb Gardner

Ten Reasons Why Teachers Excel in the Classroom - 3 views

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    Explore this website. It's dated but Kathy provides many ways to use Excel - even in the el ed classroom.
Bradley Yust

Can an Idyllic Classroom Make a Difference in Learning? | MindShift - 0 views

  • Students are connected to the earth, to the Internet, to one another, to their teacher—who can see them from anywhere in the room, even though it’s a busy space.
  • “As a ten-year-old, I found learning — indoors, from a teacher and a textbook — far more engaging than the outdoors.”
Deb Gardner

Revisiting Cell Phone Bans in Schools -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Twenty-four percent of K-12 schools ban cell phones altogether, and 62 percent allow phones on school grounds but ban them in the classroom, according to the most recent national data available. But it's about time for those schools to rethink those bans,
  • We have to decide if we are going to continue to ban cell phones, and we have to weigh the balance between pros and cons.
  • He described one example of a teacher using Poll Everywhere in a social studies classroom. As students enter the classroom, the teacher has posted a question on the whiteboard asking students what they believe to be the most important cause of the Civil War.
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  • QR codes are also making mobile phones more attractive as educational tools.
  • research has demonstrated that using texting to provide students and parents with regular information about classwork leads to higher assignment completion rates.
  • To create the Web pages for each site of interest, we used the WordPress blogging tool,"
  • The cell phone bans are in place, Bellarmine's Thomas said, because of legitimate concerns about cheating, texting, sexting, and cyberbullying. Thomas argued that the mobile phones themselves are not causing these problems. They are moral and ethical in nature, not technical. "These are new forms of old behaviors. Banning will not be the solution," he said. "We have to educate students about proper way to use the tools."
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    Read the comments by readers - lots of insights here.
Chrissy Clark

Jux: simple media literacy tool | Technology with Intention - 0 views

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    Really awesome tool to use in the classroom
Bradley Yust

Open Source: A New Paradigm for Language Learning | MindShift - 0 views

  • “The first television broadcasts were of a man in an armchair with a microphone — exactly like the radio! It takes a while for things to sink in, for us to realize what the possibilities are.
  • A blended learning model is useful for language teaching, too, Miller says, because there is a rote element in learning a language and “that’s something we can do online, out of the classroom.
  • But those repetitive, fill-in-the-gap grammar exercises are not a good use of classroom time. We need to make sure that precious face-to-face time is used for what it is best for: true communication.”
Monica Asher

Too Big for Your Britches - 0 views

  • size is a real enemy to innovation
  • Change is difficult for any organization and education is particularly difficult because of its systematic problems and tensions as a public sector institution
  • the story of Clarence Fisher and Heather Durnin.
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  • Two teachers
  • rural provinces whose classrooms are one
  • constantly exploring new opportunities for their students
  • his students are getting more of an opportunity to learn than many of our students from our biggest districts. 
  • Another disturbing trend with many of our larger districts and schools is an arrogance to admit they might not have all the answers
  • ignore or at least neglect to look to our smaller schools for expertise and innovation
ajmichel_10

Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students - 0 views

  • When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information.
  • Another effect of technology cited by a great majority of teachers is an increased inclination on the part of students to work cooperatively and to provide peer tutoring
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