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Ruth Howard

The Next Movement In Education - Synthesizing Education - 5 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Desks signify the “old guard” of education where people sat in their seats, listened, maintained compliance, and were forced to stare at the front of the room as an older individual barked information. Desks signify a form of education that created widgets and workers for factories where everyone was expected to perform the same rote task at the same time and finish at the same level of understanding.
  • Instead, we should be equipping all classrooms with a diverse mix of tables, couches, exercise balls, bar stool tables, and anything else that reminds us of something other than the traditional classroom. Every classroom should have a variety of these items and as many different combinations as possible. Why? Kids spend 6-7 hours a day in a classroom and every, single one looks the same. Same color, same shape, same seats. If not the same, they look pretty damned similar. It forces kids to think the same in every class and stunts any flow of creative juices that might be triggered by a change in environment. Who’s with me?
Mrs. Duarte

Can a Facebook page replace the need for a website? - 23 views

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shared by Mrs. Duarte on 12 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • One thing is for certain: Custom Facebook page landing tabs have a huge impact on encouraging users to convert into followers.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      If schools and nonprofits wish to make money they should also have initiatives on Facebooks.
    • Reba Gordon Matthews
      Reba Gordon Matthews on 12 Feb 11
       
      Our family has a non-profit organization and it is wonderful to learn about this Facebook initiative.
  • Guy Kawasaki’s post on how he chose a Facebook page
    • shawnsieg
      shawnsieg on 12 Feb 11
       
      Guy is a great resource!!
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      Yes he is and the alltop education is very useful to give people that don't want to use an RSS reader.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      Demonstrating to educators the power of annotated web.
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  • Vitaminwater
    • shawnsieg
      shawnsieg on 12 Feb 11
       
      following Vitaminwater on FaceBook :) -shawnsieg
  • A targeted subsection of another site: If you need to brand and market a subset of your organization and the gap between the markets or messages is too diverse, a Facebook page might offer you a home on the web without the need to develop another site. That said, WordPress can be an easy way to get a strong site up and running – we’d recommend giving it a good look before ruling out another site.
    • Mrs. Duarte
      Mrs. Duarte on 12 Feb 11
       
      Testing a sticky note...
Bret Willhoit

The Children Must Play - 20 views

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shared by Bret Willhoit on 19 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Not only do Finnish educational authorities provide students with far more recess than their U.S. counterparts—75 minutes a day in Finnish elementary schools versus an average of 27 minutes in the U.S.—but they also mandate lots of arts and crafts, more learning by doing, rigorous standards for teacher certification, higher teacher pay, and attractive working conditions.
  • it had to modernize its economy and could only do so by first improving its schools. To that end, the government agreed to reduce class size, boost teacher pay, and require that, by 1979, all teachers complete a rigorous master’s program.
  • Finnish teachers earn very competitive salaries: High school teachers with 15 years of experience make 102 percent of what their fellow university graduates do. In the United States, by contrast, they earn just 65 percent.
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  • Finnish authorities haven’t outsourced school management to for-profit or non-profit organizations, implemented merit pay, or ranked teachers and schools according to test results, they’ve made excellent use of business strategies. They’ve won the war for talent by making teaching so appealing. In choosing principals, superintendents, and policymakers from inside the education world rather than looking outside it, Finnish authorities have likewise taken a page from the corporate playbook: Great organizations, as the business historian Alfred Chandler documented, cultivate talent from within. Of the many officials I interviewed at the Finnish Ministry of Education, the National Board of Education, the Education Evaluation Council, and the Helsinki Department of Education, all had been teachers for at least four years.
  • Finland’s school system unique is that the country has deliberately rejected the prevailing standardization movement
  • Since 1985, students have not been tracked (or grouped by ability) until the tenth grade
  • The Finnish approach to pedagogy is also distinct
Dave Truss

Seth's Blog: The future of the library - 15 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • They need a librarian more than ever (to figure out creative ways to find and use data). They need a library not at all.
  • Librarians that are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario.
  • Post-Gutenberg, the scarce resource is knowledge and insight, not access to data.
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  • The next library is a house for the librarian with the guts to invite kids in to teach them how to get better grades while doing less grunt work. And to teach them how to use a soldering iron or take apart something with no user servicable parts inside. And even to challenge them to teach classes on their passions, merely because it's fun. This librarian takes responsibility/blame for any kid who manages to graduate from school without being a first-rate data shark.
  • The next library is filled with so many web terminals there's always at least one empty. And the people who run this library don't view the combination of access to data and connections to peers as a sidelight--it's the entire point.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 16 May 11
       
      This is brilliant... librarian as information tapper & recognizing the value of peer-to-peer information networks!
  • Dave Truss on 16 May 11
     
    They need a librarian more than ever (to figure out creative ways to find and use data). They need a library not at all. ...librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario.
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