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Vicki Davis

Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital Scho... - 38 views

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Education testing technology standards

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  • Vicki Davis on 30 Oct 11
     
    This very well written piece from Cathy Davidson has me cheering. It is written in response to the recent NY time article "Grading the Digital school." Cathy is the one who belongs in the New York Times in my opinion. Right on. Please read even if you don't agree, it will get you seeing how many educators think.
Vicki Davis

Schools Matter: Resolution submitted to NCTE opposing common core standards and nationa... - 4 views

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education standards edu_trends

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  • Vicki Davis on 01 Nov 11
     
    A resolution being submitted to the National Council of Teachers of English blaming current US problems on poverty not the education system. (On a note from me: The country is crying out for change in education. Change can be done to you or by you. To defiantly state there are no problems is to deny the truth. Every system has issues. No school is perfect. But right now, the national opinion is that there are problems. I'd be offering solutions you can live with or live with the solutions handed down to you by a clueless bureaucrat who only was in a classroom when he/she was a child. The one thing that is an advantage is that when industries standardize, we often see innovation. How much time is wasted in aligning with 50 different state standards?))
Vicki Davis

Creating a Game-Based Online Class | Online Universities - 2 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 29 Oct 11
     
    Excellent article on designing a game based learning e-course. There are a lot of links and great ideas. Since hearing Jane McGonigal speak at Microsoft HQ I have using Interrobang and other games as a priority for integrating into my classroom. (Hat Tip @juandoming on Twitter)
Vicki Davis

Mr. C's Class Blog: Tuesday's Lesson Plan - 2 views

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Education criticism

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  • Vicki Davis on 29 Oct 11
     
    I love William Chamberlain's lesson plan from this past Tuesday. I enjoy how he defines criticism and sets guidelines. He is flipping the classroom by recording instruction. I really love Mr. C! @wmchamberlain on Twitter.
Dave Truss

Online Learning: Effective Online Teaching - 12 views

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  • Dave Truss on 28 Oct 11
     
    ...seven basic concepts to successful online teaching... and four broad categories for effective online teaching practices:
M Jesús García San Martín

DVD Malted 3. Serie Recursos Educativos 2011 para idiomas - 1 views

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  • M Jesús García San Martín on 31 Oct 11
     
    Imagen ISO del DVD Malted 2010 para su descarga. Incluye la última versión de la herramienta, ya en formato plug-in, con sus dos editores y el navegador malted también, así como todas las nuevas unidades didácticas que hemos ido produciendo a lo largo de 2010 para inglés de primaria y francés de secundaria, además de los materiales de siempre. Todas las unidades didácticas son ejecutables directamente desde el DVD y también ofrece la posibilidad de instalar malted en local en Windows, así como las instrucciones y programas necesarios para su instalación en Linux.
Deron Durflinger

Niall Ferguson: How American Civilization Can Avoid Collapse - The Daily Beast - 4 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 03 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • “killer applications
  • Competition
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • ...29 more annotations...
  • Modern Medicine
  • The Consumer Society
  • The Work Ethic
  • The Rule of Law and Representative Government.
  • these killer apps were essentially monopolized by Europeans and their cousins who settled in North America and Australasia
  • the great divergence
  • They also grew more powerful
  • 20th century, just a dozen Western empires—-including the United States—controlled 58 percent of the world’s land surface and population, and a staggering 74 percent of the global economy.
  • tendency of Western societies to delete their own killer apps.
  • But there is a second, more insidious cause of the “great reconvergence,” which I do deplore—and that is the
  • Ask yourself: who’s got the work ethic now? The average South Korean works about 39 percent more hours per week than the average American. The school year in South Korea is 220 days long, compared with 180 days here. And you don’t have to spend too long at any major U.S. university to know which students really drive themselves: the Asians and Asian-Americans
  • Yet life expectancy in the U.S. has risen from 70 to 78 in the past 50 years, compared with leaps from 68 to 83 in Japan and from 43 to 73 in China.
  • On no fewer than 15 of 16 different issues relating to property rights and governance, the United States fares worse than Hong Kong. Indeed, the U.S. makes the global top 20 in only one area: investor protection
  • The future belongs not to them but to today’s teenagers
  • The latest data on “mathematical literacy” reveal that the gap between the world leaders—the students of Shanghai and Singapore—and their American counterparts is now as big as the gap between U.S. kids and teenagers in Albania and Tunisia.
  • Yet statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization show that already more patents originate in Japan than in the U.S., that South Korea overtook Germany to take third place in 2005, and that China is poised to overtake Germany too
  • the United States’ average competitiveness score has fallen from 5.82 to 5.43, one of the steepest declines among developed economies. China’s score, meanwhile, has leapt up from 4.29 to 4.90.
  • Perhaps more disturbing is the decline of meaningful competition at home, as the social mobility of the postwar era has given way to an extraordinary social polarization. You don’t have to be an Occupy Wall Street leftist to believe that the American super-rich elite—the 1 percent that collects 20 percent of the income—has become dangerously divorced from the rest of society, especially from the underclass at the bottom of the income distribution.
  • Far more than in Europe, most Americans remain instinctively loyal to the killer applications of Western ascendancy, from competition all the way through to the work ethic. They know the country has the right software. They just can’t understand why it’s running so damn slowly.
  • What we need to do is to delete the viruses that have crept into our system: the anticompetitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special interests they represent—to say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our newfound unemployment ethic
  • And finally we need to reboot our whole system.
  • If what we are risking is not decline but downright collapse, then the time frame may be even tighter than one election cycle
  • Western Civilization's Killer Apps
  • COMPETITION
  • THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
  • THE RULE OF LAW
  • MODERN MEDICINE
  • THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
  • THE WORK ETHIC
M Jesús García San Martín

Stop and Learn English: Candy Apples - 0 views

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B2 ESL Writing Students' projects english

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  • M Jesús García San Martín on 03 Nov 11
     
    One of my B2 ESL learners became an adventurous cook over the Halloween weekend and has come up with this yummy recipe!
Webtwo Dozent

Scoop.it Passes Diigo as EdReach's #3 Referrer | EdReach - 10 views

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  • But the past couple of weeks there’s been a rolling stone gathering lots of moss- and that stone is Scoop.it.
  • Well, I haven’t seen much happen with Scoop.it and educators for the past few months, but then something big happened: Scoop.it launched Scoop.it for Education.
  • I know many educators are fond of Paper.li, another link/newspaper tool, but I’ve never found  that paper-like experience to be of much value, because it’s so… bland.
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  • Paper.li creates these “news” papers based on the people you follow on Twitter, not on your Tweets. Scoop.it creates their paper based on your Scoop.it bookmarks, so it is somewhat more of an authentic experience.
Ruth Howard

Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is ... - 7 views

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twitter curation journalism Content bestpractices digitalcitizenship professionaldevelopment edu_trends administrator curriculum language literature all_teachers elementary middleschool techintegrator web2

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  • Ruth Howard on 17 Jun 11
     
    Literacy literature digital literacy future of education curation of content.  Good writeup on Twitters role in curation
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