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Brendan Murphy

How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education le... - 16 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010100705078.html

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  • has left our school districts impotent and, worse, has robbed millions of children of a real future
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      Why are district's impotent? If administrators do their job and a) mentor young teachers and b) remove them if they are ineffective the system can work!
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      Yes. In the districts where administrators work the system does work. Unfortunately these mega-district administrators think that their job consists only of firing bad teachers. The hardest work is giving the good teachers the resources they need to continue excellent work!
  • District leaders also need the authority to use financial incentives to attract and retain the best teachers.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      And yet, studies show that merit pay doesn't work!
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      That's right. Socio-emotional learning, one of the most important kinds for the development of good citizens, defies standardized testing.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      How about we raise starting pay for teachers to $60,000 per year. Make teaching a profession more top notch students want to major in.
  • but let's stop pretending that everyone who goes into the classroom has the ability and temperament to lift our children to excellence.
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      Wow. Straw man. Who's pretending? Let's stop flogging our administrators and stop slapping our policemen too...
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  • We must equip educators with the best technology available to make instruction more effective and efficient. By better using technology to collect data on student learning and shape individualized instruction, we can help transform our classrooms and lessen the burden on teachers' time.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      Yes, the most effective way to use technology in the classroom is to gather data...NOT! What about providing the technology so the students can create meaning and learn?
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      I've found that administrators aren't too interested in individualized instruction, even though they say so. What they want is higher scores on "common assessments" whether or not this benefits individual learners. Humanities teachers have always been frustrated by this, and now science teachers are frustrated too. They're not allowed to help students achieve excellence in areas that are exactly the right amount of challenge for each student. Instead, they're still forced to "cover everything" for each student, in spite of the fact that this does not benefit students who haven't mastered the material to a point of competence. Weird.
  • For the wealthiest among us, the crisis in public education may still seem like someone else's problem, because those families can afford to choose something better for their kids. But it's a problem for all of us -- until we fix our schools, we will never fix the nation's broader economic problems. Until we fix our schools, the gap between the haves and the have-nots will only grow wider and the United States will fall further behind the rest of the industrialized world in education, rendering the American dream a distant, elusive memory.
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      How can we recruit excellent teachers to schools that need them the most when our best proposed solutions don't reward teachers for taking on a challenge?
  • taking advantage of online lessons and other programs
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      This is code for let's pay online educators $12 an hour to teach and remove the cost of those expensive buildings.
  • replace or substantially restructure persistently low-performing schools that continuously fail our students.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      Can we start at the very top and fire the superintendents?
  • charter schools a truly viable option
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      No they aren't a viable option, they are labratories.
  • Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
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  • Dean Mantz on 08 Oct 10
     
    New York Times "How we can fix our schools"
  • t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
  • Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
Ben Rimes

Twitter to the Student Rescue - Improve Student Engagement - 11 views

blog.learningtoday.com/...cue-Improve-Student-Engagement

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shared by Ben Rimes on 24 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Ben Rimes on 24 Nov 10
     
    Study conducted to assess the effectiveness of social media on student engagement. Study included both experimental and control groups of students, and followed the National Survey of Student Engagement guidelines to measure data.
Charles Johns

RMHS Model Blog - 0 views

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RtI

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  • Charles Johns on 21 Mar 09
     
    Pragmatic approach to the implementation of Response to Intervention, Professional Learning Teams, Data Driven Curriculum and Social and Emotional Learning
Nelly Cardinale

C And C++ - Trouble With Eof() Function | DreamInCode.net - 0 views

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EOf c++

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  • Nelly Cardinale on 08 Mar 09
     
    Yes that's right. EOF is a flag which is set after a failed read attempt to read past the end of a file. the "While not EOF" idiom doesn't quite work in C or C++ - Instead its usually suggested that you use the idiom of "read while there is data to be read"; for example, while ( getline(file, my_string) ) 0r while( file >> x ) Author thanked 50 times
Vicki Davis

Six Apart - Pownce - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 05 Dec 08
     
    GOt this letter from Pownce today: "We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15, 2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new pro accounts. To help with your transition, we have built an export tool so you can save your content. You can find the export tool at Settings > Export. Please export your content by December 15, 2008, as the site will not be accessible after this date." I predict that 2009 will be the year many Web 2.0 apps were "left behind." Export that data -- bye bye lots of stuff.
Fred Delventhal

storytlr | your life online - 0 views

storytlr.com

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  • Fred Delventhal on 20 Nov 08
     
    Mashup your data into stories * Tell your stories in a new way Photo albums are old school! Pick your sources, start and end date and your story is good to go. If necessary you can tweak it for a better flow.
Allison Kipta

Questionnaire Design - 0 views

www.cc.gatech.edu/...quest-design

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shared by Allison Kipta on 15 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Allison Kipta on 15 Jan 09
     
    Questionnaires are an inexpensive way to gather data from a potentially large number of respondents. Often they are the only feasible way to reach a number of reviewers large enough to allow statistically analysis of the results. A well-designed questionnaire that is used effectively can gather information on both the overall performance of the test system as well as information on specific components of the system. If the questionnaire includes demographic questions on the participants, they can be used to correlate performance and satisfaction with the test system among different groups of users.
Nelly Cardinale

Internet Archive: About IA - 0 views

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  • Nelly Cardinale on 10 Mar 09
     
    The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.
Vicki Davis

Online Storage - Xdrive - 0 views

www.xdrive.com

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  • Vicki Davis on 13 Oct 08
     
    Online backup is important and you might want to back up some of those important files from school that you need at home.
  • Vicki Davis on 13 Oct 08
     
    Backup up to 5 GB of your data for free online at xdrive.
Jason Heiser

Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: The Reflective Principal: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part IV) - 8 views

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  • Jason Heiser on 12 Jan 10
     
    The Reflective Principal: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part IV) Reflection can be a challenging endeavor. It's not something that's fostered in school - typically someone else tells you how you're doing! Principals (and instructional leaders) are often so caught up in the meeting the demands of the day, that they rarely have the luxury to muse on how things went. Self-assessment is clouded by the need to meet competing demands from multiple stakeholders. In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I've developed this "Taxonomy of Reflection" - modeled on Bloom's approach. It's posted in four installments: 1. A Taxonomy of Reflection 2. The Reflective Student 3. The Reflective Teacher 4. The Reflective Principal It's very much a work in progress, and I invite your comments and suggestions. I'm especially interested in whether you think the parallel construction to Bloom holds up through each of the three examples - student, teacher, and principal. I think we have something to learn from each perspective. 4. The Reflective Principal Each level of reflection is structured to parallel Bloom's taxonomy. (See installment 1 for more on the model) Assume that a principal (or instructional leader) looked back on an initiative (or program, decision, project, etc) they have just implemented. What sample questions might they ask themselves as they move from lower to higher order reflection? (Note: I'm not suggesting that all questions are asked after every initiative - feel free to pick a few that work for you.) Bloom's Remembering : What did I do? Principal Reflection: What role did I play in implementing this program? What role did others play? What steps did I take? Is the program now operational and being implemented? Was it completed on time? Are assessment measures in place? Bloom's Understanding: What was
Adrienne Michetti

What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic (January/February 2010) - 22 views

www.theatlantic.com/...good-teaching

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  • Adrienne Michetti on 12 Jan 10
     
    Article by Amanda Ripley - looking at Teach for America data and anecdotes.
Ruth Howard

Internet as Playground and Factory :: Intro - 6 views

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  • Large corporations then profit from this interaction by collecting and selling this data.  Social participation is the oil of the digital economy. Today, communication is a mode of social production facilitated by new capitalist imperatives and it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between play, consumption and production, life and work, labor and non-labor.  
  • The revenues of today's social aggregators are promising but their speculative value exceeds billions of dollars. Capital manages to expropriate value from the commons; labor goes beyond the factory, all of society is put to work. Every aspect of life drives the digital economy: sexual desire, boredom, friendship — and all becomes fodder for speculative profit.
  • Free Software and similar practices have provided important alternatives to and critiques of traditional modes of intellectual property to date but user agency is not just a question of content ownership. Users should demand data portability, the right to pack up and leave the walled gardens of institutionalized labor à la Facebook or StudiVZ. We should ask which rights users have beyond their roles as consumers and citizens.
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  • How much should Google pay them to tag an image? Such payment could easily become more of an insult than a remuneration. Currently, there are few adequate definitions of labor that fit the complex, hybrid realities of the digital economy.
  • The Internet as Playground and Factory poses a series of questions about the conundrums surrounding labor (and often the labor of love) in relation to our digital present:
yc c

LedeLog - 1 views

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google research_tool annotation private

shared by yc c on 30 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • yc c on 30 Mar 10
     
    Built for Research Work in Ledes: The smallest unit of a story Quickly enter and navigate Ledes Save rich text descriptions Tag with your own categories Search through full content or by tag Track your progress Secure and Reliable Runs on Google's cloud infrastructure Ledes and Tags restricted to each user Auto-saves edit progress every ten seconds Simple privacy policy: All your data is private; nobody will view it unless a critical bug requires doing so
Anne Bubnic

21st Century Educators Don't Say "Hand It In." They say, "Publish It!" - 12 views

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21st century learning best practices web 2.0

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  • The authentic publication of student work should be a part of EVERY SINGLE UNIT OF STUDY. If an educator can’t figure out a way to help students publish anything in a unit of study they need to either 1) Rethink the unit or 2) Rethink the assessment.
Vicki Davis

Impact EVERY Student: Simple Strategies That Provide... - Eventbrite - 5 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 10
     
    From my email today: "Turning Technologies, a leader in the student response industry, is sponsoring a webinar, "Simple Strategies That Provide Big Improvement," that will take place on 4/30 at 2pm ET. It is part of the eSchool News free webinar series. During this workshop, participants will learn how to promote team-based, short-term thought and action, effectively use data to progress monitor student gains, produce immediate and frequent wins, and tools that can help you increase student achievement."
Vicki Davis

For Citizen Scientists - NASA Science - 8 views

science.nasa.gov/citizen-scientists

education science flatclassroom citizenscientist edu_trends techintegrator

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  • Vicki Davis on 01 Jun 11
     
    NASA calls for Citizen scientists to help map Mars and says that citizen scientists "have helped to answer serious scientific questions, provide vital data to the astronomical community, and have discovered thousands of objects including nebulas, supernovas and gamma ray bursts." It is time to join your classrooms into the citizen scientist movement. How would your students feel about science if they helped discover a star?
  • Vicki Davis on 01 Jun 11
     
    Citizen science website for NASA.
David Hilton

Kickboard: a data driven instructional application for teachers by teachers. - 13 views

www.kickboardforteachers.com

administrator all_teachers edu_newapp techintegrator professionaldevelopment kickboard data management school classroom

shared by David Hilton on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • David Hilton on 30 Sep 11
     
    Kickboard keeps classrooms afloat. Integrated student academic and behavior records highlight trends. Automated classroom management systems save teachers time. Customizable settings mean Kickboard fits your school's existing systems from the start. (Their blurb)
Claude Almansi

Giornali belgi contro Google: testo della decisione della Corte d'appello (Almansi vide... - 0 views

www.webmultimediale.org/...ali_belgi_contro_google_t.html

Copiepress_v_Google Belgium copiepresse google Webmultimediale

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  • Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11
     
    "Pubblicato da Claude Almansi in data 30.07.11 10:06 Nel 2006, Copiepresse, la società di gestione di diritti degli editori belgi di quotidinai francofoni e germanofoni, intentò un processo a Google per le brevi citazioni di Google News e per le versioni archiviate (in cache) linkate in Google Search. Il 5 maggio 2011, una decisione della Corte d'appello di Bruxelles confermava, con una lieve riformulazione, il giudizio del tribunale di prima istanza"
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