Anki - 0 views
How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education le... - 16 views
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has left our school districts impotent and, worse, has robbed millions of children of a real future
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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!
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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!
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District leaders also need the authority to use financial incentives to attract and retain the best teachers.
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And yet, studies show that merit pay doesn't work!
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That's right. Socio-emotional learning, one of the most important kinds for the development of good citizens, defies standardized testing.
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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.
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but let's stop pretending that everyone who goes into the classroom has the ability and temperament to lift our children to excellence.
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This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
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This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
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This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
Quizlet - 2 views
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Great tool for making flashcards.
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Make flashcards using this easy program
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This is a comprehensive flash card study aid site. Make your flashcards to study anything. Add pictures, text and it supports a range of non-alphabetical languages like Chinese and Japanese. You can choose to learn, spell things, test yourself or play games with the information. Browse thousands of sets made by other users without signing in. A free account is required to make your own flashcards. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
The Impact of Quantum Learning - 0 views
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The FADE modelâFoundation, Atmosphere, Design, Environmentâcreates the context of Quantum Learning. We know when the context is strong, it 'fades' into the background and creates the structure for learning to occur.
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The Quantum Learning framework for student learning is expressed in 5 Tenets of Learning: Everything Speaks: Everything, from surroundings and tone of voice to distribution of materials, conveys an important message about learning. Everything is On Purpose: Everything we do has an intended purpose. Experience Before Label: Students make meaning and transfer new content into long-term memory by connecting to existing schema. Learning is best facilitated when students experience the information in some aspect before they acquire labels for what is being learned. Acknowledge Every Effort: Acknowledgment of each student's effort encourages learning and experimentation. If It's Worth Learning, It's Worth Celebrating!: Celebration provides feedback regarding progress and increases positive emotional associations with the learning.
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Quantum Learning
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High Scalability - High Scalability - The Amazing Collective Compute Power of... - 4 views
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Earlier we talked about how a single botnet could harness more compute power than our largest super computers. Well, that's just the start of it. The amount of computer power available to the Ambient Cloud will be truly astounding.
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By 2014 one estimate is there will be 2 billion PCs. That's a giant reservoir of power to exploit, especially considering these new boxes are stuffed with multiple powerful processors and gigabytes of memory. 7 Billion Smartphones By now it's common wisdom smartphones are the computing platform of the future. It's plausible to assume the total number of mobile phones in use will roughly equal the number of people on earth. That's 7 billion smartphones. Smartphones aren't just tiny little wannabe computers anymore either. They are real computers and are getting more capable all the time.
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One Google exec estimates that in 12 years an iPod will be able to store all the video ever produced.
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Memorize Now - Home - 9 views
Capzles Social Storytelling | Online Timeline Maker | Share Photos, Videos, Text, Music... - 4 views
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capture memories, tell stories, travel through time
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Capzles helps anyone create beautiful, interactive, rich-media timelines online using videos, photos, text, music, audio and most documents..
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This timeline maker that lets you add video, pictures, and text was highly recommended by the educational technology and mobile learning blog. It is a timeline maker with multimedia.Very cool.
Funny2 - Computer Haiku - 0 views
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Out of memory. We wish to hold everything! But still we cannot. Rather than beep Or a rude error message: These words: "File Not Found".
Innovate: Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum - 0 views
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The pace of technological change has challenged historical notions of what counts as knowledge. Dave Cormier describes an alternative to the traditional notion of knowledge. In place of the expert-centered pedagogical planning and publishing cycle, Cormier suggests a rhizomatic model of learning. In the rhizomatic model, knowledge is negotiated, and the learning experience is a social as well as a personal knowledge creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises. The rhizome metaphor, which represents a critical leap in coping with the loss of a canon against which to compare, judge, and value knowledge, may be particularly apt as a model for disciplines on the bleeding edge where the canon is fluid and knowledge is a moving target.
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Maggie, no it's not. Learning is a change in long-term memory. These unsubstantiated ideas have led to a disastrous watering-down of standards in Western education. Evidence, not theories, must be the basis of educational practice.
Breathings of the Heart...: Project 365 - 0 views
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Interesting ideas -- this teacher is setting off on a journey - scrapbooking 365 days of her life. Interesting idea. For me, it may be just another thing to get behind on. It would be interesting to have a school do this and perhaps pass around a scrapbook between classes -- even better, each class has a page. Interesting idea!
Children of Civil War Veterans Still Walk Among Us, 150 Years After the War - 2 views
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