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.
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The Children Must Play - 20 views
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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.
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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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Teen Books and Authors Suggestions.docx - Google Docs - 5 views
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A list of teen books and authors suggested by Plurk members in a thread started by @abuehl
FBI - The Vault - 10 views
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fbi records available online via freedom of information act.
Flat Classroom Certified Teacher Course - Information and Announcement - 13 views
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Here is detailed information and dates for the Flat Classroom certified teacher progra.
Teaching Reading: Report and REcommendations, National Inquirty into the Teaching of Li... - 6 views
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This December 2005 report talks about best practices in teaching literacy. For those of you who like to review best practices from around the world, this came in from the International Dyslexia Association in their Summer 2011 Perspectives on Language and Literacy "Global Perspectives" column.
Meaningful, Engaged Learning - 0 views
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They are also energized by their learning; their joy of learning leads to a lifelong passion for solving problems, understanding, and taking the next step in their thinking
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I'm like this, BUT my students often are NOT!
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Collaboration around authentic tasks often takes place with peers and mentors within school as well as with family members and others in the real world outside of school.
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This sounds tailor-made for social networking, doesn't it?
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artifacts to assess what they actually know and can do.
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a learning STREAM is an artifact created as a "natural" byproduct of the learning process as documented by social media
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C. Wright Mills on blogging | Savage Minds - 0 views
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On Intellectual Craftmanship. I was amazed how clearly the reasons why scholars blog were laid out in the opening paragraphs. In what follows I have changed none of Mills’s original language except for replaced ‘journal’ and ‘file’ with ‘website’ and ‘blog’. Clearly Mills didn’t envision the files he advocates as public documents, but other than that the parallels are uncanny
Chapter_6.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities -- THE Journal - 0 views
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intentionally and is where the instructor is very much a necessary support to the process
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this observation is borne out by my experience documented in http://blog.cit499.info
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I am currently writing a paper about my experiences with http://cit499.info & I will be using this paper as a reference
Kindle DX: Sleeper Agent for Amazon's Future | Green Business | Reuters - 0 views
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Bezos was back onstage to announce a new incarnation of the Kindle just three months after unveiling the previous one
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The paragraph above is partially incorrect. PDFs can be directly dropped into the Kindle via a USB cable. Other documents—Word files, image files, etc.—need to go through the conversion.
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This great chart from a college-bookstore association shows where all the money goes and also implies that 55.9 percent of textbook costs could be saved if they were delivered digitally, bypassing college bookstores.
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New kindle DX - 3 months after the other - what is the difference: "the big differences are that the Kindle DX is 4 inches larger than the one you bought last month and comes installed with a PDF reader." $489 price tag Some of my students are reading on their itouch now.
Edge 288 - 0 views
21st Century Skills Map for science - 0 views
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The Partnership advocates for the integration of 21st Century Skills into K-12 education so that students can advance their learning in core academic subjects.
Open Atrium - 0 views
The Willbarger Protocol - 2 views
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is a specific, professionally guided treatment regime designed to reduce sensory defensiveness. The Wilbarger Protocol has its origins in sensory integration theory, and it has evolved through clinical use
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a lack of documented research to substantiate this technique
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The Wilbarger Protocol represents one of those difficulties in clinical practice where positive results are observed in treatment regimes that have not yet been fully validated by scientific research
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There are many that report amazing results (and others who report nothing) from the Willbarger protocol for ADHD. All I know is that the teacher who had ADHD who had this done in the workshop on Tuesday said her knee pain went away and she was able to sit still w/out her knee jumping up and down for the first time ever. I saw it and am not making it up - but you have to have a person train you on it. Again, it is not authenticated with research, but I sure wish someone would.
FLOSS Manuals (en) - 9 views
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Critics of wikis as research sources often point to the potential for students to stumble across inaccurate content as a fatal flaw that make wikis almost worthless. "How can we promote wikis in our classrooms," the argument goes, "if you can't trust what's posted there? I don't want my students exposed to learning tools that are just plain wrong!" Teachers using wikis successfully in their classrooms, however, embrace inaccurate content posted on classroom wikis as a teachable moment because they know that succeeding as consumers of information in the 21st Century requires students to develop a healthy skepticism of any content posted online. In a world where content is constantly changing and publishing is easy for anyone, researchers simply cannot assume that digital sources-wikis, blogs, websites, online videos-are accurate and up-to-date. Wikis give teachers built in opportunities to teach lessons about the reliability of online content to students. Errors-which are inevitable in student projects-can be spotlighted and corrected, and students can be introduced to strategies for identifying content worth trusting.
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