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David Hilton

AFT - Publications - American Educator - Spring 2006 - How Knowledge Helps - 0 views

www.aft.org/...willingham.htm

shared by David Hilton on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The more you know, the easier it will be for you to learn new things.
    • David Hilton
      David Hilton on 27 Sep 09
       
      Recent neurological and psychological research (using scientific methodolgy as a basis, not theories e.g. Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, Bloom's Taxonomy, etc) is indicating that the constructivist models of learning, where 'process' is valued far more than 'content', are incorrect. Knowledge and thinking are interdependent and to think well, students must have knowledge.
Vicki Davis

Free teleprompter software - use in your video studio - 0 views

www.bmyers.com/662.cfm

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shared by Vicki Davis on 26 May 09 - Cached
  • All you will need is a spare computer, a computer monitor, and teleprompter software.
  • Prompt! - a free full featured Teleprompter software package.
  • Vicki Davis on 26 May 09
     
    Cool tips on setting up teleprompter software in your video studio!! I WANT TO DO THIS at school. Scripts are one of the top issues we have with filming!
Vicki Davis

Seattle Public Schools | MS Cyberbullying Curriculum - 0 views

www.seattleschools.org/...cbms.html

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shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 09
     
    Free middle school cyberbullying curriculum!
Maggie Verster

Next Generation User Skills Working, Learning & Living Online in 2013 - 0 views

www.sqa.org.uk/...t_NextGenerationUserSkills.pdf

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shared by Maggie Verster on 12 May 09 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 12 May 09
     
    In order to ensure the relevance and influence the ongoing enhancement of user ICT provision and the associated awards, Digital 2010 (the regional digital skills partnership for Yorkshire & Humber) and the Scottish Qualifications Authority jointly commissioned Sero Consulting Ltd in spring 2008 to undertake research in ICT User skills. The focus was exclusively on the vision for ICT user skills in 2013 - referenced as 'Next Generation User Skills' - taking account of: * Skills that all employers will need, which they may not currently recognise - including web presence, information productivity, market research, infrastructure management * Skills that people (especially young people) will already have, but which may not be recognised or accredited * Generic occupational skills that people will need - such as remote working, online communication, information research, lifelong learning and, not least, management of their digital environment * Essential skills for living and learning in a digital age - including communication, accessing public services and underpinning personal econfidence
Thomas Ho

The New Media Skills | Learn at All Levels | Fast Company - 0 views

www.fastcompany.com/...new-media-skills

shared by Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • online we're creating a permanent public record of ourselves
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09
       
      This is SO TRUE!
  • Collective intelligence
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09
       
      This is where Web 2.0 "shines"
Ted Sakshaug

Free Mathematics Books - 0 views

www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php

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shared by Ted Sakshaug on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 30 Apr 09
     
    Here is an alphabetical list of online mathematics books, textbooks, monographs, lecture notes, and other mathematics related documents freely available on the web.
anonymous

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0 - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...toc.aspx

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    You'll recognize many of the authors, I'm sure. A very nice collection of articles to keep you busy reading for a while.
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    A nice collection of articles, many available online, from the folks at ASCD.
Fabian Aguilar

What Do School Tests Measure? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/...what-do-school-tests-measure

nytimes all_teachers math science

shared by Fabian Aguilar on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • According to a New York Times analysis, New York City students have steadily improved their performance on statewide tests since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took control of the public schools seven years ago.
  • Critics say the results are proof only that it is possible to “teach to the test.” What do the results mean? Are tests a good way to prepare students for future success?
  • Tests covering what students were expected to learn (guided by an agreed-upon curriculum) serve a useful purpose — to provide evidence of student effort, of student learning, of what teachers taught, and of what teachers may have failed to teach.
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  • More serious questions arise about “teaching to the test.” If the test requires students to do something academically valuable — to demonstrate comprehension of high quality reading passages at an appropriate level of complexity and difficulty for the students’ grade, for example — then, of course, “teaching to the test” is appropriate.
  • Reading is the crucial subject in the curriculum, affecting all the others, as we know.
  • An almost exclusive focus on raising test scores usually leads to teaching to the test, denies rich academic content and fails to promote the pleasure in learning, and to motivate students to take responsibility for their own learning, behavior, discipline and perseverance to succeed in school and in life.
  • Test driven, or force-fed, learning can not enrich and promote the traits necessary for life success. Indeed, it is dangerous to focus on raising test scores without reducing school drop out, crime and dependency rates, or improving the quality of the workforce and community life.
  • Students, families and groups that have been marginalized in the past are hurt most when the true purposes of education are not addressed.
  • lein. Mayor Bloomberg claims that more than two-thirds of the city’s students are now proficient readers. But, according to federal education officials, only 25 percent cleared the proficient-achievement hurdle after taking the National Assessment of Education Progress, a more reliable and secure test in 2007.
  • The major lesson is that officials in all states — from New York to Mississippi — have succumbed to heavy political pressure to somehow show progress. They lower the proficiency bar, dumb down tests and distribute curricular guides to teachers filled with study questions that mirror state exams.
  • This is why the Obama administration has nudged 47 states to come around the table to define what a proficient student truly knows.
  • Test score gains among New York City students are important because research finds that how well one performs on cognitive tests matters more to one’s life chances than ever before. Mastery of reading and math, in particular, are significant because they provide the gateway to higher learning and critical thinking.
  • First, just because students are trained to do well on a particular test doesn’t mean they’ve mastered certain skills.
  • Second, whatever the test score results, children in high poverty schools like the Promise Academy are still cut off from networks of students, and students’ parents, who can ease access to employment.
  • Reliable and valid standardized tests can be one way to measure what some students have learned. Although they may be indicators of future academic success, they don’t “prepare” students for future success.
  • Since standardized testing can accurately assess the “whole” student, low test scores can be a real indicator of student knowledge and deficiencies.
  • Many teachers at high-performing, high-poverty schools have said they use student test scores as diagnostic tools to address student weaknesses and raise achievement.
  • The bigger problem with standardized tests is their emphasis on the achievement of only minimal proficiency.
  • While it is imperative that even the least accomplished students have sufficient reading and calculating skills to become self-supporting, these are nonetheless the students with, overall, the fewest opportunities in the working world.
  • Regardless of how high or low we choose to set the proficiency bar, standardized test scores are the most objective and best way of measuring it.
  • The gap between proficiency and true comprehension would be especially wide in the case of the brightest students. These would be the ones least well-served by high-stakes testing.
Dennis OConnor

Internet Search Challenge: Adults Do Better - 0 views

internetsearchchallenge.blogspot.com/...adults-do-better.html

21cif website evaluation investigative searching moodle

shared by Dennis OConnor on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Need proof that adults search and evaluate better than youth? These charts show how students in middle school and high school compare to teachers and librarians. The assessment is the pretest from a course we call "Investigative Searching 20/10."
  • To date, 449 middle schoolers, 414 high schoolers and 28 adults have taken the 10-item pretest that measures the ability to find critical information and evaluate its credibility. There are several differences that really stand out.
  • Are these the results you would expect? Do you think they are artificially low or about right? That's hard to say without seeing the pretest. Without disclosing specific items (in case you want to take the test), the 10 items focus on skills that have been described in previous posts, requiring the application of appropriate techniques to find the author of articles, the name of the publisher, the date of publication, other instances of the content on the Internet and references to web pages.
Ed Webb

C. Wright Mills on blogging | Savage Minds - 0 views

savageminds.org/...c-wright-mills-on-blogging

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shared by Ed Webb on 08 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 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
Thomas Ho

Hand Book : Educating the Net Generation : The University of Melbourne - 0 views

www.netgen.unimelb.edu.au/...handbook.html

shared by Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • The publication Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy is now available to download. The Handbook is the main outcome of the Educating the Net Generation project. It provides a set of practice and policy guidelines developed from the project findings.
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 15 Jul 09
       
      this could be very useful, but one has to make time to work their way through so much of it!
anonymous

FCAT shrinks South Florida's Class of 2009 - Education - MiamiHerald.com - 0 views

www.miamiherald.com/...1037776.html

testing

shared by anonymous on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 11 May 09
     
    This is news for all of us to be aware of. (From the ASCD Brief) Will the public allow this to stand? Will this finally bring this whole issue of high stakes tests to a climax? Will the Gov stand firm and say that the kids just aren't ready to graduate? We've not heard that last of this, for sure.
  • anonymous on 11 May 09
     
    The story of 5600 kids who won't graduate in Florida this year.
Jackie Gerstein

Educational Leadership:Revisiting Teacher Learning:A Framework for Learning to Teach - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...ork_for_Learning_to_Teach.aspx

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shared by Jackie Gerstein on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Jackie Gerstein on 04 Jul 09
     
    Teachers learn best by applying clear standards of practice and by engaging in active learning
Diego Morelli

Digital Rights: the "Teaching Copyright" Project by the EFF for Students & Educators - 0 views

www.victorgodot.com/newmedia

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shared by Diego Morelli on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Diego Morelli on 19 Jun 09
     
    A project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been created to help teachers provide accurate informations about the laws concerning digital rights & the concepts of copyright and piracy.
Dennis OConnor

The Keyword Blog: Check the Facts! Cross Check the Facts! Lessons & Media - 6 views

21cif.blogspot.com/...21cif-09252009.html

medialiteracy fact checking

shared by Dennis OConnor on 06 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Check the Facts! Cross Check the Facts! Lessons & Media Fact checking is essential in a (mis) information rich environment. 
  • Brilliant resource from the Annenberg Public Policy Center
  • FactChecked.org Luckily, FactCheck.org also has a highly developed classroom section that provides in-depth lesson plans and media links. These are highly polished materials for educators seeking a way to teach critical thinking and evaluation skills to their students. The Lesson Plan Archive ( http://www.factchecked.org/LessonPlans.aspx ) will intrigue any educator looking for a way to engage students. These plans are edgy and up to date. If you've been looking for a way to teach thinking and evaluation of media.
  • Dennis OConnor on 06 Oct 09
     
    Superb resources for anyone interested in teaching website evaluation, critical thinking, media literacy or 21st Century learning skills in general. FactCheck.org and FactCheckEd.org are essential tools for living in this part of the century. 8-)
Ruth Howard

Safeguard the Lands and Waters of the Black Mesa Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ] - 0 views

www.ipetitions.com/...blackmesa

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shared by Ruth Howard on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • PETITION TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMISSION (CPUC)
  • . Recognize that the Hopi and Navajo tribes from 1970 to 2005 were consistently under-compensated for thousands of tons of coal and over 45 billion gallons of precious aquifer water to power the Mohave Generating Station (Mohave) to provide Southern California with lower cost electricity.
  • Such compensation should be drawn from the proposed sale of Edison's share of Sulfur Dioxide allowances credited to owners of Mohave for cutting 40,000 tons of toxic gas produced by Mohave prior to its closure in 2005.
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  • 3. Support a proposal by CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc. (CARE) to use some of the sale proceeds to establish a permanent community trust fund for Hopi and Navajo communities on Black Mesa
  • safeguarding the lands and waters of Black Mesa
  • The plant will be built on tribal land and will be owned and operated by an electric cooperative composed of Hopi and Navajo grassroots people. It will generate 300 permanent jobs, construction jobs and generate an annual income of over $7 million.
Kelly Faulkner

ISTE | L&L: November 2009 - 18 views

www.iste.org/...L_L_November_2009.htm

leading learning technology resource

shared by Kelly Faulkner on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 05 Nov 09
     
    practical ideas for teachers using tech
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