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Vicki Davis

Proloquo2Go iPad Software Gives Voice to the Autistic - ABC News - 2 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Apr 10 - Cached
  • When the iPad was released earlier this month, reviewers were quick to tout its advantages for reading books, watching movies and browsing the Web. What they overlooked, though, was its potential to change the lives of people with autism.
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Apr 10
     
    For those who work with those with autism, this is a report on how the iPad helps those with autism communicate.
Brendan Murphy

Teacher Magazine: Taking Back School Reform: A Conversation Between Diane Ravitch and M... - 5 views

www.edweek.org/...roseravitchschoolreform.html

shared by Brendan Murphy on 13 May 10 - Cached
  • deep-seated wish to create escape routes from public education.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 13 May 10
       
      Does supporting vouchers mean we are giving up on schools?
  • Since there is no way to know who will be an effective teacher
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 13 May 10
       
      It is possible to determine if someone will be or is a good teachers through oberservation and coaching, which costs money and time and has rarely been used effectively in the past.
  • What if we could channel the financial and human resources spent on the machinery of high-stakes testing into a robust, widely distributed program of professional development?
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  • He told them that the more they know about the particulars of instruction, the less effective they’ll be, for that nitty-gritty knowledge will blur their perception of the problem
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 13 May 10
       
      I suppose if all you care about is the budget then that is the correct attitude.
  • children from every background will respond to a curriculum that respects their minds and feeds them with rich experiences.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 13 May 10
       
      Of course they will. Is your curriculum rich?
  • It is not just policy makers needing to spend time in schools. It is teachers needing to spend time in the policy making environment - yes, Dept of Ed has teacher ambassador program, but I would also suggest state legislators, Congressmen and Senators look more aggressively to having fellows on their staffs who are professional educators - it would save a LOT of problems downstream on both sides
  • Modeling modeling.asu.edu. This program shows improvement in both teacher and student understanding of physics.
  • CIMM which is a spin off of Modeling and is attacking the math problems in lower grades
David Yaggi

www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/blueprint/blueprint.pdf - 6 views

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shared by David Yaggi on 10 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • David Yaggi on 10 Jan 11
     
    Haven't read this yet, though high on my list. What other people are saying about this disturbs me a great deal.
David Warlick

Reggio Emilia approach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views

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shared by David Warlick on 02 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Children must have some control over the direction of their learning; Children must be able to learn through experiences of touching, moving, listening, seeing, and hearing; Children have a relationship with other children and with material items in the world that children must be allowed to explore and Children must have endless ways and opportunities to express themselves.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 02 Feb 11
       
      This is all very familiar yet rarely expressed so succinctly.
  • In the Reggio approach, the teacher is considered a co-learner and collaborator with the child and not just an instructor.
  • Teacher autonomy is evident in the absence of teacher manuals, curriculum guides, or achievement tests
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  • integration of each classroom with the rest of the school, and the school with the surrounding community
  • children can best create meaning and make sense of their world through environments which support "complex, varied, sustained, and changing relationships between people, the world of experience, ideas and the many ways of expressing ideas."
  • In each classroom there are studio spaces in the form of a large, centrally located atelier and a smaller mini-atelier, and clearly designated spaces for large- and small-group activities.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 02 Feb 11
       
      A workshop or studio especially for an artist, designer or fashion house.
  • Reggio teachers place a high value on their ability to improvise and respond to children's predisposition to enjoy the unexpected.
  • Regardless of their origins, successful projects are those that generate a sufficient amount of interest and uncertainty to provoke children's creative thinking and problem-solving and are open to different avenues of exploration
  • teachers in Reggio Emilia assert the importance of being confused as a contributor to learning; thus a major teaching strategy is purposely to allow mistakes to happen, or to begin a project with no clear sense of where it might end.
  • David Warlick on 02 Feb 11
     
    The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy focused on preschool and primary education. It was started by Loris Malaguzzi and the parents of the villages around Reggio Emilia in Italy after World War II. The destruction from the war, parents believed, necessitated a new, quick approach to teaching their children. They felt that it is in the early years of development that children are forming who they are as an individual. This led to creation of a program based on the principles of respect, responsibility, and community through exploration and discovery in a supportive and enriching environment based on the interests of the children through a self-guided curriculum.
anonymous

Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than Studying, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 16 views

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shared by anonymous on 02 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Mar 11
     
    Very good article. 
Mary Quinn

Pen Mightier Than Keyboard for Making Imprint on Brain - 9 views

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  • Mary Quinn on 16 Feb 11
     
    Interesting article with interesting implications for today's youth. Study finds that handwriting is more effective than keyboarding in recall tests.
Mrs. Duarte

Can a Facebook page replace the need for a website? - 23 views

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shared by Mrs. Duarte on 12 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • One thing is for certain: Custom Facebook page landing tabs have a huge impact on encouraging users to convert into followers.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      If schools and nonprofits wish to make money they should also have initiatives on Facebooks.
    • Reba Gordon Matthews
      Reba Gordon Matthews on 12 Feb 11
       
      Our family has a non-profit organization and it is wonderful to learn about this Facebook initiative.
  • Guy Kawasaki’s post on how he chose a Facebook page
    • shawnsieg
      shawnsieg on 12 Feb 11
       
      Guy is a great resource!!
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      Yes he is and the alltop education is very useful to give people that don't want to use an RSS reader.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 12 Feb 11
       
      Demonstrating to educators the power of annotated web.
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  • Vitaminwater
    • shawnsieg
      shawnsieg on 12 Feb 11
       
      following Vitaminwater on FaceBook :) -shawnsieg
  • A targeted subsection of another site: If you need to brand and market a subset of your organization and the gap between the markets or messages is too diverse, a Facebook page might offer you a home on the web without the need to develop another site. That said, WordPress can be an easy way to get a strong site up and running – we’d recommend giving it a good look before ruling out another site.
    • Mrs. Duarte
      Mrs. Duarte on 12 Feb 11
       
      Testing a sticky note...
Melinda Waffle

5 myths about teachers that are distracting policymakers - The Answer Sheet - The Washi... - 15 views

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  • we are obsessing on a small problem while we give short shrift to professional development strategies that could move large numbers of teachers from satisfactory to excellent
  • removing ineffective teachers has much more to do with ill-trained and supported administrators than tenure rules
  • scholars from Vanderbilt University and the RAND Corporation plainly conclude that “rewarding teachers with bonus pay, in the absence of any other support programs, does not raise student test scores.”
Roland O'Daniel

Differentiation Assessment: A Different Type of Vocabulary Test « Co-Creating... - 31 views

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shared by Roland O'Daniel on 10 May 11 - No Cached
  • Roland O'Daniel on 10 May 11
     
    Denise Finley's unique perspective on differentiating vocabulary instruction. 
Steve Ransom

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 11 views

www.nytimes.com/...-faces-questions-on-value.html

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shared by Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • When it comes to showing results, he said, “We better put up or shut up.”
  • Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
  • how the district was innovating.
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  • district was innovating
  • there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
  • “We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
  • $46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
  • If we know something works
  • it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training
  • “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
  • “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
  • creating an impetus to rethink education entirely
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Like teaching powerpoint is "rethinking education". Right.
  • “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
  • “They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
  • The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
  • rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
  • engagement is a “fluffy
  • term” that can slide past critical analysis.
  • that computers can distract and not instruct.
  • guide on the side.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
  • The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
  • This is big business.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
Fred Delventhal

yAuthor.com - Home - 0 views

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  • Fred Delventhal on 29 Mar 09
     
    yAuthor.com is an on-line service with authoring tools allowing authors to create professionally looking interactive content easily.
Dennis OConnor

Internet Search Challenge: Adults Do Better - 0 views

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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.
Vicki Davis

'iPad': Analysts Expect Apple to Release Tablet Computer - Science News | Science & Tec... - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 11 Aug 09
     
    The iPad is coming, the iPad is coming -- apple tablet computer - sort of like a large iphone has rumors flying that it is coming very soon with a really amazing price point -- between $500-$700.
Ruth Howard

Morality Quiz/Test your Morals, Values & Ethics - Your Morals.Org - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 12 Sep 09
     
    Gallop World Poll some of the questions that reveal how the world thinks and so what are the questions that matter?
Dave Truss

Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 01 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn’t rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don’t know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
  • Don’t tell me that online education delivers individualization. The concept of delivery is itself the enemy of learning. Individualization is not customizing the pace of the multiple choice tests, but knowing the
  • strive to create learner-centered, project-based, collaborative, non-coercive environments in which students learn through a community of practice
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  • decentralize knowledge
  • Our network policies treat teachers and children as either imbeciles or felons. How many of you are unable to use your classroom computers in educationally sound ways because of a network policy created without your input? We install iPod labs so that children can be marched down the hall once a week for iPod lessons. We chain laptop computers to desks and don’t allow children to take them home. That’s the point of a laptop. You cannot blame such stupidity on four walls of brick and mortar. The blame lies within the bankruptcy of our imaginations.
  • Dave Truss on 01 Jul 09
     
    Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn't rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don't know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
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