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Rob Jacobs

Op-Ed Columnist - Swimming Without a Suit - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Rob Jacobs on 23 Apr 09 - Cached
  • There are some hopeful signs. President Obama recognizes that we urgently need to invest the money and energy to take those schools and best practices that are working from islands of excellence to a new national norm. But we need to do it with the sense of urgency and follow-through that the economic and moral stakes demand.
    • Rob Jacobs
      Rob Jacobs on 23 Apr 09
       
      Why do we need money to use great strategies?
anonymous

100 Essential Web Tools for Any Side Business | Management Degree - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 25 Jun 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Jun 09
     
    If you are intent on growing your company into something respectable and profitable, you'll need the tools and connections to help you project a professional image. Check out our list of 100 essential web tools for anyone who's starting up a side business.
David Hilton

21st Century Standards: Code for "Touchy-Feely Mush" - 19 views

www.ednews.org/...ode-for-touchy-feely-mush.html

shared by David Hilton on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The problem is that education standards and curriculums keep getting written by professional educators whose primary goal is job security.
    • David Hilton
      David Hilton on 04 Oct 09
       
      Couldn't agree more. The honest questions aren't asked by education officials - indeed, it's impossible to ask them as they're not in the jargon that one must speak to be accepted into the closed ranks of the educrats. The result is a generation of Australian students who are leaving school functionally illiterate and incomprehensive of who they are and how the world works.
Dave Truss

Is the term 21st Century out of date? | U Tech Tips - 7 views

www.utechtips.com/-term-21st-century-out-of-date

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shared by Dave Truss on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • They all tell us what we want our kids to turn out like. They all remind us what we need to value in education. But we don’t. At least not in action. (GENERALIZATION ALERT:) Schools continue to push content-driven curricula. Teachers continue to plan lessons building expertise within the discipline. And if students get our “21st Century Skills”, it’s because of an exception-to-the-rule teacher, choices the students make outside of class, or just plain luck. We all know that what we need is buy-in. We see the success stories, celebrate the schools that do it, and ultimately wonder, what does it take to make it work everywhere? Buy-in. So back to the teacher accessibility issue. How do we ensure that teachers see teaching a 21st Century Curriculum as part of their job?
  • Dave Truss on 13 Oct 09
     
    Remind yourselves that your teachers have ALWAYS been trying to prepare their students to succeed in the world they will live in. And then collaborate with them on how that world has changed.
David Hilton

High School History Student Network - 8 views

Most of us are aware of the power of social networking for teachers to improve their knowledge, gain ideas and make connections with other like-minded educators from around the world. I believe thi...

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started by David Hilton on 20 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Ed Webb

Filtering Reality - The Atlantic (November 2009) - 3 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The harder answer, but ultimately the correct one, would be to strengthen our society’s ability to tolerate diverse viewpoints—to encourage not muddy centrism, but a basic ability to hear out, and to see, fellow citizens with a measure of respect.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 13 Oct 09
       
      Which is where the educators and media have work to do.
Dennis OConnor

E-Learning Graduate Certificate Program: Finding E-Learning Jobs - 10 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Online teaching was the perfect part-time job for me. E-learning and online teaching replaced coaching and after school clubs as a way to supplement my income. I loved it! I was working with great teachers from around the world and learning new things everyday. I also realized I was opening a door to a new career. Eventually, after 25 years in a traditional classroom, I decided to take early retirement, and pursue my passion for online teaching and learning full time.
Vicki Davis

Gearing up for Another Flat Classroom Project « Haas | Learning - 8 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experienc
  • Yet, as Vicki Davis quipped at the beginning of the project, “The thing about working on the bleeding edge is sometimes you bleed.”
  • The reality of asynchronous communication that is at times messy and requires patience was not quite as exciting as they were hoping.
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  • Already, the combination of my experience, having already completed a similar project, as well as the degree of preparation and maturity of this project is a great advantage. I
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09
     
    Fred Haas' reflections are so very real when it comes to ambitious global collaborations. I had to laugh as he said about NetGenEd (last spring's project): "Without question it was a mildly harrowing but ultimately rewarding experience." The learning curve is TREMENDOUS but once you have it under your belt it is similar to your first year of teaching or boot camp for someone in the military. If you're wondering if this sort of thing is for you, take a read of Fred's very real reflections. Julie nor I NOR ANY global collaborator will ever say it is easy - if it is perhaps you're not having to be as engaged as perhaps you need to be. However, it is most rewarding!
Kelly Faulkner

How I create and publish podcasts » Moving at the Speed of Creativity - 19 views

www.speedofcreativity.org/...-i-create-and-publish-podcasts

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shared by Kelly Faulkner on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Oct 09
     
    If you want to know how one of the pro's makes and publishes podcasts, here is Wesley Fryer's how to - a must read for anyone working in this area of technology.
  • Kelly Faulkner on 28 Oct 09
     
    wes fryer's how to with excellent links
Vicki Davis

Findings - Ethnographic Study Looks at Gossip in the Workplace - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...03tier.html

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shared by Vicki Davis on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • once someone made a negative comment about a person who wasn’t there, the conversation would get meaner unless someone immediately defended the target.
  • gossip in the workplace also tended to be overwhelmingly negative, but the insults were more subtle and the conversations less predictable, says Tim Hallett, a sociologist at Indiana University.
  • Office gossip can be a form of reputational warfare
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  • Dr. Hallett found that the teachers became so comfortable with him and his camera that they would freely insult their bosses during one-on-one interviews. But at the teachers’ formal group meetings, where they knew that another teacher might report their insults to the principal, they were more discreet.
  • they sometimes offered obliquely sarcastic comments to test the water
  • praise the predecessor
  • The teachers’ gossip never got as blatantly mean as the teenage girls’
  • The principal felt that her authority was being undermined by gossip and retaliated against teachers she suspected (correctly) of criticizing her.
  • in this case it was also a form of warfare that brought everyone down
  • it is more realistic to try managing it.
  • That simple question, a dare made in a pleasant voice
  • “Don’t we have some work to do here?”
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Nov 09
     
    Office gossip (this study on an elementary school and their gossip against a principal) hurts EVERYONE including your school and in this case, test scores declined. Remember that when you gossip, you also hurt yourself and if you didn't already know this, take a read here about office gossip and how to intervene and stop it.
anonymous

Google Wave Extension List - 18 views

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shared by anonymous on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 03 Nov 09
     
    A very nice list of Robots and Gadgets for the Google Wave.
  • anonymous on 03 Nov 09
     
    Remember, this is still all quite new, so things may not work as you would hope. But when they do, it's SO much fun. :)
yc c

Ebook Search - Pdf Search Engine - 9 views

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shared by yc c on 11 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Search
    • yc c
      yc c on 11 Nov 09
       
      Search does not work but you can enter http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/[KEY-WORDS]-pdf.html words must be separated by '-'
  • yc c on 11 Nov 09
     
    trouvé exercices en français ici
Vicki Davis

UK Team is focusing on online comment defamation - 1 views

www.birminghampost.net/...ment-defamation-65233-25030203

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shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
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  • a rising problem with people making anonymous statements that defamed companies, and people sharing confidential information online.
  • the new team would ensure there was “nowhere to hide in cyberspace”.
  • a story from six years earlier about United Airlines going bankrupt was voted up on a newspaper website. This was later picked up by Google News and eventually the Bloomberg news wire, which published it automatically as if it were a news story.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Could this be considered the new "insider trading" - hmmm. Surely there are issues if it is done maliciously but isn't there a line here?
  • rogue employees
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Uhm, how about rogue companies?
  • trying to get Internet Service Providers to give out details of customers who had made comments online
  • shares in American firm United Airlines fell by 99 per cent in just 15 minutes after an outdated story that the firm had filed for bankruptcy was forced back onto the headlines.
  • the numbers of disgruntled employees looking to get their own back on employers or former employers was also on the rise.
  • could stifle free speech, and the ability of people to act as whistle-blowers to expose actions by their employers.
  • an outlet for anonymous reporting.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Is it possible to have accountability AND anonymity? Must these be mutually exclusive?
  • This is known as the ‘Streisand effect’ online, after a case where singer Barbara Streisand tried to suppress photos of her California beachside home from a publicly-available archive of photos taken to document coastal erosion.
  • Nightjack. This was the guy who was blogging on the front line about police work and he was forced to stop this story because he was unmasked by The Times
  • If you allow a lot of anonymous debate by people who are not regulated, you can get it descending to the common denominator. If you allow people to register with an identity, even if it’s not their real one, you bring the level of debate up.”
  • There was one case a couple of years ago that we just keep referring back to where a defamatory comment was made and it wasn’t taken down for a period of time. Because of that the host of the website was held to be liable.”
  • the ‘Wild West’ era of the internet was in some ways coming to an end, with firms starting to crack down
  • I think companies are still grappling with whether it’s better to take it on the chin and hope people don’t see the comments, or on the other hand cracking down on everything that’s particularly damaging that’s said online. Maybe this is set to change.”
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
     
    While this article starts out about a lawfirm in Birmingham UK that is going to "track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online" it becomes an amazingly poignant article on the very nature of the Internet today and the push pull between anonymous commenting and accountability of the commenter. Push pull between free speech and online identity and brand protection. One person in this article claims that this sort of thing is the sign that the "wild west" of the INternet is coming to an end. Oh dear, I hope someone invents a new one if somehow anonymous commenters are now going to risk such! Also love the article's discussion of the Streisand effect wherein Barbara protested the sharing of some photos of her eroding beachfront which caused a stir and more people looking at the photos than if she had left it alone. This article is going to be a must read for Flat Classroom students and would be great for college-level discussions as well.
Wade Ren

Still Learning: Next Installment on Diigo - 7 views

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shared by Wade Ren on 24 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Our work started out well. We read in class a section of Antigone, and that night, they annotated spots where they saw characters developing moral dilemmas (these dilemmas are our entry point into the play -- we will eventually write compare/contrast essays on modern moral dilemmas and what we can learn from ancient dilemmas -- more on that later!). Here is an example of one of their comment threads (with their typos and all!) on this quote from Antigone to Ismene, "Yes, I'll do my duty to my brother -- / and your as well, if you're not prepared to. / I won't be caught betraying him.
  • This is only one example of many where they read each other's ideas and built their own thoughts on them. I was thrilled. We started class the next day just skimming the play -- I asked them to notice who had a moral dilemma so far just by looking at where the annotations were. They could SEE that every character so far had some kind of dilemma. We were on a roll ...
Iris Deters

8 weird ways to save the Earth - Cloud whitening (1) - CNNMoney.com - 5 views

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shared by Iris Deters on 23 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Turns out particles, in this case the salt in the sea mist, will cause clouds to become denser, reflecting more sunlight back into space and keeping the planet cooler.
  • The nove
  • t crossed the Atlantic. The mist towers are hollow and rotate in the wind, acting as sails. It can cross the Atlantic faster than a conventional sail boat and do so without a crew.
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  • How it works: The idea here is to use satellite-guided sailing ships to crisscross the oceans, constantly spewing a fine stream of sea mist into the clouds
  • Each ship would cost $2 or $3 million, making the entire program cost just a few billion dollars.
Suzie Nestico

Teacher suspended over alleged Facebook comment - NorthJersey.com - 1 views

www.northjersey.com/...her_is_being_investigated.html

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • A first-grade teacher was suspended Thursday following alleged comments on her Facebook page in which she said she felt like a "warden" overseeing "future criminals," according to a district official.
  • "This is not first time I've heard something like this from a teacher," Best said. "Overall, I think we have really good teachers. But there's also a significant population of teachers here to collect the paycheck and don't have the best interests of the students in mind."
  • "There might be others (who share the sentiments of the online remarks) but all I've dealt with have shown no signs like that," said the Rev. Barry Graham, assistant pastor at Canaan Baptist Church
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  • Graham, whose congregation works closely with the school and recently awarded 130 honor roll students there, recognized that "any one of us on a bad day could lash out."
    • Suzie Nestico
      Suzie Nestico on 03 Apr 11
       
      Yes, any one of us can have a bad day and lash out.  But, if you are a teacher, you are held to higher principles and practices.  Don't do it!  Find something good and post online about that.  The good can be contagious, too!
  • Suzie Nestico on 03 Apr 11
     
    Why teachers should not ever publicly talk like this online.  Period.  Find the good and talk about that.
Ed Webb

Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education. - 4 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 11 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Like the housing bubble, the education bubble is about security and insurance against the future. Both whisper a seductive promise into the ears of worried Americans: Do this and you will be safe. The excesses of both were always excused by a core national belief that no matter what happens in the world, these were the best investments you could make. Housing prices would always go up, and you will always make more money if you are college educated.
  • consumption masquerading as investment
  • The implicit promise is that you work hard to get there, and then you are set for life.  It can lead to an unhealthy sense of entitlement. “It’s what you’ve been told all your life, and it’s how schools rationalize a quarter of a million dollars in debt,”
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  • It’s something about the scarcity and the status. In education your value depends on other people failing. Whenever Darwinism is invoked it’s usually a justification for doing something mean. It’s a way to ignore that people are falling through the cracks, because you pretend that if they could just go to Harvard, they’d be fine. Maybe that’s not true.”
  • he’s not advocating that stopping out of school is for everyone any more than he’s arguing everyone should be an entrepreneur
Barry Peterson

Connect Administrators, Teachers and Classrooms, Anywhere, Anytime - 23 views

GVO Conference has no limits or restrictions. This system will take whatever you throw at it! GVO Conference requires absolutely no download and works on all operating systems. This highjly secure ...

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started by Barry Peterson on 21 Apr 11 no follow-up yet
Brendan Murphy

Education scholar Soo Hong finds education innovation in Logan Square, Mary Schmich say... - 1 views

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 07 May 11 - No Cached
  • trained by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association to work in the schools
  • Parents. Everywhere.
  • families need support before student performance will improve. 
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