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Vicki Davis

Blogging and Free Speech Rights of Public Employees « Educational Insanity - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 09 May 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 09 May 08
     
    Excellent post discussing free speech rights of public employees.
  • Vicki Davis on 09 May 08
     
    Great discussion emerging on Jon Becker's blog about free speech and blogging of public employees. I learned as much from the comments as the blog post itself.
Jeff Johnson

Why are public schools so bad at hiring good teachers? - By Ray Fisman - Slate Magazine - 0 views

www.slate.com/2195147

hiring public schools teachers unions

shared by Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08
     
    WHY ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SO BAD AT HIRING GOOD INSTRUCTORS?
Clif Mims

EdTech Action Network - 0 views

www.edtechactionnetwork.org/index.html

aect education educational technology iste k-12-education politics teacher-education technology-integration

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  • Clif Mims on 12 Jul 08
     
    "ETAN provides a forum for educators and others to engage in the political process and project a unified voice in support of a common cause - improving teaching and learning through the systemic use of technology. ETAN's mission is to influence public policy-makers at the federal, state and local levels and to increase public investment in the competitiveness of America's classrooms and students."
Melinda Waffle

Finding and using public domain photographs - 16 views

www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-photographs.html

resources education tools image public domain photography photos copyright

shared by Melinda Waffle on 03 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Melinda Waffle on 03 Feb 11
     
    Images in the public domain
Ruth Howard

Filmic Texts and the Rise of the Fifth Estate: Iraqi Doctors: On the Front Lines of Medicine - 0 views

scalar.usc.edu/...on-the-front-lines-of-medicine

texts iraqi doctors medicine university course remixing film multimedia projects learning fifthstate edu_trends techintegrator bestpractices digitalcitizenship web2 all_teachers

shared by Ruth Howard on 16 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 16 Jun 11
     
    Multimedia approach addresses complexity in a way that a linear narrative cannot. Students remix film and create multimedia project "public nature of digital media renders the university classroom a potential site of intervention in issues of broad public concern"
Vicki Davis

Parental Involvement and Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis / Browse Our Publications / Publications & Resources / HFRP - Harvard Family Research Project - 10 views

www.hfrp.org/...nt-achievement-a-meta-analysis

education research parenting all_teachers administrator

shared by Vicki Davis on 27 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 27 Aug 11
     
    Parent involvement is highly correlated with student success. Here is an overview of some meta analysis done through Harvard's school of education.
Nelly Cardinale

WHEN WORKS PASS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN - 0 views

www.unc.edu/public-d.htm

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  • Nelly Cardinale on 06 Apr 09
     
    Public domain guideline from the Univ of North Carolina
Vicki Davis

Committee on Education and Labor - 0 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 15 Jun 09
     
    From the Committee on Education and Labor here in the US. Mark your calendars! This is June 16 at 10 am EDT. "WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Education and Labor Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 16 to examine how technology and innovative education tools are transforming and improving education in America. Immediately following the hearing, members of the media are invited to attend an education technology demonstration where they can have hands-on experience using cutting-edge education technology products. WHAT: Hearing on "The Future of Learning: How Technology is Transforming Public Schools" WHO: Jennifer Bergland, chief technology officer, Bryan Independent School District, Bryan, TX Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer, White House Office for Science and Technology Dr. Wayne Hartschuh, executive director, Delaware Center for Educational Technology, Dover, DE Scott Kinney, vice president, Discovery Education, Silver Spring, MD John McAuliffe, general manager, Educate Online Learning, LLC, Baltimore, MD Lisa Short, science teacher, Gaithersburg Middle School, Montgomery County Public Schools, Gaithersburg, MD Abel Real, student, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC WHEN: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:00 a.m., EDT WHERE: House Education and Labor Committee Hearing Room 2175 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. **Note: This hearing will be webcast live from the Education and Labor Committee website. You can access the webcast when the hearing begins at 10:00 am EDT from http://edlabor.house.gov**"
Nelly Cardinale

PD Info-Public Domain and Royalty Free Music - 0 views

www.pdinfo.com/index.php

music royaltyfree publicdomain infopublic public domain

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  • Nelly Cardinale on 06 Apr 09
     
    More public domain information
Fabian Aguilar

Tom Vander Ark: The Role of the Private Sector in Education - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...of-the-private-s_b_277312.html

shared by Fabian Aguilar on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The education sector bias (and related legal prohibitions) against investment by private companies is remarkable in contrast to other public delivery systems.
  • We don't mind if textbook publishers update versions, but hackles go up when private operators propose school management. Most of this is just disguised job protection; the rest is historical bias.
  • Mosaica and NHA are offering a service that is clearly superior to near by public schools and doing it for less money. They usually have to provide their own facility with no public funding. Yet they are prohibited from holding charters directly in most states. They find or construct a non-profit corporation which seeks a charter and then contracts with them for school management services. They run the risk of being kicked out of a school that they invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to open.
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  • The $650 million Invest in Innovation Fund (i3) will soon be doled out primarily to school districts -- folks with very little ability to invest in, manage, or scale innovation. Unlike the Department of Energy, public-private partnerships are prohibited. If the US Department of Education was able to invest half of i3 in private ventures, it would be multiplied several times over by private investment (10x in some cases), it would fund scalable enterprises with the potential for national impact, and the innovation would be sustained by a business model.
  • We send our kids to privately run hospitals, we travel over privately constructed roads, and we buy power from private companies. Private sector investment and innovation should play a more important role in American education.
Fabian Aguilar

Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage - 1 views

ascd.org/...trating_the_Media_Collage.aspx

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shared by Fabian Aguilar on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Public narrative embraces a number of specialty literacies, including math literacy, research literacy, and even citizenship literacy, to name a few. Understanding the evolving nature of literacy is important because it enables us to understand the emerging nature of illiteracy as well. After all, regardless of the literacy under consideration, the illiterate get left out.
  • Modern literacy has always meant being able to both read and write narrative in the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. Just being able to read is not sufficient.
  • The act of creating original media forces students to lift the hood, so to speak, and see media's intricate workings that conspire to do one thing above all others: make the final media product appear smooth, effortless, and natural. "Writing media" compels reflection about reading media, which is crucial in an era in which professional media makers view young people largely in terms of market share.
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  • As part of their own intellectual retooling in the era of the media collage, teachers can begin by experimenting with a wide range of new media to determine how they best serve their own and their students' educational interests. A simple video can demonstrate a science process; a blog can generate an organic, integrated discussion about a piece of literature; new media in the form of games, documentaries, and digital stories can inform the study of complex social issues; and so on. Thus, a corollary to this guideline is simply, "Experiment fearlessly." Although experts may claim to understand the pedagogical implications of media, the reality is that media are evolving so quickly that teachers should trust their instincts as they explore what works. We are all learning together.
  • Both essay writing and blog writing are important, and for that reason, they should support rather than conflict with each other. Essays, such as the one you are reading right now, are suited for detailed argument development, whereas blog writing helps with prioritization, brevity, and clarity. The underlying shift here is one of audience: Only a small portion of readers read essays, whereas a large portion of the public reads Web material. Thus, the pressure is on for students to think and write clearly and precisely if they are to be effective contributors to the collective narrative of the Web.
  • The demands of digital literacy make clear that both research reports and stories represent important approaches to thinking and communicating; students need to be able to understand and use both forms. One of the more exciting pedagogical frontiers that awaits us is learning how to combine the two, blending the critical thinking of the former with the engagement of the latter. The report–story continuum is rich with opportunity to blend research and storytelling in interesting, effective ways within the domain of new media.
  • The new media collage depends on a combination of individual and collective thinking and creative endeavor. It requires all of us to express ourselves clearly as individuals, while merging our expression into the domain of public narrative. This can include everything from expecting students to craft a collaborative media collage project in language arts classes to requiring them to contribute to international wikis and collective research projects about global warming with colleagues they have never seen. What is key here is that these are now "normal" kinds of expression that carry over into the world of work and creative personal expression beyond school.
  • Students need to be media literate to understand how media technique influences perception and thinking. They also need to understand larger social issues that are inextricably linked to digital citizenship, such as security, environmental degradation, digital equity, and living in a multicultural, networked world. We want our students to use technology not only effectively and creatively, but also wisely, to be concerned with not just how to use digital tools, but also when to use them and why.
  • Fluency is the ability to practice literacy at the advanced levels required for sophisticated communication within social and workplace environments. Digital fluency facilitates the language of leadership and innovation that enables us to translate our ideas into compelling professional practice. The fluent will lead, the literate will follow, and the rest will get left behind.
  • Digital fluency is much more of a perspective than a technical skill set. Teachers who are truly digitally fluent will blend creativity and innovation into lesson plans, assignments, and projects and understand the role that digital tools can play in creating academic expectations that are authentically connected, both locally and globally, to their students' lives.
  • Focus on expression first and technology second—and everything will fall into place.
Martin Burrett

Investing in public education earns high marks for greater upward mobility - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 01 Apr 18
     
    "Investing in education may help boost economic opportunities for the next generation, according to a team of economists. In a USA study, researchers suggest that investing in public education can lead to more upward economic mobility and lower teen pregnancy rates, as well as provide a way to ease income inequality."
Martin Burrett

Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests - 0 views

ukedchat.com/...children-walk-to-school

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  • Martin Burrett on 18 Jun 19
     
    "Children who regularly walk or cycle to school are less likely to be overweight or obese than those who travel by car or public transport, a new study suggests. Based on results from more than 2000 primary-age schoolchildren from across London, the researchers found that walking or cycling to school is a strong predictor of obesity levels, a result which was consistent across neighbourhoods, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds. The results are reported in the journal BMC public Health."
Vicki Davis

What Happens to Our Brains When We Have Stage Fright: The Science of Public Speaking - The Buffer Blog - 5 views

blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-public-speaking

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  • Vicki Davis on 08 Apr 14
     
    When you're afraid of speaking, there are things that happen. I enjoy reading about the science behind stage fright.
Brendan Murphy

This is Not a Paper - 8 views

faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/...paper.1.html

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 05 Jun 10 - Cached
  • November 1995
  • survey of journal editors in education, little enthusiasm for the idea of creating electronic versions
  • changing ideas about what constitutes a publication
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  • Questions immediately arise: When was this project published? When was it finished? Who deserves credit as author? Who were the reviewers and who were the audience?
  • In our view, it is not that electronic publication is a panacea or an obviously superior form of scholarly communication across the board; it is that these technologies are already upon us, they are for better or worse in increasing use, and they confront us with issues and choices we need to reflect upon.
  • On the other hand, when certain publications are only available digitally, lacking technological resources or skills will exclude certain audiences
  • Electronic publishing has provided an opportunity
  • Is it useful to have access to tens of thousands of documents, with no reliable way of culling the few dozen that one could actually have time to read?
  • As a result, current conventional notions of copyright would need to be profoundly rethought.
  • This fourth model undoes the very idea of a journal as a unidirectional avenue for dissemination of textual information
Roland O'Daniel

Google labs - public data - 10 views

www.google.com/home

visualization web2.0 Google data technology

shared by Roland O'Daniel on 12 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Roland O'Daniel on 12 Oct 10
     
    Data visualizations for a changing world ​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
Jeff Johnson

NASA Image Archive Now Available Online (Wired.com) - 0 views

blog.wired.com/...nasa-image-arch.html

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 29 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 29 Jul 08
     
    A vast collection of NASA archival images, video and audio collections were made available to the public this past week. NASA Images is a five-year cooperative agreement between the space agency and Internet Archive, a non-profit online library. When complete, this database will contain twenty-one collections, featuring millions of images and thousands of hours of video footage.
Jeff Johnson

Stanford opens access to all its education studies - 0 views

ed.stanford.edu/...displayRecord.php

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 25 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 25 Jul 08
     
    Faculty members at Stanford University's School of Education have voted to make scholarly articles available to the public for free, a policy change that the university says makes Stanford's education school the first such school in the nation to join the growing "open access" movement in academia.
Vicki Davis

Firefox web browser | International versions: Get Firefox in your language - 0 views

www.mozilla.com/...all-rc.html

edu_newapp education firefox

shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Jun 08
     
    Firefox 3 is available for download now and is in public preview mode. I'm downloading it tonight and by the time this posts on my blog in the morning, I'll have some thoughts to share. What do you think?
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Jun 08
     
    Firefox 3 is ready for public preview.
Angela Maiers

Welcome to Debatepedia! - Debatepedia - 0 views

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  • Angela Maiers on 06 Jul 08
     
    HT to Collette Cassinelli ! Thanks for this great find! Debatepedia is a wiki encyclopedia of pro and con arguments and quotations in important public debates from around the world. It is considered "the Wikipedia of debate", helping the world centralize arguments and quotations found in millions of different.
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