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in title, tags, annotations or urlThe 20% Project (like Google) In My Class | Education Is My Life - 20 views
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Mass confusion set in.
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This type of accountability covers the five major standards of Literature Arts: writing, reading, speaking, listening, and viewing.
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I recently assigned a new project to my 11th grade English students: The 20% Project. Although it's called a "project", that term is merely for student understanding and lack of a better word. This project is based on the "20 percent time" Google employees have to work on something other than their job description.
Basic Paragraph Construction for ESL Classes and Learners - 5 views
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studies have shown that students who enjoy a recess of more than 45 minutes consistently score better on tests immediately following the recess period.
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Clinical analysis further suggests that physical exercise greatly improves the ability to focus on academic materials.
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physical exercise is just one of the necessary ingredients for improving student scores on standardized tests.
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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Since December, 20,000 teachers from kindergarten through 12th grade have introduced coding lessons, according to Code.org, a group backed by the tech industry that offers free curriculums. In addition, some 30 school districts, including New York City and Chicago, have agreed to add coding classes in the fall, mainly in high schools but in lower grades, too. And policy makers in nine states have begun awarding the same credits for computer science classes that they do for basic math and science courses, rather than treating them as electives.
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coding looks less like an extracurricular activity and more like a basic life skill, one that might someday lead to a great job or even instant riches.
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But the momentum for early coding comes with caveats, too. It is not clear that teaching basic computer science in grade school will beget future jobs or foster broader creativity and logical thinking, as some champions of the movement are projecting. And particularly for younger children, Dr. Soloway said, the activity is more like a video game — better than simulated gunplay, but not likely to impart actual programming skills.
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This is Not a Paper - 8 views
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November 1995
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survey of journal editors in education, little enthusiasm for the idea of creating electronic versions
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changing ideas about what constitutes a publication
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The Rapid eLearning Blog - 8 views
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The way it seems to work is that organizations restructure and somewhere in the process the training people are usually the first to go.
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So if I were to offer any advice, it would be to provide the most value that you can.
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The challenge in all of this is that rapid elearning has to bring real value and isn’t just a bunch of PowerPoint files converted to Flash and then put online.
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Reflections of an International Educator - 4 views
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The debate sparked more personal anecdotes, as students took part in a discussion that said much about their different cultures and how they viewed the world. Yet students at international schools rarely realize that such intercultural exchange is unusual in most places of learning, or that the skills they are learning in the classroom will help them become more empathetic adults, better at resolving conflicts.
International Engagement Through Education: Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan at the Council on Foreign Relations Meeting | U.S. Department of Education - 6 views
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two important trends that inform our drive to transform education in America. The first is increased international competition. The second is increased international collaboration
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cultural awareness of all our students
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education reform
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The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 15 views
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If you've ever seen or heard Raif Esquith speak then you know how much he values music with young children. Watch this clip: http://www.tubechop.com/watch/79846
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The lore of pop psychology is that creativity occurs on the right side of the brain. But we now know that if you tried to be creative using only the right side of your brain, it’d be like living with ideas perpetually at the tip of your tongue, just beyond reach
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those who diligently practice creative activities learn to recruit their brains’ creative networks quicker and better. A lifetime of consistent habits gradually changes the neurological pattern.
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Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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instead of sticking to one study location, simply alternating the room where a person studies improves retention. So does studying distinct but related skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than focusing intensely on a single thing. “We have known these principles for some time, and it’s intriguing that schools don’t pick them up, or that people don’t learn them by trial and error,” said Robert A. Bjork, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Instead, we walk around with all sorts of unexamined beliefs about what works that are mistaken.”
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The brain makes subtle associations between what it is studying and the background sensations it has at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions are conscious. It colors the terms of the Versailles Treaty with the wasted fluorescent glow of the dorm study room, say; or the elements of the Marshall Plan with the jade-curtain shade of the willow tree in the backyard. Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding.
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Cognitive scientists do not deny that honest-to-goodness cramming can lead to a better grade on a given exam. But hurriedly jam-packing a brain is akin to speed-packing a cheap suitcase, as most students quickly learn — it holds its new load for a while, then most everything falls out. “With many students, it’s not like they can’t remember the material” when they move to a more advanced class, said Henry L. Roediger III, a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s like they’ve never seen it before.”
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Education Week: Merit Pay Found to Have Little Effect on Achievement - 2 views
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She anticipated that teachers might work even harder over the short term to win bonuses
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how incentives change the teaching corps through entrance and exits,” said Eric A. Hanushek, a professor of economics at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. “The study has nothing to say about this.”
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t remains unclear how far the findings can be extrapolated to incentives with more features, such as professional development, differentiated roles, or a new teacher-evaluation system.
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I believe there have been studies saying if we incentivise actions that we know make people better then they will do those actions. I think it was the Time article earlier in 2010 when they reviewed the incetives for students. Giving student money for an A didn't help, but giving students money to do homework or not disrupt the class did help.
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How to fix our schools - 4 views
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Listen, I love basketball. But the smartest kid in the school…should be getting as much attention as the basketball star. That’s a change that we’ve got to initiate in our community.”
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school systems will have to develop better ways of identifying good and bad teachers.
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In addition to teacher quality, they should pay attention to school leadership, curriculum improvement, and school organization.
Gary Stager: Wanna be a School Reformer? You Better do Your Homework! - 8 views
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I challenged myself to assemble an essential (admittedly subjective) reading list on school reform. The following books are appropriate for parents, teachers, administrators, politicians and plain old citizens committed to the ideal of sustaining a joyful, excellent and democratic public education for every child.
How To Motivate Your Students To Behave Better, Work Harder, Care For Each Other… Or Anything Else You Want From Them - Smart Classroom Management - 27 views
Brainstorm: Junk Analysis of Higher Ed by the 'Times' - Chronicle.com - 0 views
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This isn’t good for anyone’s education: The only virtue of the arrangement is its cheapness, and that cheapness hasn’t lowered tuition; it’s simply served to provide money pots for high-rolling administrators to spend on favored projects and the expansion of the business curriculum. It’s also created a need to expand the ranks of management to train and supervise the constantly-churning mass of student and other casual workers.
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journalists are living the same permatemping as the faculty, under the same quality management gutting the public sphere under both Republicans and Democrats
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four decades of student casualization
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Guaranteach - A Better Way to Learn - 0 views
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Just received the press release on this new one. $4.95 a month and you have access to videos to help with homework. There is a growing business based upon videos for learning -- that is because kids clamor for them. Textbooks, and teachers need to see the value in things like Eric Marco's Mathtrain.tv and other screencasting for teaching. Have the kids make their own tutorials for one another -- or you can just subscribe, I guess.
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