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andrew kauffman

10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris - 0 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 21 Jun 09
     
    Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.
Dean Shareski

Prairie South School Division #210 - Home - 0 views

www.prairiesouth.ca

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shared by Dean Shareski on 27 May 09 - Cached
  • This year approximately 80 grade 7 and 8 student from King George, Rouleau, Mortlach and Westmount competed in the design, construction and competition of their cardboard boats
    • Dean Shareski
      Dean Shareski on 27 May 09
       
      This is an interesting event. It would neat to try it out.
Marie Coppolaro

SparkleBox - 1000s FREE printable Early Years and KS1 teaching resources - phonics, posters, labels, signs, activities and more! - 0 views

www.sparklebox.co.uk

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shared by Marie Coppolaro on 04 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Marie Coppolaro on 04 Aug 09
     
    An excellent resource for all Primary school and Early Childhood teachers.
Fabian Aguilar

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

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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.
Jerrid Kruse

The Wired Campus - Duke Professor Uses 'Crowdsourcing' to Grade - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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Assessment grading

shared by Jerrid Kruse on 04 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Learning is more than earning an A says Cathy N. Davidson, the professor, who recently returned to teach English and interdisciplinary studies after eight years in administration. But students don't always see it that way. Vying for an A by trying to figure out what a professor wants or through the least amount of work has made the traditional grading scale superficial, she says.
  • "Do all the work, you get an A. Don't need an A? Don't have time to do all the work? No problem. You can aim for and earn a B. There will be a chart.  You do the assignment satisfactorily, you get the points.  Add up the points, there's your grade. Clearcut. No guesswork. No second-guessing 'what the prof wants.' No gaming the system," Ms. Davidson wrote Sunday in a blog post detailing her strategy on hastac.org (pronounced "haystack"), the acronym for  "humanities, arts, science, and technology-advanced collaboration.," which she co-founded.
  • It's important to teach students how to be responsible contributors to evaluations and assessment. Students are contributing and assessing each other on the Internet anyway, so why not make that a part of learning?"
Dennis OConnor

Information Fluency: Online Class: Investigate and Evaluate Digital Materials - 0 views

21cif.com/...2010-information.html

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • On Demand Classes help you meet the needs of your students. You know the need for 21st Century Information Fluency Skills has never been higher You also know you’re understaffed and overbooked Start the new school year with a customized online training experience that will teach your students critical reading skills as they learn to search and evaluate Internet resources. Our multimedia enhanced, interactive course is suited for students from middle school through adult.
    • Dennis OConnor
      Dennis OConnor on 20 Aug 09
       
      If you are reading this note, you are tuned to the need for 21st century skills. See if our work can help your work! ~ Dennis@21cif.com
  • Dennis OConnor on 18 Aug 09
     
    We combine performance evaluation with a series mastery quizzes to lock in the essential concepts delivered by the tutorials. As an educator you'll have access to performance evaluation and mastery quiz data. You'll have an online record of each student's performance that can be downloaded for data analysis.
David Warlick

2¢ Worth » Search Results » anchored - 0 views

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shared by David Warlick on 28 Jul 09 - Cached
  • In a pre-life-long Learning environment, the task of education was to teach all of us the knowledge and skills that we would need to know and to know how to do to become employed. After our schooling, we got a job, and kept that job for 35 years. We did some learning “on the job”, but not for the sake of a changing environment. It was for the sake of our job. It was considered part of the job.
    • David Warlick
      David Warlick on 28 Jul 09
       
      It points to the skills required for the future!
Tony Searl

Weblogg-ed » Digital Inclusion - 1 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 30 Aug 09 - Cached
  • There will be a revolution when more and more students get their hands on some of these devices and start using them in the classroom.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 30 Aug 09
       
      DER NSW addresses this with 220,000 laptop rollout for all year 9 to 12 students
anonymous

Free Award Certificate Templates - MyAwardMaker.com - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 01 May 09
     
    certificate maker
  • anonymous on 01 May 09
     
    This is the time of year we like to recognize students for their hard work. This site provides easy to use certificate templates.
Vicki Davis

64 Things Every Geek Should Know - LaptopLogic.com - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 17 May 09 - No Cached
  • Identity theft groups warn about keyloggers and advocate checking out the keyboard yourself before continuing.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      Often the keylogger is a program on the computer, so don't think just looking for the hardware will find it!
  • Tor is an onion-routing system which makes it 'impossible' for someone to find out who you actually are.
  • See this tutorial for info on how to bypass the password on the three major operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      FYI - as a person who has had to do this on a Windows computer - this often doesn't work!
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  • Every geek should know how to recover the master book record.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      I did this last week! It saved me a TON of time!
  • There are computer service centers that would be happy to extract the data for a (hefty) fee; a true geek would be the one working at center, not taking his or her drive there.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      There are inexpensive programs that you can use to do this - it helped us with a personnel matter quite a few years back - I think every IT person should have such a program and every teacher should understand that it is possible for such a program to be used. I teach my students that everything ever saved on a hard drive can be retrieved - be careful.
  • Person to Person data sharing
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
       
      Uhm - that is peer to peer!
  • Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
     
    Great article with many things people should know.
  • Vicki Davis on 17 May 09
     
    Cool article that covers a lot of things that people should know - whether you mind being called a geek or not. Very interesting reading.
anonymous

An invention that could change the internet for ever - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...internet-for-ever-1678109.html

shared by anonymous on 04 May 09 - Cached
  • Computer experts believe the new search engine will be an evolutionary leap in the development of the internet. Nova Spivack, an internet and computer expert, said that Wolfram Alpha could prove just as important as Google. "It is really impressive and significant," he wrote. "In fact it may be as important for the web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 04 May 09
       
      Project this out 5 or 10 years. How an EARTH can we then continue to conduct business as usual in our schools if THIS is available?
Ruth Howard

Academy of Discovery - Discovery Blogging Rules - 7 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • please read the following list of agreements with your child. Please sign and date this agreement and return to Ms. Hughes. Thanks for your cooperation!
  • Infractions of these rules will lead to the following consequences in order of severity and number of offense: Letter of apology to those offended by the infraction(individual students, one core class, or whole blogging community),warning by teacher, and editing or deletion of offending post/comment. Letter of apology to those offended by the infraction(individual students, one core class, or whole blogging community),temporary loss of blogging privileges (duration of quarter), editing or deletion of offending post/comment. Letter of apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, one core class, or whole blogging community), permanent loss of blogging privileges(duration of school year), editing or deletion of offending post/comment.
Amy Kelly-Graham

By Sarah Fine -- Why I Left Teaching Behind - washingtonpost.com - 8 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009080702046.html

shared by Amy Kelly-Graham on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • When I talk about the long hours, for example, what I mean is that, over the course of four years, my school's administration steadily expanded the workload and workday while barely adjusting salaries. More and more major decisions were made behind closed doors, and more and more teachers felt micromanaged rather than supported. One afternoon this spring, when my often apathetic 10th-graders were walking eagerly around the room as part of a writing assignment, an administrator came in and ordered me to get the class "seated and silent." It took everything I had to hold back my tears of frustration.
    • Amy Kelly-Graham
      Amy Kelly-Graham on 14 Oct 09
       
      I would expound upon this notion bu the author was very clear in making her point.
yc c

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by yc c on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.
    • yc c
      yc c on 16 Oct 09
       
      Gloria Mark, below, mentions the opposite
  • displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.
    • yc c
      yc c on 16 Oct 09
       
      here
  • A hyperlink brings you to information faster but is also more of a distraction.
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  • More and more, studies are showing how adept young people are at multitasking. But the extent to which they can deeply engage with the online material is a question for further research.
David Hilton

TED | Search - 14 views

www.ted.com/search

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  • David Hilton on 17 Oct 09
     
    This is the talk given at TED by Richard Baraniuk on Connexions, an open-source system for free educational content and his belief that this type of innovation will replace textbooks (YAY!). It's the first link on the list; I didn't save the link itself because it opens on a media player and that's really annoying. Click and enjoy! (PS If you've been living as a hostage on the moon for the last couple of years and haven't heard of TED give it a look/listen - it rocks).
Dennis OConnor

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

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elearning graduate credit certificate e-learning jobs online teaching

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.
anonymous

Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants more computers in schools | Technology | Los Angeles Times - 15 views

latimesblogs.latimes.com/...put-computers-in-schools-.html

Google education

shared by anonymous on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
  • After he left the Montessori school, Brin felt he was stuck in a 19th-century curriculum, and he ultimately quit high school after his junior year.
  • anonymous on 30 Oct 09
     
    Very interesting description of Google Founder Sergey Brin's thoughts on his education
Vicki Davis

Social networks and kids: How young is too young? - CNN.com - 13 views

www.cnn.com/...kids.social.networks

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shared by Vicki Davis on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • a growing number of children are flouting age requirements on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, or using social-networking sites designed just for them.
  • which some therapists have linked to Internet addiction among adults
  • In two surveys reported this year by Pew Internet Research -- of 700 and 935 teens, respectively -- 38 percent of respondents ages 12 to 14 said they had an online profile of some sort.
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Nov 09
     
    Important article to read about children of all ages creating profiles. I believe this supports our driving need to incorporate instruction and discussion on this topic in schools.
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