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in title, tags, annotations or urlSmartBlog on Education - Q-and-A: Back to school with Arne Duncan - SmartBrief, Inc. SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 3 views
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To make this transition, states, districts, and schools should do as much as possible to provide teachers with support for professional learning tied to the new standards. It’s also critical for teachers to connect with and learn from each other.
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But many educators aren’t “connected” yet because they haven’t taken advantage of opportunities for professional learning online or they aren’t realizing the full benefits. Many districts and states also haven’t done enough to recognize this essential learning as legitimate professional development.
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The nonprofit Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago provides a great “alternative” route to the classroom, in which participants complete a yearlong residency working with effective mentor teachers.
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How to Engage Underperforming Students | Edutopia - 11 views
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By focusing tightly on instructional strategies and PD, educators at Cochrane Collegiate Academy saved their school from closure. In just three years, they have doubled student performance, and they continue to reach higher. Read the article. [Interactive Video Player: Look for downloadable PDF worksheets and other resource links to appear under the player as you watch the video.]
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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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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How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education leaders - 16 views
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has left our school districts impotent and, worse, has robbed millions of children of a real future
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Why are district's impotent? If administrators do their job and a) mentor young teachers and b) remove them if they are ineffective the system can work!
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Yes. In the districts where administrators work the system does work. Unfortunately these mega-district administrators think that their job consists only of firing bad teachers. The hardest work is giving the good teachers the resources they need to continue excellent work!
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District leaders also need the authority to use financial incentives to attract and retain the best teachers.
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And yet, studies show that merit pay doesn't work!
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That's right. Socio-emotional learning, one of the most important kinds for the development of good citizens, defies standardized testing.
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How about we raise starting pay for teachers to $60,000 per year. Make teaching a profession more top notch students want to major in.
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but let's stop pretending that everyone who goes into the classroom has the ability and temperament to lift our children to excellence.
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This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
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This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
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This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
MATH PRACTICE AND LEARNING PROGRAM - FREE FOR TEACHERS - 27 views
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TenMarks is the best math practice and learning program for grades 3-High School and as of today, it's FREE for teachers to use - in class or for their students to use at home. The TenMarks approach gives students a variety of problems on each topic, and ability to use hints if they need a little nudge, and immediate video lessons for them to refresh and learn the topic - on the spot. The end result - students refresh what they know and learn what they don't. Teachers choose their own curriculum (mapped to state standards), assign work to students, have it automatically graded immediately, review individual and class performance, and most importantly, take immediate action. TenMarks is super effective and real easy to use - it was designed with the help of math teachers across the country. What's more - it's FREE for the entire class!
Doing Digital Scholarship: Presentation at Digital Humanities 2008 « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities - 0 views
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My session, which explored the meaning and significance of “digital humanities,” also featured rich, engaging presentations by Edward Vanhoutte on the history of humanities computing and John Walsh on comparing alchemy and digital humanities.
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I wondered: What is digital scholarship, anyway? What does it take to produce digital scholarship? What kind of digital resources and tools are available to support it? To what extent do these resources and tools enable us to do research more productively and creatively? What new questions do these tools and resources enable us to ask? What’s challenging about producing digital scholarship? What happens when scholars share research openly through blogs, institutional repositories, & other means?
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I decided to investigate these questions by remixing my 2002 dissertation as a work of digital scholarship. Now I’ll acknowledge that my study is not exactly scientific—there is a rather subjective sample of one. However, I figured, somewhat pragmatically, that the best way for me to understand what digital scholars face was to do the work myself.
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Back to the Classroom: The Forum for Education and Democracy - 0 views
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sparking students’ intellectual curiosity by encouraging teachers to “teach to their passions”
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Beacon’s freedom from the state Regents examinations in social studies – the result of a hard-earned waiver – allows for a thematic approach and a deep exploration unconstrained by coverage considerations.
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All classes will do extensive writing and revision, developing the skill of using evidence to support conclusions. The students will engage in debates, make presentations, and have varied avenues to demonstrate what they have learned and accomplished.
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SimpleLeap Software - Mobile applications for your BlackBerry and iPhone | Cram - Test Preparation | Job Training | Certification Study Tool | Homework Help | College Study Software | Student Software | Exam and test practice for standardized tests such a - 0 views
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Tools are emerging to move content to student cell phones.
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Interested to see this software. Hope to get a copy and see how it works with my students. I have no doubt that moving content to mobile devices is going to be an incredibly useful thing to be able to do in the coming years. Do it now or do it later? How about 1:1 cell phone schools instead of laptops.
Bloom's Taxonomy and the Digital World - Open Education - 0 views
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Thanks to some great work by Andrew Churches, educators have a basis by which to compare digital techniques to the more traditional standard that Bloom created.
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his work provides a great framework from which educators can approach the topic. What follows is a summary of his Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
Differentiated - 0 views
ISTE | NETS for Teachers 2008 - 1 views
ALA TechSource | The Digitally Re-Shifted School Library: A Conversation with Christopher Harris - 0 views
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I also believe that a very important step lies in getting library boards, school boards, and other trustees/governing bodies on board with Web 2.0 ideas as well as the changes we are discussing here.
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I think school libraries will also need to work to firmly re-establish themselves as the foundation of instructional practice. The library space will become more flexible, perhaps moving toward the idea of a university-like information commons with mainly digital non-fiction and reference collections, but still possessing high-quality fiction and picture-book sections. School libraries can work to embrace new technologies and become the iPod content hubs as well as the place for books. The school librarian will also become more flexible – moving in and out of the library and classrooms as a curriculum and instructional pedagogy-consultant teacher. As education works to meet the needs of the so-called "21st-century learners," school librarians will have a key role in supporting an increased demand for information literacy and knowledge management throughout the content areas.
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What works well - 0 views
ABC News: Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key? - 0 views
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They're very self-motivated.
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This world encourages us to multitask. I think it encourages kids to be much less patient. More terse.
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This generation spends time at home — connected. Kids have to be social. It's all part of the preteen and teen years and young adult years
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This is an interesting article that presents some interesting commentary on students today. It is very brief but makes some excellent points.
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Alice shared this earlier, but I went back and added annotations AND the tagging standard -- this will show up in the links and make this article rise to the top as we discuss it.
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