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Vicki Davis

Khan Academy - 1 views

www.khanacademy.org

education tool bestpractices edu_trends

shared by Vicki Davis on 27 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Nov 11
     
    The well known site with a lot of tutorial videos. The math videos are particularly useful. Students should now how to tutor themselves by finding reputable sources of information where they can get tutoring.
Ted Sakshaug

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 1 views

www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix

comics writing storytelling comic tools Web 2.0 technology language

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 26 Mar 09
     
    Make your own comics quick and easy
Ted Sakshaug

Welcome to StudyBlue | StudyBlue - 0 views

www.studyblue.com

socialnetworking education study web2.0 students Tools elearning flashcards

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 20 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 20 Jul 09
     
    Share notes and knowledge on the world's biggest academic network. A few million heads are better than one.
yc c

Collaboration and office tools for your team or company - Google Apps for Business - 0 views

www.google.com/...collaboration.html

google video explication collaboration

shared by yc c on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • yc c on 24 Aug 09
     
    nice video explaining why collaboration apps are useful
Gary Bertoia

TubeChop - Chop YouTube Videos - 0 views

www.tubechop.com

youtube editing tools edit latest

shared by Gary Bertoia on 02 May 09 - Cached
  • Gary Bertoia on 02 May 09
     
    TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share
Kelly Faulkner

CoboCards » Home - Study collaboratively flashcards and vocabulary online - 2 views

www.cobocards.com

flashcards cobocards collaboration tools

shared by Kelly Faulkner on 04 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 17 Jul 10
     
    this one looks better than most (for secondary students) as they can add comments, photos, etc to the cards
Ted Sakshaug

simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io - 0 views

drop.io/?code=chat

chat collaboration web2.0 tool backchannel chatroom techintegrator

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 03 Apr 09
     
    an 'applet' from drop.io for web-based rich media chat - choose a name, and hit the 'drop.it' button - you instantly have a real-time, rich media chat feed. simply direct participants to the URL of your chat, and you are able to chat and share any media in line. works with third party clients and on mobile
Ted Sakshaug

FunPhotoBox - funny pictures, funny photo effects. Make fun with your photos online. - 0 views

funphotobox.com

photos photography funny generator tools education

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 19 May 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 19 May 09
     
    insert your photo into other places, billboards, sides of buildings. May effects avalable
Ted Sakshaug

Welcome | Wordnik - 0 views

www.wordnik.com

dictionary words vocabulary reference Tools language_arts education

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 19 Jun 09
     
    An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them
Fabian Aguilar

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

roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/...what-do-school-tests-measure

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.
Ed Webb

Teaching Naked - without Powerpoint « HeyJude - 0 views

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pedagogy education powerpoint teaching technology

shared by Ed Webb on 03 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The idea is that we  should challenge thinking, inspire creativity, and stir up discussion with a Powerpoint presentation – not present a series of dry facts. 
  • More than any thing else, Mr. Bowen wants to discourage professors from using PowerPoint, because they often lean on the slide-display program as a crutch rather using it as a creative tool. Class time should be reserved for discussion, he contends, especially now that students can download lectures online and find libraries of information on the Web.
Vicki Davis

Networked Multitouch Desks: Teacher/Student Features | ICT in my Classroom - 0 views

tbarrett.edublogs.org/...titouch-desks-teacher-features

education technology tools

shared by Vicki Davis on 25 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 25 Aug 09
     
    Multitouch student desks may be closer than we think. I'm ready for them! How about you?
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