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Free Music Archive - 0 views

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  • Ted Sakshaug on 29 Apr 09
     
    "It's not just free music; it's good music"
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City Brights: Howard Rheingold : 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

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  • And don't swallow the myth of the digital native. Just because your teens Facebook, IM, and Youtube, don't assume they know the rhetoric of blogging, collective knowledge gathering techniques of taggers and social bookmarkers, collaborative norms of wiki work, how to tune and feed a Twitter network, the art of multimedia argumentation - and, by far most importantly, online crap detection.
  • I teach courses today on social media issues at Stanford and Berkeley.
  • The most important critical uncertainty today is how many of us learn to use digital media and networks effectively, reasonably, credibly, collaboratively, civilly, humanely.
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  • They accept "information" from "news" sources simply because they are known television news stations
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K-3 Teacher Resources - Much More Than Just Printable Worksheets. - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 01 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 01 Jun 09
     
    Much More Than Printable Worksheets... Printable, Hands-On Parent / Teacher Resources, Games and Activities.
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METAVERSEDLTD.COM - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 24 Apr 09
     
    Peggy Sheehy beaut lesson ideas here, Peggy has given her students a voice in the web 2.0 site blocking debate.Her inspirational sources are linked here. Her students just won a Net Generation Education project competition with their digital story: No Future Left Behind.
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Constructivism - 0 views

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shared by David Hilton on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Heath Sawyer on 25 Mar 09
     
    Links, research and readings on constructivism
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  • David Hilton on 04 May 09
     
    Constructivist theories grew out of the work of a couple of Russians around the time of the Russian Revolution. It is radical subjectivism dressed up as science, and has no scientific credibility whatsoever. It is used by radical educators to push their barrow that nothing the teacher knows is worth the student learning and that all knowledge is innate. It's bullsh*t. Theories like this rot are part of the reason that the bottom has dropped out of Western education and we have a generation who can't write. This should be resisted by any educator with an interest in educational excellence.
  • Ken Stanton on 04 May 09
     
    David, back up your argument. If you think this is junk science, then be a real scientist and substantiate your claim. I'm a very objective thinker and will listen and gladly debate this with you, but having studied this and used it, I'm skeptical of your dissent. It is the only thing that has gotten me through our failed education system, not the reason the system has failed (unless your argument is that our system is failing due to lack of use of constructivist approaches).
  • David Hilton on 13 Jun 09
     
    Constructivism is a prime example of the dangers of deductive reasoning. Instead of starting with evidence from observed reality which the scientific method dictates (inductive reasoning) constructivism starts with theories and then makes the evidence fit the theory or else dismisses it and rationalises it away. It's the same type of thinking that has gotten all ideologues into trouble throughout history, whether it's the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the hippies or the recent Wall Street bankers who drove our economy off a cliff. Any true system of thought must start with the real world as its beginning, or else it's just a bunch of people making stuff up and then defending it despite all evidence to the contrary until the weight of truth destroys them and usually the institutions they've taken over.
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Inanimate Alice - iStori.es - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 25 Apr 09 - Cached
  • iStori.es is a supremely easy-to-use story-telling device that requires no manual.
  • Cut, blend, fade in, push. These cinematic features and many more are available on iStori.es.
  • Inanimate Alice is told in episodes, each one a complete story. However, we are excited by the possibilities for participation created by our tool, iStori.es. Alice can't wait to see how you and your students mash-up and create your own stories! Join our growing community; selected stories created with our tool will be showcased on 'What's your story?'.
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  • The best stories that you share with us will be uploaded to our showcase for everyone to enjoy.
  • Ruth Howard on 25 Apr 09
     
    I've only just discovered Inanimate Alice-here's the software. Incredibly vibrant resource and links to Inanimate Alice.Gob dropping!
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Google For Educators - Web Search - 0 views

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shared by David Hilton on 30 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 30 Jun 09
     
    Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.
  • David Hilton on 05 Aug 09
     
    Might be useful when teaching online source evaluation and the use of search engines to students.
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ICDL - International Children's Digital Library - 1 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 04 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Julie Radachy on 23 Oct 09
     
    You can find a variety of books online, in many languages and reading levels (mostly Elementary). The titles are searchable just as you would in a library catalogue, and you can enlarge the text.
  • Vicki Davis on 31 Dec 11
     
    International Children's Library includes many ebooks that you can download onto your Kindle. The books are organized by grade level and there are over 10,000 of them. (A big hat tip to Peter Fogarty who shared this resource over at the TES forum, a place where I find a ton of great things for my classroom.)
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What Do School Tests Measure? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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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.
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Disposable cameras are used like Flat Stanley « Just About Photography - 0 views

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shared by Mrs. Jepson on 02 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Mrs. Jepson on 02 Aug 09
     
    Great project!
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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Youth drop-out rate hits new high - 0 views

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shared by Fabian Aguilar on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Record numbers of young people are not in school, college or work in England, official figures show.
  • The ranks of 18-24-year-olds considered to be "Neets" - not in education, employment or training - has risen by more than 100,000 in the past year.
  • The statistics show that in total, 835,000 18 to 24-year-olds are now Neets, up from 730,000 for the same quarter last year.
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  • In the second quarter of 2008, 209,000 16 to 18-year-olds were Neets, 24,000 fewer than the same quarter this year.
  • Neets are likely to have low skills and poor experience so the training and work on offer must be meaningful. Otherwise it will just be a stopgap before further unemployment.
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More from Ponoko | Beyond The Beyond - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ponoko and ShopBot announce partnership
  • More than 20,000 online creators meet over 6,000 digital fabricators
  • The launch today of www.100kGarages.com begins a new chapter in how things are made and distributed, enabling anyone with an Internet connection to get almost anything custom made and delivered from local state-of-the-art digital makers.
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  • The website is a partnership between Ponoko, the world’s easiest making system, and ShopBot, a world leader in the design of affordable, high-performance digital making tools. Using the 100kGarages website anyone can get their ideas made locally with the click of a mouse, and delivered within just a few days. It is powered by Ponoko’s online ‘click to make’ system and ShopBot digital fabricators in 54 countries around the world. For the innovators who President Obama called “the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things”, 100kGarages is an exciting new service for everyone who wants to get things made – by making it yourself or finding someone to make it for you.
  • www.100kGarages.com
  • Ponoko, the world’s easiest making system, is an online marketplace for everyone to make real things. It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers meet to make almost anything. More than 30,000 user-generated designs have been instantly priced online, made and delivered since Ponoko was selected to launch at TechCrunch40 in 2007. Ponoko has reinvented how goods are designed, made and distributed
  • ShopBot Tools designs and manufactures low-cost, high-value CNC tools for digital fabrication of wood, plastic and aluminum products.
  • Ruth Howard on 26 Sep 09
     
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twitter_academico - Mario A Núñez on Diigo - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 24 Sep 09
     
    Just checking out others tags in diigo,thanks Mario!
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Tom Vander Ark: The Role of the Private Sector in Education - 0 views

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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.
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How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • what school requires students to do -- think abstractly -- is in fact not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy
  • it is critical that the task be just difficult enough to hold our interest but not so difficult that we give up in frustration. When this balance is struck, it is actually pleasurable to focus the mind for long periods of time
  • Students are ready to understand knowledge but not create it. For most, that is enough. Attempting a great leap forward is likely to fail.
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  • students cannot apply generic "critical thinking skills" (another voguish concept) to new material unless they first understand that material
  • Trying to use "reading strategies" -- like searching for the main idea in a passage -- will be futile if you don't know enough facts to fill in what the author has left unsaid.
  • what is being taught in most of the curriculum -- at all levels of schooling -- is information about meaning, and meaning is independent of form
  • At some point, no amount of dancing will help you learn more algebra
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jul 09
       
      But if you learn dancing AND algebra, you may be better at both, or at least approach each in a more interesting way.
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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.
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FCAT shrinks South Florida's Class of 2009 - Education - MiamiHerald.com - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 11 May 09
     
    This is news for all of us to be aware of. (From the ASCD Brief) Will the public allow this to stand? Will this finally bring this whole issue of high stakes tests to a climax? Will the Gov stand firm and say that the kids just aren't ready to graduate? We've not heard that last of this, for sure.
  • anonymous on 11 May 09
     
    The story of 5600 kids who won't graduate in Florida this year.
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Kindle DX: Sleeper Agent for Amazon's Future | Green Business | Reuters - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 11 May 09 - Cached
  • Bezos was back onstage to announce a new incarnation of the Kindle just three months after unveiling the previous one
  • The paragraph above is partially incorrect. PDFs can be directly dropped into the Kindle via a USB cable. Other documents—Word files, image files, etc.—need to go through the conversion.
  • This great chart from a college-bookstore association shows where all the money goes and also implies that 55.9 percent of textbook costs could be saved if they were delivered digitally, bypassing college bookstores.
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  • Students appear to be the only demographic that the DX is actually well-suited to serve.
  • Vicki Davis on 11 May 09
     
    New kindle DX - 3 months after the other - what is the difference: "the big differences are that the Kindle DX is 4 inches larger than the one you bought last month and comes installed with a PDF reader." $489 price tag Some of my students are reading on their itouch now.
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An invention that could change the internet for ever - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Indep... - 0 views

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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?
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