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Ruth Howard

Weblogg-ed » Transparency = Leadership - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 07 Apr 09 - Cached
  • build a learning network online, and make your learning as transparent as possible for those around you.
    • Ruth Howard
      Ruth Howard on 07 Apr 09
       
      For me (learner teacher/ learner participant online) the best way to learn is to see the nuts and bolts (the steps) as well as the whole. If I see the integration of "the steps" demonstrated everyday by people around me then I can emulate it all the more easily once I come to the "step by step" process. I may or may not need each step,I'll have begun the process quite a while back. So it's been with Blogging. But if I am transparently demonstrating my own learning and therefor my gaps, what better way to INVITE learning for myself and for others than with an authentic culture of lifelong learning demonstrated anticipated expected?
  • I totally agree
    • Ruth Howard
      Ruth Howard on 07 Apr 09
       
      What if Politicians Economists and Bankers/Mortgage Lenders were in their position by what they contributed to the collective whole? Isnt that what we put them there to do/be?
Mireille Jansma

Supercool School | Facebook - 0 views

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supercool openEducation openLearning network facebook community teaching learning

shared by Mireille Jansma on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • Mireille Jansma on 20 May 09
     
    Supercool School is a system that allows you to coordinate and hold live and interactive online classes. The process starts by creating a request for a class and specifying what you would like to learn. Other users can then join these requests by browsing through the request list, or by being invited by their friends. Once a request is full, the teacher seat opens.
Thomas Ho

Meaningful, Engaged Learning - 0 views

www.ncrel.org/engaged.htm

learning engagement

shared by Thomas Ho on 23 Jul 09 - Cached
  • They are also energized by their learning; their joy of learning leads to a lifelong passion for solving problems, understanding, and taking the next step in their thinking
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 23 Jul 09
       
      I'm like this, BUT my students often are NOT!
  • Collaboration around authentic tasks often takes place with peers and mentors within school as well as with family members and others in the real world outside of school.
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 23 Jul 09
       
      This sounds tailor-made for social networking, doesn't it?
  • artifacts to assess what they actually know and can do.
    • Thomas Ho
      Thomas Ho on 23 Jul 09
       
      a learning STREAM is an artifact created as a "natural" byproduct of the learning process as documented by social media
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  • Instruction encourages the learner to construct and produce knowledge in meaningful ways.
  • Truly collaborative classrooms, schools, and communities encourage students to
  • lead conversations
  • work-related conversations
  • Flexible grouping, which allows teachers to reconfigure small groups according to the purposes of instruction
  • facilitator, guide, and learner
  • they become producers of knowledge, capable of making significant contributions to the world's knowledge
Ted Sakshaug

Voicethread 4 Education » Classroom Partners - 0 views

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voicethread education networking wiki sharing

shared by Ted Sakshaug on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 02 Apr 09
     
    a wiki for teachers to connect their classrooms using VoiceThread
Vicki Davis

DEN Blog Network » Virtual Conference - 0 views

blog.discoveryeducation.com/denvirtcon

education learning technology

shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Apr 09
     
    The Den virtual conference is April 25th! Enjoy and register now! It is free!
anonymous

Wayne Eglinton's RSS Feeds (122) - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Ted Sakshaug on 08 Jun 09
     
    Netvibes is a free web service that brings together your favorite media sources and online services. Everything that matters to you - blogs, news, weather, videos, photos, social networks, email and much more - is automatically updated every time you visit your page.
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.
Fabian Aguilar

American Cultures 2.0 - 0 views

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education students skills

shared by Fabian Aguilar on 11 Aug 09 - Cached
  • If we want students to become citizens who understand their role as a citizen then we need to teach them to understand and respect the power of questions.
  • Without the freedom and courage to ask that paradigm shifting question then progress and innovation would cease to exist and we would become slaves to our past and out-dated solutions.
  • The power of just one word can totally change the meaning of something as intrinsic as national identity.
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  • The more students have an opportunity to read, speak and write the more they are going to understand the power of words.
  • The moment students craft words meant not just for the teacher and a few other peers, but for the wider world, is the moment students learn that a misplaced, mispronounced, or misspelled word has consequences far beyond a grade. These authentic learning opportunities are crucial to prepare students for the new realities of a more global and transparent world.
  • Students (and teachers) need to understand that everything they do communicates, whether they know what they are communicating or not.
  • Once students really figure out who they are and what they stand for then they can more comfortably be themselves. However, an important social skill that many students have difficulty grasping is knowing appropriate social norms in various settings.
  • Anyone can be a teacher... if you are alert and willing to learn from others. We need to teach students to be alert and willing to learn from sources other than textbooks. We need to teach students how to create and cultivate learning from a personal learning network, in order to extend the traditional capabilities of school from the limited hours of the school day to the unlimited hours beyond the school day. The informal classroom of life offers lessons far more valuable than the classroom if only we are open to learning from each other each and every day.
Ed Webb

Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats by AP: Yahoo! Tech - 0 views

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privacy datamining children online

shared by Ed Webb on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered.
  • Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies, music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids.
  • a separate data-mining service called Pulse that taps into the data gathered by Sentry software to give businesses a glimpse of youth chatter online. While other services read publicly available teen chatter, Pulse also can read private chats. It gathers information from instant messages, blogs, social networking sites, forums and chat rooms.
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  • Parents who don't want the company to share their child's information to businesses can check a box to opt out. But that option can be found only by visiting the company's Web site, accessible through a control panel that appears after the program has been installed. It was not in the agreement contained in the Sentry Total Home Protection program The Associated Press downloaded and installed Friday.
Anne Bubnic

Twitter Transforms Teaching - 1 views

brainbasedbiz.blogspot.com/...for-teaching-and-learning.html

twitter education social networking

shared by Anne Bubnic on 13 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 13 Jul 09
     
    Twitter recently tornadoed internet social media platforms, rising to the top. Twitter's now tapped as a teaching and learning tool with opportunities to motivate students and advance achievement.
Maggie Verster

A teen's view of social networking and digital citizenship (thanx @terryfreedman) - 0 views

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school2.0 social-media digitalcitizenship 21st century learning

shared by Maggie Verster on 21 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 21 Apr 09
     
    There is a lot in this: how her class handled a setback created inadvertently by Google, how their teacher laid down the rules and gave tuition on internet safety right up front, how their other teachers are learning from Miller and her classmates, and a lot more.
Clif Mims

SchooNoodle - 0 views

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2.0 Bookmarking Social-Software Collaboration=Telecollaboration Networking

shared by Clif Mims on 24 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 24 Jul 09
     
    FREE online social bookmarking community made exclusively for K-12 educators.
Keith Hamon

Moserware: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection - 0 views

www.moserware.com/...few-milliseconds-of-https.html

https security ssl programming network tls http administrator technology

shared by Keith Hamon on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 16 Jun 09
     
    A wonderful tour through the first 223 milliseconds of your connection to a secure website, in this case Amazon. It will help you appreciate the magic underneath the Web.
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