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Brendan Murphy

How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education leaders - 16 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010100705078.html

shared by Brendan Murphy on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • has left our school districts impotent and, worse, has robbed millions of children of a real future
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      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!
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      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!
  • District leaders also need the authority to use financial incentives to attract and retain the best teachers.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      And yet, studies show that merit pay doesn't work!
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      That's right. Socio-emotional learning, one of the most important kinds for the development of good citizens, defies standardized testing.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      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.
  • but let's stop pretending that everyone who goes into the classroom has the ability and temperament to lift our children to excellence.
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      Wow. Straw man. Who's pretending? Let's stop flogging our administrators and stop slapping our policemen too...
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  • We must equip educators with the best technology available to make instruction more effective and efficient. By better using technology to collect data on student learning and shape individualized instruction, we can help transform our classrooms and lessen the burden on teachers' time.
    • Michael Walker
      Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
       
      Yes, the most effective way to use technology in the classroom is to gather data...NOT! What about providing the technology so the students can create meaning and learn?
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      I've found that administrators aren't too interested in individualized instruction, even though they say so. What they want is higher scores on "common assessments" whether or not this benefits individual learners. Humanities teachers have always been frustrated by this, and now science teachers are frustrated too. They're not allowed to help students achieve excellence in areas that are exactly the right amount of challenge for each student. Instead, they're still forced to "cover everything" for each student, in spite of the fact that this does not benefit students who haven't mastered the material to a point of competence. Weird.
  • For the wealthiest among us, the crisis in public education may still seem like someone else's problem, because those families can afford to choose something better for their kids. But it's a problem for all of us -- until we fix our schools, we will never fix the nation's broader economic problems. Until we fix our schools, the gap between the haves and the have-nots will only grow wider and the United States will fall further behind the rest of the industrialized world in education, rendering the American dream a distant, elusive memory.
    • t jaffe-notier
      t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
       
      How can we recruit excellent teachers to schools that need them the most when our best proposed solutions don't reward teachers for taking on a challenge?
  • taking advantage of online lessons and other programs
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      This is code for let's pay online educators $12 an hour to teach and remove the cost of those expensive buildings.
  • replace or substantially restructure persistently low-performing schools that continuously fail our students.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      Can we start at the very top and fire the superintendents?
  • charter schools a truly viable option
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
       
      No they aren't a viable option, they are labratories.
  • Michael Walker on 08 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
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  • Dean Mantz on 08 Oct 10
     
    New York Times "How we can fix our schools"
  • t jaffe-notier on 11 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
  • Brendan Murphy on 20 Oct 10
     
    This article is ripe for Diigo commentary!
Clif Mims

onFizz.org - 0 views

www.onfizz.org

digital dual-coding idt7060=8060 idt7078 journalism k-12-education language-arts learning presentations teaching video visualization web 2.0

shared by Clif Mims on 15 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 15 Jul 08
     
    A safe alternative for broadcasting your classroom. FIZZ provides technology, professional development, digital cameras, and support. Be sure to check out the example school site at http://yourschool.onfizz.org.
Clif Mims

Flowgram - 0 views

www.flowgram.com

2.0 Mashup Presentations Audio Video Dual-Coding Tutorial Virtual-Tours

shared by Clif Mims on 08 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 08 Jan 09
     
    Easily combine webpages, photos, presentation files, etc.so that you and your students can create interactive guided presentations and virtual tours.
Alice Barr

- Animoto: Education - - 0 views

biz.animoto.com/...overview.html

video web_2.0_tools

shared by Alice Barr on 30 May 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 30 May 08
     
    Animoto gives free full length video capabilities to educators. So cool!
  • Vicki Davis on 30 May 08
     
    Brooksie over at CD Tech (http://gcedtech.blogspot.com/2008/04/animoto.html) showed me this. Brooksie left a message introducing me to her blog on yesterday's post and wow, I learned something new! Animoto will giv eyou a FREE code to make full length videos on animoto! This is a really cool free tool but we've been using the 30 second version! I didn't know we could use the full version for fREE! Wow! So cool
Vicki Davis

My Membership - Group Widget | Diigo Groups - 0 views

groups.diigo.com/...group_widget

diigo edu_newapp

shared by Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
     
    Group widget for the Educators Diigo Group
  • Vicki Davis on 29 Mar 08
     
    This is where you can get the code for the group with the standard tags for educators.
Ruth Howard

willrich45 shared http://planetkodu.com/course/2010/02/24/before-we-begin/ - 10 views

link.social.com/...92Ev0g

gaming course willrich45 shared http Richard Olsen Planet Kodu open courseware science math technology bestpractices digitalcitizenship professionaldevelopment elementary middleschool

shared by Ruth Howard on 27 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 27 Feb 10
     
    Open courseware game development Melbourne based IdeasLab 5 week course free- starts mon 1st March -based on connectivist ideas.Enroll your students/selves. I wont be at this time but Im interested as an observer- in games as a medium for learners especially youth. I would love to have a go to see how even with no programming/coding etc can I facilitate this?
Clif Mims

Read the Words - 7 views

www.readthewords.com/Default.aspx

2.0 Video Audio Dual-Coding Language-Arts ESL

shared by Clif Mims on 04 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 04 Mar 10
     
    Free text to speech voices. --Alternative methods to process written information. --Can be used to assist non-readers/struggling readers. --Helpful in ESL/EFL classrooms
Julie Shy

Sweet Search - 11 views

www.sweetsearch.com

search_engines

shared by Julie Shy on 26 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Mark Moran on 26 Jan 10
     
    SweetSearch (http://www.sweetsearch.com/), A Search Engine for Students, is a free custom search engine that searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by our team of Web research experts. It excludes unreliable sites that often rank high in other search engines and waste students' time. With only credible results to evaluate, students can focus their energy on determining which results are most relevant to their research. Here are but two examples where SweetSearch's results are far superior to those of Google or Bing: "Shakespeare" http://bit.ly/7Reg7p vs. http://bit.ly/6lUphg vs. http://bit.ly/6ycRcZ "War of 1812" http://bit.ly/87HMYn vs. http://bit.ly/57hoOO vs. http://bit.ly/5L7xiz It's not just that we exclude obvious spam sites; we also usually exclude marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor, and thus are not citable. As importantly, many of the best academic resources on the Web, such as university or other .edu web sites, make little effort to optimize their search rankings and thus often don't appear till the 3rd or 4th page of Google results. Because SweetSearch searches a smaller, more qualified pool of sites, these academic sites often appear on the 1st page of SweetSearch results. And to most students, the 1st page is the only one that exists. To place a SweetSearch search box on your own Web site, copy the code for our widget onto your site: http://www.sweetsearch.com/widget.html
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  • Ken Stanton on 26 Jan 10
     
    this search engine is quite biased, at least in its "sponsored" results at the top of the page. It appears that a separate search engine is providing these, based on the note in the corner of the search that reads "More results from findingDulcinea".
  • Mark Moran on 26 Jan 10
     
    Ken, findingDulcinea is owned by the same company as SweetSearch. Most search engines put paid advertising links, which are never helpful to students, in the sponsored ads box. SweetSearch puts the most relevant content from findingDulcinea, and clearly labels it as such.
  • yc c on 26 Aug 10
     
       Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts. School Librarians, organized by subject and academic level, Biographies for profiles of 1,000+ significant people...
  • Clif Mims on 18 Jun 11
     
    "SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved."
  • Julie Shy on 06 Jun 12
     
        Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.         SweetSearch Web Research Tutorial Teaches Web Research Skills to Educators and Students.  SweetSearch4Me is our search engine for emerging learners.      
Adrienne Michetti

OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/Design Fundamentals/Key Design Principles - OLPC - 0 views

wiki.laptop.org/...Key_Design_Principles

shared by Adrienne Michetti on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • n which provides a low floor to the inexperienced, but doesn't impose a ceiling upon those who are.
  • tailored to the needs of children in the context of their learning
  • n activity ring that contains icons representing each instance of an open activity
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  • limitations
  • mphasis on discoverability and usability
  • the actual behavior of the activities, the layout of the buttons and tools, and the feedback that the interface provides to the children when they interact with it
  • there is no substitute for user testing
  • imple doesn't necessarily mean limited
  • simple—even minimal—controls can have great expressive power.
  • a "fail-soft" approach to their designs
  • five categories of "bad things" software can do: damaging the laptop; compromising privacy; damaging the children's data; doing bad things to other people; and impersonating the child.
  • without the use of menus, pop-up boxes, passwords, etc., as these approaches are meaningless to most people.
  • no noticeable side-effects
  • When children know they have a fallback plan—a way back to the current state of things—they will much more frequently go beyond their comfortable boundaries and experiment with new tools and new creative means of expression
  • the ability to undo one's actions.
  • Interoperability
  • Towards this end, a view source key has been added to the laptop keyboards, providing them with instant access to the code that enables the activities that they use from day to day. This key will allow those interested to peel away layers of abstraction, digging deeper into the codebase as they learn.
  • (without a mouse or trackpad)
Nelly Cardinale

Slide - slideshows, slide shows, photo sharing, image hosting, widgets, MySpace codes, web publishing, music - Slide - 7 views

www.slide.com

web2.0links Slide_show photo_sharing

shared by Nelly Cardinale on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Nelly Cardinale on 22 Mar 10
     
    Slide lets you use photos and other digital content to publish and discover the people and things that matter to you.
Ben Rimes

Education Software for Schools: Free Software, Open Source | School Forge - 18 views

www.schoolforge.net

schoolforge developer coding sis opensource

shared by Ben Rimes on 28 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ben Rimes on 04 Feb 11
     
    Open source educational tools development site for school. Large projects including student information systems, utilities, anti-virus and more. Fun take on the Sourceforge concept of open-source commercial developers.
Nelly Cardinale

C++ tips and code snippets - 2 views

www.cpp-tips.net

computer_programming_educators C++ tutorials

shared by Nelly Cardinale on 12 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Nelly Cardinale on 12 Apr 10
     
    Great tutorial for beginners in the C++ language.
Brendan Murphy

A Culture of School Discipline - Inside the School - 16 views

www.insidetheschool.com/...a-culture-of-school-discipline

shared by Brendan Murphy on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • Kids were disrespectful to teachers, and teachers were impatient with kids
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 21 May 10
       
      We can sometimes cause our own discipline problems.
  • how does a school get to the point that my school was at when I first arrived? In this particular case, there had been a series of administrative turnovers, so every couple of years the priorities changed. There was no adopted discipline code, so school discipline was something that was randomly applied to individual students rather than a part of the entire school culture. Teachers felt that they were not supported by administration, and some students realized that there were few in any consequences for poor behavior (the student who hit the opposing player earned the first suspension in years). Some teachers just gave up; others became angry. Still others were intimidated. Teacher absenteeism was high.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 21 May 10
       
      We first create our own problems because we don't have an district/school wide plan or if we do it isn't being followed.
  • The school turnaround didn’t occur overnight, but at the end of two years of consistent application of the discipline plan
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 21 May 10
       
      As with all change in education it takes time and consistant application
Dave Truss

100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School - Eternal Code - 35 views

www.eternalcode.com/t-will-save-you-time-in-school

google googledocs

shared by Dave Truss on 25 May 10 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 25 May 10
     
    From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
Claude Almansi

Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5 - The official Google Code blog - 11 views

googlecode.blogspot.com/...onvert-swf-files-to-html5.html

HTML5 flash swf converter google Swiffy technology

shared by Claude Almansi on 10 Oct 11 - No Cached
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  • Claude Almansi on 10 Oct 11
     
    Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5 By Marcel Gordon, Product Manager, Swiffy "Some Google projects really do start from one person hacking around. Last summer, an engineering intern named Pieter Senster joined the mobile advertising team to explore how we could display Flash animations on devices that don't support Adobe Flash player. Pieter made such great progress that Google hired him full time and formed a team to work on the project. Swiffy was born! Today we're making the first version of Swiffy available on Google Labs. You can upload a SWF file, and Swiffy will produce an HTML5 version which will run in modern browsers with a high level of SVG support such as Chrome and Safari. It's still an early version, so it won't convert all Flash content, but it already works well on ads and animations. We have some examples of converted SWF files if you want to see it in action."
anonymous

Add Gadget to Your Webpage - 0 views

www.gmodules.com/...creator

gadget googleearth

shared by anonymous on 25 Aug 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Aug 09
     
    Embed this Google Earth player on your webpage. Point it to a kmz tour file. This is great! Check out this example: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/07/best_google_earth_tour_to_date_apol.html
  • anonymous on 25 Aug 09
     
    Embed this Google Earth player on your webpage. Point it to a kmz tour file. This is great!
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