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Bonnie Sutton

Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner - 0 views

12/13/11 Students are different today because of technology. Every educator knows this, of course, but this change is about much more than agile thumbs, shriveling attention spans, and OMG'd vocabu...

ctia. broadband mobility social nerworks new learner smart phones

started by Bonnie Sutton on 02 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

Michelle Rhee's empty claims about her D.C. schools record - 1 views

Michelle Rhee's empty claims about her D.C. schools record http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/michelle-rhees-empty-claims-about-her-dc-schools-record/2012/01/30/gIQAATFjdQ_blo...

Rhee false test data reporting Shanker Institute

started by Bonnie Sutton on 31 Jan 12 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

The True Cost of High School Dropouts - 3 views

The True Cost of High School Dropouts By HENRY M. LEVIN and CECILIA E. ROUSE Published: January 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/the-true-cost-of-high-school-dropouts.html ...

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Bonnie Sutton

Digital Learning Day - 0 views

Digital Learning Day - A Movement's Defining Moment by Ferdi Serim Posted on February 1st, 2012 Digital Learning Day - A Movement's Defining Moment By Ferdi Serim With over four times the partici...

Ferdi Serim Digital Learning Day

started by Bonnie Sutton on 01 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

Microsoft Wins TEACH Campaign from the Education Dept - 0 views

Microsoft wins TEACH campaign from Education Dept By Valerie Strauss http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/microsoft-wins-teach-campaign-from-education-dept/2011/11/13/gIQA5t5bMN_bl...

Microsoft education department teach doe

started by Bonnie Sutton on 15 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Vanessa Vaile

Dracula, Chapter 10 - 0 views

www.gutenberg.org/...345-h.htm

Dracula Coursera fantasysf Unit3

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 12 Aug 12 - No Cached
    • Vanessa Vaile
      Vanessa Vaile on 12 Aug 12
       
      confinement theme ~ includes knowledge as well as bodies, women, infection
  • "The good husbandman tell you so then because he knows, but not till then
  • When I described Lucy's symptoms, the same as before, but infinitely more marked, he looked very grave, but said nothing.
  • ...40 more annotations...
  • spiritual pathology,
  • She was ghastly, chalkily pale.
  • Her breathing was painful to see or hear.
  • I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her."
  • She wants blood, and blood she must have or die
  • transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins
  • of blood so pure
  • the narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle
  • deep hiss of indrawn breath
  • What do you make of that mark on her throat?"
  • There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn looking, as if by some trituration. It at once occurred to me that that this wound, or whatever it was, might be the means of that manifest loss of blood.
  • The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally.
  • looked at me gratefully whenever I caught her eye
  • You do not want to sleep?"
  • "Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for."
  • "Ah, not if you were like me, if sleep was to you a presage of horror!"
  • All this weakness comes to me in sleep,
  • "But, my dear girl, you may sleep tonight. I am here watching you, and I can promise that nothing will happen." "Ah, I can trust you!" she said.
  • All night long I watched by her. She never stirred, but slept on and on in a deep, tranquil, life-giving, health-giving sleep.
  • It was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.
  • I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about everything.
  • Somehow Arthur feels very, very close to me.
  • DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 10 September.--I was conscious of the Professor's hand on my head, and started awake all in a second. That is one of the things that we learn in an asylum, at any rate.
  • There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever.
  • the faint seemed to merge subtly into the narcotic sleep.
  • how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how she could have been drained of so much blood with no sign any where to show for it
  • "Now you go home, and eat much and drink enough. Make yourself strong. I stay here tonight, and I shall sit up with little miss myself.
  • In the hall two of the maids came to me, and asked if they or either of them might not sit up with Miss Lucy.
  • For over and over again have I seen similar instances of woman's kindness.
  • waiting for sleep. It is coming.
  • 11 September.--This afternoon I went over to Hillingham. Found Van Helsing in excellent spirits, and Lucy much better.
  • "No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in what I do, and I warn you that you do not thwart me.
  • No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions.
    • Vanessa Vaile
      Vanessa Vaile on 13 Aug 12
       
      more confinement of information ~ characters are also always saying don't tell, don't say anything about. etc.   Also the effect of Victorian reticence it to sequester knowledge and information
  • you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit."
  • we left the house in my fly,
    • Vanessa Vaile
      Vanessa Vaile on 13 Aug 12
       
      another means of transportation
  • Tonight I can sleep in peace, and sleep I want,
  • remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror
  • weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend
Vanessa Vaile

Dracula - 0 views

www.gutenberg.org/...345-h.htm

shared by Vanessa Vaile on 12 Aug 12 - No Cached
    • Vanessa Vaile
      Vanessa Vaile on 12 Aug 12
       
      the churches and church yards frequently mentioned are also sanctuaries
  • Jonathan Harker's Journal (Kept in shorthand)
  • He is a funny old man. He must be awfully old, for his face is gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree.
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  • I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting things from, so I asked him if he would mind telling me something about the whale fishing in the old days.
  • when the clock struck six
  • -I came up here an hour ago with Lucy, and we had a most interesting talk with my old friend and the two others who always come and join him. He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them
  • Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock. She has got a beautiful colour since she has been here.
  • I got him on the subject of the legends, and he went off at once into a sort of sermon.
  • bans an' wafts an' boh-ghosts an' bar-guests an' bogles an' all anent
  • Surely these tombstones are not all wrong?"
  • 'Here lies the body' or 'Sacred to the memory' wrote on all of them, an' yet in nigh half of them there bean't no bodies at all,
  • Do ye think that all these men will have to make a rush to Whitby when the trumpet sounds?
    • Vanessa Vaile
      Vanessa Vaile on 12 Aug 12
       
      Whitby as a place of bones
  • she told me all over again about Arthur and their coming marriage. That made me just a little heart-sick, for I haven't heard from Jonathan for a whole month.
  • The same day. I came up here alone, for I am very sad. There was no letter for me. I hope there cannot be anything the matter with Jonathan. The clock has just struck nine.
  • I wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.
  • DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
  • The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to understand the man. He has certain qualities very largely developed, selfishness, secrecy, and purpose.
  • Just now his hobby is catching flies
  • He has turned his mind now to spiders
  • he argued quietly that it was very good and very wholesome, that it was life, strong life, and gave life to him.
  • he keeps a little notebook in which he is always jotting down something
  • He has managed to get a sparrow, and has already partially tamed it. His means of taming is simple, for already the spiders have diminished
  • We are progressing. My friend has now a whole colony of sparrows
  • I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.
  • took away his pocketbook to look at it. The thought that has been buzzing about my brain lately is complete, and the theory proved.
  • I shall have to invent a new classification for him
  • zoophagous (life-eating) maniac
  • If I could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there, a good, unselfish cause to make me work,
  • MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL
  • yesterday dear Mr. Hawkins, who is always so kind, sent me a letter from him
  • only a line dated from Castle Dracula, and says that he is just starting for home. That is not like Jonathan. I do not understand it, and it makes me uneasy.
  • has lately taken to her old habit of walking in her sleep
  • Mr. Holmwood, he is the Hon. Arthur Holmwood, only son of Lord Godalming, is coming up here very shortly
  • 27 July.--No news from Jonathan. I am getting quite uneasy about him
  • 6 August.--Another three days, and no news.
  • Lucy is more excitable than ever, but is otherwise well. Last night was very threatening, and the fishermen say that we are in for a storm. I must try to watch it and learn the weather signs.
  • I have been quite touched by the change in the poor old man. When he sat down beside me, he said in a very gentle way, "I want to say something to you, miss."
  • Here comes old Mr. Swales
  • I didn't mean them, and I want ye to remember that when I'm gone
  • My time must be nigh at hand now,
  • He stopped to talk with me, as he always does, but all the time kept looking at a strange ship.
  • "I can't make her out," he said. "She's a Russian, by the look of her. But she's knocking about in the queerest way.
  • She is steered mighty strangely
  • "There's something in that wind and in the hoast beyont that sounds, and looks, and tastes, and smells like death. It's in the air. I feel it comin'.
  • he got up, shook hands with me, and blessed me, and said goodbye
Bonnie Sutton

Call for Chapters Common Core Mathematics Standards and Implementation of Digital Techn... - 0 views

http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditoCommon Core Mathematics Standards and Implementing Digital Technologies 9 Editors: Drew Polly, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Call f...

mathematical educators educational technology common core standards

started by Bonnie Sutton on 20 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

A Perfect Storm Hits Public Schools - 1 views

By Anthony Cody on February 22, 2012 11:35 AM http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/02/a_perfect_storm_hits_public_sc.html Guest post by Steven Sellers Lapham. Note: Steven Sel...

Department of Duncan ESEA NCLB education reform standardized tests teacher evaluation

started by Bonnie Sutton on 23 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

Introducing Programming to Preschoolers - 1 views

http://mindshift.kqed.org/2012/02/introducing-programming-to-preschoolers/ Introducing Programming to Preschoolers | MindShift "What's most important to me is that young children start to develop...

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Jim Shimabukuro

Rupert Murdoch uses eG8 to talk up net's power to transform education | Media | guardian.co.uk - 6 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...g8-invest-education-technology

rupert murdoch uses

shared by Jim Shimabukuro on 02 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Jim Shimabukuro on 02 Jun 11
     
    "Rupert Murdoch uses eG8 to talk up net's power to transform education News Corp chairman claims 'Victorian' schools are 'last holdout from digital revolution' Kim Willsher in Paris guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 May 2011 18.10 BST Rupert Murdoch, the News Corporation founder and chairman, used his address to the eG8 Forum in Paris on Tuesday to call for more investment in education and "unlocking the potential" of the world's children. Murdoch said it was not a question of putting a computer in every school, but concentrating on opening up opportunities for youngsters to flourish by using targeted and tailored software. News Corp moved into the $500bn (£310bn) US education sector in late 2010, paying about $360m in cash for 90% of technology company Wireless Generation, which provides mobile and web software to enable teachers to use data to assess student progress and deliver personalised learning."
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  • Jim Shimabukuro on 02 Jun 11
     
    From Harry Keller
  • Claude Almansi on 02 Jun 11
     
    Interesting contrast with Murdoch's attitude in 2009 - see http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/murdoch-google - but is it really a contrast?
  • Harry Keller on 02 Jun 11
     
    We've had Ely Broad, Bill Gates, and a host of other billionaires (even George Lucas) attempting to "fix" our education system. They're not doing so well. What is so interesting to me about Murdoch, despite his pirate-like business practices, is that he sees what I think is the real direction for the future of education. Oddly unlike his right-wing colleagues, he's not pushing for vouchers or more school privatization. Unlike the technocrats, he's not pushing for more and more computers in schools. He sees the solution to our schooling problems as "targeted and tailored software." Many (maybe most) countries, including the U.S., lack the political will as societies to fix education the way that Finland did. Software is the other path. Much discussion today centers around the platform. Will we use smart phones or e-tablets or netbooks? Will we see $1 apiece apps as the learning modules or cloud-based solutions? Will our new learning software run on iOS or Android? All of that is window dressing and barely worthy of discussion. For me, Murdoch hit the nail on the head. We have too little software "targeted and tailored" to education or, at least, too little highly professional quality software.
  • Claude Almansi on 04 Jun 11
     
    Errh yes about Murdoch pushing "targeted and tailored software" , Harry. But see also: "News Corp moved into the $500bn (£310bn) US education sector in late 2010, paying about $360m in cash for 90% of technology company Wireless Generation, which provides mobile and web software to enable teachers to use data to assess student progress and deliver personalised learning." So he is doing at software level what Microsoft etc were doing at hardware - and at times software - level: promoting his wares in a very juicy market. We've had "targeted and tailored to education" software for decades, now: LMSs, addons to office suites, etc. Some good, some bad. The problem with software that is targeted and tailored to education is that it is a) often boring; b) perforce based on an abstract general idea of education; c) often remote from what gets used outside school. Would it not be better to train teachers in adapting whatever software is generally available, be it desktop or on the cloud, to fit their and their specific students' needs?
  • Harry Keller on 04 Jun 11
     
    My point is simply that Murdoch gets it. His motives don't have to be pure for us all to benefit from the light he's shining on educational technology. Regarding the software, your points are well-taken. However, one extra qualification must be added. The software must be "good." That means it must avoid the problems you list.
  • Harry Keller on 05 Jun 11
     
    "Would it not be better to train teachers in adapting whatever software is generally available, be it desktop or on the cloud, to fit their and their specific students' needs?' I disagree with this analysis. Software not created for educational purposes will only adapt so far. It is, for example, word processing substituting for paper and pencil. That's worthy of doing but really makes no difference in instruction. When software is created specifically for learning, it can reach much more deeply into the learning processes. It's not just peripheral but central to learning. You can adapt lots of software to education in lots of ways, and I've read of many very clever adaptations. Almost all could be done without the use of a computer, albeit somewhat less efficiently but nonetheless effectively. I read Murdoch's call, which echoes something I've been saying for many years, as meaning that we have to build software that answers the necessities of learning. We don't have much today.
  • Claude Almansi on 05 Jun 11
     
    Taking up your example of word processing as substitute for pen and pencil , Harry: true, and that's what I retorted in the late 1990's to a digitalophobe academic, when we met about the Italian translation of one of his books, and he boasted of having got a letter from a publisher saying he was their last author to deliver typescripts on paper and not as a digital file. I pointed out that cut and paste, copy and paste (the things he particularly hated the ease of in digital media) existed in the real world looooooong before computers, let alone PCs, let alone the Web. And yet... in 2007 I was asked to set up at very short notice an intensive preliminary French workshop for participants in a master course in intercultural studies: though in Lugano, the course was to be in French and English. I asked for access to the Moodle for the course, to store course materials there etc. The organizers refused: "The Moodle will only be explained to the students in the first week of the course proper". The idea that graduate students needed to have a Moodle explained to them in 2007 seemed peregrine, but rather than arguing, I set up a for-free wiki instead. At our first meeting, the students asked why we weren't using the Moodle, I repeated the official explanation, they laughed and got the hang of the wiki immediately. Then, for reading comprehension, they chose one of the assigned texts for the course: a longish book chapter they had received by e-mail as a grayish PDF based on a low-resolution scan, based on a reduced photocopy to make 2 pages fit on an A4 sheet: i.e. with no margin to take notes on. So we printed the PDF, separated the pages with scissors, pasted the separate pages with glue sticks on new A4 sheets, to get wider margins to write in. And then we made a wiki page for it, copied in it the subheadings, between which the students, added the notes they were taking, working in groups on the new paper version. Result: http://micusif.wikispaces.com/Vinsonneau
Bonnie Sutton

The Physics of Animation - 4 views

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/physicsanimation.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent Ann Kellan, Science Nation Producer The best animators k...

started by Bonnie Sutton on 13 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

-The hardest thing about imagining the future of public education is that the present i... - 1 views

San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Mike Cassidy column [San Jose Mercury News, Calif.] July 23--The hardest thing about imagining the future of public education is that the present is so terribly b...

public education terribly bleak out of the box teach relevant skills experiment preparing students for future

started by Bonnie Sutton on 24 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

Comcast Begins Program To Offer Inexpensive Internet Access & Computers To Low-Income F... - 1 views

Comcast Begins Program To Offer Inexpensive Internet Access & Computers To Low-Income Families http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/08/03/comcast-begins-program-to-offer-inexpensive-internet-acce...

resources for providing low cost Comcast inexpensive internet income families

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Bonnie Sutton

Social Justice and Equity - 1 views

http://blog.fedcan.ca/2011/05/20/equity-and-social-justice-from-the-inside-out-ten-commitments-of-a-multicultural-educ Equity and social justice from the inside-out: Ten commitments of a multicultu...

Muticultural Pavillion pluralism social justice strategies for equity

started by Bonnie Sutton on 12 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

What Do We Need to Power Next Generation Assessment Systems? - 2 views

Press Releases Contact: Geoffrey Fletcher Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives and Communications 206-408-7125 gfletcher@setda.org http://www.setda.org/ ...

Assessmen Systems technology in American schools Next Generation assessment

started by Bonnie Sutton on 01 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the... - 2 views

(Summer 2011) http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16509 The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City reviewed by Noel S. Anderson ...

urban politics economy neoliberalism race city

started by Bonnie Sutton on 03 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

STEM TO STEAM - 1 views

Collect articles and browse other HuffPost members' collections. I'm one of many nerds who started programming with an Apple II. I bought the first Mac in 1984, right before I got on a plane t...

STEM to STEAM American Competitiveness art and design iPod

started by Bonnie Sutton on 07 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Bonnie Sutton

The New Academic Publishing: Digital First - 2 views

The New Academic Publishing: Digital First http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/the-new-academic-publishing-digital-first/ Filed in: Schools Filed by Sarah J. 7.11.11 | A growing grou...

Publishing digital content academic journals. white papers reports Scholarly blogs and projects.

started by Bonnie Sutton on 16 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
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