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Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity - 0 views

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    TED2006, Filmed Feb 2006; posted June 2006. From the description, "Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity."
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    Looking to add "variety in instruction," KP closed her class with the first 6 minutes of this TED talk, week 1, semester 4.
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    TM shared this and several other TED Talks as examples of innovation in her classroom.
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Funn 'n games - 0 views

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    By Karl Rohnke, published by Kendall/Hunt, 2004.
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    ME shared this book in the Teaching forum with the recommendation that it has a good game for students learning each other's names.
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Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki - 0 views

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    This website for the film offers a downloadable study guide and offers to buy the DVD of the film. The film looks at the rise of the military industrial complex in the U.S.
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    SB used this film to queue a writing assignment.
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Khan Academy - 0 views

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    Website offering a library of over 2,400 educational videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercises.
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    AH offered Khan Academy exercises to students as an alternative to homework. In many cases, those who took the Khan option in parallel to their classroom work really improved.
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Grading & Feedback Resources - 0 views

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    Produced by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, these resources are part of a larger library of teaching resources.
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    MAS recommends this page -- especially the peer review and student self-assessment resources -- for helping students learn more about the re-writing process.
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Smarthinking, Inc. - 0 views

www.smarthinking.com

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    This site describes itself as online tutoring and on-demand student support.
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    DS incorporates a Smarthinking.com review along with peer-review and students' own self-assessment, as part of the review of students' drafts.
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Academically adrift : limited learning on college campuses - 0 views

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    By Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, University of Chicago Press, 2011. The authors argue that students learn very little as undergraduates at most colleges and that, often, "an institutional culture...puts undergraduate learning close to the bottom of the priority list."
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    JN uses a summary of this book and it's follow-up study with her students, to help them to think critically and to understand that learning is supposed to be hard and to manage their expectations about good grades.
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John Taylor Gatto - Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling - 0 views

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    Website of John Taylor Gatto. According to his biography (on this website), Gatto was a long-time schoolteacher, eventually winning New York State Teacher of the Year (also multi-winner of NYC Teacher of the Year). He then very publicly quit teaching (that same year) and launched a public-speaking and film-making career, exploring what he feels is wrong with K-12 education.
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    SB mentions Gatto in a post describing readings that he's used that are critical of the current educational system.
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Victim vs. Creator - 0 views

www.collegeofsanmateo.edu/...victimlanguage.pdf

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    From On Course by Skip Downing, posted by College of San Mateo. Downing argues that the difference between "victim" and "creator" helps students take greater responsibility for their education.
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    DW shared the link to victim/creator chart after a discussion of Downing and specifically of this concept.
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Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! - 0 views

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    Speaker: Sir Ken Robinson on Feb 2010; posted May 2010.
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    TM shared this and several other TED videos in the context of innovation in her classroom.
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Math class needs a makeover - 1 views

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    Dan Meyer video lecture on TED.com, posted May 2010.
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    This often-cited video was mentioned in Cohort 1 coffeeklatch and the Pedagogy Matters Jam.
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    TM included this on her list of favorite TED talks.
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On Course - 0 views

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    Website run by Skip Downing, author of On Course: Strategies for Success in College and in Life. The site provides practical applications of the On Course principles (free of charge). Strategies are designed with the goal of empowering students to become active, responsible learners. There are links to descriptions of workshops and to registration options.
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    KG took the On Course course and says "Skip's program changed my life and the way I deal with my students...."
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Math study skills workbook - 0 views

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    By Paul Nolting, published by Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Helps students to assess their math learning style, as well as building math study skills.
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    This book was mentioned in the "radical_ideas" group (Cohort 1) as well as a choice event.
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    Coach BM mentioned this book in the context of teaching study skills in conjunction with developmental math.
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Classroom Assessment Techniques - 0 views

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    Posted by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Iowa State University, authored by Lee Haugen, February 1999. This page provides a great definition of CATs as well as a chart with examples of different assessments, what they test, and why they are important.
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    TM provided this link and other resources as she discussed using CATs in her own classroom.
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The Final Class Sessions: Providing Closure - 0 views

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    Produced by the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota; no author, last modified December 2009. This page provides suggestions for how to end the semester, in order to provide closure for students and to think about what students have done --and learned -- over the course of the semester.
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    TM feels that ending the semester effectively also provides her with some opportunity to have the students assess her work and teaching effectiveness; she shared this page with thoughts on ending the semester.
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What works : research-based practices in developmental education - 0 views

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GSCC 2.0_jam teaching assessment boylan

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    By Hunter R. Boylan, National Center for Developmental Education; published by Continuous Quality Improvement Network with the NCDE, 2002.
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    SB finds Boylan's "is the best book I know of that specifically addresses the developmental classroom and what works."
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Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education - 0 views

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GSCC 2.0_jam teaching post_secondary

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    By Arthur W. Chickering, Zelda F. Gamson and Susan J. Poulsen, published by the Johnson Foundation, 1987.
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    DM refers to this book in this introduction (in reference to his teaching principles), including the ideal that "Effective teaching encourages faculty-student interactions, encourages student-student engagement, provides prompt feedback, and communicates high expectations."
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A troubleshooting guide for writers : strategies and process - 0 views

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    By Barbara Fine Clouse; published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010 (6th edition).
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    DS recommends this book to help developmental English students dispel the myth that they are bad writers and will always be bad writers.
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Math Suks - 0 views

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GSCC 2.0_jam math video humor

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    Performed by Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band, posted to youtube.com, performed March 1999, posted March 2012.
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    SF mentions this song as another example of how it is acceptable and okay to be unable to do math -- and how she would like to change that attitude.
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The United States and the Metric System: A Capsule History - 0 views

www.nist.gov/...1136a.pdf

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    Created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1997; revised in 2002. This document provides a background on the metrics system.
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    In a discussion of how to make math more palatable, AH pointed out that we would have very little use for fractions if we (Americans) adopted the metrics system.
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