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Julia Jacobsen

Should Teachers and Students Be Facebook Friends? - ABC News - 0 views

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    My first thought is "why would you want to be friends with your students on facebook?" It depends on the reasons people have a facebook page. If it is, indeed, going to be used as a tool to extend "learning" outside of the classroom, then I believe there are other platforms outside of Facebook. If teachers still want to use this for class, perhaps a better option is having a twitter account for school only where they can update students. I worked for two districts-one told us we were not allowed to be friends with our students and the other just warned against it. Most teachers I know do not add their students because it is a place for their friends where they do not see themselves as some child's teacher, but someone's friend. I know a high school chorus teacher who friends her students, and I think its inappropriate. She posts things about her personal life and they frequently chime in. However, discusses her personal life in class so it may not be that much of a difference than posting it online. I would take action as a teacher if I were disciplined for a facebook post. Ultimately people need to check their privacy settings if they can. There are even issues with friending other teachers. I refused to do this with other teachers, unless we were friends outside of school. I knew of teachers who would tell our principal what was posted on other teachers' pages.
Brigham Hall

Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash and Questions - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    When a teacher writes a lesson plan, does the intellectual property (IP) belong to the teacher, the school, or both? This article discussing the online lesson plan marketplace and the debate over who (teacher, school) gets the proceeds. What do you think?
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    When a teacher writes a lesson plan, does the intellectual property (IP) belong to the teacher, the school, or both? This article discussing the online lesson plan marketplace and the debate over who (teacher, school) gets the proceeds. What do you think?
Tomoko Matsukawa

How Technology Is Empowering Teachers, Minting Millionaires, And Improving Education | ... - 0 views

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    "Legacy costs, ideas and infrastructure have set the table for creative disruption, with technology now offering alternative ways to acquire skills, knowledge, and accolades." This not only talks about transformation among teachers lives (and consequently those of the children thru what the empowered teachers provide) but makes you feel that the way in which teachers are evaluated are taking a whole new stage. More open, more emphasis on its impact and connected. 
Laura Johnson

Education Week: Startups Target Teachers as 'Consumerization' of Education Emerges - 1 views

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    Schools throughout the country are experiencing the same teacher-driven adoption of technology tools. Internet-savvy teachers are increasingly finding tools to use in the classroom on their own, and lower business-startup costs mean the tools are more readily available. In response, many education companies are changing how they market and sell their products. Nationwide sales teams and central-office visits are giving way to word-of-mouth and sophisticated business-intelligence software as preferred methods for pushing adoption. Companies offer free products to teachers with the goal of influencing districtwide purchases of more-robust versions-known as the "freemium" pricing model. But in most sectors of the existing K-12 system-with its various stakeholders, budgetary restrictions, and procurement regulations- the so-called "consumerization" of education faces many barriers, experts say, making it difficult to find the right balance between selling directly to teachers and addressing the needs of central-office administrators.
Jeffrey Siegel

Technology Doesn't Teach, Teachers Teach - 3 views

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    A nice reminder that throwing tech into a classroom solves nothing without proper teacher training. "That is why our investment in upgrading classrooms needs to focus equally on making sure teachers know how to use digital tools effectively." "the motherboard and the memory chip will never replace the passion and inspiration of a real-life teacher."
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    So I think this articles goes along the same lines as the one from Daniel, about "Are Kids Really Motivated by Technology?". Both bring up great points that just technology alone can't solve education--so it's interesting to think about what that means for a lot of the technology-driven initiatives we see now. Khan, digital textbooks, etc., bring in technology to the classroom, but how much do they still depend on teacher proficiency in the classroom? Are they just repackaging traditional education? What about things like Coursera or edX--does interacting with an inspirational and passionate teacher through the Web still positively affect students?
Graham Veth

Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battles - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The system calculates the value teachers add to their students’ achievement, based on changes in test scores from year to year and how the students perform compared with others in their grade.
  • Michelle A. Rhee, the schools chancellor in Washington, fired about 25 teachers this summer after they rated poorly in evaluations based in part on a value-added analysis of scores
  • heir use spread after the 2002 No Child Left Behind law required states to test in third to eighth grades every year, giving school districts mountains of test data that are the raw material for value-added analysis
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    DC is keeping/firing teachers based on "grading" teachers in their successes with their students on standardized tests.
Ayelet R

Shortage of credentialed online teachers prompts discussions on training - The Denver Post - 0 views

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    Is a good teacher a good teacher regardless of the medium, or do online teachers need medium-specific training? The "class pet" idea is great.
Laura Johnson

The Original Personalization App-Great Teachers : Education Next - 1 views

  • “There are great teachers … who have figured out how to personalize education and we are asking our districts to identify them and amplify their reach and impact
  • True, self-paced digital instruction and “learning management systems” that measure students’ progress and prescribe next steps will surely keep improving and increasingly personalize learning
  • But the competition criteria recognize that all of these tools are much more likely to propel student learning if more students have proven excellent teachers in charge of their learning
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  • The original personalized learning app is having an excellent teacher
  • Excellent teachers need new school models to personalize learning for more students.
  • Last but not least, excellent teachers can spread their personalizing techniques, materials, and attitudes to peers.
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    Contrasting perspective on what is needed for personalized learning - related to the NETP's section on Learning 
Doug Pietrzak

Colleges blasted over teacher preparation; deans blast back. - chicagotribune.com - 0 views

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    a push to increase teacher quality by ranking quality of teacher prep programs
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "There is a widespread belief among teachers that students' constant use of digital technology is hampering their attention spans and ability to persevere in the face of challenging tasks, according to two surveys of teachers being released on Thursday. "
Irina Uk

Education Week: Educators Craft Own Math E-Books for Common Core - 1 views

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    This article describes the efforts that individual teachers in Utah are making to rewrite textbooks to be aligned to the standards that they are teaching in class. These teachers are writing eBooks and getting a lot of positive feedback from state officials because of the use of technology to meet student needs. They did not have a textbook that fit their integrated approach to teaching math, which they aligned to CCSS, so they took the matter of creating a textbook into their own hands. I think this is a prelude to how textbook creation is changing as a result of technology. Teachers are now able to construct books in a way that fit exactly the objectives they are covering and meeting there students where they are at.
Simon Rodberg

Infographic on What Teachers Think about Technology - 1 views

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    1) I love love love infographics. 2) Surprising data here. Is it that teachers overestimate themselves, or we underestimate teachers?
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    3) Oops, posted before I read the fine print: "WeAreTeachers conducted an online survey...The data reported is representative of teachers who completed the survey and not projectable to the population of US school teachers." Bad on me; irresponsible of them.
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    An interesting array of tools (I wasn't aware of some of them) for flipped classrooms from blogs to LMSs , YouTube..
Jennifer Hern

Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Field experiences that pair a preservice teacher with an experienced teacher who acts as a mentor while picking up information on how to use the latest technology tools are essential
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      ??? Mentoring sounds great... but aren't veteran teachers less likely to use technology in the classroom since they are less familiar with available technology (on the whole)? Most veteran teachers I worked with loathed even searching the Internet.
  • teacher residency program
  • spends the first year out of school as an apprentice to a veteran teacher.
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  • compares the arrangement to a medical residency.
Maung Nyeu

Teachers learning new technology - 1 views

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    ""As much as we are here to serve the teachers, it is the students who ultimately benefit from the integration of technology in the classrooms," she said. "Students who once felt that they had to 'power down' to go to class, are now experiencing 21st century skills and styles of learning - because their teachers are better able to utilize the tools of the digital age.""
Uche Amaechi

Meet self-made millionaire ... teacher? - 1 views

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    An interview with the "million dollar teacher"
Chris Dede

Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    The important thing is not the use of technology, but the new types of content, pedagogy, assessment...
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    I just logged on to post the same article! The interesting perspective that I got from the article was that the teachers continued to harp on this idea that in order to retain student's attention they needed to constantly "tap-dance" for their class. Instead of learning from this attention shift, teachers are becoming annoyed by it. Use the technology to give the responsibility of engagement to the students and only wear the tap shoes when necessary to facilitate a deeper understanding etc.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

Rules to Stop Pupil and Teacher From Getting Too Social Online - 1 views

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    TECHNOLOGY MAKES TEACHERS LESS FREE? Faced with scandals and complaints involving teachers who misuse social media, school districts across the country are imposing strict new guidelines that ban private conversations between teachers and their students on cellphones and online platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

How Do We Train Teachers in Formative Assessment? - Teacher Beat - Education Week - 2 views

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    "The best professional-development research shows that teachers need sustained contact hours (between 30 and 100) of training before altering their practices. So, she did a back-of-the envelope calculation about how much time it would take to implement 50 hours of formative-assessment training over the course of a school year...... Teachers would need about six hours a month, for eight months, which amounts to one early-close afternoon a month plus two additional hours. (Good luck with that in this economy.)"
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    Perhaps this is where technology can play an enabling role. Easy to use and real-time tools like Socrative or technology based learning environments with embedded formative assessments (like my formative assessment design proposal for VPA) could help reduce the time / training barriers for teachers to incorporate formative assessment into the teaching practice. At the very least, new curriculum initiatives aligned with common core standards SHOULD BE REQUIRED to incorporate formative-assessments. Unfortunately on PARCC is. "Of the two assessment consortia, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is not developing formative-assessment resources as part of its federal grant. The other consortium, known as SMARTER Balanced, is."
James Glanville

Idaho Teachers Fight a Reliance on Computers - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    Good article highlighting the tension created by Idaho's push to incorporate online-learning and computers into state education. 
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    Great article James! THey show the full range of teachers' reachtion to top down directives. I wonder what their reaction would be if the directive was NOT about technology but rather a requirement to customize instruction. Customization is too hard to do as an individual teacher. You would have to rely on technology to get it done. I love the teacher who insists that she teaches kids "how to think" by using her lecture style. Oh Boy!
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