By sophomore year, they say, college students have gained little ground in any of these areas. What do these three measures have in common? They ask students to think about language less intuitively and instead as a system with rules.
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Why Every Professor Needs Linguistics 101 - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views
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That's a huge leap in one sentence. How so? What's the evidence that weaknesses in these three areas are language-based?
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Increasing Teacher Diversity - 3 views
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Strategies for increasing teacher diversity. Includes case studies. Big report, not an article.
Design Thinking for Educators - 6 views
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free pdf download
Math Learning Disabilities Linked to Poor 'Gut Sense' of Numbers - MSN Health - Health ... - 2 views
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remarkably imprecise intuitive sense of numbers,
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Interesting article about early indicators of math LD
Keyboard for iPad - 4 views
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Cool looking--my mom needs this and she'll never need a computer again.
Innovative Schools, Innovative Students: Keynote slides and specific applicat... - 1 views
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Jonathan E. Martin's blog entry for his NCAIS Innovate talk
Is deep reading a thing of the past? - Books - NewsObserver.com - 2 views
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This article also appeared in the Charlotte Observer. The question I have is "how can we teach students to read deeply online?" Because online text isn't going away.
20 Facts about Social Media that will make you go wow ! | Mccollins Media - 5 views
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Interesting and fun for sharing with colleagues who say "I don't have time for. . . "
Brain Imaging Predicts Future Reading Progress In Children With Dyslexia - 0 views
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Wow--brain imaging shows which parts of their brains children with dyslexia are using to compensate. Leads to accurate predictions of whose reading will improve.
No Office Day! | Connected Principals - 3 views
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Good idea. Just a no excuses I will be in classrooms more promise.
High Test Scores, Low Ability - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Wow. Students in China who succeed in college aren't necessarily "employable." Are there implications for exchange programs?
Obama's inauguration: Class rules the streets of D.C. - Posted - 0 views
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Obama's inauguration is providing students with the option to experience, share and report on a collection of days that are destined to be recorded for a museum or archive.
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they were required them write their thoughts and to create a one-minute YouTube video.
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"If you are not connected with social media, chances are you wont win the election,
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Nice write up of how 11 students are going on a reporting trip from Worcester Academy in Mass to DC as reporters for their school. They will be reporting back to campus via flckr, twitter, youtube, and blogs.
Fluid Learning | the human network - 0 views
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It simply makes no sense to waste my words – literally, pouring them away – when with very little infrastructure an audio recording can be made
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Except that if you record everything, you end up with a new "administrative" issue-sorting, classifying, rating. . .
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Many students will never be very computer literate,
CMS: Product List - 0 views
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Educational tech mgmt tools comparison site.
Study Guide for Schooling by Design - 0 views
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we suggest forming a study group with others who have read (or are reading) Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, and Achievement.
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do our practices and structures align with the mission?
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like athletic and performing arts coaches.
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Perhaps the 21st Century group would be interested in reading this and discussing these questions along the way. Nice framework.
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Peter Gow has been working along this vein for a while.
School Change Consulting - Beyond Testing - 0 views
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The whole site is really interesting, I like this article. The author, Tony Wagner, has a new book out about what he calls "The Global Achievement Gap" and what to do about it.
100 Awesome Blogs for History Junkies | Best Colleges Online - 0 views
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I would like to have students follow one of these blogs for a while, then respond.
I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The current generation is never unconnected. They’re never losing touch with their friends. So we’re going back to a more normal place, historically. If you look at human history, the idea that you would drift through life, going from new relation to new relation, that’s very new. It’s just the 20th century.”
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This last page captures something I've been thinking--that privacy is actual the abnormal state. We're meant to have connections we can't escape.
Sarah Hanawald