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Why Kids Should Grade Teachers - Amanda Ripley - The Atlantic - 1 views

    • kicsprincipal
       
      "If someone had asked" - yes! Let's ask students! But not just about how their teacher is working with them, other things also. But let's give them the tools to be asked and to respond. It's time to open the BYOD debate!
  • The point was so obvious, it was almost embarrassing. Kids stared at their teachers for hundreds of hours a year, which might explain their expertise. Their survey answers, it turned out, were more reliable than any other known measure of teacher performance—­including classroom observations and student test-score growth. All of which raised an uncomfortable new question: Should teachers be paid, trained, or dismissed based in part on what children say about them?
    • kicsprincipal
       
      It's a tough one: asking and considering their responses does not mean acting dramatically on the feedback. But isnt knowledge supposed to be power? Don't teachers WANT to know?
    • jeffduckett
       
      Why shouldn't we value the perspective and perceptions of students. What is described here is just another form of assessment. The content of which would need to be considered carefully as to focus on effectiveness of learning to establish trends, and not "teacher evaluation". 
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    • jeffduckett
       
      Quality Teaching = Quality Learning
  • Test scores can reveal when kids are not learning; they can’t reveal why.
  • In math, for example, the teachers rated most highly by students delivered the equivalent of about six more months of learning than teachers with the lowest ratings. (By comparison, teachers who get a master’s degree—one of the few ways to earn a pay raise in most schools —delivered about one more month of learning per year than teachers without one.)
  • Why Kids Should Grade Teachers A decade ago, an economist at Harvard, Ronald Ferguson, wondered what would happen if teachers were evaluated by the people who see them every day—their students. The idea—as simple as it sounds, and as familiar as it is on college campuses—was revolutionary. And the results seemed to be, too: remarkable consistency from grade to grade, and across racial divides. Even among kindergarten students. A growing number of school systems are administering the surveys—and might be able to overcome teacher resistance in order to link results to salaries and promotions.
Bradley Arnold

Why Instructional Designers Need To View Knowledge As A New Natural Resource - eLearnin... - 0 views

  • This all brings me to the Instructional Designer. It is important to understand that the raw material of knowledge is data. And we are drowning in it. And, significantly, it does not go away. Data that was not born digital is swiftly being digitized, and data that is born digital stays that way – forever. My goal in this article is to convince Instructional Designers to view data as a new natural resource, which means your job is to teach people how to adapt data and transform it into actionable intelligence. That is the key to the Fourth Industrial Revolution –sometimes called the Cyber-Physical Revolution– and the key is in the hands of the Instructional Designer community.
    • Bradley Arnold
       
      This is an understanding that teachers need to see and understand. 
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    This is something that teachers need to understand. 
kicsprincipal

Annie Murphy Paul: Why Old-School Rote Learning Is Still Important | TIME.com - 0 views

  • Kail’s experience is instructive. As soon as she began teaching her students the Greek and Latin origins of many English terms — that the root sta means “put in place or stand,” for example, and that cess means “to move or withdraw” — they eagerly began identifying familiar words that incorporated the roots, like statue and recess. Her three classes competed against one another to come up with the longest list of words derived from the roots they were learning. Kail’s students started using these terms in their writing, and many of them told her that their study of word roots helped them answer questions on the SAT and on Ohio’s state graduation exam. (Research confirms that instruction in word roots allows students to learn new vocabulary and figure out the meaning of words in context more easily.) For her part, Kail reports that she no longer sees rote memorization as “inherently evil.” Although committing the word roots to memory was a necessary first step, she notes, “the key was taking that old-school method and encouraging students to use their knowledge to practice higher-level thinking skills.”
    • kicsprincipal
       
      'Progressive' education doesn't mean abandoning what has worked in other contexts.
    • jeffduckett
       
      There is always a place for proven and effective instruction. Even 21st century teachers need an open mind.
  • . A study published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching in 2010, for example, found that 10th-graders who were taught how to construct an argument as part of their lessons on genetics not only had better arguments but also demonstrated a better understanding of the material
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    • kicsprincipal
       
      Formal argumentation... debate... why is hardly any of it going on in the Seniors at KICS????
jeffduckett

For Children, a Lie on Facebook Has Consequences, Study Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • For Children, a Lie on Facebook Has Consequences, Study Finds
  • The key to the experiment, explained Keith W. Ross, a computer science professor at N.Y.U. and one of the authors of the study, was to first find known current students at a particular high school. A child could be found, for instance, if she was 10 years old and said she was 13 to sign up for Facebook. Five years later, that same child would show up as 18 years old – an adult, in the eyes of Facebook — when in fact she was only 15. At that point, a stranger could also see a list of her friends.
  • The key to the experiment, explained Keith W. Ross, a computer science professor at N.Y.U. and one of the authors of the study, was to first find known current students at a particular high school. A child could be found, for instance, if she was 10 years old and said she was 13 to sign up for Facebook. Five years later, that same child would show up as 18 years old – an adult, in the eyes of Facebook — when in fact she was only 15. At that point, a stranger could also see a list of her friends.
jeffduckett

Do Computers in the Classroom Boost Academic Achievement? - 0 views

    • jeffduckett
       
      This is really good. Read it and then we will discuss it in class.
  • This explosion in the technology has increased efforts to equip every classroom with computers and "wire" every school to the Internet. Between September 1984 and September 1997 alone, the number of computers in America's K-12 schools increased elevenfold to more than 8 million units.1 Educators have been forced to keep up, and some are finding themselves teaching general skills in how to use a computer while they use them to teach other subjects.
donovanhallnz

3 Edtech Tools You Can Use To Gamify Your Classroom - Edudemic - 1 views

  • There is an explosion of EdTech tools destined to gamify the classroom, most of which are web-based, while others come in the form of an app. Understandably, a teacher might wonder what is the best way to navigate through this sea of new, and subsequently, not thoroughly tested activities and tools. Throughout the school year I tried several game-based platforms with my students. Here are three game-based classroom solutions that helped me transform my fourth grade classroom into a dynamic learning environment. All three tools are completely free. Each platform is particularly strong in specific areas, therefore, depending on their needs, teachers can utilize one of the tools, or use a combination of two (or three), to maximize the impact on student learning.
  • The first, and probably the most popular game-based classroom platform is Socrative. A prominent member of the “audience response systems” family, Socrative is a powerful tool that offers many options to teachers. It is also one of the most diverse and adaptive of all platforms, as it offers three different highly customizable modes: the typical question-based game mode, a mode called “space race” which is a mode that aims to combine accuracy and speed, and a third mode called “Exit Ticket”, which can best be used at the end of a lesson as a means of taking the pulse of the classroom.
jeffduckett

36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do - 0 views

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    "36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do"
jeffduckett

Why Kids Need Schools to Change | MindShift - 1 views

  • Why Kids Need Schools to Change
  • “There’s probably no better example of the throttling of creativity than the difference between what we observe in a kindergarten classroom and what we observe in a high school classroom,”
  • “For developing creativity and flexible and divergent thinking, we need to bring back the arts,”
jeffduckett

How to Create Your Own Textbook - With or Without Apple | MindShift - 0 views

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    "How to Create Your Own Textbook - With or Without Apple"
kicsprincipal

Seth Godin - 0 views

shared by kicsprincipal on 17 Nov 13 - No Cached
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    A truly provocative thought leader who has much to say about we need to reconceptualise school-based education.
jeffduckett

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 29 | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views

  • <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-88551" title="agad-logo (1)" src="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/agad-logo-1.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="99" /> Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.
jeffduckett

My Digital FootPrint - 0 views

  • How to Audit your Digital Footprint
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    "How to Audit your Digital Footprint"
jeffduckett

Interested in creating ePortfolios? Check out this Demo site - 1 views

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    Mahara is an open source ePortfolio and social networking web application. It provides users with tools to create and maintain a digital portfolio of their learning and social networking features to allow users to interact with each other.
jeffduckett

KICSmodel - 1 views

    • jeffduckett
       
      I'm not sure what you mean by "testing". What are we testing, the bonds between theory and practice?
    • jeffduckett
       
      "Environment" is still not clicking with me based on your model. I see the environment as the conditions in which a student operates, and not a teachers relationship between theory and practice. (def.) Not to say it is not important to think about but for me it is not speaking to environment.
jeffduckett

BBC - Future - Technology - Moocs data offers promise of perfect teaching - 0 views

shared by jeffduckett on 03 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • encourage students to finish their course by reminding them of what homework assignments they had yet to complete, actually led to a drop in student retention when participants felt harassed, says Do
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    Interesting findings from the use of Moocs
Bradley Arnold

4 Tips for Providing Value to Your Social Media Fans | Pamorama - 0 views

    • Bradley Arnold
       
      Think of your classroom as a brand. By keeping students engaged and on topic, your brand succeeds.  Could these strategies be effective in your classroom?  A kind of paradigm shift to think about. 
kicsprincipal

10 Reasons To Try 20% Time In Class - 3 views

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    An interesting article based on what a number of "successful" business doing around the world to support employee creativity. A number of the things that Google follow up on are created during this 20% time.
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