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Why Kids Need Schools to Change | MindShift - 1 views

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  • 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,”
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BBC - Newsbeat - NSPCC says smartphone apps increase bullying and abuse - 0 views

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  • The NSPCC says smartphone apps are making it easier than ever before for people to be bullied and abused online.
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The Link Between Teacher Quality and Student Outcomes: A Research Synthesis - 1 views

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  • Many reports, studies, and research articles published in recent years suggest that teacher quality matters a great deal in terms of student learning. This research synthesis explores the evidence for this relationship in an effort to help identify which teacher qualifications and characteristics should be prioritized in educating and hiring those teachers who are most likely to have a positive impact on student learning.
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5 Most Inspirational Videos of 2012 | Inc.com - 0 views

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  • These five short videos will remind you what's important in life and work.
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  • Welcome to KICS SharePoint!
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For Children, a Lie on Facebook Has Consequences, Study Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • 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.
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The 200 Best Special Education Apps - Edudemic - 0 views

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  • The 200 Best Special Education Apps
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 29 | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • <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.
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16 Flipped Classrooms From Around The World - 0 views

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  • 16 Flipped Classrooms From Around The World
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Online Flashcards with Spaced Repetition: FlashcardDB - 0 views

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  • Free Online FlashcardsWith Spaced Repetition
  • jeffduckett on 21 Nov 12
     
    Very cool online resource and learning tool
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Expert fears "catastrophe" as Darfur yellow fever death toll hits 107 - AlertNet - 0 views

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  • “If the person has been in Khartoum for any length of time and if he has been in contact with mosquitoes, then, whether he’s been treated or not, there still is the possibility that transmission will occur,” he said. People who have yellow fever can infect mosquitoes which bite them in the early stages of the disease because they have high levels of the virus in their blood, he said. This is how viruses travel from one country to another.
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Why Kids Should Grade Teachers - Amanda Ripley - The Atlantic - 1 views

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      kicsprincipal on 14 Nov 12
       
      "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
      kicsprincipal on 14 Nov 12
       
      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
      jeffduckett on 14 Nov 12
       
      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
      jeffduckett on 14 Nov 12
       
      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.
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