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Sheryl A. McCoy

World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Sheryl A. McCoy on 11 Dec 08
     
    one of the most profoundly important articles I have read recently. "For educators and the schools in which they teach, the challenges of this moment are significant. Our ability to learn whatever we want, whenever we want, from whomever we want is rendering the linear, age-grouped, teacher-guided curriculum less and less relevant. "
Professional Learning Board

ARTICLE: Smashing The Clock - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 29 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Professional Learning Board on 29 Dec 08
     
    Good-bye to work hours.
Jeff Johnson

A Push for Collaborative Workspaces -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 09 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 09 Dec 10
     
    Seretta picked FirstClass to serve as the school's unified messaging and collaboration solution. Accustomed to paper and more traditional means of communication, many staff members and faculty were reluctant to embrace the new system. Seretta didn't give in. "We went from zero to 90 percent adoption within three months, so there was no time for hand wringing or debate," said Seretta. "We simply said no more paper, unless it involved internal documents that require signatures."
Jeff Johnson

New HP Notebook Cuts 97 Percent of Packaging (EEN) - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 06 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 06 Sep 08
     
    The new HP Pavilion dv6929 notebook has ditched the Styrofoam and cardboard boxes that traditionally protect computers in favor of a 100 percent recyclable messenger bag that reduces packaging by 97 percent.
Jeff Johnson

Textbook Publishing in a Flat World - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 06 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 06 Aug 08
     
    According to the National Association of College Stores in a 2007 survey, the average cost of a new college textbook was $53. The founders of Flat World Knowledge, which launches with its first run of college textbooks this fall, consider that too high--so high, in fact, that they'll be offering textbooks for free, at least in versions that can be read online. If the student wants to buy a printed copy of the textbook, it will be printed on demand by the company and provided in color for one price or black and white for a lesser price. For the student who prefers to listen to the book on an MP3 player, audio versions will be available too. Each format will have its own cost structure, but on average, it'll tally up to about $30.
Jeff Johnson

Sorting Children Into 'Cannots' and 'Cans' Is Just Racism in Disguise - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 20 Jan 09
     
    Tomorrow marks a turning point in the history of our schools as well as our country. Note how the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom we honor today, had to confront the cold, hard, in-your-face prejudice of a legally segregated system, while the next president, Barack Obama, speaks of a softer negligence, illuminated by the frequently heard phrase, "These kids can't learn."
Professional Learning Board

eSchool News online - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07 - Cached
  • EZ English invades the classroom DelewareOnline reports that beginning this year, New Zealand high school students will be able to use "textspeak" on national exams, which means that points won't be deducted if a student types "l8" for "late," etc. Proponents of the move argue that efficiency is smart, because it allows users to communicate more ideas at a faster pace. Predictably, others are horrified at the development, claiming that it will lead to the erosion of language is spreading to the classroom, one locale where it should be the safest... http://www.delawareonline.com/ ...
Jeff Johnson

The death of voicemail: it's not good to talk - Times Online - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 19 Jul 08
     
    Mike Arrington, the TechCrunch uber-blogger, spoke for many when he wrote recently: "Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they'll stop using it."
Professional Learning Board

New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce - 0 views

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  • Professional Learning Board on 11 Jul 08
     
    A must read for anyone interested in education today.
Jeff Johnson

The Ethics of Climate Change: Pay Now or Pay More Later?: Scientific American - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 15 Jun 08 - Cached
  • What should we do about climate change? The question is an ethical one. Science, including the science of economics, can help discover the causes and effects of climate change. It can also help work out what we can do about climate change. But what we should do is an ethical question.
  • Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well-being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments
Professional Learning Board

Education Week: Let's Abolish High School - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 28 Jul 07 - Cached
  • The first compulsory education law in the United States wasn’t enacted until 1852. This Massachusetts law required that all young people between the ages of 8 and 14 attend school three months a year—unless, that is, they could demonstrate that they already knew the material; in other words, this law was competency-based. It took 15 years before any other states followed Massachusetts’ lead and 66 years before all states did. Along the way, some powerful segments of society staunchly opposed the mandatory education trend. In 1892, for example, the Democratic Party stated as part of its national platform, “We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children.”
  • It wasn’t until the late 1800s that laws restricting the work opportunities of young people began to take hold. Those laws, too, were fiercely opposed, and in fact the first federal laws restricting youth labor—enacted in 1916, 1918, and 1933—were all swiftly struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • the idea that there should be limits on youth labor, or that young people shouldn’t be allowed to do any work, seemed outrageous to many people.
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  • , multiple forces—the desire to “Americanize” the tens of millions of immigrants streaming into the United States to get jobs in the land of opportunity, the effort to rescue millions of young laborers from horrendous working conditions in the factories and mines, the extreme determination of America’s growing labor unions to protect adult jobs, and, most especially, the extremely high unemployment rate (27 percent or so) during the Great Depression—created the systems we have today:
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  • obliterated from modern consciousness the true abilities of young people, leaving adults with the faulty belief that teenagers were inherently irresponsible and incompetent.
  • after the 1930s, and increased dramatically after the social turmoil of the 1960s.
  • teenagers today are subject to 10 times as many restrictions as are mainstream adults, to twice as many restrictions as are active-duty U.S. Marines, and even to twice as many restrictions as are incarcerated felons.
  • When adults see young people misbehaving or underperforming, they often respond by infantilizing young people even more, and the new restrictions often cause even more distress among our young.
Professional Learning Board

ARTICLE: NACOL estimates 1 million K12 students in online courses! - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07 - No Cached
  • Online classes gaining in popularityThe North American Council for Online Learning estimates that 1 million K-12 students are enrolled in online courses, and it expects that number to grow. Students welcome the flexibility, and advocates say it gives students more family time, but some teachers say they need face time with students to monitor their progress and attitude. The Boston Globe/Los Angeles Times (2/18)
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