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WCER - Wisconsin Center for Education Research - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 30 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Professional Learning Board on 30 Jun 08
     
    NCLB provides strong incentives to choose education policies and programs that work. Yet traditional educational research has rarely been designed with the goal of providing scientific evidence of "what works," and relatively few educational researchers have been trained in how to do that kind of rigorous quantitatively sound research. WCER's Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) in the Education Sciences is preparing a new generation of scholars who can provide solid evidence of "what works" in education.
Jeff Johnson

A lesson in compassionate capitalism (ZDNet) - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 25 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 25 Jul 08
     
    Is it educational technology? Only insomuch as most of us couldn't do what we do without a lot of caffeination. However, it is education, since business education has become largely inseparable from technology. That being said, his thoughts are quite timely as more and more businesses look to employ some degree of "compassionate capitalism," whether that means spending extra on facilities and building green, giving back to their communities or employees, or otherwise spending money in thoughtful ways that don't simply line the pockets of investors and executives. So here's a little departure from ed tech and some thoughts from Dean Cycon on the impending closing of Starbucks' retail outlets.
Jeff Johnson

Professional Learning Communities - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08
     
    The term professional learning community has become quite commonplace in education circles. The term describes a collegial group who are united in their commitment to an outcome. In the case of education, the commitment would be to student learning. The community engages in a variety of activities including sharing a vision, working and learning collaboratively, visiting and observing other classrooms, and participating in shared decision making. The benefits of professional learning community to educators and students include reduced isolation of teachers, better informed and committed teachers, and academic gains for students. Shirley Hord of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory says, that as an organizational arrangement, the professional learning community is seen as a powerful staff-development approach and a potent strategy for school change and improvement.
Sheryl A. McCoy

n2teaching: Professional Opportunities in Times of Uncertainty - 0 views

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shared by Sheryl A. McCoy on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Sheryl A. McCoy on 25 Mar 09
     
    Americans value mobility across the country and through the class ranks. This mobility remains especially important in times of economic stress. As educators, we can move to new schools or educational settings.
  • Sheryl A. McCoy on 25 Mar 09
     
    Many educators will need the support and ideas of their peers over the next few years.
Jeff Johnson

Arizona Educators Embrace Trend of Technology in Their Curriculum - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 11 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 11 Aug 08
     
    Just two decades ago, many schools had only a few computers and taught lessons about typing. But Monday marked a drastic change for Arizona schools as one of the first K-5 technology academies opened its doors to students. Scales Technology Academy in Tempe boasts a 1-1 ratio of students to laptop computers. The school''s principal, David Diokno, said it is the first Arizona elementary school to do so. The Arizona Department of Education does not track such information.
Jeff Johnson

Effective Professional Learning Communities - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 12 Jul 08
     
    The Effective Professional Learning Communities project is a study of effective professional learning communities in schools and of how they are created and sustained. It is an exciting, new, collaborative venture between the Universities of Bristol and Bath and the Institute of Education, University of London, which is funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), General Teaching Council for England (GTC) and the National College for School Leadership (NCSL)
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:
  • the dramatic changes
  • 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

FREE Online Teacher Education Course - 30 views

Explore online teaching and learning with this FREE online teacher education course from Professional Learning Board -- http://tinyurl.com/6q3f6x

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Sheryl A. McCoy

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

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shared by Sheryl A. McCoy on 11 Dec 08 - Cached
  • 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. "
Clif Mims

Making the Shift Happen - 0 views

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shared by Clif Mims on 31 Mar 08 - Cached
  • shift from the “computer class” mindset to an “integrated” technology program
  • very similar problems, very similar history
  • very similar ideas
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  • same fears, concerns and questions
  • why isn’t there a common process or framework to work through
  • why isn’t there a common understanding of what needs to be done to move forward?
  • why aren’t more teachers arriving at schools with some background in this model of teaching and learning
Professional Learning Board

Small-town Minnesota school is big on the Web - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07 - Cached
  • "Clearly, we have not been in a mode of reducing staff and cutting expenditures, like most districts have. That pressure has been relieved."
  • Although interest in online education is growing, it's unlikely to replace traditional learning, said Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren.
  • That could help retain students who might look elsewhere under the state's open-enrollment system -- a crucial issue, because state money follows the student.
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  • "I think people are still very much wanting their students to have a real person in the classroom," she said.
  • "But you can provide that student with an online class, and that kid will stay in that school district."
Jeff Johnson

Data Retreat Participants Guide - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 15 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Jeff Johnson on 15 Jul 08
     
    An important step in the school improvement process is to examine local data in order to determine future goals. The Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESAs) have developed a format for conducting data retreats. Contact your local CESA for more information. The following 8 steps are exerpted from the CESA 7 Data Retreat Participant's Guide.
Professional Learning Board

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

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 11 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Professional Learning Board on 11 Jul 08
     
    A must read for anyone interested in education today.
Professional Learning Board

Poptropica - 0 views

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  • Professional Learning Board on 17 May 08
     
    Pearson Education gets it in this virtual world for children 6+.
Professional Learning Board

SLOAN PAPER - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07 - Cached
  • simulating traditional face-to-face classroom methods using asynchronous online learning simply misses the point that we are operating in a new medium with unique properties. 
  • have both interaction and independence. Not long ago it was impossible to have both; more of one meant less of the other.
  • we identify connectivity and asynchronicity as the core properties of online learning, and which have the potential to create a uniquely effective higher-order learning environment. 
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  • focus must be on the cognitive aspects of the educational process if quality learning outcomes are to be the result.
  • integrate the interactive and reflective characteristics to enhance cognitive presence beyond that in even small face-to-face groups.
  • little progress has been made in understanding cognitive presence and higher-order learning effectiveness online
  • asynchronous online learning context, there are two properties– reflection and collaboration – that shape cognitive presence in ways unique to this medium. 
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07
       
      If a deep and meaningful learning outcome is the goal of an educational experience, then an understanding of cognitive presence is a priority.

      In an asynchronous online learning context, there are two properties- reflection and collaboration - that shape cognitive presence in ways unique to this medium.

      In contrast to the spontaneous verbal communication of face-to-face learning contexts, asynchronous learning:
      Provides time to reflect,Permanent and precise nature of communication requires reflection,Reflection is used to interpret and construct meaning.
  • In contrast to the spontaneous verbal communication of face-to-face learning contexts, the asynchronous and largely written communication of asynchronous online learning would appear to provide the conditions that encourage if not require reflection.
  • reflection to interpret and construct meaning
  • It is important to understand the natural cycle of the learning process to effectively regulate the learning process.
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07
       
      Dewey (1933)
      The natural cycle of the learning process:
      Perception of a need or problem. Exploration for relevant knowledge, (2.5?) constructing a meaningful explanation or solution. Resolving the dissonance through action.
  • Learning was inducing reflection through questions and actively monitoring this inquiry for the purpose of achieving understanding.
  • two dimensions that shape the practical inquiry model
  • deliberation-action and perception-conception
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07
       
      The deliberation-action axis defines the reflection and collaboration properties of asynchronous learning.

      This process iterates between thought and action, and unifies the private and public worlds of inquiry.

      Perception-conception operates at the interface of these two worlds.
  • describes the process of creating meaning from experience and the process of creating cognitive presence. 
  • emphasis is on the generation of knowledge and less so on the control of learning activities
  • assume greater control of monitoring and managing the cognitive and contextual aspects of their learning.
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 09 May 07
       
      REFLECTIVE INQUIRY
      Constructive (internal) and collaborative (external) aspects of cognition. The perspective is inside out. -->

      SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
      Learners have greater control of monitoring and managing cognitive and contextual aspects of their learning.
Clif Mims

Critique and Ideas for Squidoo.com - 0 views

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shared by Clif Mims on 12 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 12 Mar 08
     
    Have you seen Squidoo? I would roughly describe it as a means of mashing up information from a variety of resources into a lens (as in the eye of a giant squid
Professional Learning Board

Home Schoolers Content to Take Children's Lead - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07 - Cached
  • Hayden Billings, 4, put a box over his head and had fun marching into things. His sister Gaby, 9, told stories about medieval warrior women, while Sydney, 6, drank hot chocolate and played with Dylan, the baby of the family. In a traditional school setting, such free time would probably be called recess. But for Juli Walter, the children’s mother, it is “child-led learning,” something she considers the best in home schooling. “I learned early on that when I do things I’m interested in,” Ms. Walter said, “I learn so much more.” As the number of children who are home-schooled grows — an estimated 1.1 million nationwide — some parents like Ms. Walter are opting for what is perhaps the most extreme application of the movement’s ideas.
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