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Virtual Nerd: Real help in math and science - 0 views

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shared by Ms Davis on 28 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Ms Davis on 28 Sep 11
     
    A website that helps students with math and science. It shows tutorials and has helpful tips.
Christina Andrade

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ESL lessons

shared by Christina Andrade on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Christina Andrade on 04 Oct 11
     
    great site for current news tailored to your ESL students
jeffery heil

Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
  • Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
  • Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes?
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  • Moser experiment is premised on the fact that there are two distinct reactions to mistake
  • The first reaction is called error-related negativity (ERN). It appears about 50 milliseconds after a screw-up and is believed to originate in the anterior cingulate cortex, a chunk of tissue that helps monitor behavior, anticipate rewards and regulate attention
  • second signal, which is known as error positivity (Pe), arrives anywhere between 100-500 milliseconds after the mistake and is associated with awareness.
  • subjects learn more effectively when their brains demonstrate two properties: 1) a larger ERN signal, suggesting a bigger initial response to the mistake and 2) a more consistent Pe signal, which means that they are probably paying attention to the error, and thus trying to learn from it.
  • new paper, Moser et al. extends this research by looking at how beliefs about learning shape these mostly involuntary error-related signals in the brain,
  • scientists applied a dichotomy first proposed by Carol Dweck
  • Dweck distinguishes between people with a fixed mindset
  • and those with a growth mindset,
  • subjects with a growth mindset were significantly better at learning from their mistakes
  • those with a growth mindset generated a much larger Pe signal, indicating increased attention to their mistakes.
  • increased Pe signal was nicely correlated with improvement after error, implying that the extra awareness was paying dividends in performance.
  • When kids were praised for their effort, nearly 90 percent chose the harder set of puzzles.
  • when kids were praised for their intelligence, most of them went for the easier test.
  • According to Dweck, praising kids for intelligence encourages them to “look” smart, which means that they shouldn’t risk making a mistake.
  • Students praised for their intelligence almost always chose to bolster their self-esteem by comparing themselves with students who had performed worse on the test. In contrast, kids praised for their hard work were more interested in the higher-scoring exams. They wanted to understand their mistakes, to learn from their errors, to figure out how to do better.
  • The experience of failure had been so discouraging for the “smart” kids that they actually regressed.
  • The problem with praising kids for their innate intelligence — the “smart” compliment — is that it misrepresents the psychological reality of education
jeffery heil

The rise of K-12 blended learning | Innosight Institute - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 08 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K–12 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K–12 students did.
  • In Disrupting Class,* the authors project that by 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses will be delivered online
jeffery heil

Will · Learners not Knowers - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 22 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • But I am saying my kids don’t (won’t) need teachers any more to get them to pass the test.
  • If nothing else, the new iPhone’s integration of Siri is a clear indicator of how far technology has come in terms of understanding semantic cues and interactions.
  • If it’s all about test scores and “student acheivement” measured by test scores, immersing kids into Knewton-type environments is by far the easiest, cheapest, path of least resistance for the system’s current definition of “learning.”
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  • This is why we should all be feeling an acute urgency right now to take back the definition of what “learning” really is in a world filled with content and teachers and personalization.
  • Knewton doesn’t develop learners. It develops knowers.
  • We’re in serious trouble if that’s all we value.
Sherilyn Crawford

Digging Deep into the Soil of Education « Mutterings and Musings of a Mere Mo... - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 31 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 31 Oct 11
     
    Excellent blog post about trying to answer the question, "Why do we educate students?"
Sherilyn Crawford

Do you bring your students to the edge? « underconstructionagain - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 31 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 31 Oct 11
     
    Great quote
Sherilyn Crawford

Defender News - Bryan Station High School - No Child Left Behind has overstayed welcome - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 27 Oct 11
     
    Another article on EdReform by a high school student. Talks about NCLB.
Sherilyn Crawford

LGBT groups withhold support from education bill | Washington Blade - America's Leading... - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 03 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 03 Nov 11
     
    Talks about specific provisions to protect LGBT students in NCLB not being present in the new education bill and how eight LGBT groups are not giving their support for it
jeffery heil

9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator | Online Universities - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 06 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Blogging Teachers competent in WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and other free, popular blogging platforms have an excellent (and paperless!) tool at their disposal
  • Social media: Social media doesn’t have to worm its way into assignments to prove itself educationally valuable. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn burst with teachers and other academic professionals chattering about ideas, strategies, resources and tools.
  • Interclassroom communication: More and more, teachers turn to Skype, Cisco and other communication tools to connect with other schools worldwide. Why set up international pen pals when technology allows kids to interact almost literally face to face?
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  • Cultural literacy: Cultural literacy has always been a desired skill in teachers abroad and living in multiethnic domestic regions.
  • Socratic seminar:
  • Community engagement:
  • Information literacy: Seeing as how information literacy is considered integral to student success, schools have little use for teachers without the relevant skills.
  • Networking: A networking teacher is, ostensibly, an open teacher.
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