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We can't let educators off the hook | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 07 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • I think most teachers don’t even realize that there’s a decision to be made. It’s not a matter of choosing the red pill or the blue pill… if you don’t know that there are even two pills available as options
  • Every day that I present for educators, I have a greater appreciate for how distorted the view is as seen through the eyes of a typical EduBlogger.
  • Rather, it's that their priorities don't always line up with those of other progressive educators in and out of the blogosphere.
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  • You can’t ‘firmly believe in life-long learning’ and simultaneously not be clued in to the largest transformation in learning that ever has occurred in human history. Those two don’t co-exist. Being a ‘life-long learner’ is not ignoring what’s going on around you; you don’t get to claim the title of ‘effective educator’ if you do this.
  • Changing inertia into momentum, not waiting for someone to hand us the answer, taking responsibility ourselves rather than blaming others for our own inactivity - that’s what life-long learners do. That’s what effective educators do. That’s what we owe our children.
  • t’s not about us. It’s not about our personal or professional priorities and preferences, our discomfort levels, or any of that other stuff that has to do with us. It’s about our students: our children and our youth who deserve at the end of their schooling experience to be prepared for the world in which they’re going to live and work and think and play and be. That’s the obligation of each and every one of us. No educator gets to disown this.
jeffery heil

Education Rethink: Ten Reasons to Get Rid of Homework (and Five Alternatives) - 7 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • 3. Inequitable Situation: I have some students who go home to parents that can provide additional support. I have others who go home and babysit younger siblings while their single parent works a second shift. I have some who don’t have adequate lighting, who constantly move and who lose electricity on a regular basis. Call those excuses if you want. I’ll call it systemic injustice instead.
  • 5. Homework Creates Adversarial Roles: It is possible for homework (or rather home learning) to be a positive force. However, when a parent is stuck as a practitioner of someone else’s pre-planned learning situation, it becomes an issue of management.
  • 6. Homework De-Motivates:
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  • 8. Most Homework Is Bad: Most homework recreates school within the confines of a home. So, instead of having children do interviews, analyze a neighborhood or engage in culinary math, the traditional approach involves packets.
Sherilyn Crawford

A new yardstick to measure schools? | SignOnSanDiego.com - 1 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 05 Oct 11
     
    This article talks about new legislation on Governor Brown's desk in California and the idea that "control" of education should pass from Federal to State.
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Pow! How Comics in the Classroom Can Combat Bullying | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 08 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 08 Oct 11
     
    This article talks about the website Bitstrips for Schools and how you can use technology in the classroom by creating comic strips, and how teachers have been using them to combat bullying.
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Emotional Literacy - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 11 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 11 Oct 11
     
    Another website on emotional literacy
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Emotional Literacy - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 11 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 11 Oct 11
     
    Just thought I would share this, it's an actual book but I found it on Diigo for one of my other classes and it's really interesting information on emotional literacy.
Sherilyn Crawford

How to do the right thing in a system that is wrong? - The Answer Sheet - The Washingto... - 0 views

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shared by Sherilyn Crawford on 13 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • I propose narrowing the focus. Here’s the problem I think deserves billboard-level attention: Kids can’t be taught to think better using tests that can’t measure how well they think.
  • The logic should be obvious. What gets tested gets taught. Complex thinking skills — skills essential to survival—can’t be tested, so they don’t get taught. That failure doesn’t simply rise to the level of a problem. It’s unethical
  • But nothing happens
  • Sherilyn Crawford on 13 Oct 11
     
    Article on why ed reform is necessary
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