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Thinking Machine / Think Social Media Guidelines - 0 views
The rise of K-12 blended learning | Innosight Institute - 0 views
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In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K–12 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K–12 students did.
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In Disrupting Class,* the authors project that by 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses will be delivered online
A Focus on Learning Rather Than Testing | FutureReady | The North Carolina New Schools ... - 0 views
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One theme that has already emerged is the prevalence of trust that schools and their faculties will do what is in the best interest of students.
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“We train the people and then leave it to them. The focus is on teacher professionalism. We talk about central steering, not central control.”
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Key decisions, such as class size and textbook selection, are locally controlled.
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The Innovative Educator: Seth Godin Discusses Failure of Educational Model - 0 views
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Godin explains that it wouldn't take very many passionate parents to start schools down the right path.
Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views
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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.”
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Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
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Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes?
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Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' - NYTimes.com - 1 views
TALL blog » Blog Archive » Visitors & Residents: The Video - 0 views
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Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement by David S. White and Alison Le Cornu.
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‘Visitors & Residents’ principle
Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Twitter Series-My Super, Top Secret Tip... - 0 views
Digital Native - 0 views
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This paper offers a critical perspective on popular and political understandings of young people and digital technologies – characterised by notions of ‘digital natives’, the ‘net generation’ and other commonsense portrayals of expert young technology users.
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The specific label of ‘digital native’ derives from a series of articles written by the US technologist Marc Prensky since 2001.
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4 sense thinking is uncritical, episodic, and disjointed, but it is also powerful because it is taken for granted”. Thus whilst the past ten years have undoubtedly witnessed significant changes in the technological practices and predilections of children, young people and young adults, it would seem sensible to reconsider the status of the ‘digital native’ description as a prima facie account of young people’s lives in the early twenty- first century. In particular, there is a pressing need to develop and promote realistic understandings of young people and digital technology if information professionals (especially librarians, teachers and other information specialists) are to play useful and meaningful roles in supporting current generations of young people. Against this background the present paper now goes on to question the accuracy and primacy of the ‘digital native literature’ in reflecting the realities of young people’s actual engagements with digital media and technology. IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIGITAL NATIVE DISCOURSE We should first examine in closer detail the broad body of work that can be said to constitute the digital native literature1, particularly in terms of how the conditions, capabilities and consequences of young people’s technology use are portrayed. In this sense, there are a number of differing practices and dispositions that are associated with the digital native condition: i) T
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Change Magazine - September-October 2010 - 0 views
Education Rethink: Ten Reasons to Get Rid of Homework (and Five Alternatives) - 7 views
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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.
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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.
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6. Homework De-Motivates:
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Best Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free - 0 views
Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views
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Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around.
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“This is what we do every day, prepare kids for life.”
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“Whatever it takes” is an attitude that drives not just Kirkkojarvi’s 30 teachers, but most of Finland’s 62,000 educators in 3,500 schools from Lapland to Turku—professionals selected from the top 10 percent of the nation’s graduates to earn a required master’s degree in education
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We can't let educators off the hook | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
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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
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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.
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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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9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator | Online Universities - 0 views
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Blogging Teachers competent in WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and other free, popular blogging platforms have an excellent (and paperless!) tool at their disposal
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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.
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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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jeffery heil
I am a technology resource teacher for the San Diego County Office of Education and also an adjunct professor of educational technology at California State University San Diego. I love to research web-based educational tools and would love to see technology as the medium of instruction for educat...