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APS RDA Math Performance Task Bank - 0 views

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    Math performance tasks
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32 Interesting Ways to use an iPod Touch in the Classroom - 0 views

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    Great slideshow for how to use IPod Touch. Some relate to iPads too!
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Workers, soldiers or nomads - what does the Gates Foundation want from our ed... - 0 views

  • The why of education should be the first question that we answer in any discussion in the field.
  • Sadly, it seems to be very difficult to say anything about “what learning is” and “why we educate our children”.
  • but it’s pretty tough to create a system that both trains people to do what they are told and to also critically assess their culture.
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  • Memory is the representation of the things that we ‘know’ as a culture
  • The worker was the original goal of the public education system.
  • The worker needs to remember things without understanding them.
  • Learning for a worker is about compliance.
  • Our education system currently does a very good job of creating workers.
  • The soldier
  • They are the defenders of memory.
  • They are the ones who establish what things we currently know that the worker should remember, and then establish the system by which we will measure that knowing.
  • They decide which parts of the past will be valued
  • soldiers really can decide what they want to have valued.
  • Soldiers defend the status quo
  • The nomad is trying to do what I call ‘learning’.
  • Learning for the nomad is the point where the steps in a process go away.
  • It is what Wynton Marsalis calls ‘being the thing itself’
  • In order to create an educational system that allows for nomads we can’t measure for a prescribed outcome.
  • Rhizomatic learning
  • It is designed for a world where there aren’t ‘things people should know’ but rather ‘new connections to be made’.
  • If we want a society of innovators, of creatives, we can’t think of success as an act of compliance
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Assembly should pass teacher discipline bill - JSOnline - 0 views

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    Opinion piece on teacher discipline based on standardized test scores
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Will · Learners not Knowers - 0 views

  • 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.
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Technology Experts in Schools: Teacher Leaders or Technicians? - Leading From the Class... - 0 views

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    "Technology Experts in Schools: Teacher Leaders or Technicians?"
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Defender News - Bryan Station High School - No Child Left Behind has overstayed welcome - 0 views

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    Another article on EdReform by a high school student. Talks about NCLB.
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Superman Ain't Comin' and Why That's a Good Thing! #EdReform | Angela Maiers Educationa... - 0 views

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    Good ideas of how to be your own "superman" instead of waiting for one to come along...
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Education Week: Common Core Found to Rank With Respected Standards - 0 views

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    " Published Online: October 26, 2011 Common Core Found to Rank W"
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The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests - The Answer Sheet - ... - 0 views

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    Well-said reasons why teachers oppose standardized tests
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The Flipped Classroom Defined | MindShift - 0 views

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    An overview of a flipped classroom, in case you are wondering what it is...
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How to do the right thing in a system that is wrong? - The Answer Sheet - The Washingto... - 0 views

  • 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
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    Article on why ed reform is necessary
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5 Traits of the 21st Century Teacher - 0 views

  • Driven to Learn
  • A Media Creation Expert
  • A Digital Navigator
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  • An Empathetic Mentor
  • A Technology Harmonizer
  • It is no longer acceptable to teach only from a textbook, to rely on the same worksheets an methods year after year without at least questioning them and researching why they are the best resource available.  
  •  Powerpoint and Word are becoming antiquated as newer and more powerful presentation and editing suites become available to teachers.
  • This means having social media accounts and understanding how they are used, even if you don’t use them specifically for learning.
  • This student-centered focus also creates learning opportunities for the teacher to learn with students, developing their teaching and collaborative skills
  • One of the keys here is that we work at making the technology work (in the best way we can) so the lesson becomes about the learning instead of the management of machines.
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How YouTube Is Changing The Classroom | StateImpact Indiana - 0 views

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    Flipped classroom pro& con
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An Education Violation | The Truth Pursuit - 0 views

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    An interesting blog about teachers, cheating, and educational reform
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Digging Deep into the Soil of Education « Mutterings and Musings of a Mere Mo... - 0 views

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    Excellent blog post about trying to answer the question, "Why do we educate students?"
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SpeEdChange: If school isn't for collaborating, why does anyone come? - 0 views

  • If students want to learn in isolation; if they want to sit at a desk and work on their own stuff, occasionally checking in with an "expert," they have no reason to come to school.
  • For years we've talked about (or we may have even been) kids who've only come to school because of team sports, or music groups, or theatre, or even hanging out at lunch.
  • If school isn't about doing things together, just about everyone has better places to spend their day.
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  • The world of work has moved on, but the educational structure, despite the efforts of many individual teachers and administrators, crawls along
  • Bill Gates favorite boy Salman Khan, believe that kids sitting alone, working by themselves, with canned, inflexible data in front of them, is the best preparation for life in the present and future.
  • So here is what your classroom, and your school, needs to offer kids:
  • 1. A learning environment in which students make most decisions.
  • 2. A time environment in which students learn and work along a schedule which makes sense to them
  • 3. A technological environment which supports collaboration across every barrier.
  • 4. A social environment where adults do not rank students according to their oppressive standards.
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    If students want to learn in isolation; if they want to sit at a desk and work on their own stuff, occasionally checking in with an "expert," they have no reason to come to school. They can do a lot better at home, or at their local coffee shop or even the public library, where both the coffee and the WiFi connection will be better.
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Professional Learning for Educators | isitalladream - 0 views

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    Great blog post about how teachers need to be learners in order to be more effective
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Do you bring your students to the edge? « underconstructionagain - 0 views

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    Great quote
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The Roberts Report - 0 views

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    "Are YOU Intentionally Creating a TED in Your Head? http://t.co/Y6L59aUc #Edchat"
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