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Troy Patterson

Technology in Education | American Federation of Teachers - 1 views

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msm328 technology education edtech

shared by Troy Patterson on 20 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Myth 1: New technology is causing a revolution in education.
  • Myth 2: The Internet belongs in the classroom because it is part of the personal world 
experienced by children.
  • Myth 3: Today’s “digital natives” are a 
new generation who want a new style 
of education.
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  • Myth 4: The Internet makes us dumber.
  • Myth 5: Young people don’t read anymore.
Troy Patterson

Learning Myths And Realities From Brain Science : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Troy Patterson on 22 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • The idea that individuals have different learning styles, such as auditory or kinesthetic, is a pernicious myth. Boser compares it to the flat-earth myth — highly intuitive, but wrong.
  • Almost 90 percent of respondents agreed that simply re-reading material is "highly effective" for learning. Research suggests the opposite.
  • On the topic of "growth mindset," more than one-quarter of respondents believed intelligence is "fixed at birth". Neuroscience says otherwise.
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  • Nearly 60 percent argued that quizzes are not an effective way to gain new skills and knowledge. In fact, quizzing yourself on something you've just read is a great example of active learning, the best way to learn.
  • More than 40 percent of respondents believed that teachers don't need to know a subject area such as math or science, as long as they have good instructional skills. In fact, research shows that deep subject matter expertise is a key element in helping teachers excel.
  • "Parents' opinions are important, but teaching is a real craft," Boser says. "A lot of science goes into it. And we need to do more to respect that."
Troy Patterson

Explode These Feedback Myths and Get Your Life Back | Teachers Going Gradeless - 0 views

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msm361 feedback teachers

shared by Troy Patterson on 03 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • How can we shatter these myths, providing better feedback while modeling a life worth living? Here are the myths phrased as four “shoulds”: Feedback should be immediate Feedback should come from the teacher alone Feedback should be individualized Feedback should include a grade
Troy Patterson

10 Realities About Bullying at School and Online | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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shared by Troy Patterson on 23 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • “most educators aren’t aware of the function bullying serves in school,”
  • The majority of kids don’t bully other kids and haven’t been victimized
  • Kids pick on others as a way to secure their standing among their peers or to move up a notch.
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  • aggression is intrinsic to status and escalates with increases in peer status until the pinnacle of the social hierarchy is attained.”
  • Children from single-parent homes, and those with less educated parents, are no more apt to bully than kids with married and learned parents. African-Americans and other minorities show the same rates of bullying as their white counterparts.
  • The popular notion of bullies as sullen social outcasts who come from broken homes is a myth.
  • What adults call bullying kids call drama.
  • Cyber-bullying is just an extension of what’s happening in the classrooms, halls, and cafeteria
  • online cruelty merely makes visible what kids are doing in person behind the backs of adults.
  • ust another way for kids to express hostility towards targets they’ve already gone after—or are in retaliation against those who have attacked them in school.
  • Kids don’t intervene because doing so would jeopardize their own standing, they lack the tools to assist, and because they don’t think it will help anyway.
  • Adolescents are fixated on their social standing, and anything that jeopardizes their fragile position will be avoided.
  • students receive scant training on how to help in such a way that it won’t backfire.
  • “Asking students to be empowered and responsible bystanders is tantamount to telling them to be good readers or safe drivers without giving them instructions, guidance, and opportunities to practice,”
Troy Patterson

Myth of Bell-to-Bell Instruction Vs. "Golden Rule of 15 Minutes"| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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shared by Troy Patterson on 24 May 11 - No Cached
  • Troy Patterson on 24 May 11
     
    Many teachers have been told to teach from bell to bell. Unfortunately, some teachers believe this means they must stand and deliver in front of the board for 50 minutes. Big mistake! In traditional urban schools, it is hard to keep students' attention for even 5 minutes without them taking out their phone or simply daydreaming while acting like they are paying attention.
Stephen Davis

Straight from the DOE: Dispelling Myths About Blocked Sites | MindShift - 0 views

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CIPA blocking education Internet DOE filter filtering

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  • Stephen Davis on 30 Jun 11
     
    Very useful!
Troy Patterson

Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game - Scientific American Blog Network - 0 views

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MSM318 creativity

shared by Troy Patterson on 03 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Creators create. Again and again and again
  • It’s a great myth that creative geniuses consistently produce great works.
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