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Education Week: Using Technology to Move Beyond Schools - 0 views

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    Think ahead 10 or 15 years and ask yourself, "What proportion of the activity called 'learning' will be located in the institution called 'school'?"
Troy Patterson

No Internet Election Campaigns for NJHS Candidates in Lubbock « Moving at the... - 0 views

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    Students running for offices in the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) at Evans Middle School in Lubbock, Texas, are prohibited from using Internet websites, Facebook pages, or other forms of social media to get out the word about their election candidacy.
Troy Patterson

Once common standards are up and running, they are going to be largely ignored by creat... - 0 views

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    Our schools will get better if we train and support our teachers better, if we are more careful in the way we pick and train their principals and if we provide more time for instruction and encourage a team spirit in every school.
Troy Patterson

Record & Share your PowerPoint presentations | Present.me - 0 views

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Troy Patterson

Technology is Still the Wrong Answer, In My Humble Opinion : 2¢ Worth - 0 views

  • but what impressed me was things that I saw here that I didn’t know about — how classroom teachers and their tech facilitators are playing with emerging technologies — and I use the term play with the most respectful and admiring intent
  • I honestly believe that these educators are seeking new ways to use new information and communication (literacy) technologies in teaching and learning for the very best reasons.
  • I continue to maintain that the little box is not what engages them. it is what happens through that box. It is the information experience that…
Troy Patterson

Interactive teaching methods double learning in undergraduate physics class - 0 views

  • Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class,
  • students in the interactive class were nearly twice as engaged as their counterparts in the traditional class
  • scored nearly twice as well in a test designed to determine their grasp of complex physics concepts (average score 74 per cent vs. 41 per cent, with random guessing producing a score of 23 per cent). Attendance in the interactive class also increased by 20 per cent during the experiment.
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  • During the experimental week, Deslauriers and Schelew gave no formal lecturing but guided students through a series of activities that had previously been shown to enhance learning, such as paired and small-group discussions and active learning tasks, which included the use of remote-control "clickers" to provide feedback for in-class questions
  • These activities require more work from the students, but the students report that they feel they are learning more and are more vested in their own learning,"
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