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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Improving Online Success - On Hiring - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Article by Rob Jenkins, August 16, 2011 on Improving Online Success for beginning college students. See excerpt below. Makes me think about how MCNC's SLI work has introduced? equipped? advanced? students' and teachers' online working skills, especially the push to use social media. And how all MCHSs and ECHSs should attend to this skill development for their students.
Adana Collins

ePD at Charles School - Tie Literacy to Key Cognitive Skills (KCS) by Ed Ingman on Prezi - 0 views

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    How can all staff help students become better writers? (It may take a while to load but well worth the wait)
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Aspen Competition Drives Innovative Ideas for Community-College Completion - Students -... - 0 views

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    Miami Dade, which has more than 90,000 students, for example, decided to require those who place into developmental courses to take a "success" course that teaches basic study and time-management skills. That requirement helped to double graduation rates for the college's minority students. Valencia, seeing data that students who added classes late had poor completion rates, instituted a policy barring students from registering for classes that have already met. To maintain some flexi­bility, the college introduced "flex start" sections, which begin a month into the semester. Another excerpt: Faculty-Led Efforts Faculty buy-in is another crucial component to colleges' meeting their completion goals. Finalists for the Aspen Prize all had faculty members strongly dedicated to teaching-and conducting research on teaching methods. "What we heard a lot from faculty was, 'How can I find better ways to deliver instruction to my students?'" Mr. Wyner says. As part of the tenure process at Valencia, full-time faculty develop three-year "action research projects" on teaching techniques that involve training courses, advisers, and peer-review panels. The faculty members test teaching strategies, assessing students' performance against that of control groups. Ideas that work find a place in the classroom. In one project, a professor tried giving individual lab assignments to developmental-reading students, rather than a blanket assignment for all students. The new method worked better, the professor determined, and all sections of that course on Valencia's East Campus now use that model of instruction. Valencia is not the only college where faculty drive the innovation. At Miami Dade, faculty members banded together to improve students' pass rates in math, choosing and testing several new teaching methods. Some showed promise, such as testing algebra students more often on smaller amounts of material, a practice that continued.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Community-College Study Asks: What Helps Students Graduate? - Students - The Chronicle ... - 0 views

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    Isn't this what MCHS and ECHS do with their students to ensure college readiness and success? Excerpt: "Some institutions do require students to participate in specific programs-and they've seen positive results. For instance, Brazosport College, in Lake Jackson, Tex., began to require first-time students to take a student-success course in 2007. It teaches time-management skills and proper study habits. As a result, the fall-to-spring retention rate for students who completed the course jumped to 89 percent, compared with the baseline rate of 66 percent. Those students passed remedial courses at a higher rate than before, and as a result were more likely to stay enrolled in college, the report says."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Myth of the Tech-Savvy Student - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    by Ron Tanner, November 6, 2011 This article echoes some of what Geoff ? said several years ago. When I began teaching a course called "Writing for the Web," three years ago, I pictured myself scrambling to keep up with my plugged-in, tech-savvy students. I was sure I was in over my head. So I was stunned to discover that most of the 20-year-olds I meet know very little about the Internet, and even less about how to communicate effectively online. The media present young people as the audacious pilots of a technological juggernaut. Think Napster, Twitter, Facebook. Given that the average 18-year-old spends hours each day immersed in electronic media, we oldsters tend to assume that every other teenager is the next Mark Zuckerberg. Aren't kids crazy about downloading music, swapping files, sharing links, texting, and playing video games? But video games do not create savvy users of the Internet. Video games predate the Internet and have little to do with online culture. When games are played online, the computer is no longer an open portal to the world. It is an insular system, related only to other gaming machines, like Nintendo and Xbox. The only communication that games afford is within the closed world of the game itself-who is on my team? At their worst, games divert children from other, more enriching experiences. The Internet's chief similarity to video games is that both siphon off audiences from television, which will soon reside exclusively on the Internet. As a delivery system for television, film, and games, the Internet has proved itself a premier source of entertainment. And that's all that most young people know about it. Why wouldn't we educate students in sophisticated uses of the Internet, which is commanding an increasing amount of the world's time and attention? I'm not talking about a course on "How to Understand the Internet" or an introduction to searching for legitimate research-paper sources online (although that is useful, obviously
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Amazon.com: Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Josse Bas... - 0 views

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    Second edition book with practical for small measures of student learning--strengths and weaknesses. Has 3 sections: assessing course-related knowledge and skills; assessing learner attitudes, values and self-awareness; and assessing learner reactions to instruction.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Harold Jarche » Emergent practices need practice - 0 views

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    "But many of the problems we face today are COMPLEX, and methods to solve simple and complicated problems will not work with complex ones. One of the ways we addressed simple & complicated problems was through training. Training works well when you have clear and measurable objectives. However, there are no clear objectives with complex problems. Learning as we probe the problem, we gain insight and our practices are emergent (emerging from our interaction with the changing environment and the problem). Training looks backwards, at what worked in the past (good & best practices), and creates a controlled environment to develop knowledge and skills."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Uri Treisman's Joyful Conspiracy on Vimeo - 1 views

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    A wonderful 5-minute video that captures not only the concepts underlying a "more intensive pathway" in cc developmental studies but also the same thinking behind the MC-EC high school integrated approach--affective, academic, college success skills
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

http://www.k12center.org/rsc/pdf/TCSA_Symposium_Final_Paper_Bennett_Kane_Bridgeman.pdf - 0 views

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    Interesting approach by PARCC on through-course assessments for K-12 students with particular significance for HS students as they assess how college ready they are, how they are growing content and skills to analyze, understand the content and apply, and how through-course assessments drive interventions, classroom practice, and support needed for teachers to understand CCSS and help their students to achieve them. Really like logic model on p 17. How does this, should this, could this affect MCNC's epi modeling? I-Lab practicum?
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 Reasons Why Our Students Are Writing Blogs and Creating ePortfolios | Powerful Learni... - 0 views

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    great blog by Australian teacher on how and why they are helping their students to build digital literacy skills through eportfolios and blogging
Adana Collins

Reaching the Goal:  The Applicability and Importance of the Common Core State... - 0 views

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    Title: Reaching the Goal:  The Applicability and Importance of the Common Core State Standards to College and Career Readiness.Source: EPIC Educational Policy Improvement CenterAuthors: David Conley et al A new analysis from Educational Policy improvement Center (EPIC) indicates that mastering the Common Core Standards have the baseline knowledge and skills necessary for college work.
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New York State Education Department - 0 views

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    The New York State Education Department is part of the University of the State of New York (USNY). Its "mission is to raise the knowledge, skill, and opportunity of all the people in New York."
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ACCUPLACER - 0 views

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    College Board ACCUPLACER tests provide students with useful information about academic skills in math, English, and reading. Resource for students from The College Board
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    Schools are using Accuplacer as early as 9th grade to better prepare their students for meaningful high school work that will get them ready for college.
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That Old College Lie - 0 views

  • But the biggest problem with American higher education isn’t that too many students can’t afford to enroll. It’s that too many of the students who do enroll aren’t learning very much and aren’t earning degrees. For the average student, college isn’t nearly as good a deal as colleges would have us believe.
  • The average graduation rate at four-year colleges in the bottom half of the Barron’s taxonomy of admissions selectivity is only 45 percent. And that’s just the average–at scores of colleges, graduation rates are below 30 percent, and wide disparities persist for students of color. Along with community colleges, where only one in three students earns a degree,
  • Less than 40 percent of low-income students who start college get a degree of any kind within six years.
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  • A 2006 study from the American Institutes for Research found that only 31 percent of adults with bachelor’s degrees are proficient in "prose literacy"–being able to compare and contrast two newspaper editorials, for example. More than a quarter have math skills so feeble that they can’t calculate the cost of ordering supplies from a catalogue.
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    By Kevin Carey in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Issue #15, Winter 2010. In this editorial, Carey (policy director of think tank Education Sector) argues that colleges are not fulfilling their mission to students: costs are rising and students are not learning (or even graduating). He argues for transparency and studies of the effectiveness of teaching and learning, and warns of the education-related lobbies that keep the rest of us in the dark about higher education.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Amazon.com: Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty (97807879... - 0 views

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    Book on Collaborative Learning Techniques; seems well regarded; already 7 years old
Adana Collins

Edgecombe Community College - News - Cardboard Kayak Project Teaching Real World Skills - 0 views

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    MCNC Edgecombe Early College High School students are making boats out of cardboard and learning about business models and investments in the process.
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North Carolina New Schools Project (NCNSP) - 1 views

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    NCNSP works with school districts and educators to develop more than 100 innovative high schools in every region of the state. NCNSP partners with colleges and universities, state and local government, and supporters in business and philanthropy. The organization provides a full range of services and supports to enhance the knowledge and skills of educators in new schools.
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