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Student-Centered Learning Environments: How and Why | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Nancy Jones on 30 Mar 11
     
    "More and more of society at large, and consequently many students, are demanding an educational system that works for and with them. These students are not bored. They are very curious, eager to learn, and willing to do whatever it takes to learn. I believe that the student-centered learning environment enables an educator to deal effectively with all types of students in the same classroom. A student-centered learning environment encourages students to become independent learners and ultimately to be in charge of their own education."
Nancy Jones

Rethinking Our Thinking on Discipline: Empower--Rather than Overpower - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Jones on 08 Jan 11 - Cached
  • choice-response thinking—that they need not be victims—may be one of the most valuable thinking patterns we can give them.
  • Rewards can serve as effective incentives only if the person is interested in that reward.
  • rewards for expected standards of behavior are counterproductive
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  • schools are giving young people the message that society will reward them if they act appropriately.
  • When students are not afraid, punishment loses its efficacy
  • , to discipline means to teach. Rather than punishment, discipline should be a positive way of helping and guiding children to achieve self-control.
  • Once the punishment is over, the student has "served his time" and is "free and clear" from further responsibility
  • Teaching obedience is not enough. The ultimate goal is that young people act responsibly because it pays off for them—rather than to please someone else.
  • but change comes from internal motivation
  • People choose their own behaviors.
  • Choice empowers.
  • Self-evaluation is essential for lasting improvement.
  • Self-correction is the most successful approach for changing behavior.
  • Acting responsibly is more satisfying through intrinsic motivation.
  • Positivity is a more constructive teacher than negativity.
  • Growth is greater when authority is used without punishment.
  • Teaching young people about choice-response thinking—that they need not be victims—may be one of the most valuable thinking patterns we can give them
  • The critical difference between optimistic thinking and pessimistic thinking has to do with the power of choosing one's responses.
  • All three are accomplished through a guidance approach in which the student acknowledges inappropriate behavior, the student self-evaluates, the student takes ownership of the problem, and the student develops a plan. In the process, the student grows.
  • As long as a student has a choice, confrontations are avoided because the student retains some power and saves face. He has not lost, either publicly in front of his peers or privately on a one-to-one basis.
  • We need to rethink our thinking about how people are changed.
  • Nancy Jones on 08 Jan 11
     
    I have to spend more time thinking about this and how it applies, but the true idea is about intrinsicallly wanting to be successful. In light of current events at school, I am not sure how this plays out for me, but it will be in the back of my head for sure.
Nancy Jones

The Livescribe Pen can help students with learning disabilities be successful | conquer... - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Jones on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • willing to let students turn in their assignments as a Livescribe pencast (via the web) in which they speak out loud as they work through assignments.
  • If the student can be taught to focus their writing on a few big ideas, then the spoken lecture is always available to students and their parents
  • sensory input of their choice at night if the instructor uploads pencasts to the web
  • Nancy Jones on 30 Sep 10
     
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Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Jones on 28 Aug 10 - Cached
  • suggest that many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed.
  • suggest that many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed.
  • The Internet may also be redefining how students
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  • understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image.
  • “When you’re sitting at your computer, it’s the same machine you’ve downloaded music with, possibly illegally, the same machine you streamed videos for free that showed on HBO last night.”
  • there might be a new model young person, who freely borrows from the vortex of information to mash up a new creative work,
  • Nancy Jones on 28 Aug 10
     
    some fascinating ideas on how not only do studenednts not understand the concept of plagiarism, but with all the sharing of media on the internet, do not necessarily see creating work as need to be original in context, but perhpas an original mashup of the ideas of others.
Nancy Jones

ASCD Inservice: How Negative Social Proof Can Undermine Classroom Management - 0 views

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  • the practice of stressing the poor behavior of a few students may actually encourage and increase that behavior.
  • stress the fact that the majority of students are following the rules and conducting themselves appropriatel
  • My school has the motto to “Praise Publicly and Punish Privately.”
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  • P.R.I.D.E. Students are expected to show pride, respect, intelligence, determination, and excellence
  • When they see 1 child receiving praise, they all begin to straighten up
  • wait till after class to address individual concerns.
  • o kill the disruptive students with kindness and it usually work
  • hat these students are actually begging for attention (positive or negative)
  • Nancy Jones on 22 Oct 11
     
    I feel validated. good stuff this is a topic that has come up repeatedly at work as well.
Nancy Jones

How to Create Nonreaders - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Jones on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • What a teacher can do – all a teacher can do – is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with:  to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself to) other people.  Motivation – at least intrinsic motivation -- is something to be supported, or if necessary revived.
  • a few specific suggestions for bringing students in on making decisions, offered here in the hope that they will spark you to think of others in the same spirit:
  • Bring students in on the process of assessment by asking them to join you in thinking about alternatives to conventional tests.  “How can you show me what you understood, where you still need help, and what I may need to rethink about how I taught the unit?”  Beyond the format of the assessment, invite them as a class to suggest criteria by which someone’s work might be evaluated – and, later, have them apply those criteria to what they’ve done.
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  • Strive to take pleasure and pride from how you help students to learn and become excited about learning, not just from the curriculum itself
  • Nancy Jones on 05 Sep 10
     
    By Alfie Kohn and referred by Scott McLeod. Article from English Journal. This guys is a radical thinker, but i agree with many of his points and think they are food for thought. The highlighted stuff is just a tease, and really, it isn't just about literature either. It is about perspective
Nancy Jones

Alfie Kohn: Operation Discourage Bright People from Wanting to Teach - 0 views

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  • Nancy Jones on 03 Nov 10
     
    Love this guy! Who would want to teach with the way the system is set up now according to Alfie kohn? Want brighter students? Hire brighter teachers and..here is a crazy idea...let them teach students to THINK and create not regurgitate.
Nancy Jones

How to Create Nonreaders - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Jones on 26 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Autonomy-supportive teachers seek a student's initiative                             - whereas controlling teachers seek a student's compliance.
  • The more you rely on coercion and extrinsic inducements, as a matter of fact, the less interest students are likely to have in whatever they were induced to do.
  • o create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with:  to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself
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  • nowing the definition of dramatic irony or iambic pentameter has the same relationship to being literate that memorizing the atomic weight of nitrogen has to doing science. 
  • as examined grades and intrinsic motivation has found that the former has a negative effect on the latter
  • ake a point of bringing students into the process of making decisions whenever possible
  • e fact is that kids learn to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.
  • general principles:
  • Supporting their autonomy isn't just about having them pick this over that. 
  •   Autonomy can be supported -- and choices can be made - collectively
  •   It's not all or nothing.
  • "See above."
  • Nancy Jones on 26 Mar 11
     
    I like a lot of what this guy says, although not all. This particular article has some really good ideas and guidelines to involve students
Nancy Jones

Education Week: 'Safe' Social Networking Tailored for K-12 Schools - 0 views

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  • ocial-networking site Edmodo, which is designed specifically for use in schools.
  • controlled environment
  • eacher sets the parameters and can see everything, and there's no messaging solely between students
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  • who owns the material that students post
  • Gaggle,
  • Gaggle, for instance, allows a student to join only at the invitation of a teacher, does not allow students to have private conversations, and has filters (originally developed for school email systems) that block inappropriate language, sense bullying or threatening references, and feature a scanner that detects pornography.
  • "interactive environments" rather than social networks
  • ePals social-networking site.
  • heir writing is so much more improved,
  • online forum
  • Gaggle typically costs schools and districts about $5 a year p
  • ePals offers some services for free
  • Livemocha
  • foreign languages,
  • Jamboree for Arts Camp & Music,
  • Nancy Jones on 20 Jul 11
     
    Interesting article reagarding a number of "interactive environment" networks to use in the classroom . Links for 8 various options provided for investigation.
Nancy Jones

Teaching Tomorrow's Skills to Today's Students - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...tln_wolpert-gawron.html

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  • Nancy Jones on 06 Jul 11
     
    This is an interesting article ( promoting a book, of course) but lists the 13 skills our students need to develop that stakeholders in higher education and business claim they need to see in their future candidates. Good topic for discussion/meeting
Nancy Jones

Studied - College Students Are Found to Have Less Empathy - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...27StudiedEmpathy.html

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shared by Nancy Jones on 28 Jun 10 - Cached
  • measured four aspects of “interpersonal sensitivity”: Empathic concern, or sympathy, over the misfortunes of others; perspective taking, an intellectual capacity to imagine other people’s points of view; fantasy or people’s tendency to identify imaginatively with fictional characters in books or movies; and personal distress, which refers to the anguish one feels during others’ misfortunes. (For example, “When I see someone who badly needs help in an emergency, I go to pieces.”)
  • Empathic concern
  • Empathic concern
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  • perspective taking
  • perspective taking,
  • increasing narcissism among college students
  • left young people self-involved, shallow and unfettered in their individualism and ambition.
Nancy Jones

Stress and the High School Student - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Nancy Jones on 02 Jan 11
     
    with comments about Race to Nowhere coming from professionals like Alfie Kohn and titles like "What Happened to Childhold?", this is worth following/reading
Nancy Jones

Teachers "Doing The Flip" To Help Students Become Learners - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarte... - 0 views

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  • Nancy Jones on 08 Jan 11
     
    this is great. how can we spread the word?
Nancy Jones

Ten skills every student should learn | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...lls-every-student-should-learn

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  • Nancy Jones on 12 Aug 11
     
    Interesting set of skills which I am sure most agree on;not so sure the order is the way i would put it.
Nancy Jones

Using cell phones as an educational tool | PhoneDog - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Jones on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Kids need to develop an empathetic view of the world.  They need to think critically about why things happen, what influences their choices and how they can positively impact on the future.  This year my students will blog, Skype with their peers at another middle school almost forty miles away, create Delicious accounts and learn to tag.  This year’s students will work on a digital textbook that my students last year collaborated on with another school.  
  • Wiffitti allows you to create a “wall” where people can post messages.  Each wall is assigned an SMS number and short code used to post texts; stadiums and television shows have used this technoology for years
  • about nurturing creative question-askers, collaborators, and thinkers
  • Nancy Jones on 03 Apr 11
     
    This is some cutting edge thinking. Power to the risk takers!!
Nancy Jones

A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Nancy Jones on 16 Apr 11
     
    Very Interesting article by Judy Willis about video games and gaming as a model for best teaching strategies. Makes a lot of sense to me. Student driven and they are more intrinsically motivated
Nancy Jones

Mobile Studying & Online Flashcards on Smartphones | StudyBlue - 0 views

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  • Nancy Jones on 01 Dec 11
     
    interesting statistics on students and mobile devices
Nancy Jones

SMALLab’s FLOW Encourages Students to be (Physically) Active Learners | Spo... - 0 views

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  • Nancy Jones on 25 Feb 12
     
    One of these specifically stated is the new quest academy school that opened in chicago last fall
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Studies Show Why Students Study is as Important as What - Inside School Research - Educ... - 0 views

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  • Nancy Jones on 17 Aug 10
     
    Interesting connection to the ideas presented in Dan Pink's book, DRIVE
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YouTube - RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Jones on 02 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Nancy Jones on 02 Sep 10
     
    interesting video from TEd Talks discussing empathy, a topic discussed earlier this week in the NY Times in terms of college students. Love everything RSA Animate does too. Check out some of their other explanations on the right hand side. I can see value for the classroom as well on many levels.
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