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Kim Vint

Gifted Education in the 21st Century « Advocacy & Consulting for Education, Inc. - 0 views

  • Technology has completely changed the way that we communicate and interact, the way that we learn and use information. However, our educational system still has not reflected this fundamental change, and remains reliant on what Renzulli calls “to-be-presented knowledge,” with teachers and textbooks as the gatekeepers of this knowledge. However, this doesn’t reflect how our society and our information structures work today. Renzulli argues that our educational system needs to adapt to the skills and technology that we have developed as a society in order to prepare our students for 21st-century jobs and for rebuilding America’s reputation as a birthplace for creativity, leadership, innovation, and development of new technologies. This can be done through using technology to improve the way that we deliver education, as well as what we are teaching students, and improving students’ engagement in the educational process.
    • Kim Vint
       
      We, as teachers, need to be aware of the technology that our students are using outside of school.
Allysen Lovstuen

Steve Evraire Daily Education News - 0 views

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    Daily Education News
anonymous

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Home Page - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - 0 views

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    Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators offers teacher resources, including categorized lists of sites that are useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.
anonymous

All A-Twitter about Education : Education Next - 0 views

  • Want to follow the top tweeters in education?
Laura Clausen

Special Education - Special Education for Children With ADHD - 0 views

    • Laura Clausen
       
      This references frequent physical breaks which we do through mt PLC work. VERY helpful for some!
Michelle Hill

The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators - 0 views

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    This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators.
Laura Clausen

National Association of Special Education Teachers: ADHD Series - 0 views

    • Laura Clausen
       
      Great knowledge for all teachers at all levels and disciplines!
Laura Sweeney

Race to the Top evens playing field, challenges teachers | The Iowa Center for Public A... - 0 views

  • And if a third grader moves to Belle Plaine (or Des Moines or Davenport) from Sioux City or Keokuk or anywhere in between, she and her parents can be assured that she will have learned the same skills as her peers.
  • States score a significant portion of Race to the Top points by opening up charter schools and pegging teacher pay to student performance—two features that are common in New York and D.C., but are virtually nonexistent in Iowa.
    • Laura Sweeney
       
      I totally disagree with paying teachers based on how well their students do on a specific test. As a special education teacher, I would never get a pay raise. There is a reason that my students are in special education. They either do not test well or they have difficulties with reading and passing the tests.
Abby Hendershot

Education Update:Taking the Fear Out of the First Year:Professional Learning Communitie... - 1 views

  • What do we want each student to learn? How will we know when each student has learned it? How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning?
Kim Vint

Education Week: Schools Use Digital Tools to Customize Education - 0 views

  • In today’s digital marketplace, students of all ages can create experiences tailored just for them. When a teenager searches for movies to watch, an online film site can provide suggestions based on past viewing history. Music lovers can create personalized playlists for everything from a workout in the gym to a study session. And when children play video games, they can choose a variety paths—based on their interests and skill levels—toward slaying a dragon or defeating an enemy. Then many of these same students walk into their classrooms and sit at their desks to absorb one-size-fits-all lessons or, if they’re lucky, instruction aimed at the high-, mid-, or low-level learner. And in many cases, there is little, if any, technology integrated into those lessons.
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      I totally agree that we're fighting a losing battle if we don't allow children to use technology in schools to complete their assignments.
Todd ZInkula

50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education - 0 views

    • Todd ZInkula
       
      This is a great site to remember when using twitter and social media
angrichards

Science based Learning is about to become Mainstream | Disrupt Education | Big Think - 0 views

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    What is the best strategy to learn / memorize? Taking a look at Amazon you will find a wide variety of books on that topic and I am pretty sure that the strategies described in those books will be effective, some more and some less.
Kim Vint

Dissent Magazine - Online Features - Firing Line:The Grand Coalition Against Teachers - - 0 views

  • On the first question, research shows that teachers are the most important in-school factor determining students’ academic performance. But they are not the only in-school factor: class size and the quality of the school principal, for example, matter a great deal. Most crucially, out-of-school factors—family characteristics such as income and parents’ education, neighborhood environment, health care, housing stability, and so on—count for twice as much as all in-school factors. In 1966, a groundbreaking government study—the “Coleman Report”—first identified a “one-third in-school factors, two-thirds family characteristics” ratio to explain variations in student achievement. Since then researchers have endlessly tried to refine or refute the findings. Education scholar Richard Rothstein described their results: “No analyst has been able to attribute less than two-thirds of the variation in achievement among schools to the family characteristics of their students” (Class and Schools, 2004). Factors such as neighborhood environment give still more weight to what goes on outside school.
    • Kim Vint
       
      Can an effective teacher overcome a bad home life for a student?
klr_reynolds

Seven Lakes High music teacher chosen for Yale honors | Ultimate Katy - 0 views

  • This award recognizes music educators throughout the U.S. for their accomplishments in teaching music in public schools.
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      It's so great to hear about teachers actually getting noticed for their high quality work. Why doesn't this get as much traction as the music teacher who fools around with a student?
Allysen Lovstuen

Who's kidding who? What do tests test? - Republic of Mathematics blog - 0 views

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    Interesting thoughts on tests in the classroom.
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