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Sheryl A. McCoy

Reinventing the Big Test: The Challenge of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia - 0 views

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    The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind-numbing drill-and-kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.
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Janice Stearns

Top News - U.S. educators seek lessons from Scandinavia - 0 views

  • were able to score so high on a recent international test of math and science skills. They found that educators in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark all cited autonomy, project-based learning, and nationwide broadband internet access as keys to their success.
  • What the CoSN delegation didn’t find in those nations were competitive grading, standardized testing, and top-down accountability—all staples of the American education system.
edutopia .org

How to Refine Driving Questions for Effective Project-Based Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Andrew Miller, consultant for the Buck Institute for Education, details strategies for refining project-based learning questions.
Sheryl A. McCoy

Blogging on the Bay | Connective Writing - 0 views

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    Authentic learning, as we are finding it through our Professional Learning Networks, remains the most powerful form of professional education; it seems that this form needs to be incorporated within our more static, traditional form of teacher education.
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    W Gaskins reflections on the concept of "connected writing" and its relationship to authenitic learning for the adult learner; compare/contrast formal graduate classes with informal, yet powerful Professional Learning Network.
Sheryl A. McCoy

Hoover's Business Insight Zone - 0 views

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    Robert Ballard, a Wichita, KS native, has a TED talk at this URL. If you are a teacher, you need to know about Dr. Ballard and his work in Science and Education through the Jason Project
Jose Rodriguez

The NASA SCIence Files™: Educators: Traditional vs. PBL - 0 views

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    compare and contrast of tradition vs. PBL teaching and learning
Sheryl A. McCoy

Home | Sprout Builder - Create living content. - 0 views

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    Sprout Builder is a beta development site that was bookmarked by Diigo member Jason Epstein to use for education; looks promising
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    This application may be an authentic, yet simple way for students to display or share work within the project they are immersed.
Sheryl A. McCoy

The BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Origins and Effectiveness - 0 views

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    highly effective instructional model; developed by Rodger Bybee through BSCS to help STEM teachers teach through inquiry more effectively; based on previous research in this area; discussed here.
Lisa Linn

sigve - home - 3 views

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    New ISTE SIG for Education in Virtual Environments
Sheryl A. McCoy

Dr. W. Edwards Deming - 0 views

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    a very brief, interesting introduction to Dr. Deming, his ideas and theories that have changed modern human interactions in schools, businesses and other venues where people interact.
Jose Rodriguez

Principles of Backward Design - 0 views

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    Overview of principals of Backward Mapping
Jose Rodriguez

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Assessment Rubrics - 0 views

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    Great collection so that we don't have to re-invent the wheel everytime we give an assignment.
Sheryl A. McCoy

In the Know NOW: Fossil Fieldtrip Guide: fossil, poster, practice | Glogster - 0 views

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    "Use Glogster to make an interactive science poster."
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    Students can use these types of interactive posters to exhibit their final project.
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UK Coursework Help & Writing Services by Coursework Online - 1 views

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    UK's Top Academic Guidance Consultancy Firm
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