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Amanda Rablin

Sir Ken Robinson on Vimeo - 1 views

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shared by Amanda Rablin on 19 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Amanda Rablin on 19 Jan 10
     
    Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources and a New York Times Best-selling author. He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the world's leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education? (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN's Principal Voices. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts and education. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.
Roland Gesthuizen

How Much Does Identity Theft Cost? [INFOGRAPHIC] - 1 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Jan 11
     
    "Online fraud and related crime is on the rise, affecting more lives and costing individuals and businesses more money year after year .. In this infographic, created by Sam Franada of Lines & Moodswings for KGBPeople and based on data from Wikipedia, the I.D. Theft Center and other sources, we learn that 10% of Americans have had their identities stolen .. Check out more facts about identity theft - including the best ways to protect your own identity."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Jan 11
     
    A graphic charting online fraud and identity theft in the USA. It would be interesting to get students to look up the figures for Australia.
Roland Gesthuizen

Robert J. Samuelson - School reform's meager results - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than "school reform." Since the 1960s, waves of "reform" haven't produced meaningful achievement gains.
  • no one has yet discovered transformative changes in curriculum or pedagogy, especially for inner-city schools, that are (in business lingo) "scalable" -- easily transferable to other schools, where they would predictably produce achievement gains.
  • The larger cause of failure is almost unmentionable: shrunken student motivation. Students, after all, have to do the work. If they aren't motivated, even capable teachers may fail.
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  • Motivation is weak because more students (of all races and economic classes, let it be added) don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well.
  • Against these realities, school "reform" rhetoric is blissfully evasive. It is often an exercise in extravagant expectations.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10
     
    "few subjects inspire more intellectual dishonesty and political puffery than "school reform. Since the 1960s, waves of "reform" haven't produced meaningful achievement gains."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 15 Sep 10
     
    Intersting to read about what many school reviews try to skip around.
Roland Gesthuizen

One to One Computing: A Summary of the Quantitative Results from the Berkshire Wireless... - 1 views

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1:1 research summary report USA schools

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 07 Nov 10 - Cached
  • The results found that both the implementation and outcomes of the program were varied across the five 1:1 settings and over the three years of the student laptop implementation. Despite these differences, there was evidence that the types of educational access and opportunities afforded by 1:1 computing through the pilot program led to measurable changes in teacher practices, student achievement, student engagement, and students’ research skills.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 Nov 10
     
    "This paper examines the educational impacts of the Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative (BWLI), a pilot program that provided 1:1 technology access to all students and teachers across five public and private middle schools in western Massachusetts. Using a pre/post comparative study design, the current study explores a wide range of program impacts over the three years of the project's implementation."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 Nov 10
     
    Reading an interesting tertiary summary report of a 1:1 pilot computer progrqam.
Sam Smith

SEDONA TO LAS VEGAS VIA OVERNIGHT IN GRAND CANYON - 1 views

My wife and I just got married last week and the honeymoon we both thought of was the 2 day and 1 night guided tour of the Grand Canyon on our way from Sedona to Las Vegas. This tour could only com...

Sedona Tours

started by Sam Smith on 12 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
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