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Lois Whipple

About | Khan Academy - 0 views

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      Ability to track academic progress
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      Multi-pronged approaches to learning for the entire community
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    A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
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    A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
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    free online tutorials
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    This really helped me with Stats
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    A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
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    A free world-class education for anyone anywhere. Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
Barbara Powers

World Bank Group - 0 views

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    'ELMP 7774'  Working for a world free of poverty
Daniel Breiman

Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share - 0 views

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    Imagine, Program, Share
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    Create stories, games, and animations Share with others around the world
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    Cool kid projects that educate other students.
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    "Create stories, games, and animations"
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    "Create stories, games, and animations"
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    Create stories, games, and animations Share with others around the world
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Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share - 0 views

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    Create stories, games, and animations Share with others around the world
Gina Cinotti

PBL World Drawings on Pinterest - 0 views

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    This is one of my favorite PBL applications
Kelly OLeary

Should More Low-Income Students Apply to Highly Selective Colleges? - 0 views

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    Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Research on College Undermatch "Access to the nation's most selective colleges remains starkly unequal, with students in the lowest income quartile constituting less than 4% of enrollment," say Michael Bastedo and Allyson Flaster (University of Michigan/Ann Arbor) in this article in Educational Researcher. "Students in the top SES quartile comprise 69% of enrollment at institutions that admit fewer than a third of their applicants…" One increasingly popular explanation for this enrollment gap is undermatching - academically able low-income students not applying to selective colleges for which they are qualified, settling instead for lower-tier institutions. Bastedo and Flaster are skeptical about this theory for three reasons First, they don't believe there is good evidence about the life benefits of attending different tiers of college, and most measures of college "quality" are quite unscientific. Life advantages might accrue at the extremes - going to a highly selective college versus a low-quality community college - but the evidence about the whole middle range is "quite muddy," say Bastedo and Flaster. Among the factors that need to be looked at more carefully are a college's graduation rate, students' debt burden, placement in graduate or professional schools, and post-graduate earnings. Second, the authors question whether it's possible for researchers to predict which low-income students will get into selective colleges to which they haven't yet applied. Competition for seats in these colleges has become much more intense in recent years, and extra-curricular activities, alumni parents, athletic prowess, and other intangibles play an increasingly important part. In many of these areas, higher-SES students have great advantages. Third, even if we look only at SAT scores and GPAs, high-achieving disadvantaged students are still not as competitive as the undermatching advocate
Lois Whipple

Testing Talk - 0 views

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    This site provides a space for you to share your observations of the new breed of standardized tests. What works? What doesn't? Whether your district is piloting PARCC, Smarter Balanced, or its own test, we want to pass the microphone to you, the people closest to the students being tested. The world needs to hear your stories, insights, and suggestions. Our goal is collective accountability and responsiveness through a national, online conversation.
Barbara Powers

Duolingo | Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and English for free - 0 views

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    Free language education for the world. Also has app for itunes.
Barbara Powers

ChristensenInstitute (ChristensenInst) on Twitter - 0 views

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    The Clayton Christensen Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation. San Francisco Bay Area · christenseninstitute.org
Lois Whipple

Creating a Culture of Student Reflection: Self-Assessment Yields Positive Results | Edu... - 0 views

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    Students learn a lot from this portfolio process. By presenting their work to peers, they get a different perspective on it. They begin to understand how they learn (what educators call metacognition). They realize that revising a project -- sometimes even starting over -- and collaborating with others are natural parts of real-world work.
Alisha Trusty

Edmodo is THE iPad Workflow Solution | Learning and Innovation - 0 views

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    Edmodo is THE iPad Workflow Solution. The world of iPad workflow just got a whole lot easier. After months of 'work arounds' involving screenshots, Dropbox and pre-tablet technology, the latest Edmodo update has changed the game.
Alicia Koster

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/PISA-2012-results-US.pdf - 0 views

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    he Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an ongoing triennial survey that assesses the extent to which 15-year-olds students near the end of compulsory education have acquired key knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in modern societies. The assessment does not just ascertain whether students can reproduce knowledge; it also examines how well students can extrapolate from what they have learned and apply that knowledge in unfamiliar settings, both in and outside of school. This approach reflects the fact that modern economies reward individuals not for what they know, but for what they can do with what they know. PISA offers insights for education policy and practice, and helps monitor trends in students' acquisition of knowledge and skills across countries and in different demographic subgroups within each country. The findings allow policy makers around the world to gauge the knowledge and skills of students in their
Alicia Koster

Should Schools Treat Coding as a 'Basic Literacy'? - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

  • On the educational value of coding, the piece quotes Adam Enbar, founder of New York's Flatiron School, which offers a number of pricey computer-programming courses, including a two-week session for high school students:   "I equate coding to reading and writing and basic literacy. Not everyone needs to be Shakespeare, just as not everyone needs to be an amazing developer," he says. "But ... we're entering a world where every job, if not already, will be technical."
Adriana Coppola

Education World® : Technology - 0 views

  • Five Free "Creation" Apps for iPad
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    Educators on EdTech: Involving Parents and More
Barbara Powers

TIMSS and PIRLS Home - 1 views

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    Testing info from 1995 to present
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