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Tamira Chapman

Technology in the Classroom - The Role of the Principal - 0 views

  • We are very fortunate to work in a school district which places a high value on the use of educational technologies, so many valuable sites are not blocked including YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr, del.icio.us, and other social networking sites. Of course, we have strong filters protecting students from inappropriate material, but generally speaking, we believe that our responsibility as educators in the 21st Century is to teach students how to use the Internet responsibility as opposed to automatically shutting them out of everything which is done in too many schools through the world and across our country.
  • That learning is important and that education should be fun, interesting and challenging.” Can you talk a little bit about how you as an administrator can foster a climate where “education is fun, interesting and challenging?”
  • . The power of the Internet! I also have used YouTube and TeacherTube videos in faculty meetings to introduce a topic or reinforce a point, and I try to incorporate an activity that engages teachers with technology such as a digital camera scavenger hunt in the building for our staff.
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  • Alan also taught us that the Read/Write Web is much more than “cool new tools,” and that ultimately it is about teaching and learning, not about technology.
  • xemplars that your teaching staff created with these new tools?
  • s part of the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund’s trip to Japan. He used his blog and Skype to communicate with and teach our students from Japan. Blog link: Minorsensei.
  • He has another blog where he does a lot with digital storytelling and other cool stuff: The South Park Lab’s Blog.
  • She is a podcasting pro. Check out her South Park News Network podcasts: Blog link: Faust Facts 5.0.
  • The teacher needs to relinquish the role of “Expert who imparts all of the knowledge to his students.” Instead, he needs to help the students become more self-directed in their learning. These Web 2.0 tools are a great way to do this. If the work is authentic, rigorous, and relevant, then the student and teacher focus will remain high.
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    Principal shares how he uses technology in his school. Blogs, Wiki's etc. have become regular parts of his daily work.
Brian Brotschul

Mathtrain.TV   Prime Factorization (factor tree) - 2 views

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    Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.
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    Great tool
Heather Mills

TBR Elearning Initiative - 0 views

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    Mobilizing the Tennessee Board of Regents (mTBR) for the new innovations of Mobile Devices and App Technology, Social Networking, Gaming, Simulations, Virtual Worlds to increase recruiting, retention, graduation rates, and for meeting the needs of 21st Century Technological Workforce. -6 Universities/-13 Community Colleges /-27 Technical Centers /-State Wide Workforce Training and Development Twiddle: Need an Interactive Smart/WhiteBoard?
Heather Mills

Curating the World of Educational Apps -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    With a bank of 40,000 educational apps that have been cataloged, reviewed, and approved, a Tennessee initiative hopes to make it easier for educators to use apps in the classroom and beyond. Sometimes, finding the right app can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Tamira Chapman

Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Home - 0 views

  • “And if the official school licence is once again denied, maybe we’ll have better luck in a couple of years’ time”
  • The school, which has operated independently without state ratification since the autumn of 2010, applied for the official school licence again last year.      The licence would give the school the right to issue school certificates and receive state aid.      Currently the school perseveres with the help of the EUR 250-300 student fees and voluntary contributions.      In the autumn, 15 year-round pupils started with the school. In addition, there are a certain number of “seasonal students”.
  • The government can grant private communities or foundations the right to organise basic education, if it can be established that there is a need for it.      The curricula of the school and the finances of the organiser also have to be in order. The granting of the licence is discretionary.
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  • There are now 72 private schools in Finland offering basic education. Their pupils constitute about two per cent of all the comprehensive-school-age pupils in the country.
  • Some of the schools are “ordinary” private schools originating from the era prior to the introduction of the comprehensive school system.      Some, in turn, represent certain ideologies, such as Christianity, or certain pedagogical trends, such as the Steiner or Freinet approaches.
Tamira Chapman

Lawyers in Rutgers Dorm Spying Trial Make Final Presentations - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The facts of the case are supported by an extensive electronic record, including text messages and Twitter feeds and a record of the exact moments of computer activity in the dormitory where the events occurred in September 2010.
  • Mr. Clementi had checked Mr. Ravi’s Twitter feed dozens of times after discovering that he had been viewed
Tamira Chapman

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age — and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.
  • Since it was started 11 years ago, Wikipedia has moved a long way toward replacing the authority of experts with the wisdom of the crowds. The site is now written and edited by tens of thousands of contributors around the world, and it has been gradually accepted as a largely accurate and comprehensive source, even by many scholars and academics.
  • The Britannica, the oldest continuously published encyclopedia in the English language, has become a luxury item with a $1,395 price tag
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  • Only 8,000 sets of the 2010 edition have been sold, and the remaining 4,000 have been stored in a warehouse until they are bought.
  • Gary Marchionini, the dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the fading of print encyclopedias was “an inexorable trend that will continue.”“There’s more comprehensive material available on the Web,” Mr. Marchionini said. “The thing that you get from an encyclopedia is one of the best scholars in the world writing a description of that phenomenon or that object, but you’re still getting just one point of view. Anything worth discussing in life is worth getting more than one point of view.”
Tamira Chapman

Texas Southern University Vows to Improve Graduation Rates - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • T.S.U. had been one of the state’s last open-enrollment public universities. Now prospective students must have at least a 2.5 grade point average and either a combined reading and math score of 820 on the SAT or a 17 on the ACT.
  • “We thought access should be free and open.”
  • To meet that goal, students in the academic village are pushed to take at least 15 credit hours each semester and are encouraged not to hold jobs. Mr. Rudley said graduation rates are unlikely to rise without applying pressure. “If you just let them do things on their own, they’ll start out with 15 hours and drop down to 12 hours, then drop down to 9 hours,” he said.
Tamira Chapman

Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy - 0 views

  • used to joke that education was one of the few things people were willing to pay for and not get.
  • Over three decades, for-profit schools added students at more than six times the rate of traditional colleges and universities. However, that growth also sparked controversy over their marketing techniques to attract students and led recently to tougher regulations. The new rules require for-profit education companies to offer programs that prepare students for “gainful employment” so they can pay down their school loans and reduce their ratio of debt to income. Those changes have slowed new enrollments significantly, so it is unclear whether for-profit schools will continue to outpace more traditional institutions of higher education in the future.
  • For all institutions — public, non-profit and for-profit — better measurement is essential to increasing graduation rates and success in the workplace. I am in radical agreement with Rosen that data can and should be used to motivate schools to improve, and that greater transparency and accountability will encourage students and government funders to support the institutions that demonstrate the best outcomes.
Tamira Chapman

Five Lessons from the International Summit on the Teaching Profession - Global Learning... - 0 views

  • High-quality education is the result of a system, not just of the work of individual teachers. If you put a high-quality teacher recruit into a dysfunctional school environment, the "system wins every time."
Ismael Khalil

Montgomery schools now tweeting en Espanol - 1 views

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    Posted at 10:11 AM ET, 03/09/2012 Montgomery County Public Schools translates its snail mail, phone messages, and television programs into multiple languages to serve its diverse community. So it was only a matter of time before its social networking went bilingual. Announcing the MCPS Spanish twitter feed!
Brian Brotschul

Khan Academy - 0 views

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    Khan Academy is on a mission to provide a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. With over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 200 practice exercises, we're helping students learn whatever they want, whenever they want, at their own pace.
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    With a library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 311 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
Brian Brotschul

Taking a Risk on At-Risk Kids - YouTube - 0 views

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    When the principal at Clintondale High took a big risk by flipping his classrooms (as his test scores were dropping and disciplinary rates were on the rise) it paid off.
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    Youtube video on principal Greg Green and a high school that flipped the model.
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    I really believe the flipped model is the way to go -- at least as a hybrid similar to our doctoral experience.
Daniel Dooley

Daniel Dooley's Public Library | Diigo - 0 views

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    Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more "
Brian Brotschul

Membership, policy, and professional development for educators - ASCD - 1 views

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    Curriculum resources
Brian Brotschul

Handbook of Computer Game Studies - The MIT Press - 0 views

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    A broad treatment of computer and video games from a wide range of perspectives, including cognitive science and artificial intelligence, psychology, history, film and theater, cultural studies, and philosophy.
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    New media students, teachers, and professionals have long needed a comprehensive scholarly treatment of digital games that deals with the history, design, reception, and aesthetics of games along with their social and cultural context. The Handbook of Computer Game Studies fills this need with a definitive look at the subject from a broad range of perspectives. Contributors come from cognitive science and artificial intelligence, developmental, social, and clinical psychology, history, film, theater, and literary studies, cultural studies, and philosophy as well as game design and development. The text includes both scholarly articles and journalism from such well-known voices as Douglas Rushkoff, Sherry Turkle, Henry Jenkins, Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman, and others.
Brian Brotschul

Twitter Map See and visualize twitter users tweets overlayed on a map - 0 views

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    Watch location of followers/tweets worldwide
Brian Brotschul

High Tech High - 0 views

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    Working as sound designers and story tellers, HTHMA 12th grade students created 1-2 minute abstract audio fictions. They were asked to design a vivid sound narrative without the use of any dialogue. They could only use sounds that they recorded in the field with a portable audio device and/or custom sounds they designed in the music creation program, Reason
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