“Our knowledge and our abilities are largely determined not by our IQ or some other fixed measure of intelligence, but by the effectiveness of our learning process: call it our learning quotient.”
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How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education System - Joel Rose - Busi... - 0 views
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Given the enormous impact that technology has had on nearly every other aspect of our society, how can that be?
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Today our collective vision for education is broader, our nation is more complex and diverse, and our technical capabilities are more powerful. But we continue to assume the factory-model classroom and its rigid bell schedules, credit requirements, age-based grade levels, and physical specifications when we talk about school reform.
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our focus should primarily be to design new classroom models that take advantage of what these tools can do.
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Maths Charts by Jenny Eather - 0 views
The Innovative Educator: An Alternative to High Stakes Testing. Facebook Stats - A More... - 1 views
Danah Boyd - Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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But as Dr. Boyd sees it, adults are worrying about the wrong things.
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“Children’s ability to roam has basically been destroyed,”
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even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today.”
Nurturing Curiosity & Inspiring the Pursuit of Discovery| The Committed Sardine - 0 views
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The courage to make mistakes is related in some measure to curiosity, exploration, and the ability to speak honestly about a topic and about ourselves.
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We are born curious—so what happened?
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That is, demonstrating our own curiosity and inspiring and cultivating the natural curiosity in others.
Interesting Ways | edte.ch - 0 views
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Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development.
Survey Finds Parents Mostly OK With Kids' Use of Tech - 0 views
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concern over stranger danger is interesting given that the actual risk (as opposed to perceived) of a child being harm by a stranger they meet online is very low.
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understand actual risks as measured by data from organizations like the Crimes Against Children Research Department, the Centers for Disease Control, the Justice Department and others who keep up-to-date records on risks and harms.
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great to see that parents are in-touch with their kids’ use of technology
The death of the exam: Canada is at the leading edge of killing the dreaded annual 'fin... - 0 views
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There is evidence, however, the slow death of exams is not simply a sympathetic response to quivering students, but to new science around cognition, which suggests the traditional high-stress, all-or-nothing final exam under gymnasium floodlights may not be an accurate measure of learning.
The data on children's media use: An interview with Michael Robb - Rafael Heller, 2018 - 0 views
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they’re much more likely to say that spending time interacting with each other online has a positive impact on their social-emotional lives than a negative one.
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, we found that for all the public attention to the amount of time kids spend with digital media, parents are logging almost as many hours as their kids
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Generally speaking, the press coverage of these issues is not well balanced, and the public mostly hears negative and alarming stories about cell phone addiction and cyberbullying and children holed up alone in their rooms.
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