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Patrick Higgins

YouTube - Radiohead - All I Need (Official MTV Video) - 0 views

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    Radiohead's video showing the disparity between youth in the developed v. developing world.
Patrick Higgins

Steli Efti : Throw Down the Gauntlet: Break the Chains of Bad Practice, Build Our Future - 0 views

  • Consider letting students create teacher PD as part of their technology education program.
  • Move towards a model of embedded professional development.  Binge professional development that happens in one day rarely creates sustainable, system wide change.  Move toward embedded programs like the 23 things that involve teachers in their own pd and requires them to research, reflect, and use the tools.
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    Give this a read. What do you think?
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    Great article at Supercool School.
Patrick Higgins

The Committed Sardine - blog - 1 views

  • Phonological awareness – a child's ability to detect and use patterns of sound in speech – is one of the early signs of successful development of reading and writing skills. Researchers said the ability to contract, clip and manipulate words for texting relies on good phonological awareness, and that doing so can help develop literacy.
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    Hmmm.  How would this go over with our peers?
Patrick Higgins

Developing Questions for Critical Thinking - 0 views

  • “Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.”
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    Who doesn't need another refresher when it comes to Bloom's Taxonomy or Anderson's revised categories?
Patrick Higgins

Portfolios (Authentic Assessment Toolbox) - 3 views

  • Portfolio: A collection of a student's work specifically selected to tell a particular story about the student
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      This is what I am really leaning towards: students telling the story of their work. Can we accomplish that?
  • A portfolio is not the pile of student work that accumulates over a semester or year. Rather, a portfolio contains a purposefully selected subset of student work. "Purposefully" selecting student work means deciding what type of story you want the portfolio to tell.
  • 1. Growth Portfolios a. to show growth or change over time b. to help develop process skills such as self-evaluation and goal-setting c. to identify strengths and weaknesses d. to track the development of one more products/performances 2. Showcase Portfolios a. to showcase end-of-year/semester accomplishments b. to prepare a sample of best work for employment or college admission c. to showcase student perceptions of favorite, best or most important work d. to communicate a student's current aptitudes to future teachers 3. Evaluation Portfolios a. to document achievement for grading purposes b. to document progress towards standards c. to place students appropriately
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      Which one do you think fits our purposes? Or should we leave that up to the students?
Patrick Higgins

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - 0 views

  • “The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
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      This is the part that we can really instill in our students: a sense of wonder that permeates all they do. How do we do it? My idea would be to tap into their passions. What do they go for? Also, one of the jobs of schools is to expose students to things they would not normally be exposed to. This can create new habits and new wonder.
  • The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.
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      This is where we come in.
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  • Ms. Ryan and Ms. Markova have found what they call three zones of existence: comfort, stretch and stress. Comfort is the realm of existing habit. Stress occurs when a challenge is so far beyond current experience as to be overwhelming. It’s that stretch zone in the middle — activities that feel a bit awkward and unfamiliar — where true change occurs.
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      This is Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development where our students are stressed to the point of learning, but not beyond it.
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    I am dropping this in your mailboxes today.
Patrick Higgins

k12online2008schedule - 0 views

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    Great, free professional development available online.
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    K12onlineconference schedule
Patrick Higgins

Country and Territory Codes - AdWords API - Google Code - 0 views

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    Use these with google searches and news searches to get a different country's perspective.
Patrick Higgins

Kiva - Loans that change lives - 1 views

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    Can we tie this to our research projects? Has a "Dunks for Darfur" type feel to it, only less boisterous.
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    Micro-loans to third world entrepreneurs.
Patrick Higgins

Educational Leadership:Teaching Social Responsibility:Service Learning and Civic Partic... - 0 views

  • The strongest effects have generally been found for service learning programs that have the explicit aim of developing active citizenship, in contrast with those that emphasize community service and character building
Erica Hartman

Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view. - 0 views

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    google bought this
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