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Simply Copying Nature is No Way to Succeed at Inventing - Just Ask Leonardo da Vinci (O... - 0 views

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shared by goskygo_posts on 01 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • goskygo_posts on 01 Aug 15
     
    Where do inventions come from? There's no magic formula, but there are ways to improve your creativity.
Joellen Kriss

All About Explorers | Everything you've ever wanted to know about every explorer who ev... - 1 views

allaboutexplorers.com

explorers history socialstudies research teaching information_literacy Social_Studies social studies

shared by Joellen Kriss on 09 Oct 09 - Cached
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 09 Oct 09
       
      Looks like it's pretty real, informational.
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 09 Oct 09
       
      The For teachers link shows teachers how to use this in classrooms
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 09 Oct 09
       
      Something weird happened with my sticky notes, so it'll all be in this one here.
    • Joellen Kriss
      Joellen Kriss on 09 Oct 09
       
      The Explorers A to Z link sends you to the explorers page, where the real stuff gets done.
  • Joellen Kriss on 09 Oct 09
     
    So this web site is a really fantastic way to teach critical reading skills. It appears to be a very real web site to teach about explorers. In actuality, it's a trick. The biographies of the explorers are full of misinformation, like one explorer inventing the cell phone and another having dreams of being an Olympic athlete. It's a fun and interesting way to teach students not to always go with the first thing that they see and not to believe everything they see on the internet.
Erin Power

Teacher turns 'crazy idea' into new school - CNN.com - 1 views

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shared by Erin Power on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Kim Ursetta
  • Denver, Colorado'
  • want to start a new kind of school," she said, a union-sponsored public school led by teachers, not a principal
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  • We've been doing schools the same way in this nation for 150 years, so if we don't step up, then nothing is going to change
  • bility ranks among the top barriers blocking the nation's children from receiving the best education possible.
  • A board-certified, 16-year teaching veteran, Ursetta, 38, believes the lack of teacher flex
  • Although they follow school board-approved curriculum and standards, instructors can easily rearrange lessons to "make better sense for the kids" -- making better connections between different subject matter, Ursetta said.
  • The lack of quality school leadership is a big reason that experienced teachers leave their schools,
  • Race to the Top also aims to give a boost to charter schools -- special public schools that are given more independence in order to encourage innovation.
  • To qualify for Race to the Top, the rules call on states to create "data systems" linking student success with teacher performance.
  • National Education Association
  • members fear it opens the door to measuring teacher performance by how students score on tests.
  • "What we're really against is using a single [student ] test on a single day" to assess teacher performance, said NEA Executive Director John Wilson. "What we're more accepting of are multiple indicators," and teacher performance "observed in classroom should count as the major part of evaluation."
  • many teachers are reacting coolly to Race to the Top because they "feel like it's too much like No Child Left Behind and are looking for something different.
  • Dubbed Race to the Top, the program is essentially a contest pitting states against each other to win a share of $4.35 billion in grant money from congressional stimulus legislation.
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 10 Sep 09
       
      I think this is an interesting concept that we (as future teachers) should consider. Most of the teachers I've spoken to feel that schooling is not done the most efficient or successful way. Why not consider other options? The thing I love most about this article is that this school came about someone, Ursetta, simply thinking that way - what could other options be? Then Ursetta looked at the steps she had to make and brought it into actuality.
    • Erin Power
      Erin Power on 11 Sep 09
       
      This source relies on interviews and studies conducted by CNN. A teacher could use this site to remember to be inventive in their approach to administration. This is valuable to social studies teachers so they constantly keep rethinking and questioning how to teach
  • Erin Power on 10 Sep 09
     
    This article talks about a Colorado school which has gotten rid of administrators and is run solely by teachers
jbdrury

iLearn Technology » Social Studies - 3 views

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shared by jbdrury on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      Each post has tags like these
  • Meet Me at the Corner
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      I thought this "Meet Me at the Corner" site was particularly interesting, and with the proper resources it could be cool to involve a class in creating videos to post in connection with DC history.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      Furthermore, this could be connected to neighborhood studies, perhaps done by the students themselves and added to this site
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  • What it is: Meet Me at the Corner is an inventive site that seeks to take students on virtual field trips through videos created by students.  The site started with video podcasts of the history and people of New York City.  As the site grows through student submissions, people and events of other towns, cities, and nations will be highlighted.
  • jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
     
    I'm not certain this hasn't already been posted; I did a search in our groups and didn't see it. iLearn Technology is an interesting and useful blog, where people post descriptions and links to other tech-savvy web sites and applications that can be a great resource to teachers. Though most of the sites I have looked at would probably be aimed more towards K-6 classrooms, others extend at least into middle school. Much like our diigo, each post is tagged with keywords so that you may search their site by subject or category.
jbdrury

Capital Gains FAQs - DC Public Schools, Washington, DC - 1 views

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faq capital gains DCPS cash awards to students

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      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      Emery Educational Campus is one of these fifteen participating schools.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      I feel this website could have gone into greater detail explaining exactly how much money these students might be earning.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
       
      The assessments done at our school are created by the teachers. The students are also judged considerably based on their classroom behavior. A sort of giveaway is the awards for wearing the proper uniform.
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  • The Capital Gains program is a partnership between DCPS and Dr. Roland Fryer, economics professor at Harvard University and the founder of Harvard’s Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs). In addition to Washington, DC, EdLabs and Dr. Fryer work with school districts in Chicago and New York City on similar incentive initiatives.
  • jbdrury on 23 Nov 09
     
    I know we've all heard about the rather controversial Capital Gains program - where DCPS is paying students cash awards for good academic performance and behavior - but I wasn't certain how much anyone really knew about the specifics of the program. I just recently learned that my own school - Emery Educational Campus - is participating in Capital Gains. I can say that my own students do not seem to take the program very seriously, or at the very least not enough to study more to make certain they perform well on the mandatory assessments (said one student: "I don't really care about the extra money").
  • Lindsay Andreas on 23 Nov 09
     
    They have "Tech Tickets" at McKinley, it's just a huge joke because the rewards are like breakfast with Mr. Pinder the principal, who they hate. Last Wednesday, they started joking around about starting a black market for tech tickets, at least they are inventive about it. But it doesn't motivate them.
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