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Three Ideas for 21st Century Global Curriculum | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 23 Mar 12
     
    Three Ideas for 21st Century Global Curriculum
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Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 14 Mar 12
     
    Sexual harassment has long been an unfortunate part of the climate in middle and high schools in the United States. Often considered a kind of bullying, sexual harassment by definition involves sex and gender and therefore warrants separate attention. The legal definition of sexual harassment also differentiates it from bullying. Based on a nationally representative survey of 1,965 students in grades 7-12 conducted in May and June 2011, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School provides fresh evidence about students' experiences with sexual harassment, including being harassed, harassing someone else, or witnessing harassment. The survey asked students to share their reactions to their experience with sexual harassment and its impact on them. It also asked them about their ideas for how schools can respond to and prevent sexual harassment.
Tiffany Hoefer

Classroom Management Strategies: Top 10 Rules, Organization Plans - 1 views

www.lessonplansinc.com/room_management_strategies.php

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shared by Tiffany Hoefer on 18 Aug 12 - Cached
  • These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyrighted property of the author.
  • Tiffany Hoefer on 18 Aug 12
     
    Site offers middle school and high school teachers ideas to help with class syllabus, class policy, parent-teacher communication, and other. Provides many classroom management strategies for grading policies, class rules, classroom procedures, late work, substitutes, managing groups, establishing a safe classroom environment, and so much more. Nice depth of material.
  • Tiffany Hoefer on 18 Aug 12
     
    note highlight regarding free use - is completely free to use, but copyrighted to owner. owner does not release under cc license
Martyn Steiner

Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom: - 0 views

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  • Martyn Steiner on 05 Feb 12
     
    Blog of ideas about using ICT in foreign languages classes. 
Martyn Steiner

Course: 40 ICT ideas in 40 minutes - 0 views

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ICT education examples ideas teacher training OER TWB

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  • Martyn Steiner on 02 Feb 12
     
    A presentation which provides 40 suggested uses of ICT in the classroom.
Gwen Stamm

Education paves the road to women's equality - 0 views

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  • Gwen Stamm on 24 Jun 10
     
    gender equity - thoughts and ideas to promote
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EVOKE -- a crash course in changing the world | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education - 0 views

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EVOKE serious games socialchange socialissues Africa developing nations

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  • Evoke emerged from discussions with universities in Africa who increasingly wanted to find avenues to encourage their students to engage in local communities and develop innovative solutions to local development challenges. The universities were searching for ways to engage students in real world problems and to develop capacities for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial action that many believe will be the engine for job creation now and in the future.
  • Evoke  therefore is designed to empower young people all over the world, and especially in Africa, to start solving urgent social problems like hunger, poverty, disease, conflict, climate change, sustainable energy, health care, education, and human rights.; to collaborate with others globally; and to develop real world ideas to address these challenges.Players will be challenged to complete a series of ten missions and ten quests -- one per week, over the course of the ten-week game.   The "text book" for this course is an online graphic novel written by Emmy-award nominated producer Kiyash Monsef. 
  • The game's creative director, alternate reality pioneer Jane McGonigal, is debuting the game at this week's TED conference in Long Beach, California.  As she describes the game, "An evoke is an urgent call to innovation.  When we evoke, we look for creative solutions. We use whatever resources we have. We get as many people involved as possible. We take risks. We come up with ideas that have never been tried before. That's what we're asking players to do in this online game. To learn how to tackle the world's toughest problems with creativity, courage, resourcefulness and collaboration."
Jason stewart

Contemplative Education Online - 2 views

www.johnvdavis.com/...contedonline.htm

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  • Jason stewart on 05 Jan 11
     
    THIS is a good article, it connects much of the perspective that I view things from and links ideas I have not articulated together very nicely. It will do well to remember this article and its definitions. 
stephknox24

Woolman - Sierra Friends Center | Educational Community for Peace, Justice & Sustainabi... - 0 views

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  • stephknox24 on 11 Feb 11
     
    Woolman is a nonprofit educational community dedicated to the principles of peace, justice and sustainability. Originally founded in 1963 as a Quaker high school, today Woolman offers educational programs for teens, retreats for adults, and summer camps for children and families. The name was inspired by John Woolman, an 18th century Quaker human rights activist, who aspired to live his life in complete integrity with his principles. Located on 230 acres in the Sierra Nevada Foothills within walking distance of the Yuba river, the Woolman campus is an experiment in sustainable community living. Most of our produce is grown here in our organic garden, much of our energy is from solar, wood, and other renewable resources, and the ideas of Permaculture and conservation are infused in the community culture. As a Quaker community we welcome people of all backgrounds, and do not require or push any religious beliefs. While many of our staff and participants are not Quaker, the Quaker ideals of inquiry-based education, consensus decision making, peace, equality and integrity are fundamental to our shared endeavor. O
stephknox24

Teacher's Guide - 2 views

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  • stephknox24 on 09 Oct 11
     
    Lessons for Hope is a web-based, high school curriculum inspired by my book, Reason for Hope. In my book, I express optimism for the future and the belief that every individual can make a difference. Lessons for Hope communicates these ideas to students through activities that: Empower them to implement their own real-world solutions to problems in theircommunities and the environment.Integrate service-learning, character education, and humane education.Are developed and classroom-tested by educators and the Center for Applied Technologiesin Education. Are aligned with national standards.
stephknox24

Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators - 1 views

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  • stephknox24 on 11 Apr 11
     
    "Reflection" is a vital component of service-learning. This manual was designed for educators and leaders of service groups who have an interest and a commitment to provide reflection opportunities for students and community partners alike. College professors, K-12 teachers, community organization leaders, and leaders of service organizations have all found, "Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators," a useful supplement to their work. This manual was written during the summer of 1995. The primary author, Julie Reed, was interning at the Georgetown University Volunteer and Public Service Center at the time. I had asked her to pull together a compendium of reflection activities that would be useful for educators and leaders of service groups. None of the ideas represented in this manual are original. We borrowed examples from a variety of sources, which you will find in the "Acknowledgements" section at the end of the manual.
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Diane Ravitch: Standardized Testing Undermines Teaching : NPR - 0 views

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  • "I came to the conclusion ... that No Child Left Behind has turned into a timetable for the destruction of American public education," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I had never imagined that the test would someday be turned into a blunt instrument to close schools — or to say whether teachers are good teachers or not — because I always knew children's test scores are far more complicated than the way they're being received today."
  • "The whole purpose of federal law and state law should be to help schools improve, not to come in and close them down and say, 'We're going to start with a clean slate,' because there's no guarantee that the clean slate's going to be better than the old slate," says Ravitch. "Most of the schools that will be closed are in poor or minority communities where large numbers of children are very poor and large numbers of children don't speak English. They have high needs. They come from all kinds of difficult circumstances and they need help — they don't need their school closed."
  • "Regular public school parents are angry because they no longer have an art room, they no longer have a computer room — whatever space they had for extra activities gets given to the charters and then they have better facilities. They have a lot of philanthropic money behind them — Wall Street hedge fund managers have made this their favorite cause. So at least in [New York City] they are better-funded ... so they have better everything."
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  • "Race to the Top is an extension of No Child Left Behind. It contains all of the punitive features. It encourages states to have more charter schools. It said, when it invited proposals from states, that you needed to have more charter schools, you needed to have merit pay — which is a terrible idea — you needed to judge teachers by test scores, which is even a worse idea.
  • On teachers unions "They're not the problem. The state with the highest scores on the national test, that state is Massachusetts — which is 100 percent union. The nation with the highest scores in the world is Finland, which is 100 percent union. Management and labor can always work together around the needs of children if they're willing to. I think what's happening in Wisconsin and Ohio and Florida and Indiana is very, very conservative right-wing governors want to break the unions because the unions provide support to the Democratic Party. But the unions really aren't the problem in education."
stephknox24

NAPF Peace Leadership Program: Become a Peace Leader in Your Community - 0 views

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    The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation started its Peace Leaders program in 2008 to encourage people all around the world to spread the message of nuclear disarmament and peace in their own communities. Being a Peace Leader is simple. You decide how much time and effort to volunteer, and we provide materials, ideas, and inspiration. We suggest you set a goal of reaching out to 50 people in 6 months, and our staff is happy to help you create an outreach plan for your community.
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Bright students 'cannot write essays', say Cambridge dons - Telegraph - 1 views

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  • Many undergraduates are struggling to show their natural flair after being ordered to write in a highly-structured way to pass exams, it was claimed. Robert Tombs, professor of history at St John's College, Cambridge, warned that students were “drilled into writing” in a formulaic manner between the age of 11 and 18, leaving them unable to articulate their ideas on degree courses.
  • A study last year suggested that almost half of employers were being forced to provide remedial lessons in the three-Rs because teenagers finish compulsory education lacking good levels of English and maths.
  • Speaking at the seminar in central London, Prof Tombs said many undergraduates had been taught to write essays at school simply to pass tests. "One of the things that one notices in student essays is how much damage has been done by the imposition of artificial structures for essay writing,” he said.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 15 Mar 12
     
    Bright students are starting university unable to structure an essay because of the "damage" caused by test-driven schooling, Cambridge academics warned on Monday.
Martyn Steiner

Podcast 36…Project Based Learning and some other stuff | Ideas and Thoughts - 0 views

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PBL project-based learning podcast TWB education OER

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  • Martyn Steiner on 29 May 12
     
    A podcast on PBL
Martyn Steiner

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom and Beyond | OER Commons - 1 views

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ICT education TWB OER digital storytelling classroom course workshop

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  • Martyn Steiner on 05 Feb 12
     
    Workshop on the use of digital storytelling in the classroom. Gives a very complete and practical guide for those new to the idea.
Martyn Steiner

Module 5: Sites - Google Apps Education Training Center - 1 views

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ICT education ideas course teacher training OER TWB google sites

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  • Martyn Steiner on 02 Feb 12
     
    Provides a short course in the use of Google Sites in education
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