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Michael Horder

Abandoning Age-Tracking - Unwrapping the Gifted - Education Week Teacher - 3 views

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Track students by learning readiness rather than age.

shared by Michael Horder on 25 Oct 10 - Cached
  • A very small but growing number of school districts around the country are converting to the educational practice of grouping students by readiness (or ability or skill or mastery, depending on how you want to describe it) rather than by age.
Jennifer Flores

Teachers fight scripted curriculum - SFGate - 1 views

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While many compromise by using an anthology these teachers fight for novels.

shared by Jennifer Flores on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Flores on 19 Nov 10
     
    This article is about teachers who are fighting for literature in the classroom.
  • Ryan Williams on 19 Nov 10
     
    wow this article really makes me reconsider becoming a teacher. In fact this was a nightmare of mine, teaching no complete books and novels. How can students question texts critically if they cannot even finish the book. I find this new age teaching style insanely counterproductive because like the article stated some text provide a spark for the students to begin to question critically. If we continue to only use sections of full texts then the students are missing out on more possible discussion. The future seems darker for not only the students but for the teachers that once had to read a whole book and think.
anonymous

PowerlessPoint - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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PowerPoint

shared by anonymous on 28 Apr 10 - Cached
  • And in an age when most people squirm if they must sit still to listen to a person speak for longer than a minute, PowerPoint keeps them calm. Its soothing, assuaging underlying message is that there’s no topic too complex, no problem too difficult, no idea too subtle that ordinary human beings can’t grasp it in a 20-minute presentation. PowerPoint runs roughshod over phenomena by flattening them, so that nothing is more important than anything else.
  • anonymous on 28 Apr 10
     
    More critiques of PowerPoint
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