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Kevin Sisak

Anti-bullying bill headed to Ohio governor - Break News - Ohio - 0 views

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ohio bill bullying

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      Kevin Sisak on 25 Jan 12
       
      beacon journal article on bullying
Cory Hewit

Judge Rules Americans Can Be Forced to Decrypt Personal Data - What Does That Mean For You? | Popular Science - 0 views

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judge americans rules personal forced data

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  • Cory Hewit on 25 Jan 12
     
    Keep an eye on your personal freedom when it comes to the internet. The government is really trying to invade our privacy.
matt swango

How to Avoid an IRS Audit - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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taxes audit finance

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  • Tax season is upon us, with most Americans putting together the materials they need to file their returns, gathering receipts, and searching for other tax deductions to maximize the amount they get back from the federal government.
  • If the IRS begins to suspect that a tax return isn't entirely truthful, the filer might be in for an audit.
  • Only about 1.1 percent of people who file a 1040 [the most common tax return] for the 2010 tax year were audited ... [or] about 1.5 million," says Rozbruch. "However, the audit rate is 12.5 percent for people earning $1 million or more in 2010.
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  • audits are most often triggered by the kind and amount of deductions taken
  • a professional should be hired in all audit cases.
  • For example, after widespread fraud was discovered, the IRS audited most taxpayers who claimed the First-Time Homebuyer Credit," Reed says. "The Earned Income Credit and the Adoption Credit are also common audit targets, but these are also credits that are often abused, so it makes sense for the IRS to verify that taxpayers qualify for them."
  • Two common examples are receipts for contributions to charity and mileage logs. When taxpayers try to recreate these expenses, they discover it is hard to remember events that happened more than a year ago," Reed says. "In the absence of good records, the deductions are disallowed when audited."
  • According to Rozbruch, the best track to take when an audit begins is to attempt to make things right immediately.
  • Reed adds that if the taxpayer is not maliciously trying to cheat the government, the IRS can be lenient.
  • matt swango on 25 Jan 12
     
    Tax season is upon us. Here's some tips to avoid an audit
Alexis Jackson

Mind Games : Article : Scientific American - 0 views

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education video games technology teaching tools interactive

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  • New research shows that video games have great educational potential.
  • Ninety-seven percent of American teenagers regularly play video games.
    • Alexis Jackson
      Alexis Jackson on 10 Feb 14
       
      Need to find this study from M.I.T. Education Arcade.
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  • They found that students who went straight to the lecture did not know what to listen for, whereas students who played the game first had better context and greater motivation.
  • M.I.T. Media Lab developed a programming language, Scratch, that enables kids as young as kindergartners to build games. Microsoft has developed a similar tool called Kodu.
  • Alexis Jackson on 10 Feb 14
     
    Incorporating video games into education
David Pluck

Restoring Our Schools | The Nation - 0 views

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Darling-Hammond equity accomplishment achievement gap graduation rates

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  • David Pluck on 13 Nov 13
     
    Restoring our schools. There is no such thing as a quick fix with NCLB. We need to improve the whole system to compete with high achievement nations!
Jenny Sommers

How To Increase Higher Order Thinking - 0 views

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shared by Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Parents and teachers can do a lot to encourage higher order thinking, even when they are answering children’s questions
  •  “Don’t ask me any more questions.” “Because I said so.”
    • Jenny Sommers
      Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13
       
      Garth- this reminds me of our conversation of how we shut children's learning down.
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  • Level 1. Reject the question.
  • Level 2. Restate or almost restate the question as a response.
  • Level 3. Admit ignorance or present information.
  • Level 4. Voice encouragement to seek response through authority.
  • Level 5. Encourage brainstorming, or consideration of alternative explanations.
  • Level 6. Encourage consideration of alternative explanations and a means of evaluating them.
  • Level 7. Encourage consideration of alternative explanations plus a means of evaluating them, and follow-through on evaluations.
  • When brainstorming, it is important to remember all ideas are put out on the table. Which ones are “keepers” and which ones are tossed in the trashcan is decided later.
  • Encourage Questioning. Divergent questions asked by students should not be discounted. When students realize that they can ask about what they want to know without negative reactions from teachers, their creative behavior tends to generalize to other areas. If time will not allow discussion at that time, the teacher can incorporate the use of a “Parking Lot” board where ideas are “parked” on post-it notes until a later time that day or the following day.
    • Jenny Sommers
      Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13
       
      I like this idea of the "parking lot" board. Students do need to feel like asking questions is ok- this doesn't stifle them but lets class continue on track.
  • Students should be explicitly taught at a young age how to infer or make inferences.
  • a teacher may use bumper stickers or well-known slogans and have the class brainstorm the inferences that can be drawn from them.
    • Jenny Sommers
      Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13
       
      I like this example.
  • How to Answer Children’s Questions In a Way that Promotes Higher Order Thinking
  • Jenny Sommers on 18 Oct 13
     
    interesting read- especially the section on "how to answer children's questions in a way that promotes higher order thinking
Salvatore Maiorana

http://product.design.umn.edu/courses/pdes3701/documents/drawingtolearn.pdf - 0 views

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Science

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      Salvatore Maiorana on 17 Oct 13
       
      For some reason I could not highlight on here, but It seems that someone else has. Either way I thought it was a good article!
Shan Wambach

I could not Highligh - 3 views

Dr. Holman; I have the same problem, I do the highlight, but it looks not the same as you do.

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