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Kim McCoy-Parker

Updated Padagogy Wheel Tackles The Problem Of Motivation In Education | Edudemic - 0 views

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shared by Kim McCoy-Parker on 21 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • One of the biggest problems at the core of education is motivation.
  • How do we motivate students, teachers, parents, and everyone else to get excited about learning?
Kim McCoy-Parker

Sir Ken Robinson: Why We Need to Reform Education Now - 0 views

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shared by Kim McCoy-Parker on 04 May 13 - No Cached
  • In 1970, the U.S. had the highest rates of high school graduation in the world, now it has one of the lowest.
  • now around 75 percent, which puts America 23rd out of 28 countries surveyed.
  • They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.
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  • 'drop out'
  • high schools every day, close to 1.5 million a year.
  • According to one estimate, if the numbers of young people leaving school early could be cut by 50 percent, the net gain to the U.S. economy from savings in social programs and gains in additional tax revenues could be around $90 billion a year - that's almost $1 trillion in just over ten years.
  • One of the themes of TEDTalks Education is that current policies are based on a tragic misdiagnosis of the problem. They treat education as an industrial process rather than as a human one. They are driven by a culture of testing and standardization that has narrowed the curriculum and sees students as data points and teachers as functionaries rather than as living breathing people.
  • To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system.
  • The key to personalizing education is to invest properly in the professional development of educators. As Bill Gates argues, teachers need mentors too.
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  • Teaching is an art form. Great teachers know they have to cultivate curiosity, passion and creativity in their students.
  • achievement soars when teachers fire the imaginations of their students with a true spirit of inquiry.
  • All students have their own stories, motivations and circumstances and teachers have to connect with them personally.
  • "Everyone has a story," she says. "Everyone has a struggle and everyone needs help along the way."
  • We have millions of young people walking away from education, he says. But "right now, we could save them all," if we're prepared to innovate fundamentally and not just do more of the same.
  • "Every child," she says, "deserves a champion who will never give up on them... and insists they become the best they can possibly be."
  • give them the creative freedom to innovate and do their jobs within a proper framework of public accountability.
  • There are those who say that we can't afford to personalize education to every student. The fact is that we can't afford not to.
Kelsey Seuferer

What Is 'Personalized Learning'? Educators Seek Clarity - Education Week - 0 views

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shared by Kelsey Seuferer on 03 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • phrase to refer to efforts to tailor lessons to students of different ability levels
  • chool leaders are struggling to strike a balance between safeguarding sensitive student data and being able to collect and use such data to individualize learning
  • personalized learning strategies work, and in determining how to evaluate the true impact of those strategies on student learning
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  • he default perspective is the student's—not the curriculum, or the teacher,
  • accommodate not only students' academic strengths and weaknesses, but also their interests, and what motivates them to succeed.
  • rather than personalizing a mix of activities that give students a richer and more meaningful educational experience
  • differentiation" of lessons for students of different skill levels, or efforts to help students move at their own pace
  • promote "student agency"—basically, giving students more power through either digital tools or other means, accounting for how they learn best, what motivates them, and their academic goals
  • It] empowers teachers in personalizing learning" and "empowers students through their own exercise of choice."
  • roject-based learning, and more flexibility for students to set their learning paths, among other goals
  • technology played a key role in personalized learning
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  • • Prepare Your Students for the Smarter
Ruth Finney

Aplusmath.com : Games - 3 views

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Grade 2 and 3 substraction multiplication addition & subtraction flashcards. Algeba

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  • Ruth Finney on 06 Feb 13
     
    Great elemantary student math activity choices. Colorful and relevant for middle grades especially.
  • Ruth Finney on 06 Feb 13
     
    Math is so much more interesting and motivating if it is rewarded with a game.
Robin Galloway

Foundations Look To Advance Common Core Curriculum -- THE Journal - 1 views

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shared by Robin Galloway on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • three-year initiative to fund an instructional system and 24 online courses--a "complete, foundational system of instruction" to be developed by Pearson--covering K-12 English/language arts and K-10 math. One course will be provided for each grade level. Four of those courses--two in each subject area in the early to middle high school grade levels--will be contributed as free and open resources through Gates Foundation funding "with the intent of widening access and spurring innovation around the Common Core,"
  • the courses will be "designed to engage and motivate" students and will incorporate social networking, gaming, video, and simulation, coupled with assessment and teacher professional development, both online and blended.
  • Conning said the initial group of courses will be made available in 2013, "before the Common Core Standards are implemented." She also said the courses will be field-tested in a variety of districts beginning in the late fall with some individual units. The complete system of courses is expected to be completed in December 2013 and ready for the 2014-2015 school year,
  • Robin Galloway on 27 Apr 11
     
    Gates and Pearson foundations partner to develop online courses developed around the common core standards in language arts and math for K-12 students (one for each grade level). 
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