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Luke Whitehouse

Michael Gove scraps homework rules - 0 views

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homework education

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  • Luke Whitehouse on 03 Mar 12
     
    Schools have been given the go-ahead to reduce the amount of homework they set for pupils after complaints from parents that studies are cutting in to family time.
Keri-Lee Beasley

My Daughter's Homework Is Killing Me - Karl Taro Greenfeld - The Atlantic - 2 views

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homework education literacy

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 23 Sep 13
     
    An interesting tale of homework in Middle school
Keri-Lee Beasley

Is Homework Worthwhile? | Edudemic - 0 views

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homework education teaching

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 18 May 15
     
    Homework appears to have little impact on learning in elementary 
Sean McHugh

11 Ways Finland's Education System Shows Us that "Less is More". | Filling My Map - 0 views

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  • Finland follows the basic formula that has been performed by math teachers for centuries: The teachers go over homework, they present a lesson (some of the kids listen and some don’t), and then they assign homework.
  • What if we didn’t force students who know that their talents reside outside of the world of formal academics to take three years of high school classes that they found boring and useless?  What if we allowed them to train in and explore vocations they found fascinating and in which they were gifted?
  • This system allows the Finnish teacher more time to plan and think about each lesson.  It allows them to create great, thought provoking lessons.
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  • Elementary students in Finland often have the SAME teacher for up to SIX YEARS of their education.
  • Finland understands that the ability to teach isn’t something that can be gained from studying. It is usually a gift and passion.  Some have it, some don’t.
  • They do not try to interfere or usurp their authority and decisions.
  • Study after study
  • Imagine all of the exciting things you could do with your students if there wasn’t a giant state test looming over your head every year.  Imagine the freedom you could have if your pay wasn’t connected to your student’s test scores.  Imagine how much more fun and engaging your lessons would be!
  • teachers take their time.  They look deeper into the topic and don’t panic if they are a little behind or don’t cover every topic in the existence of mathematics in a single year.
  • math ONCE a week
  • The students get to actually understand the material before they are forced on to a new topic.
  • Finnish students have the least amount of homework in the world.  They average under half an hour of homework a night.  Finnish students typically do not have outside tutors or lessons either.
  • I won’t give you homework if you work on this while you are in my classroom.”
  • Trust is key
  • Sean McHugh on 26 Apr 15
     
    ...why are Finnish students succeeding and ours are failing?  The difference is not the instruction. Good teaching is good teaching and it can be found in both Finland and in the US.   (The same can be said for bad teaching.)  The difference is less tangible and more fundamental.  Finland truly believes "Less is More."  This national mantra is deeply engrained into the Finnish mindset and is the guiding principal to Finland's educational philosophy.
Sean McHugh

How Does Multitasking Change the Way Kids Learn? | MindShift - 2 views

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  • “We were amazed at how frequently they multitasked, even though they knew someone was watching,” Rosen says. “It really seems that they could not go for 15 minutes without engaging their devices,” adding, “It was kind of scary, actually.”
  • media multitasking while learning. Attending to multiple streams of information and entertainment while studying, doing homework, or even sitting in class has become common behavior among young people—so common that many of them rarely write a paper or complete a problem set any other way.
  • But evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that when students multitask while doing schoolwork, their learning is far spottier and shallower than if the work had their full attention. They understand and remember less, and they have greater difficulty transferring their learning to new contexts.
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  • Under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two complex tasks at the same time. It can happen only when the two tasks are both very simple and when they don’t compete with each other for the same mental resources. An example would be folding laundry and listening to the weather report on the radio. That’s fine. But listening to a lecture while texting, or doing homework and being on Facebook—each of these tasks is very demanding, and each of them uses the same area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex.”
  • Young people think they can perform two challenging tasks at once, Meyer acknowledges, but “they are deluded,
  • This ability to resist the lure of technology can be consciously cultivated
  • “The good thing about this phenomenon is that it’s a relatively discrete behavior that parents actually can do something about,” she says. “It would be hard to enforce a total ban on media multitasking, but parents can draw a line when it comes to homework and studying—telling their kids, ‘This is a time when you will concentrate on just one thing.’ ”
  • Stop fretting about how much they’re on Facebook. Don’t harass them about how much they play video games. The digital native boosters are right that this is the social and emotional world in which young people live. Just make sure when they’re doing schoolwork, the cell phones are silent, the video screens are dark, and that every last window is closed but one.
nadinebailey

Cybraryman Internet Catalogue - 0 views

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homework rethinkinghomework edchat

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  • nadinebailey on 06 May 15
     
    A great collection of resources around the homework debate curated by cybraryman
David Caleb

Fractions - A Booster Activity - 1 views

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fractions math Maths mathematics

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  • David Caleb on 05 Feb 13
     
    A great website that differentiates for fractions. Grade 4's used for a homework task
Louise Phinney

7 Learning Apps You should not Miss - 1 views

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apps ipad

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  • Louise Phinney on 04 Nov 12
     
    Easy Bib, Bamboo Paper, Study Blue, Study Tracker, Simple Mind, My Homework, Paper
Louise Phinney

ClassParrot - Safe Texting for the Classroom -- ClassParrot - 0 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 11 Oct 11
     
    ClassParrot is the 100% safe, and simple tool that lets teachers reach students the way their friends do. Remind your students of upcoming examsSend homework updates & event remindersLet parents opt-in to receive texts, too
Katie Day

Year 5 Blog - 1 views

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  • Katie Day on 18 Nov 10
     
    from a UK school
Mary van der Heijden

21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 - THE DAILY RIFF - edustange's... - 0 views

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digital literacy future professional_development

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  • 1. DesksThe 21st century does not fit neatly into rows. Neither should your students. Allow the network-based concepts of flow, collaboration, and dynamism help you rearrange your room for authentic 21st century learning.2. Language LabsForeign language acquisition is only a smartphone away. Get rid of those clunky desktops and monitors and do something fun with that room.3. ComputersOk, so this is a trick answer. More precisely this one should read: 'Our concept of what a computer is'. Because computing is going mobile and over the next decade we're going to see the full fury of individualized computing via handhelds come to the fore. Can't wait.4. Homework
  • Mary van der Heijden on 22 Dec 10
     
    Interesting vision for the next 10 years
Louise Phinney

Telling Time in Many Ways - 1 views

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  • Louise Phinney on 04 Oct 11
     
    Canadian teacher, turned American tutor, Laurie Laurendeau, found herself being asked by parents about various ways in which they can help their children at home with Math concepts.  So she started a blog to address many of these questions.  Laurie targets parents of students in Kindergarten to Grade 3, and writes a new blog each week and covers all the strands of Math (Number Sense, Measurement, Computation, Geometry, Problem-Solving).
David Caleb

How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off - The New York Times - 0 views

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creativity gifted

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  • Research suggests that the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher’s pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves.
  • What holds them back is that they don’t learn to be original. They strive to earn the approval of their parents and the admiration of their teachers.
  • only a fraction of gifted children eventually become revolutionary adult creators,
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  • The parents of ordinary children had an average of six rules, like specific schedules for homework and bedtime. Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule.
  • “Emphasis was placed on the development of one’s own ethical code.”
  • parents didn’t dream of raising superstar kids. They weren’t drill sergeants or slave drivers. They responded to the intrinsic motivation of their children. When their children showed interest and enthusiasm in a skill, the parents supported them.
  • A majority of the tennis stars remembered one thing about their first coaches: They made tennis enjoyable.
  • Research reveals that the more we practice, the more we become entrenched — trapped in familiar ways of thinking.
  • what motivates people to practice a skill for thousands of hours? The most reliable answer is passion — discovered through natural curiosity or nurtured through early enjoyable experiences with an activity or many activities.
  • In fashion, the most original collections come from directors who spend the most time working abroad.
  • winning a Nobel Prize is less about being a single-minded genius and more about being interested in many things.
  • Relative to typical scientists, Nobel Prize winners are 22 times more likely to perform as actors, dancers or magicians; 12 times more likely to write poetry, plays or novels; seven times more likely to dabble in arts and crafts; and twice as likely to play an instrument or compose music.
  • “Love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said.
  • You can’t program a child to become creative. Try to engineer a certain kind of success, and the best you’ll get is an ambitious robot.
  • If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
  • David Caleb on 03 Feb 16
     
    "Research suggests that the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher's pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves." Gifted kids don't often produce something new but excel in the 
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