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Shannon McClintock Miller

Character Scrapbook - 1 views

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shared by Shannon McClintock Miller on 11 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Shannon McClintock Miller on 11 Feb 12
     
    That is a great idea....Love it. :)RT @MrSchuReads: @shannonmmiller I shared the Character Scrapbook with our book club: http://t.co/Bkit2lE
Deron Durflinger

7 traits kids need to succeed - World - CBC News - 1 views

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Grit traits success character vanmeter

shared by Deron Durflinger on 28 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • GritCuriositySelf-controlSocial intelligenceZestOptimismGratitude
  • How Children Succeed—Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character.
Shannon McClintock Miller

Fakebook - 0 views

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shared by Shannon McClintock Miller on 09 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Shannon McClintock Miller on 09 Aug 13
     
    Fakebook....create a fake profile for fictional/historical characters http://t.co/ENLgXvZTAu #tlchat #vanmeter
Deron Durflinger

The New Résumé: It's 140 Characters - WSJ.com - 0 views

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Twitter personal learning network resume transformation

shared by Deron Durflinger on 17 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • "This is a new era where everyone needs to have a voice, and you want to leave a digital trail of yourself," says Ms. Siff.
  • After recruiters and job seekers find each other over Twitter, more traditional means of hiring usually take over: Candidates may tweet a link to a résumé or a more complete social-media profile, followed by phone or in-person interviews.
  • A tweet, she explains, "is the new elevator pitch."
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  • "I watch people interact, learn what their positions are, who their best friends on Twitter are, whether they have a sense of humor. From that you can get a pretty good picture," she says.
  • Fed up with traditional recruiting sites and floods of irrelevant résumés, some recruiters are turning to the social network to post jobs, hunt for candidates and research applicants.
Deron Durflinger

Cheating Students: How Our Schools Fail the Humanistic Vision of Education | The Humanist - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 01 May 13 - No Cached
  • agreed with him, and emphasized that my condemnation was not of cheating as an isolated problem, but rather as one of many symptoms of a system that throws learning under the bus and turns testing into a kind of religion. Instead of proving academic worth, grades too often just tell us who’s willing to hustle, who’s willing to cheat, who’s willing to pull an all-nighter in order to memorize atomized facts that are quickly forgotten. And what does this do for our moral education, our character?
  • ndeed, it’s essentially common knowledge that school isn’t fun. So why do we make kids attend? If it’s for the sake of learning, then the school mandate isn’t working. Learning is an organic, thought-provoking, individual and collaborative process that requires more than copying off of a classmate during a fill-in-the-blank assessment.
  • “If you can make a lot of money, do whatever you can to get it” and “It’s okay to cheat on your tax forms or induce a subprime mortgage meltdown if you can get rich and get away with it.” Look how much cheating has brought our economy to near ruin. To bring about a real change in the way we approach work and economic life, the nature of schooling must be drastically altered so as to make true learning the number one priority.
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  • he rampant cheating in high schools across the United States not only threatens intellectual honesty and integrity, but also the legitimacy of our economy and politics. The cheating epidemic reflects a bizarre and unhealthy obsession with testing and the obsolete industrial-era authoritarianism that takes the joy out of learning. But, ironically, so much group cheating shows us a way out by giving us a glimpse, although in a deformed version, of the cooperative modes of learning that could take over if we ever get beyond the prevalent use of standardized testing and competition-based grading.
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