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Deron Durflinger

Around the Metro: Des Moines North High students to be given laptops | The Des Moines R... - 1 views

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  • Van Meter was one of the first schools in the state to adopt the one-to-one computer program for its students last year. Since then, the school has become a model for the program for schools across the country.
Deron Durflinger

IN OUR SCHOOLS: Common Core a 'monumental shift' | Cincinnati.com | cincinnati.com - 0 views

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  • We’re all going to be literacy teachers,” said Patricia Fong, a chief academic administrator for Lakota schools. “We’ll all be teaching students how to read, write, and how to listen and speak within (our) content areas.”
  • The clear, alarming picture that emerges … is that while the reading demands of college, workforce training programs and citizenship have held steady or risen over the past 50 years or so, K–12 texts have, if anything, become less demanding,” the Common Core document states.
  • “These aren’t more rigorous tests; they’re more honest tests,”
Deron Durflinger

SmartBlog on Education - A problem with success - SmartBrief, Inc. SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 0 views

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  • ducators, not programs, have the responsibility to educate students beyond just getting them to behave.
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Iowa universities adjust to burst of interest in online learning | The Des Moines Regis... - 0 views

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  • “I work almost full time while getting my master’s degree,” he said. “As an undergraduate, it allowed me a better balance between school, my work and my social life.”
  • online courses are a cost-effective way for universities to meet increased demand while coping with steep reductions in state funding in recent years, administrators say.
  • The number of online courses offered at Iowa’s three public universities has grown by nearly 25 percent from 2005-06 to 2010-11, data from the Iowa state Board of Regents show.
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  • Last year, Iowa’s universities launched an effort to share language courses online. The first was in classic Greek, which an ISU student took from a U of I professor in Iowa City. This year, three ISU students enrolled in classic Greek. The universities may expand to Arabic or Chinese, officials said.
  • “the octopus room.” The classroom’s brain is a motion-sensing camera that follows an instructor around the room. Microphones triangulate the location of a voice so that the camera can focus on the person speaking. Six black arms with video monitors are attached to the “brain” in the center. This allows students in the class and those taking it online to see and hear each other.
  • They do a very good job of simulating the classroom experience,” he said. “But you have to have the discipline to stay up with it. If you get a week or so behind, it’s hard to catch up
  • blend of in-person and online instruction. Students taking finals at the U of I’s secure testing rooms, for example, might be enrolled in a daily Spanish language course where two days of class every week are completed online. That allows the instructor to focus classroom time on refining conversation and reading skills, faculty said.
  • “Part of that land-grant mission is educating the masses, and the masses have changed.”
  • Offering experienced faculty teachers and classroom space filled with well-equipped laboratories is a key way for Iowa’s universities to differentiate themselves from online-only colleges, officials said.
  • However, disciplines that don’t require physical space may one day be based mostly or entirely online, said Marcus Haack, a U of I professor who teaches future principals and superintendents in an education leadership program that many participants take online.
  • In 40 years in this business, I’ve learned we will never put the brakes on technology. It’s always going to expand our opportunities, our thinking and creativity
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      Deron Durflinger on 30 Apr 12
       
      How can we channel the power of this learning/teaching style at Van Meter?
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MathType: MathType works with equations in Moodle assessments, forums, and more | Facebook - 0 views

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      shawn hyer on 29 Jul 10
       
      Thought this might help someone- maybe not. I'm not a facebook fan/operator, but the information is about moodle
  • MathType: MathType works with equations in Moodle assessments, forums, and more
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  • Copy equations from your exiting worksheets and paste them into Moodle assignments. Create a mathematical glossary in Moodle, teaching students to use proper mathematical terminology. Students and colleagues can copy equations out of Moodle to use in their own work.
Deron Durflinger

Class sizes are getting bigger, but does it really matter? - USATODAY.com - 1 views

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  • Conventional wisdom says the smaller the classes, the better the education, because teachers can pay more attention to each child. But while smaller classes are popular, decades of research has found that the relationship between class size and student outcomes is murky.
  • A study released in May by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University found that the Florida program had no effect on student achievement.
  • "They intuitively believe that small class sizes will allow more individual attention."
Deron Durflinger

News: Hybrid Education 2.0 - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • ‘Reinventing Higher Education’So what exactly is the pedagogical model Carnegie Mellon has discovered, that has inspired such faith? Essentially, it’s an online program that teaches students itself, rather than just being the medium a professor uses to teach. Furthermore, it leverages the opportunity to interact directly with a unique student -- an opportunity a professor addressing dozens of students in a lecture hall does not have.
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  • Deron Durflinger on 07 Jan 10
     
    Interesting concept. Can this be replicated in HS? It could be a cost savings for districts.
Deron Durflinger

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  • Shannon McClintock Miller on 08 Mar 10
     
    John Carver connection here. Great resource.
Deron Durflinger

Struggling North High buckles down, pulls itself up | The Des Moines Register | DesMoin... - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 24 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • “A true transformation in a school begins and ends with the attitudes of the teachers, administrators and staff,” Smith said. “There is no laptop, tardy policy or program that is going to make a change. My role is to surround myself with unbelievably smart and fantastic people, and then I get out of their way and let them do what they do best.”
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      Deron Durflinger on 24 Oct 11
       
      Love this quote!
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