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in title, tags, annotations or urlCompetency-Based Pathways - 0 views
Education Week: Lectures Are Homework in Schools Following Khan Academy Lead - 0 views
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It’s not just about the kids watching the same lecture the night before. For us, the big piece is having teachers use data to make instructional decisions about their students,
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Students worked through those initial units quickly, but she could see when they hit their “pain points”—sometimes on material covered several grades earlier. The Los Altos Pilot Administrators, teachers, and students in Los Altos School District share their experiences with Khan Academy. Source: The Khan Academy Administrators Teachers Students “In order for me to get that kind of understanding of a student, I would have had to sit down one-on-one and work through problems and see a pattern, which I’m happy to do, but it takes a lot of time,” Ms. Caldwell said. “This confirmed my suspicions and allowed me to remediate much more quickly.”
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“I was able to identify those learning gaps in real time, whether it was from 3rd or 4th or 5th grade, and I was able to remediate and saw those learning gaps begin to disappear
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Reinventing Education, Revisited | eSchool News - 0 views
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“This is [about an entire] environment; you can’t say it’s [only] about technology,” Allen said of the city’s efforts. “When you merge good teaching and good curriculum using i21 tools as the platform, then things really start to happen.” She added that the project requires all of these elements working together in order to succeed: “It is [about] all of the above in changing the environment, and how we do things, and how we think differently.”
Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school - 0 views
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As we get ready for the 93rd year of universal public education, here’s the question every parent and taxpayer needs to wrestle with: Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers?
Can an iPad do "The Hustle?" An Inquiring Mind Wants to Know | Wacky Womanhood - 0 views
New buzzword for Iowa educators: Rigor | Eastern Iowa Schools - 0 views
Governments cut computing costs in the cloud - USATODAY.com - 0 views
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"Technology allows them to become more productive and effective serving citizens with scarcer resources," says Andrew Bartels, analyst at Forrester Research.
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Still, White House chief information officer Vivek Kundra last February announced an initiative to consolidate hundreds of redundant federal government databases. Kundra also called for stepping up the federal government's reliance on cloud-based systems to deliver public services.
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"The longer-term effect is that this will help spur economic activity by creating governments that better facilitate commerce," says Rubel. He says tech-savvy government services "create better public policy outcomes for citizens."
Iowa education director favors opting out of No Child Left Behind - 0 views
Harvard Education Letter - 1 views
Class distinctions: Where boy doesn't meet girl | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram - 0 views
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"The single-sex format is a tool, one of many available to break down gender stereotypes," Sax said. "But don't confuse the tool for the objective, which is to help every boy and girl to reach their full potential."
Chicago schools, teachers union hurl accusations of intimidation - chicagotribune.com - 0 views
12 ways to keep your employees motivated, engaged and unified | SmartBlog on Leadership - 0 views
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Clearly define your vision
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when it’s clear and concise, post it in the places where employees can see important stuff like this.
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Give employees what they want and need.
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Teaching Digital Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views
Educational Leadership:Coaching: The New Leadership Skill:Every Teacher a Coach - 0 views
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Great coaches ask young athletes to go to "great heights" to challenge themselves. They take care to prepare the athlete for each stage of development, but they cannot eradicate risk because it's inseparable from growth. They can, however, intervene to ensure that the risk isn't so great that it outweighs the reward of accomplishment
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The best coaches encourage young people to work hard, keep going when it would be easier to stop, risk making potentially painful errors, try again when they stumble, and learn to love the sport. Not a bad analogy for a dynamic classroom.
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passionate about their sport and understand it deeply
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