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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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      Deron Durflinger on 28 Sep 11
       
      The most important part of the article. It is about using the data to make quality instructional decisions.
  • 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.”
  • “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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  • For example, in one small-scale experiment at Alhambra High School in Martinez, Calif., Mr. Smith found that students in a computer-aided-design class whose teacher incorporated digital lessons for use at home performed better on a post-test than did students using the standard textbook and lecture.
  • Dr. Kramer’s colleague John Willis, who teaches freshman physics at Gwinnett, a 705-student district-run charter school, had just started to experiment with requiring students, two or three times a week, to view his recorded lectures and other materials online before class. He used short automatic-response quizzes at the start of each class to make sure students had seen the material; he then used the class time to dig into demonstrations and experiments
  • Mr. Willis said that what used to be a two-class-period process to set the groundwork for a laboratory assignment has been moved online—mostly with student-made videos explaining the setup procedures and hypothesis planning.
  • “It allows me to improve the connections I’m making with students, because now I can get into the material in a deeper way,” Mr. Willis said.
  • For a recent experiment using microscopes, Dr. Kramer and another biology teacher posted YouTube videos of scientists discussing the equipment, photos of the school’s microscopes for the students to label, and their own videos explaining common problems in setting up the experiment.
  • It basically led us to a set of conclusions without him telling us the conclusions,” Ms. Doksansky said. “We had to test it out on this little applet and figure it out. It was a much better explanation than the really boring one in the book.
  • because the flipped-classroom format requires students to commit to doing a lot more work on their own
  • For Gwinnett’s Mr. Burmester, the proof will be in classroom practice. “The critical thing about all this [technology] is, what are you going to do differently, based on it?” he said. “Without a change, it’s just more stuff.
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      Deron Durflinger on 28 Sep 11
       
      Well said!
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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.”
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      Deron Durflinger on 30 Sep 11
       
      It's not about the technology, it's about the learning and the quality of instruction students receive each day.
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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?
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      Deron Durflinger on 06 Sep 11
       
      What are you doing in your class today to get kids to think on their own?
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      Deron Durflinger on 06 Sep 11
       
      What are you doing in your class today to get kids to think on their own?
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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.
  • 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.
  • "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."
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Class distinctions: Where boy doesn't meet girl | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sun... - 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."
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12 ways to keep your employees motivated, engaged and unified | SmartBlog on Leadership - 0 views

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  • Clearly define your vision
  • when it’s clear and concise, post it in the places where employees can see important stuff like this.
  • Give employees what they want and need.
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  • o check personally
  • Communicate often and well
  • ll of these should be used to convey the vision of the organization. Spend time personally asking your employees what they know and think
  • Get everyone engaged
  • empowerment, but that’s so yesterday
  • lots of ways to get employees at all levels engaged in planning and decision making
  • Stay the course
  • you have to adjust to and update for changing times,
  • Practice random acts of kindness
  • ust make whatever you do personal and from the heart
  • Coach for success
  • giving them clear feedback and showing them how to be better when needed is very motivating
  • daily, in real time, is always better.
  • Act fairly
  • when they’re not, you should use your wisdom, experience and good sense to do what’s right
  • and then do what’s right
  • Inspect what you expect
  • paying attention to them, discussing what you see, and letting them know what you think
  • Good bosses pay attention to everything and manage effectively
  • Give respect and create trust
  • Don’t be a jerk
  • You’ll be surprised how much employees appreciate the fact that you recognize your own mistakes
  • Make work fun
  • lighten up
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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
  • 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.
  • passionate about their sport and understand it deeply
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  • see their sport as more than a game
  • vehicle for developing human capacity and learning the skills of life
  • Great Coaches Know Their Sport
  • Great Coaches Develop Players' Skills
  • their capacity to teach others to play the game
  • transmit their own knowledge and skill to those not yet proficient
  • believe that each athlete can learn to play the game
  • individual and team skills, they continually attend to the growth patterns of each team member as well as the group
  • have their eye on every kid, not just a favored few
  • analyze what the athletes do and adjust both training and the game plan as a result of what they see
  • precise feedback along with individualized training that enables athletes to use this feedback productively
  • provide high-quality practice
  • Turns out he was teaching me to be a good citizen, a human being who cares
  • Great Coaches Are Great Motivators
  • set clear and demanding performance goals for their players
  • high expectations elicit maximum effort from team members and result in maximum growth.
  • understand and appreciate human variance
  • tailor practice drills to the individual, but they also know that individuals are motivated in different ways
  • study their players to figure out what will encourage each one to persevere
  • realize that sideline drills are less motivating than the game itself, so they ensure that players grasp the link between drills and the game and that everyone gets to play the game to test their developing skills
  • fun into hard work
  • culture of success is more motivating than a culture of winning
  • invest more heavily in celebrating the more attainable goal of individual growth
  • Great Coaches Are Team Builders
  • orient everyone to a common vision
  • care for one another and play to one another's strengths
  • respectfully toward each athlete, they inspire respect among team members
  • address interpersonal problems on a team as vigorously as problems with skills execution or a game pla
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