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Tim Kitchen

YouTube - A Vision of K-12 Students Today - 0 views

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Education today education YouTube Technology teaching k-12

shared by Tim Kitchen on 18 May 09 - Cached
  • Tim Kitchen on 18 May 09
     
    This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it...
Tom March

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 1 views

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finland Education reform The Atlantic

shared by Tom March on 03 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • The answers Finland provides seem to run counter to just about everything America's school reformers are trying to do.
  • "There's no word for accountability in Finnish,"
  • "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
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  • Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
  • The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad.
Tom March

Official Google Blog: Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. - 0 views

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Google Wave Web 2.0

shared by Tom March on 08 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Could a single communications model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum? How simple could we make it?
  • Tom March on 08 Jun 09
     
    from the developer's pespective
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