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Google Reader joins graveyard of dead Google products - Slate Magazine - 1 views

www.slate.com/...d_of_dead_google_products.html

google Web 2.0 Exemplars

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  • Tom March on 24 Mar 13
     
    Worth remembering as many of us embrace Google Apps for Schools /Drive and await a Google LMS.
Tom March

Sign Up - SpiderScribe - 2 views

www.spiderscribe.net

mindmapping Web 2.0 Tools

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  • Tom March on 06 Nov 12
     
    Flash-based allows collaboration once people are invited and have an account (free).
Tom March

Education Rethink: What Does It Mean to be a Great Teacher? (Ten Ideas) - 3 views

www.educationrethink.com/...-mean-to-be-great-teacher.html

teaching

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  • Tom March on 14 Aug 12
     
    "What Does It Mean to be a Great Teacher? (Ten Ideas)"
Tom March

Lyndhurst to equip district students, faculty with iPads : page all - NorthJersey.com - 4 views

www.northjersey.com/...dent__teacher_to_get_iPad.html

ipads deployment

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  • "This will take Lyndhurst education to the next level,"
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 26 Mar 12
       
      Of gaming and distraction? What have they done to prepare the curriculum for learning pace, not seat time?
  • apply it to the classroom
  • we replaced one ink cartridge in the whole district this year."
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      Tom March on 26 Mar 12
       
      cool!
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  • "We are going to put together what we think meets our needs based on the common core standards, the curriculum standards and our district goals,"
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 26 Mar 12
       
      Ouch, ouch and ouch. Intrinsic motivation? Personal excellence?
  • iAuthor, a tool that will enable teachers to create their own books by pulling information from existing textbooks and other online materials.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 26 Mar 12
       
      Copyright will be an interesting element here.
Tom March

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

www.theatlantic.com/...250564

finland Education reform The Atlantic

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  • 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

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle - 1 views

www.theage.com.au/...yme-puzzle-20110919-1kgq2.html

AIDS gamers

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  • Tom March on 19 Sep 11
     
    The future of education?
Tom March

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 6 views

www.nytimes.com/...ret-to-success-is-failure.html

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      Tom March on 16 Sep 11
       
      Read through this article and highlight or comment on things that you think would resonate with your students or colleagues.
  • He is a big thinker, always chasing new ideas, and a conversation with him can feel like a one-man TED conference, dotted with references to the latest work by behavioral psychologists and management gurus and design theorists.
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 16 Sep 11
       
      Obviously a school leader who dosn't mind being different! Nice to see.
  • in America that if you worked hard and you showed real grit, that you could be successful,” he said. “Strangely, we’ve now forgotten that. People who have an easy time of things, who get 800s on their SAT’s, I worry that those people get feedback that everything they’re doing is great. And I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure.
  • Tom March on 15 Sep 11
     
    Fantastic article highlighting great pedagogy, true leadership and richer measures
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