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Tom March

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

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

Sign Up - SpiderScribe - 2 views

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    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

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    "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

  • "This will take Lyndhurst education to the next level,"
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      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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      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,"
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      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.
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      Copyright will be an interesting element here.
Tom March

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

  • 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

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    The future of education?
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