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Jean Hino

How About Better Parents? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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  • Jean Hino on 21 Nov 11
     
    Great article on the importance of parent's reading with their child and how it will improve test scores when those students are in high school
vera adams

Welcome to Earlychildhood.com - Information, products and ideas for parents & teachers - 0 views

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early childhood

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  • vera adams on 17 Sep 11
     
    info on early childhood
Miss Uchii

Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school - 17 views

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    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 16 Sep 11
       
      Read this article and leave a sticky note comment on anything that resonates with you. You can also highlight any words that particularly strike a chord with you.
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 16 Sep 11
       
      I like the title.
    • aleafinjapan
      aleafinjapan on 17 Sep 11
       
      I like Seth Godin!
  • Back to (the wrong) school
  • standardized testing
  • ...19 more annotations...
  • 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?
  • The bottom is not a good place to be, even if you're capable of getting there.
  • Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      This reminds me of the book The World is Flat
    • Monna McDiarmid
      Monna McDiarmid on 17 Sep 11
       
      It makes me crazy that Seth Godin does not permit people to comment on his blog posts.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      Ya, what's with that? I'm surprised he's not more open considering his purple cow worldview.
    • Monna McDiarmid
      Monna McDiarmid on 17 Sep 11
       
      His line is that he knows himself well enough to know that he'll get "into it" with commenters... and that he doesn't want to spend his life energy in conflict with the haters. I get that... but there's no opportunity for conversation at its source.
    • Garry Leroy Baker
      Garry Leroy Baker on 17 Sep 11
       
      Are teachers in tradable or non-tradable positions?
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      Interesting question. Certainly the nature of the POSSIBILITIES of what we do has changed. My mother was a teacher and I don't feel that she had the same opportunities to shift what she did the same way that I can.
  • If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
    • aleafinjapan
      aleafinjapan on 17 Sep 11
       
      I agree!
    • Sunita Devadas
      Sunita Devadas on 17 Sep 11
       
      me tooo!!
  • Every year, we churn out millions of of workers who are trained to do 1925 labor.
    • Jean Hino
      Jean Hino on 17 Sep 11
       
      We are teaching to a new generation
    • Chris Betcher
      Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
       
      Yes, yes we are...
    • Miss Uchii
      Miss Uchii on 17 Sep 11
       
      A new generation, not by birth but by education.  An octogenarian can equally become a part of the new generation depending on their commitment to learning new skills. 
  • Sure, there was some moral outrage at seven-year olds losing fingers and being abused at work, but the economic rationale was paramount. Factory owners
    • Rebekah Madrid
      Rebekah Madrid on 17 Sep 11
       
      Links to my Child Labor (gr 8) assignment. Interesting way to start a class (Compare and Contrast)
  • If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      This is why I never follow the instructions :) 
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      Whats this??
    • tasha cowdy
      tasha cowdy on 17 Sep 11
       
      s 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?
    • Madeleine Cox
      Madeleine Cox on 17 Sep 11
       
      How does this relate to national, as well as international schools? So many discussions on Twitter that I've followed seem to come from educators at U.S. state schools who are struggling with the restrictions imposed by law and policy makers, which seem intent on crushing creativity and connections within - and between - schools.
  • Our current system of teaching kids to sit in straight rows and obey instructions isn't a coincidence--it was an investment in our economic future. The plan: trade short-term child labor wages for longer-term productivity by giving kids a head start in doing what they're told.
    • Chie Mizukoshi
      Chie Mizukoshi on 17 Sep 11
       
      That is ture. It reflects on a country's politics too.
  • igning chairs and answering the phone) and non-tradable jobs (like mowing the lawn or cooking burger
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      what????
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Exactly!
  • Some argue we ought to become the cheaper, easier country for sourcing cheap, compliant workers who do what they're told.
    • Susan MacIntosh
      Susan MacIntosh on 17 Sep 11
       
      Consider Pink's assertion that our society will become a "thinking economy" where jobs will reflect emphasis on leadership skills.  Are we there yet?
    • Brendan Lea
      Brendan Lea on 17 Sep 11
       
      Finally got this working on the iPad 
  • disconnect
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Weird how disconnect is a noun but connect isn't.
  • post-industrial revolution
    • Miss Uchii
      Miss Uchii on 17 Sep 11
       
      This revolution just simply changes how people understands the world and changes how people react to each other.  New kinds of training is needed more and more. 
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