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We Find What We Look For In Our Students – So What Do We See?
From Chris Wejr - When we look at our students with struggles, what do we see? The following video is an incredible story of how a teacher/professor became so frustrated with a student for sleeping in his class… that he actually asked him why.
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I'm 15 and all of my friends use Facebook
Interesting perspective from a 15-year old
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An interesting take on Twitter
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Eleven Ways to Improve Online Classes
Good list of ways to make online classes more engaging from John Spencer
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From Valerie Strauss - The result: teachers are assessed on the test scores of students they don’t have and/or subjects they don’t teach. Wondering whether President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan knew that their policies had led to this state of affairs, I asked both the White House and the Education Department to respond to individual versions of this question:
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OER: How to Find, Use and Share Free Teaching Tools and Resources @coolcatteacher
Interview with Sue Jones on utilizing Open Education Resources (OER)
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Improving Schools: Avoiding Student Burnout
A look at some changes we need to consider to slow down the rat race in schools.
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Is “Have a Growth Mindset” the New “Just Say No” | User Generated Education
Reading: Is “Have a Growth Mindset” the New “Just Say No” https://t.co/elpAiIflsV By @jackiegerstein
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Number Of Homeless Public School Students Hits Record High. Here's Who's Helping
The number of homeless students enrolled in public schools hit a record high last year. But simply changing the way agencies define homeless youth could ensure that this vulnerable population gets the services they need.
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iPad Classroom Visit Look-Fors
From Lisa Johnson
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Coding Class, Then Naptime: Computer Science For The Kindergarten Set : NPR Ed : NPR
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Ivy League Professor Gives Students the Alf Test
Interesting tactic...
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No surprise here - When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. But just watching videos — without also engaging interactively — is an ineffective way to learn, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
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When did we start criminalizing innocent childhood antics?
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Protecting or Ignoring? | The Principal of Change
From George Couros - There is this notion that ignoring social media in schools is a way of protecting our kids from the dangers of the web.
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A Toxic Work World - NYTimes.com
But this model of winning at all costs reinforces a distinctive American pathology of not making room for caregiving. The result: We hemorrhage talent and hollow out our society.
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#IStandWithAhmed and the Criminalization of the American Schoolyard - Pacific Standard
Sad story from Texas - One evening, he built a clock from circuit boards and wiring, which he stashed in a pencil case. On Tuesday, he showed his creation to his teachers. His engineering instructor praised the design; the English teacher thought it was a bomb. Mohamed was handcuffed by police officers and interrogated for hours.
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Ed-Tech Might Make Things Worse... So Now What?
From Audrey Watters - "The OECD released a “first-of-its-kind” report earlier this week on computers and education, eliciting – as all of its PISA-related reports tend to do – precisely the responses you’d suspect: a lot of “schools are doing it wrong.”
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What Would Accountability Without Standardized Tests Look Like?
test-based accountability is failing on its most important mandate—eliminating the achievement gap between different groups of students.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
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