December 2011
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Teachers! What do you find useful? →
jesuisuneetoile would like to know:
… So, question for all of the current teachers out there: how much of your lectures are drawn from things you learned in your undergrad/graduate career? How often, if ever, do you reference back to the notes you took during that time to create lectures?
November 2011
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Interactive Musical Map of Colombia
via hoso2g
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Methods For Solving Word Problems? →
Teachers of tumblr, I request your aid! I am in the process of writing a pilot research paper on the development of software to help fifth grade students solve math problems. All the research I have done thus far are in regards to having the students assist in the design process of the software but no research has gone into the education part of my paper! This is where you come in!...
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5 Things Students Say They Want From Education →
When asking eSchool News readers “What’s the one thing you hear most often from students about what they want in school?” the responses were:
Real-world application and relevancy
Choice
Innovation
Teacher mentors
Interactive technology
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5 Questions to Identify Outcomes
While the article is aimed at grant evaluation, these questions are relevant to any new project, curriculum overhaul, or grant request. Before you start ask yourself:
What will be different as a result of what we do?
For whom will things be different?
What will be changed?
What will be improved?
What changes will make you think “We’ve been successful and made a difference?”
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Lessons Learned: Educational Content Policies
You may be working in a district or state that’s devising policies to encourage digital content. In your school it can look like textbook ebooks, supplemental ebooks, or requiring the use of open educational resources (OER). Are these policies simply aimed at removing palates of textbooks waiting in district warehouses? In TheJournal’s Driving Digital Change those districts and states...
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Idaho libraries to adjust to new Internet... →
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Another email tip →
lhuddles:
It is super unprofessional to send an email that ends with the tag “Sent from my iPhone.”
Gotta disagree here…I see the context of your situation. While it would be a perfect world that I could devote attention at my desk to carefully craft a response to every email I get I can’t. Here’s how I assess email I get on my phone:
Does this require my immediate...
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“On edtech, we’re asking the wrong question. The focus should not be on...”
– Dennis Pierce, Editor of eSchool News
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Watch“Car Kids” & Rigid Reform Ideologies
A followup on poor families in Seminole County, Florida, where people are now being forced out of shelters and motels and into their cars. Child poverty is approaching 25 percent, and schools are reporting more and more kids living in cars as the recession goes longer.
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The Writing Process: Step-by-Step Approach Curbs... →
In introductory collegiate writing courses, we teach students the writing process. Some texts and programs I’ve used insist that the process has four steps; others, five. The names may vary, but the steps are all important, and the process is recursive. The five that I talk about with my students are Prewriting/Invention, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Reflecting.
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Is Sixth Grade the Key to Ending the Dropout... →
When do students decide to drop out of high school? According to a new study of Florida schools by a team of Harvard researchers, a student begins to give up on education well before she sets foot in a high school classroom. The study found a strong correlation between a student’s middle school experience and whether she ends up doing well academically in high school.
According to the...
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“What you find in the rich developed market democracies, there is no longer any...”
– Kate Pickett’s response to What is the relationship between economic growth and life expectancy?
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Studying How To Study
via AmyVernon
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“Irrespective of how well they had been doing in school, students were...”
– Grading & Commenting (via world-shaker)
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“Today is national ‘upgrade your parents browser’ day.”
– pud via the interwebs
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Dear 1962 Packers, You have been avenged.
Signed,
2011 Packers
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Lions turnovers: 2. Lions ejected players: 1....
TOUCHDOWN 21-0
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iPhone 4S Becomes Second Most Popular Cameraphone... →
It took just 5 weeks. The only one ahead of it? The iPhone 4.
By the way, numbers three and four? The iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS.
One Android phone did manage to beat the original iPhone though — the HTC EVO 4G, places a distant fifth. Let’s remember that the original iPhone is over 4 years old.
Wait, actually, looking at the data, Flickr isn’t even counting the original iPhone anymore....
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WatchNeat, now you snowbunnies can go from the streets to the slopes with Google Street View Ski Resorts.
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“Making schools better is local activity. Individuals in schools need to give...”
– Making Better Schools is a Local Enterprise
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What Would You Pay for a Great Educational App? →
Would consumers (parents) be willing to make the ideological jump to paying more for a quality educational app?
