July 2011
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Hey Teacher Followers:
If you haven’t already, go to the Team Teachers blog and answer this question about your favorite office/school supplies.
When it hits 100 replies (not just notes, but honestly to goodness replies), I’ll update shortly thereafter with details on a giveaway :o)
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Here's an idea:
Merit Pay.
For elected members of Congress.
Oh, you didn’t pass legislation to raise the debt ceiling and the country defaulted and lost its AAA credit rating? You get to live without healthcare like tens of millions of Americans. Oh, and no paycheck for you until you actually do your job.
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Question Parking Lot →
novicephoenix:
Hey Tumblr!
I’ve missed this wonderful educational community! It’s good to be back. Today, I learned about a cool strategy called “Question Parking Lot.” You designate a part of your blackboard/whiteboard as a “parking lot” aka box. Inside of that box you put in some questions that students ask…
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Missouri Forbids Teachers and Students To Be... →
infoneer-pulse:
If you’re a student living in Missouri, you’d better not be Facebook friends with any of your teachers – because that will soon be against the law.
According to Missouri Senate Bill 54 that goes into effect on August 28, any social networking — not just Facebook — is prohibited between teachers and students. It’s all part of an effort to “more clearly define teacher-student...
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“I said before that I had incredible teachers. And that’s true. But it’s more...”
– Matt Damon’s clear-headed speech to teachers rally
Click through to read the whole thing.
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“The results were clear: Piracy was rampant. The book was everywhere online. But...”
– NYT tech columnist and computer celebrity David Pogue describes an experiment in which he released one of his popular computer books as a DRM-free PDF as well as in traditional formats and nothing bad happened. (via arlpolicynotes)
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I will vote AGAINST any elected member of Congress...
Reblog if you happen to share this sentiment.
I have food poisoning.
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First Day Wiki: Share How You Teach Your First Day →
revolutionizeed:
Teachers get together and share what they do on their first day of class as far as activities and routine (and trying to avoid handing out a syllabus and explaining it all class period). It is sorted into subjects. Share your first day and pass this along…lets get something big going on here with this cool idea!
This is outstanding. I’ll be reposting this to Team...
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“Technology is everything that emerged after you turned thirteen. What was around...”
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- Jamais Cascio, The Future Of Work Tour video (via stoweboyd)
Paul Higgins: Absolutely
(via emergentfutures)
I just used this quote in a presentation I gave yesterday!
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Are Internet Explorer users dumb? →
A new survey doesn’t quite say so. But it sure as heck suggests it.
The survey by AptiQuant, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the test.
The result? Internet Explorer users scored lower than average, while Chrome, Firefox and Safari users were slightly above average.
Yeah, I’m...
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What's the plot of your favorite book, in haiku...
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WatchInteractive Exploration of a Dynamical System
(by Bret Victor)
We hear a lot of design manifestos around here. But Bret Victor’s stuck out: He wants to kill math. He’s no Luddite, though — he thinks mathematics is one of the most powerful, transcendent ways humans have for understanding and changing the world. What he wants to kill is math’s interface: opaque, abstract,...
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The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are... →
This is a very good article, and certainly worth the read. I normally don’t quote this much from a source, but this part really stood out to me:
One of education historian Diane Ravitch’s oft-uttered complaints is that we now have a bunch of billionaires like Gates dictating education policy and education reform, without ever having been classroom teachers themselves (or without having...
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Using Storybird →
If you haven’t heard of Storybird, it’s one of the coolest web applications out there for helping students tell digital stories. Click through for three great examples of how teachers have used Storybird. Here’s one:
Stephen Davis on How He Uses Storybird
Here is an example from my eighth grade class based in Cypress, California.
Storybird can help students bring abstract...
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“Faculty are primary to the success of the Griffin Technology Advantage program....”
– Yes to everything about this.
On iPads: Why Mobile? | EDUCAUSE
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Top 10 coolest features of OS X Lion →
Here’s one:
Mission Control
I was never a huge user of Spaces in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, they felt too clunky and hard to access and it was tricky to manage which apps ended up on which spaces. Now, with Mission Control there is a handy way to see all of the applications running on your computer as well as all of the Spaces available to you.
While you’re in Mission Control you can also...
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Only 25 percent of American students passed their... →
When I figure out where America is, I’m going to point and laugh at those suckers!
The National Assessment of Education Progress announced that only about a quarter of American schoolchildren scored “proficient” or above on a 2010 geography test.
You can take the sample 4th grade, 8th grade, and 12th grade tests here, to see if you would pass.
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Mobile Learning Proves to Benefit At-Risk Students... →
These are some of the results from a mobile learning program for at-risk high schoolers. Pretty impressive I’d say. Click through for more information.
90 percent of the Project K-Nect students in Algebra I and 100 percent of the Algebra II students demonstrated proficiency on their end of course exams.
By the end of the fall 2010 semester, 89 percent of the Algebra I students reported...
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What Teachers Can Learn from the Apple Store
I stumbled across this interesting document about a year ago (warning: PDF). It outlines in some detail what educators could learn from the teaching models present in the Apple Store. If you’ve got some time, it’s certainly worth a look.
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What was the best moment of your life?
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On Mistakenly Shredding a Prized Collection →
If a library is a growing organism, then I’ve felt the growing pains keenly on our campus these last few months. In leading our library staff through an effort to remove certain books used only once in the past 25 years, if at all, I stand at the head of a series of events that inadvertently sent part of a reprint collection, written in classical Chinese, to the recycling center.
The...
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I'm going old school in fall; none of this techno...
Horn books for everyone! It’ll be like a year-long Pioneer Day.
But without candle-making or handkerchief dyeing.
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How are Educators Using Google Plus Hangouts? →
As more people join Google’s new social network, Google+, they’re figuring out how to take advantage of some of the innovative uses for the site.
One obvious use for educators is to boost their personal and professional network, particularly as the service offers more granular controls for privacy and sharing. Within these Circles, as each designated group is called, educators and students can...
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“But one glaring hole has yet to be undertaken: context. I’ve had my kids watch...”
– Khan Academy: Great Idea- With One Glaring Hole
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Just broke my coffee mug.
A co-worker’s phone went off with the same tone I use for my alarm, and I instinctively reached out to smack the thing closest to me as hard as I could.
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Shame.
The #learning tag on Tumblr’s been wrecked by spam.
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Tweets are only 140 characters because the other...
And now you know.
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WatchOh this? Just the Season 2 trailer for The Walking Dead. No biggie.
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