June 2012
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Bringing Technology into the Classroom →
A great article about how one teacher is using social media to improve his elementary school class. Click through for the rest!
Sapia, known throughout the school district for his technological prowess, first learned about Mystery Skype through Twitter and brought it to his classroom to strengthen students’ geography skills. Here’s how it works: Sapia finds a teacher from another...
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“With technology, it has to be purposeful. Everything has to have a reason. Not...”
– Jimmy Sapia, 4th grade teacher
Bringing technology into the classroom - StamfordAdvocate
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Where Wireless Speeds of 2.56 Terabytes Per Second... →
futurejournalismproject:
Researchers have harnessed streams of light to transfer massive amounts of data. In a recent test, they hit 2.56 terabytes per second. Simplify the language and that’s about the equivalent of transferring over 67,000 songs per second.
Before getting too giddy, this was an experiment over one meter. Still though, add this to a very interesting, data heavy future.
Via...
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Children with short attention spans 'failing to... →
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More than four-in-10 teachers said children failed to read for pleasure at the age of 11, it emerged.
The study – by the publisher Pearson – found that many schools fear children have short attention spans and prefer to spend time online rather than reading a novel.
Teachers also said that books were not seen as “cool” by pupils and raised fears that parents are failing to do...
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The Texas GOP's Platform on Education (PDF, not a... →
Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
I typically try to...
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“Creativity is, in a nutshell, a bit crazy - and most crazy people are too...”
– - Bruce Charlton, Why Genius Is So Rare
(h/t wildcat2030)
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“There’s this interesting phenomenon in education where students expect to...”
– Me. Just now.
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Survey: 70% of teens hide online behavior from... →
infoneer-pulse:
Here’s a real shocker: Teens are better than their parents at using the Internet, and are likely to hide some of their online behaviors from them.
That news comes from a 2,017-person survey funded by the online security software maker McAfee, which is pushing a product that helps parents monitor their kids online.
Seventy percent of teens “hide their online behavior” from...
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90% of what we now know to be true about the brain...
Just saying.
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So after reviewing videos for an Evolution course...
The human body is amazing.
So is science.
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“YouTube users upload 48 hours of video, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of...”
– How Much Data is Created Every Minute?
(It’s actually 46,732)
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Flickr: Tell a Story with 5 Photos for Educators... →
A cool little group based on the teaching idea of using five pictures to tell a story. The group is no longer active, but there are enough interesting ideas in here to inspire something.
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Why Do People Feel Phantom Cellphone Vibrations?
mentalflossr:
Matt Soniak looks into another one of life’s big questions.
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“The leadership coup at the University of Virginia was conducted by a governing...”
– Teresa Sullivan University Of Virginia Ouster Led By Political Donors Lacking Academic Experience
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Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for... →
An outstanding, longer article with some practical teaching ideas. Really enjoyed this one.
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This is a little personal, but I figure I’m going to marry this girl someday, so I’m not really ashamed to share this.
Tomorrow will be the first time for a long time that I won’t have to fall asleep without the woman I love. That’s pretty awesome, and so is she.
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U.S. Students Know What, But Not Why →
infoneer-pulse:
The first-ever use of interactive computer tasks on a national science assessment suggests that most U.S. students struggle with the reasoning skills needed to investigate multiple variables, make strategic decisions, and explain experimental results.
Paper-and-pencil exams measure how well students can critique and analyze studies. But interactive tasks also require students...
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“A backlash against high-stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S....”
– Parents protest surge in standardized testing | Reuters
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“So how can we improve the situation? The first thing we should do is broaden our...”
– I don’t have the energy to decry the repeated slashed funding of the arts right now, but this quote really put things in context. There’s more to it if you click through.
Response: Several Ways We Can Help Students Develop Their Creativity
alien-queen asked: Just saw your post about repaying loans - you say to consolidate all of your loans through the federal government, but there are many people like me who, for example, have $46,000 of private loan debt through Citibank, Sallie Mae, and MRU Holdings that are not affiliated with the government. The federal government will not allow you to consolidate those loans, as best I can tell. Your advice to...
