- Coleman has it wrong: Children are the core of our schools |CommonCored.usDavid Coleman, chief architect of the Common Core learning standards, notably quipped in a 2011 speech at the state Department of Education, “As you grow up in this world, you realize people really don’t give a (expletive) about what you feel or what you think.” tags: davidcolemancommoncore
- This is the future of technology — how will it impact teaching & learning?from Sam Chaltain - Educators and school reformers — ignore at (y)our peril. (And crazy to think that this talk was from 2005!) tags: technologyfutureraykurzweiledreform
- Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell on his “School in the Cloud” documentary | TED Bloga forward-thinking elementary school in the U.K., Rothwell has watched Mitra, a Newcastle University professor, plant the seeds of his global education experiment that lets children learn on their own, and from each other, by tapping into online resources and their inner sense of wonder. tags: sugatamitralearnercentered
- Fountain of Youth - Training As You Age | Kap LifestyleThis is why it's immeasurably important to keep training into your 30s, 40s and beyond. http://t.co/KVlsAbe0ii … #StayStrong tags: StayStrong
- “Many Ways To Help Our Students Grieve”Good list from Larry Ferlazzo tags: lossdeathstudentgrief
- Child Protection: Five golden rules for staying safe online | British CouncilInfographic tags: rulesstayingonlinedigitalcitizenship
- Students Prefer Smartphones and Laptops to Tablets, Study Finds – Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education tags: smartphoneslaptopstabletsstudy
- Photograph Math - #mathphotoadayFrom Richard Byrne - hanks to a recent Instragram from Andy McKiel I learned about a neat mathematics and photography project started by a grade 3 class in Thompson, Manitoba. The project asks students to take photographs of things representing various topics and concepts in elementary school level mathematics. tags: mathteachers
- 20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools | Ditch That TextbookSome great easy classroom activities for teachers tags: collaborativegoogleapps
- Biz Stone's No-Homework Policy And The Rules Of Rule-Breaking | Fast Company | Business + InnovationTWITTER COFOUNDER BIZ STONE IMPLEMENTED A "NO HOMEWORK POLICY" FOR HIMSELF IN HIGH SCHOOL AND GOT AWAY WITH IT IN SPECTACULAR FASHION. HERE'S WHAT IT TAUGHT HIM ABOUT WHEN AND HOW TO BREAK THE RULES. tags: homework
- Shifting the Classroom, One Step at a TimeGreat advice on moving to an inquiry-based classroom from Shelley Wright tags: inquirybasedlearninginquiryshelleywright
- Options for Uploading Videos to YouTube with School FilteringFrom Wes Fryer tags: schoolfilteringyoutubeoptions
- Go Social Studies GoSite that can be utilized as an access to textboooks tags: ebooksgeographyhistoryresourcestextless
- How, after 60 years, Brown v. Board of Education succeeded — and didn’t tags: brownsegregationequityschoolseducation
- Lesson Plan Map – Search Education – Google Google has designed a set of 15 wonderful lesson plans tags: searchlessonplansinformationliteracy
- 8 Responses to Late Work To Use Right Now -From ASCD Edge tags: lateworkzeroshomework
- Michelle Ardizzoni - New England 1:1 Summit
- The Myth Of Digital Citizenship And Why We Need To Teach It AnywayFrom Sam Stecher on EdReach tags: digitalcitizenship
- Those Terms of Service on Popular Websites DO Matter! | Powerful Learning PracticeFrom Jen Carey - "If you want to advocate for an effective Digital Citizenship program, you must first take the position that behaving responsibly and appropriately online is paramount. As such, this means not violating a company’s age or usage policy (even if someone in the company might suggest it’s okay)." tags: termsofservicewebsitesjencarey
- A Great Student Rubric for Reviewing AppsTo help her students understand and be able to analyze the apps they come across online, Mutt Susan from Digital Divide and Conquer has created this wonderful rubric. The Student App Review Rubric, features five sections ( or criteria) that students can grade when assessing an app. Each of these criteria can be graded with a numerical number from 0 to 4 with 4 as the top grade. tags: rubricappsreview
- School Spotlight: The Notre Dame School of Dallas Facebook PageA good look at how one school successfully uses Facebook to connect and spread its message. tags: facebookpagesocialmedia
- Who Wrote the Common Core Standards? Here is a ListFrom Diane Ravitch tags: commoncoreauthorsHere is a press release that lists the names of the writing teams for each subject as well as “feedback” groups.
- UN study: Cellphones can improve literacy - The Washington Post tags: cellphonesliteracystudy
- What does the SAT measure? Aptitude? Achievement? Anything?Moreover the nature of these standardized exams — fast-paced, multiple-choice “games” that put a premium on strategic guessing — means that they advantage students with strong test-taking skills, not necessarily those with other talents that may be more valuable in the classroom or in life. Finally, the concept of “aptitude” assumes that it is innate and unchangeable. In fact, humans can develop the knowledge, skills and experiences that improve performance, if given the opportunity. tags: satStandardizedtesting
- The New Doctopus & Add-ons Gallery - YouTubeThe New Doctopus & Add-ons Gallery: http://t.co/rbCnSOGWeW via @YouTube #edtech @dimll tags: edtech
- Math is Harder When Using an iPad ~ Mrs. Wideen's BlogRT @mrswideen: Math is Harder When Using an iPad http://t.co/62VvPIOrxc #ettipad #1stchat #ipaded #mathchat tags: ettipad1stchatipadedmathchat
- PD Conferences vs. UnconferencesThis is the challenge that must be met, “How do we make something that is mandatory for all, excellent enough that we begin to change the brains of 1000 teachers. PD can be a good thing, and you will learn something if you come willing to learn. tags: conferencesedtechunconferencePDprofessionaldevelopment
- Technical glitch causes FCAT testing problems in CollierComputer-based testing issues in Florida tags: onlinetestingpearsontestnav
- Fairfax teens could get extra hour of sleep on school days - The Washington Post“To do nothing in this situation is to do harm,” Owens said. “You’re perpetuating a situation where not only academic achievement is compromised but their health and safety is compromised.” tags: teenssleeplatestart
- Confronting the Myth of the 'Digital Native'From the Chronicle of Higher Education - This is also a problem at the college level tags: digitalcitizenshipcybersafetyonlineidentity
- danah boyd | apophenia » Whether it’s bikes or bytes, teens are teensThe irony of our increasing cultural desire to protect kids is that our efforts may be harming them. In an effort to limit the dangers they encounter, we’re not allowing them to develop skills to navigate risk. In our attempts to protect them from harmful people, we’re not allowing them to learn to understand, let alone negotiate, public life. It is not possible to produce an informed citizenry if we do not first let people engage in public. tags: danahboydteenagersonlinebehavior
- 5 Tips For Researching Internships - Chelsea Krost5 Great Tips For Researching #Internships http://t.co/QG0LA77l22 via @amritsays #Millennials #students #SummerBreak tags: InternshipsMillennialsstudentsSummerBreak
- 5 Tools That Help Students Organize Research and Create BibliographiesFrom Richard Byrne - Organizing and writing a bibliography can feel like the most tedious part of writing a research paper. The following five tools can help students organize and create their bibliographies. tags: researchbibliographies
- iPad As Teacher's Pet (infographic)from Tony Vincent
- Multilingual Lessons for Pre-K through Second Grade Studentsvia Richard Byrne tags: multilinguallessonsELL
- EverySlide - Share Your Slides and Run Polls At the Same TimeFrom Richard Byrne - EverySlide is a free (for educators and students) service that allows you to share your slides directly to the iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, and Android devices used by members of your audience. tags: shareslidespresentations
- The Fischbowl: Burden of Proof: A Textbook ExampleI think that for all "materials selections" from here on out, the default should be to not purchase a new textbook. tags: textbooktextlessbeyondthetextbook
- Why You Have to Generate Your Own Data - Scott Anthony - Harvard Business Reviewf you really want to make the case for an innovative idea, then you need to go one step further. Don’t just gather data. Generate your own. Strengthen your case and bolster your own confidence – tags: data
- Actually, online skimming probably hasn’t affected serious reading after allA more plausible possibility is that we’re not less capable of reading complex prose, but less willing to put in the work. Our criterion for concluding, “this is boring, this is not paying off,” has been lowered because the Web makes it so easy to find something else to read, watch, or listen to. tags: onlinereading
- Being a student of your own schoolGood overview of the constructive use of Learning Walks and Instructional Rounds tags: walkthroughsinstructionalrounds
- Why Playful Learning Is The Key To Prosperity Learning through play with “hands-on, minds-on” approaches (not workbooks) is a powerful way forward. Play gives children space to dream, discover, improvise, and challenge convention. It’s crucial to social, emotional, cognitive and even physical development, helping them grow up “better adjusted, smarter and less stressed.” We know this. tags: learningprosperityplaysociallearning
- Students Raise Alarms Over Later Start Times tags: sleeplatestart
- Ten Years, Ten ThoughtsGood list from Harold Jarche about living in the network area tags: networkedlearningPLNs
- Common Core's power grab -EditorialEditorial by Peabody School Committee Member Dave McGeney tags: commonccore
- Blended Learning Infographic tags: blendedlearninginfographic
- Harvard Measures Its MOOCs - Harvard Magazine |... - Linkis.comHow Harvard Measures Its MOOCs - Harvard Magazine http://t.co/WUJyETEsiX
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Patrick Larkin is the Assistant Superintendent for Learning of Burlington Public Schools in Burlington, MA and the former principal of Burlington High. He blogs about education at www.patrickmlarkin.com.
