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While Teachers Quit, Disrupters Remain Still and Happy
We found this post bookmarked in the old archives. It is a way of work for us to bookmark interesting information to look it over when we are not in a rush. If it wasn't for we had to reload our bookmarks, this post probably will never be commented.I...
"Teaching FOR the Test And Teaching TO the Test"
During the edchat, a collaborative tool for teachers, and followed on Twitter this last Tuesday, Theresa Gray was contributing to the conversation with thoughtful questions and facts that we had to continue our own research to understand better what ...
Digital Characteristics of the New Literacy and Curriculum
Education Innovation“…in the digital world everything is only a few clicks away.”Or as Tom Peters would say, “Distance is dead.” Students can use the web to instantly reach out to any part of the planet to talk with people, or find informa...
Learning Mobile Devices Are Not Quite New
Michelle Pacansky-Brock was presenting and attending the MoblEd Conference in Pasadena, CA and she posted her experiences about what she saw and tries to find an answer for this question: How are mobile devices impacting education?The discussion is ...
Student Suspended After Sending Text to His Classmates
It's not news that as much as technology evolves education, it also cause trouble for administrators and students, as well. Before Spring break a student from Monsignor João S. Antão School No. 31 got suspended for spreading text message where he a...
The Curriculum Universities Should Have Today
It's very difficult to please everyone not only in the educational institutions but in our normal daily life. Authorities are supposed to understand the necessities of new students and if they are not, then research should be lay down and built a cur...
"Level of Effort" vs "Quality of Work" When Grading Tests @School
Students often confuse the level of effort with the quality of work. There is a mentality in students that ‘if I work hard, I deserve a high grade.'The New York Times ran a report about a study where the lead author is Ellen Greenberger, called Sel...
Curriculum: Playing to Be the Education Board for Once
Analyze, plan, design and execute a proposal is a goal administrators need to master. If the subject is curriculum, then they need not only master but socialize the necessities of future society.I've found interesting a thread that is taking on Redit...
Schools Boards Should Open the Net
"How to convince the powers that be, that they are violating the rights of their students?"How persuasive you have to be if you really want the school boards to open the net at your community schools? Sounds like a question behind another isn't the a...
Making Uses of Technology in the Classroom a Reality
Where is the best place to begin convincing teachers who don't use technology about the power of these tools?Jim Multon at Edutopia, says that veteran teachers have great assets they can bring to the effective use of technology in the classroom, his ...
Edutopia’s Digital Youth Project: Answers to Sara Bernard
Sara Bernard is looking for student input in terms of advising teachers on how they might use technology in the classroom. Will Richardson and Kevin Garret had posted about Sara's request. We have seen some comments left at their blogs and we want to...
Help: Having Your Students to Blog Isn't so Easy
There is a great campaign there at Global Voices, Teach Someone You Love to Blog or Miro-blog and a elementary teacher is in need of help as how to start blogging with her 5th graders, thing is she doesn't know how to jump start. Her colleague at Ed ...
Learning From Atlanta Experiences About Inflating Grades
I want to tell you about a personal story I've lived while working in the classroom. Once, I was handing over the reviewed tests about a subject I was teaching back in the 2003. It happened that most grades were below the 70%. Before I started talkin...
Penmanship is at trouble because of technology
I have a 6th grader that at first, he was trying to learn cursive all by himself but then everything stopped and no teacher at his current school has been able to teach him how to do the handwriting. He struggles a lot to keep up with his daily class...
From Giroux to a Public Pedagogy through Video Games
I suppose you have memory of Henry Giroux as much as his pioneering work in public pedagogy. After you read James Paul Gee and Elizabeth Hayes' article, your eyes will pop up, learning the educational value of Yu-Gi-Oh cards and how we've come to bu...
A Definition of Collaborative Learning in Attention of New Teachers
Last night we had the privilege of listening for the very first time to George Siemens and his concepts on Connectivism & Connective Knowledge. Hat tip to @courosa for spreading word of the webcast (The Elluminate Recording for this Session).Today, t...
Research: Meta-analysis of Early Literacy by the National Early Literacy Panel
Photo by amy.k.This week was the Arne Duncan's confirmation hearing in the Senate and none of the 20 questions prepared to this event were brought in. In place, Duncan faced some "not-so-tough grilling" from senators, according to Christina Satkows...
Mr. Duncan: Please, Take Teachers' Word!
While adults agree with educators that schools are not making 21st-century skills a priority, the American Society for Quality conducted a five-minute, three-question survey asking educators to rank education issues in order of their highest priorit...
