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In Education Reports There Would Always Be False Negatives And False Positives
There is not doubt the teaching career as it is now was originated as a slavery profession back in history. Anywhere I have been, the problem for teachers seems to be the same, no value in regards of their the time, effort, sweat, and even tears that...
Teaching Experiences: From Pedagogy to Heutagogy
Learnforever Blog:Many educationalists, and even some corporate learning and development professionals, talk a lot about pedagogy. From the classical Greek, this literally means leading the child, but it is widely understood, in educational circles, ...
A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Innovation
A recent report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for American Progress identifies what it describes as “leaders and laggards” in efforts to reinvent our nation’s public schools. As a backdrop to the federal government’s $4 bil...
A First Definition of Cyberbullying Applied to Teachers
I read lots of information on the fly, but the article written by Doug Johnson caught my eye for the appealing context with which he discusses the cyberbullying against teachers.Doug Johnson is the publisher of The Boo Skunk Blog. He posted a very c...
Learning From Participation at #lrnchat And #edchat Sessions
Somewhere in the internet I was reading how comments on blogs dropped considerably. The reason, microblogging and social tools like Twitter are up front, contributing to make people to share their thoughts, links and comments there, rather than on bl...
The State of the American Education \'Is on the Chopping Block\'
I, as many, enjoyed the article appeared on the New York Times, authored by well known Paul Krugman. The conversation about the shortfall of American education is endless around the education community, but when it comes from the voice of an economi...
The Challenge of Using \'Merit Pay\' to Reward Teachers
I have been reading Barnett Berry latest article. He is the President and CEO of the Center for Teaching Quality and his opinion about merit pay is worth sharing with you folks. Berry refers to Whitmire & Rotherham Teacher Unions commentary on The WS...
Some of the Reasons Why Administrators Should Blog
After attending a workshop entitled Unleashing the Power of Web-Based Tools for Every School Leader: Using Digital Tools for Instruction, Communication, Community building, and Professional Development presented by Dr. Kathleeen P. King, Professor o...
Education Blogs for Teachers And by Discipline
Over and over we have said lists are not our specialization. Although, some time we have spent compiling the list we considered were the most influential by that time. Below is the list of 7 posts we have included in education and tech since we start...
K12 Online 2009: Bridging the Divide
On September 26, 2009, the K12Online Conference in partnership with EdTechTalk will host a worldwide, synchronous “LAN party” (free web meet-up) from 2:00PM EDT (6:00PM GMT) to 5:00PM EDT (9:00PM GMT).Organizers encourage educators around the wor...
An End to Education Reform? by Michael S. Greve
Conservatives were reluctant to trigger a public spat over education with a new administration, but their failure to offer criticism and insist on choice was a mistake.The education "reform" about to emerge from Congress is a perfect disaster. Conser...
Popular Language Arts Literacy Message
We attended our first PT conference last night. We really enjoyed the enthusiasm from many of our Jr's teachers, especially the Science teacher and Language one. For our son, the Science teacher is 'cheesy' but for us, she was a very well motivated p...
What Role Does/Should Social Media Play in Education?
That was the topic of tonight's fantastic conversation (#edchat) about one of the multiple parameters the education encloses. The consensus was that social media should be modeled and utilized properly in the classroom. But to overcome success, teach...
Digital Literacy Programs Needed to Embrace Digital Tools
Marisa Connolly, from Common Sense Media submitted a press release about what education experts consider, based on the available digital media, it is a new approach to learn: Digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and ...
The Need for a Moratorium on High-stakes Testing
There is a growing movement in the U.S. to abandon high-stakes tests because they don’t work as anticipated and are costly. I agree, but hope that we don’t throw out the need for accountability along with the high-stakes bathwater.Before No Child...
Lessons Through Holograms of Your Teacher
nzherald:Teachers could soon be conducting lessons in holograms around a family's dinner table if mobile technology continues to evolve, an award-winning Auckland teacher says.Nathan Kerr from Howick College recently represented New Zealand at one of...
The "Culture of Poverty" Theory, Applied to the American Education
Lorettaacook's BlogThe role that the education system should be in the game which people live, is to educate them to be aware, critically thinking people know not to accept passively, but the question of knowing how it is taught. Education should be ...
All Invited to the LEARN NC's 2009
LEARN NC, the organization that makes Instructify possible, will hold its 2009 conference on October 1 in North Carolina.Event will run on Thursday, October 1st from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The face-to-face morning session is full, but you can log in virtua...
Top 10 N.J. High Schools - Newsweek
In New Jersey the back-to-school day is tomorrow and while I am helping my wife to set up everything around our 7th grader, I though it is a great opportunity to remember what are the choices parents have to enroll their sons in a High School, this y...
"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 ...
Learning Isn't For Nine Months; It's Forever
Jay Mathews of The Washington Post writes "he liked showing up the first day of school with a fresh binder and newly sharpened pencils." as much as today's kids love it, but Mathews also rise concerns: "How would school have turned out for me if I ha...
The Education Unfinished Business Left By Sen. Ted Kennedy
Education WeekSen Edward M. Kennedy, who died Aug. 25 after nearly 47 years in the Senate, left a lot of unfinished business at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which he chaired. Though the committee worked on legislation ...
What Do You Believe to Be the Most Effective Methods for Delivering Professional Development to Teachers?
Despite what many still think about professional development for teachers, workshops and seminars ranked highest in a recent survey referenced by Alfred Thompson in his blog. Even though, the survey was exclusively used to measure the Computer Scienc...
Sexual Education Begins at Home , But it Fails
On July we started reading a very interesting book by Debra W. Haffner. There is a post about How to Protect Your Children Online and this is the continuation of what we offered back then. In this opportunity, we will refer to Chapter 6, Raising Se...
Mobile Devices Are Machines for Learning ( Not Distractors)
"I want my children to be taught how to use their mobile devices to create and publish and connect, but I also want that done by adults who know how to do that for themselves." A Will Richardson comment featured in this post, thanks to the terrific ...
"Students Who Took All or Part of Their Class Online Performed Better," Says a Study
It's Sunday and Education & Tech usually gets updated on weekdays. But what we have to say today is something we had to postpone for two or three days, given that our schedule was tight, so barely we were able to read feeds and update Twitter.Someone...
Teaching Teenagers to Foresee Their Future
Today, I met a former student on Facebook. When she was a teen, I remember we had talked about what it will be their aspiration to the future. Among them, there were her dream of becoming a lawyer. Once she finished school we befriend her on Facebook...
The Four Pillars of Technology Integration
nashworldWhat are the key elements required for a transformation of teaching and learning through the use of technology? There are obviously many reasonable ways to look at this. From what position do you view this issue? Are you a teacher, instru...
Are Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ Requirements Fair?
National Journal is an online magazine which runs its own Education Blog funded --in part, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the purpose of creating an educational forum for sharing research, ideas and opinions regarding issues related to c...
Why Teach for America and The New Teacher Project Exist
The Quick and the EDIf you stop and think about it, Teach for America (TFA) and The New Teacher Project (TNTP) are well-functioning, non-profit, national human resource departments for schools. They recruit, screen, and hire candidates, all functions...
