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Students Work Should Be Published at The End of Every Unit of Study
The Innovative Educator:During a recent visit to a school I was disappointed because although the school is noted as being a model technology school I was hearing from students, teachers, and leaders that the students had “handed in” a lot of gre...
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, ...
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...
Can We Really Enforce Differenciated Instruction in Our Schools?
I was attending the all popular now #edchat and organized every Tuesday at 7 PM EST. on Twitter. It has been a great opportunity to know more participants, but also to learn a bit more about Differentiated Instruction (DI). If you missed the online ...
How Teachers Are Isolated to Find Solutions to Adolescent Literacy Problems
Educators at any level are quite familiar with reading problems, corrective reading and educational research on this field. A few days now, we posted on Twitter a post asking why cursive writing is not taught in schools anymore. Responses were from,...
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...
A Student's Goals Many Teachers Should Read
Every often we teachers are dedicated to read, investigate and plan ahead our class management and the substance of our subjects, but the contact with our students is reduced to greet them at the beginning of the school period, randomly check their h...
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...
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...
Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools
edtech VISIONSLA [Science Leadership Academy, Pa.] is kid focused and community based. They want their kids to be passionate about the work they are doing. I love his quote, "School is real life – not preparation for real life." Technology is ub...
Professional Development Is a Waste for Teachers
Before July 4th I went to the public library in the neighborhood and picked a book by Christopher Witt: Real Leaders Don't Do PowerPoint I always thought a teacher has to be a good speaker and needs to know how to sell his/her image and ideas. I am n...
Digital Age: The Future of Learning
We woke early today and start browsing the most recent tweets. We came across to an interesting report, licensed under Creative Commons: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with the assist...
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teachers
Much has been written about headlines and how that way we present it has a deep impact on the attention visitors and readers pay to such an article. And this is one of those cases, deliberately I chose the headline, paraphrasing the popular The Seven...
You Could Be Teaching Differently if it Weren't for ‘The Tests’
Students in New Jersey started this week the NJASK and they spent much time on rehearsals. Surely, at least one teacher in the Garden State will be saying: We could be teaching differently if it weren't for ‘the tests.’Scott McLeod of Dangerously...
Fundamentalist Baptist School Asks Student to Skip Prom
The Courier.comA senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School's prom because the event involves dancing and rock music.A Heritage School committee decided Wednesday that Tyler Frost, 17, will be suspe...
The Notion of Neo-liberalism as Public Pedagogy
We came across to CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) blog where Joyce Middleton writes about Vorris Nunley's work. Professor Nunley is interested the intersections of rhetoric, space, and episteme. He works as an assistant pro...
Teaching Students How to Handle Failure
During this weekend I was reading the print edition of ReaderDigest, May edition, and I found an interesting article about how parents are growing kids "defenseless against failure."The article supports the investigation realized by Carol Dweck a PhD...
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...
Model of School Mr. Obama Thinks , All Should Be
The Capital City Public Charter School CCPCS in D.C., after listening President's remarks, sounds like a wonderful place to send your children. Doyle a brilliant H.S. teacher in NJ, was following the visit Mr. Obama had made to the CCPCS and in his ...
Ivy League Scholar Breaks the Rules, Waives the Fees, And Welcomes Harlem Residents
By Courtney E. Martin, Utne ReaderTrue teachers from Socrates to Dennis is that they really are midwives to their students’ thinking. Since thinking is imaginative, unpredictable, innovative, critical, and iconoclastic, it is a danger to the status...
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...
Virginity Pledges Are Not a Marker for Less Sexual Activity
This study compares the sexual activity of adolescent virginity pledgers with matched nonpledgers by using more robust methods than past research. Research was conducted by Janet Elise Rosenbaum, PhD., and published this month in Pediatrics. What Ms....
