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In this Educational Leadership article, Doug Johnson (a district technology director in Minnesota) describes some of the ways technology is being used in classrooms. The bottom line, he says, is how effectively computers, tablets, e-books, online texts, Moodle courses, and other devices and platforms are helping students learn what they are…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 27, 2013 at 8:46am — No Comments

Mandating the Daily Posting of Objectives, and Other Dumb Ideas by Grant Wiggins

Should Objectives Be Posted in Classrooms?

In this blog post, Grant Wiggins comments on administrators requiring teachers to post daily objectives on the wall, sometimes in the name of UbD-type backwards design of curriculum units. Some schools take it a step further: when students are asked what standard they’re working on, they chorus, “We’re working on ELA Standard B.2.a.i.”

“This gets it all backwards,” says Wiggins. “The…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 27, 2013 at 8:43am — No Comments

8 things we can't accept in education by Justin Tarte

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Added by Michael Keany on December 26, 2013 at 9:59am — No Comments

Looking at Executive Function By: Rick Wormeli

Association for Middle Level Education

Looking at Executive Function…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 24, 2013 at 10:36am — No Comments

Why All Students Should Write: A Neurological Explanation For Literacy by Dr. Judy Willis

Why All Students Should Write: A Neurological Explanation For Literacy

08/22/2013, Judy Willis

TeachThought…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 24, 2013 at 10:33am — No Comments

Grim News from the NAEP from an article by Andy Smarick

Grim News from the NAEP

In this Education Gadfly article, Andy Smarick says the just-released National Assessment of Educational Progress data from 20 large U.S. cities contain lots of sad news about disadvantaged students. Specifically:

In the average city, only one in four students reached proficiency in 4^th-grade and 8^th-grade reading and…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 24, 2013 at 10:28am — No Comments

These Tiny Wooden Houses Are The College Dorm Of The Future

Housing is expensive. So why not have students live in cubes they can afford? That's the idea behind the “smart student unit."

Fast Company

A few years ago, Swedish student housing company AF Bostäder had…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 11:48am — No Comments

Coding Is Coming To Every Industry You Can Think Of, Time To Start Learning It Now

No matter what you do, it’s going to be helpful to learn to code. So we should probably start teaching it in school.

WRITTEN BY EdSurge…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 11:46am — No Comments

Making Predictions Can Help You to Learn Better by Annie Murphy Paul

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Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

Fostering Teacher Leadership Through Collaborative Inquiry by Jenni Donohoo

Fostering Teacher Leadership Through Collaborative Inquiry

By Peter DeWitt on December 23, 2013 …

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Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Wisdom for the School Leader: Coping with the What-If's from The 21st Century Principal by J. Robinson

Wisdom for the School Leader: Coping with the What-If's…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 23, 2013 at 8:58am — No Comments

In No One We Trust By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

THE GREAT…

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Added by Michael Keany on December 22, 2013 at 9:04am — No Comments

MIT Researchers: Higher Test Scores Do Not Translate into Higher Levels of Thinking by Diane Ravitch

MIT Researchers: Higher Test Scores Do Not Translate into Higher Levels of Thinking

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Added by Michael Keany on December 21, 2013 at 9:10am — No Comments

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