Among the many pushes and pulls that impact the exchange between teacher and student we find an ever-growing list of elements that demand our attention. Today our senses are being battered by any number of requests for “techno fixes” and ways to gain an advantage, or ways that provide the promise of being able to take a shortcut to the success of everything from student achievement to the prevention of a possible physical assault on our students. Test prep programs, online tutorials,…
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by Barnett Barry
The politics of teaching policy continues to produce contentiousness among reformers and researchers as well as administrators, union leaders, and practicing teachers themselves. In response, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested three years and $45 million in painstaking efforts to find the…
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January 15, 2013
Want to improve characterization in your own writing? Want to teach your students how to analyze character? Then hurry to catch the New York Public Library exhibit,…
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Being Mobile | Blog
Common Core Technological Standards: They Are the Tail, Not the Dog
Up to now, test makers have been the dog--and education has been the tail. But the test makers are increasingly out of touch with students who use mobile devices for everything…
Added by Michael Keany on January 15, 2013 at 12:42pm —
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HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS LIKE SHERLOCK HOLMES
BY: JENNIFER MILLER
Fast Company
A new book says you can train your brain to be a creative problem solver worthy of literature’s most famous sleuth.…
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Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment
By W. James Popham
Every educator knows what "a teachable moment" is. It's the brief period of time when events serendipitously conspire to teach students something that otherwise might be difficult for…
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Certainty Versus Confidence
Leaders of social change can benefit from making the distinction.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jan. 11, 2013…
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Will Longer School Year Help Or Hurt US Students?
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I am so excited to incorporate writing in my math class during the…
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by Mary Beth Hertz
JANUARY 9, 2013
Edutopia…
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January 14, 2013
For years,…
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Good Day Administrators,
I am a high school administrator with three questions:
1. Do you still provide senior trips for…
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For those who do not know, here are two basic Twitter principles: 1. If you only follow 10 people you will only see the general tweets of those 10 people. 2. If only 10 people follow you, only those 10 people will see your general tweets. Although some might argue that the right…
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Hardware Backup Appliances Move toward Extinction While New Generations of Cloud-based Backup and Recovery Technologies Are more Widely Adopted
Zetta.net today unveiled five predictions for the online backup and recovery market for 2013, all pointing to the broader adoption of online backup in more industries and the extinction of hardware backup appliances. From education and government, to SMBs and large enterprises with distributed office locations, online backup will…
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