I have been a student, athlete, teacher, coach, athletic director, administrator and parent. I have benefited from an excellent education with terrific teachers and have experienced the best times of my life in the athletic arena. But I am confused by how our society places higher prestige on athletics than it does on academics. Here are some examples I have experienced and some possible solutions. Please note that some of my solutions are tongue in cheek, but hope this post will open deeper…
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Connecting the dots is an intuitive process that has been around since the beginning of time. It makes sense that the sky became an element of mystery; an untouchable piece of magic. The Orion (read educator) holds his shield against the mighty bull (read political/educational agenda), who is ready to charge the warrior. Through our own careful examination, thousands of years later, we can see this glorious moment of violent tension in the crisp winter sky just by…
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The School AdministratorOctober 2011 Number 9, Vol. 68| Missing the Mark| …
Added by Michael Keany on October 28, 2011 at 11:57am —
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Educators working to reform grading and reporting often find that some of their strongest opposition comes from parents and community members. Most parents remember grades from when they were in school as a reflection of each student's relative standing among classmates. A grade…
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DEAR MOUNTAIN ROOM PARENTS
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When School Web Filtering Comes Home…
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Added by Michael Keany on October 27, 2011 at 2:57pm —
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The genie is definitely out of the bottle when we look at Social Media. Of course there are many who fail to recognize this, and continue to believe that somehow, someone must approve the use of social Media in order for it to be acceptable in our education system. The glaring problem with that is the lack of understanding on the part of many of those education policy makers to really understand what Social Media is. Many, in their arguments against social media, talk about its limits…
Added by Tom Whitby on October 27, 2011 at 12:00pm —
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Author, The Real Alice in Wonderland book. …
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Director, Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation
Screen Time, Young Kids and Literacy: New Data Begs…
Added by Michael Keany on October 26, 2011 at 10:38am —
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Seth Godin's Blog
A hundred and fifty years ago, adults were incensed about child labor. Low-wage kids were taking jobs away from hard-working adults.
Sure, there was some moral outrage at seven-year olds losing fingers and being abused at work, but the economic rationale was paramount. Factory owners insisted that losing child workers would be catastrophic to their…
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I’m taking a class at Walden University right now, and a recent prompt asked us to identify a future technology. I took a moment to reflect on this country’s current enthusiastic roll-out of Interactive Whiteboards, and why I feel strongly that these are…
Added by Michael Keany on October 24, 2011 at 3:41pm —
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by Bill Ferriter
One of the best professional experiences I've had in a long time happened at my Teaching the iGeneration workshop in Cincinnati this week.
You see, I had the distinct pleasure of working with a super motivated…
Added by Michael Keany on October 24, 2011 at 3:10pm —
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Grading the Teachers
Schools have a lot to learn from business about how to improve performance, say Bill and Melinda Gates…
Added by Michael Keany on October 24, 2011 at 3:09pm —
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Yesterday, I participated in a wonderful public discussion on Education. The best part about this discussion was that it was with predominantly real educators, people who actually teach, volunteering their time and expertise on the subject of education. They discussed real issues of education and the real impediments to reform from a real educator’s point of view. There were representatives of: teachers, administrators, IT people, school board members, and parents. Dell sponsored the…
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Added by Tom Whitby on October 23, 2011 at 10:36am —
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Why schools should not grade character traits
This was written Larry Ferlazzo, who teaches at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California. He has written …
Added by Michael Keany on October 22, 2011 at 10:32am —
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