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The Global Search for Education: Change Leader by C. M. Rubin

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Added by Michael Keany on October 26, 2011 at 10:40am — No Comments

Screen Time, Young Kids and Literacy: New Data Begs Questions by Lisa Guernsey

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Added by Michael Keany on October 26, 2011 at 10:38am — No Comments

Back to (the wrong) school from Seth Godin's Blog

Back to (the wrong) school

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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Added by Michael Keany on October 25, 2011 at 3:25pm — No Comments

Is the Whiteboard Living Up to Its Hype by Heather Wolpert-Gawron

How the Interactive Whiteboard is Really Ed Tech’s Laserdisk

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…

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Added by Michael Keany on October 24, 2011 at 3:41pm — No Comments

Using Twitter in High School Classrooms by Bill Ferriter

Using Twitter in High School Classrooms

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…

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Added by Michael Keany on October 24, 2011 at 3:10pm — No Comments

Grading the Teachers -- Schools have a lot to learn from business about how to improve performance, say Bill and Melinda Gates

Grading the Teachers

Schools have a lot to learn from business about how to improve performance, say Bill and Melinda Gates…

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Added by Michael Keany on October 24, 2011 at 3:09pm — No Comments

An Educator's Voice

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 — No Comments

Why schools should not grade character traits By Valerie Strauss -- This was written Larry Ferlazzo

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 …

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Added by Michael Keany on October 22, 2011 at 10:32am — No Comments

Why Do Some People Learn Faster? By Jonah Lehrer

Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

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Added by Michael Keany on October 22, 2011 at 10:29am — No Comments

Do You Want Your Kids on That Bus? by John Merrow

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Added by Michael Keany on October 20, 2011 at 1:51pm — No Comments

Education in the Age of Information by Dr. Gino Yu

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Added by Michael Keany on October 20, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Supporting New Teachers: What have you done for them lately?

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Our Profession & New Teachers: …
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Added by Bill Burkhead on October 19, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

The Public Equivalent of Love by David Kirp

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Added by Michael Keany on October 19, 2011 at 1:09pm — No Comments

BULL*HORN Rewind in Slow-Motion: Getting there by being there by Mark P. Gray

Bull*Horn

 

Rewind in Slow-Motion: Getting there by being there         by Mark P. Gray

*as this is the first entry in the Bull*Horn blog this tag is designed to bring to life the title to its reader(s).  By definition, a bullhorn is an instrument in which the speaker uses a narrowly focused space to project ideas, commands, or announcements that proceed to exit through a large, global, and gaping hole aimed at the masses with volume and…

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Added by Mark P. Gray on October 18, 2011 at 1:51pm — 1 Comment

5 Facts About Bilingualism by Delia Lloyd

5 Facts About Bilingualism

by Delia Lloyd

Posted: 10/13/11 12:16 PM ET…
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Added by Michael Keany on October 18, 2011 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Ten Wishes for Student Success by Maya Frost

 

 

President Obama shared some advice with America’s school children (or some of them, anyway). I’m happy that he encouraged students to work hard and stay in school. He had some sound long-term suggestions.  



But as …

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Added by Michael Keany on October 18, 2011 at 10:42am — No Comments

Generational Divide in Education

It is my birthday today, so please forgive me for allowing my contemplation once again lead us down a well-travelled path. I have discussed this topic in posts before, but it is a subject that will not go away as long as we have younger people working next to older people. As one of those older folks, I might better state it as the “rookies” working beside the “seasoned veterans”. Of  course all of this is further confused by the introduction of the digital native theory. For these, and some…

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Added by Tom Whitby on October 17, 2011 at 5:21pm — No Comments

Creating Education Success at Home By Marc Tucker

Creating Education Success at Home

Despite the fact that the United States spends more per student on elementary and secondary education than any other nation except Luxembourg, students in a growing number of nations outperform our students. Our organization, the National Center on Education and the Economy, has researched the education systems of the…

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Added by Michael Keany on October 17, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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