Movie Videos & Movie Scenes at MOVIECLIPS.com
One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies and I'm not even really a baseball fan.
Today's students are living in the future while they must go back to the past when they come to school. Prensky refers to it as powering down.
Basically it is the idea that students have access to more technology at home than they do at school.
What the real problem to me is that some students want to bring some of these same tools to school yet we won't let them. Our district as well as I'm guessing most districts will not allow a student to access the wireless signal of the district.
As technology becomes more and more pervasive more and more students have their own laptops/netbooks. Parents buy them with the intention of the student using those same tools for learning yet we as schools do not allow the students in the building with their new learning tools.
When will this change?
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
What I learned this week 01/03/2011
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10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web
10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web
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Top 6 Underground Search Engines You Never Knew About
Search the web with other engines
Saturday, January 1, 2011
What I learned this week 01/02/2011
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Class Struggle - Best education blogs for 2010
Blogs worth checking out from the Washington Post
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Chapel Hill Campus Takes On Grade Inflation - NYTimes.com
Grading: past practices are current practices....but what is their real purpose. A change is needed.
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Pollmo Polls - The simplest polls on the web
Worth a try for polling/simple quiz
Friday, December 31, 2010
What I learned this week 01/01/2011
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This Is the Best of Lifehacker 2010
great list of tech related top 10s from Lifehacker
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Bookflavor - Taste, Review, and Buy Books
book rec. tool
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Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review
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Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb
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interesting read
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online tech support
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Great Habits of Great Teachers - HOME - Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
What I learned this week 12/25/2010
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I Don’t Give a Crap «Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech
PISA results....I do give a crap and yes, I agree with Rhee that we are failing our children if they aren't learning how to read. Our number 1 goal of school is to teach students how to read not just to take care of them and care for them.
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Meet the Presenters « The Reform Symposium
Very excited...did 1st conference this summer and it was wonderful. Looking forward to another one. So impressed by the organizers putting another conference together so quickly.
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Partnership for Powerful Learning Home - Partnership for Powerful Learning
Looking forward to following progress on this....Forest Hill's BYOL program kicking off shortly.
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1 to 1 programs are so 2007 «Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech
Great post on 1-1 programs....confirms more people are thinking what I'm thinking about 1-1. Too expensive to have complete control...harness the access to hardware students already have!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
What I learned this week 12/23/2010
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The Two Million Minutes Blog: Some College Salaries Skyrocket
Good to see we have our priorities in the right place....
this continues as we see more and more students default on their loans.
Ban fiction from the curriculum - Hopewell, NJ, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post
Ban fiction from the curriculum - Hopewell, NJ, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post
I apologize if you need to register (it is free) in order to read this article....but it has me thinking about some earlier learning I've done.
Grant Wiggins (of UBD fame) has written a provocative post suggesting we ban fiction. Okay, not necessarily ban it but perhaps rethink it in terms of how much of it makes up our reading curriculum.
Wiggins argues that fiction is a leisure activity....ie not many of us will have a job in which we will be required to read fiction. Instead most of us will be reading heavy duty non-fiction such a reports or other technical documents...yet this type of reading makes up only a small fraction of what children read in school and based on NAEP scores kids aren't very good at reading non-fiction.
Couple that with what Willingham and Hirsch say about reading success being tied so closely to background knowledge it makes me wonder if we might be doing our students (especially boys, Wiggins says) by not reading more nonfiction.
Something to think about for the LA committee as they work on reading lists etc.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
What I learned this week 12/22/2010
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Spencer's Scratch Pad: Anti-Homework
Interesting discussion about homework
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Karen Cator: Schools Should Get Creative With Spending | MindShift
Interesting read as it relates to our failed efforts for 1-1
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Students Know Good Teaching When They Get It, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com
Student surveys may reveal powerful results
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Generations Online in 2010 | Pew Internet & American Life Project
Scroll down for a great graphic on Internet usage by generation
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Internet Now as Popular as TV, Survey Shows - Digits - WSJ
Not surprised as well....Net surpasses TV in popularity. Must be ahead of the curve as it has been that way for me for years now.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Students Know Good Teaching When They Get It, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com
Students Know Good Teaching When They Get It, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/education/11education.html?_r=1
I don't think the article mentions the age of the students being surveyed. At what age is a student able to objectively and thoughtfully answer these questions?
Researchers are studying value added measures and looking for other measures that correlate well.
Turns out student surveys seem to be a good way to figure out the teachers who "add value".
Student surveys reveal that the following statement correlate to value added teachers:
Classrooms where a majority of students said they agreed with the statement, “Our class stays busy and doesn’t waste time,” tended to be led by teachers with high value-added scores, the report said.The same was true for teachers whose students agreed with the statements, “In this class, we learn to correct our mistakes,” and, “My teacher has several good ways to explain each topic that we cover in this class.”
Teachers whose students agreed with the statement, “We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for the state test,” tended to make smaller gains on those exams than other teachers.
For a number of years our school administered a survey called CSImpact or something close to that. It surveyed all stakeholders....including students as young as grade 3. In addition, we also gave our own student surveys. I thought the gathered data was not only interesting but relevant and for a number of years (before NCLB) it drove much of our improvement efforts. However, for a variety of reasons, we no longer give the survey.
I've asked us to give some type of students survey but the idea hasn't gained much traction.
After reading this article I think it is time to start asking again.
What I learned this week 12/21/2010
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Knoword | Expand your vocabulary!
fun vocabulary game with potential
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How do it yourself (DYI) PD works – What are you working on? « 21st Century Collaborative
DO it yourself PD
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Doing it Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary | Edutopia
Good ideas on teaching vocab
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
What I learned this week 12/19/2010
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What Makes A Master Teacher | Connected Principals
How many qualities of the "master" do you have?
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Differentiate Language Arts: Making Inferences
real world application of inferencing
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Announcing the 2010 Edublog Awards Winners! – The Edublog Awards
Announcing the 2010 Edublog Awards Winners! – The Edublog Awards
http://edublogawards.com/announcing-the-2010-edublog-awards-winners/
As we come to the end of another calendar year I like to reflect on the year we are so close to completing. Part of that routine involves going through various end of year lists that other people post on their blogs. Of special note I especially like to look over best of the year music lists, music videos, books, children's books, movies, cookbooks.
There are many posts and lists that contain the above information. But when it comes to my online teacher resource/materials "best of" list I only really have one GO TO list and that is the Edublog award winner lists. This list is a great way to find new blogs and other online resources of which you need to follow.
I've reviewed the entire list and plan to add the following to my Google Reader feed:
http://kirstenwinkler.com/
As we come to the end of another calendar year I like to reflect on the year we are so close to completing. Part of that routine involves going through various end of year lists that other people post on their blogs. Of special note I especially like to look over best of the year music lists, music videos, books, children's books, movies, cookbooks.
There are many posts and lists that contain the above information. But when it comes to my online teacher resource/materials "best of" list I only really have one GO TO list and that is the Edublog award winner lists. This list is a great way to find new blogs and other online resources of which you need to follow.
I've reviewed the entire list and plan to add the following to my Google Reader feed:
http://kirstenwinkler.com/
http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/the-2-interactive-whiteboard/ (influential post, but I will also subscribe to the blog)
To further explore for other resources:
Enjoy the list!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
What I learned this week 12/16/2010
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Education Week: Value-Added: It's Not Perfect, But It Makes Sense
Interesting essay on the imperfections of value added analysis and an argument that some imperfection is acceptable because of the data such studies yield.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/theyearinreview
Enjoy the YouTube year in review which also included the top 10 videos by viewership of the year.
#1 was......
Can't say I liked the song but I love the creativity and it inspired me to see if I could autotune to work on Audacity.
Enjoy the YouTube year in review which also included the top 10 videos by viewership of the year.
#1 was......
Can't say I liked the song but I love the creativity and it inspired me to see if I could autotune to work on Audacity.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
What I learned this week 12/10/2010
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ALA | Top 25 | Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
ALA list of teacher tools
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Official PISA results page
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Flypaper: Education reform ideas that stick, from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
PISA....another Sputnik moment?
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In PISA Test, Top Scores From Shanghai Stun Experts - NYTimes.com
More on PISA results. Skimming the comments section I see a slam on our Math curriculum....Everyday Math
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The Answer Sheet - Do international test comparisons make sense?
PISA (program for international student assessment) results are out and the results don't look good. Basically no growth for the US. Will be posting how the results are being looked at. This article from Wash Post tries to dismiss results/value of the test before they have even been released.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Learning without Borders
Definitely worth the time to watch this videos....excellent job of getting to where we are at right now in education in terms of reform, improvement and technology's impact.
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