Response to Alfie Kohn's interview in
Maclean's magazine
Alfie Kohn’s…
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Added by Jeff Leppard on May 8, 2010 at 8:38pm —
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Connected
An interesting thing happened on the way home from Educon 2.2 last Sunday night. Walking through the terminal and against my exhaustion, I reflexively checked my mail. Lazy eyes lifted open, I flicked my thumb scrolling… trolling for a demand of action. I’m hyper-connected. I pay for it. And yet, I’m a better teacher and leader because of it. This is the sort of thing that I am betting many folks in this…
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Added by Sean Nash on February 5, 2010 at 2:30pm —
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According to *Wiggins and McTighe (1998) in order to decide what (Judaic) knowledge should be taught in school, the following three categories or priorities of knowledge should be determined.
First priority: Knowledge that is enduring. essential information that students must know.
Second priority: Knowledge that is important, but not essential for students to know.
Third priority: Knowledge with which students should be…
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Added by Richard D. Solomon, Ph.D. on August 31, 2009 at 5:28am —
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What are the key elements required for a transformation of teaching and learning through the use of technology? There are obviously many reasonable ways to look at this. From what position do you view this issue? Are you a teacher, instructional coach, building principal, technology facilitator, director of technology, chief administrative officer of some flavor, superintendent, parent, or student? For you, this issue will likely run through the…
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Added by Sean Nash on July 13, 2009 at 8:00am —
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What phrase is abuzz in the world of education? “Technology in the classroom.” Everyone is scrambling to find ways to fund their school districts or buildings with new technology for students and teachers. Some schools reach out to their communities and form alliances with businesses to help supply classrooms with new computers or projectors. Other districts have teachers working late, after school, in the evenings, and on the weekends without compensation writing Perkins grants to receive…
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Added by Gayla Thompson on July 11, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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"Give me potential or give me death."
~yep, my version of Patrick Henry's stuff
Now that I think of it, I probably could have just entitled this one “2.0″ because this is now what this phrase means to me. I’m not going to go off…
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Added by Sean Nash on June 20, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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Ben Grey raises one of the most fundamental questions regarding our present situation:
What are we doing for students accomplishing their most amazing feats of education outside the education system?
Information has become decentralized.…
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Added by Andrew on June 5, 2009 at 1:25pm —
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Interested in any of the following mini conferences near Milwaukee on April 20 and 21st?
(Number 2 seems interesting to me.)
The Wisconsin Charter Schools Association is hosting their annual conference in Waukesha at the Country Springs Hotel (about 20 minutes west of Milwaukee). I have to say, they have put together a pretty interesting conference, and they promise that all the sessions will be interactive.
Go to www.wicharterschools.org for registration…
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Added by Cindy Zautcke on March 12, 2009 at 8:28pm —
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Wow, today I went to a website, Skittles, of all things. (www.Skittles.com)
Yes, the tasty rainbow candy that we all loved as kids. The ones that are the cause of all your children's dental visits.
Long story short, they did something totally disruptive. The got rid of their static, boring website and embraced the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube…
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Added by John Costilla on March 3, 2009 at 8:00am —
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First blog, first blog. This provides you with an overview of our Blue Schools project.
Jason Brodersen - proud dad, husband, kite surfer, scientist and VW bus driver - and I founded Blue Schools mostly because we believe in place and problem-based learning and the ability of students to make positive change. I am an educator working at a middle school in Larkspur, CA. We are in the very late stages of forming our CA non-profit and in the early stages working with our first pilot…
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Added by Andy Boone on February 8, 2009 at 5:02pm —
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When it comes to education and parent piece of mind image may mean more than you think. Having happy and satisfied parents sure beats having obstinate and hostile ones. Anyone who has been involved in education for any long period of time knows very well how important it is to have the children and parents onboard with the school and staff.
This is where a little bit of solid branding will go a long way to helping build the…
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Added by Lance Winslow on December 17, 2008 at 9:00am —
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Online Translation Schools - In the US and other European countries online translation schools are already offered.
Online Photography Schools - For those far from these top universities there are also online photography courses offered so that they can still pursue their dream profession in photography.
Feel free to share some of the available online schools...
Added by Bajang on December 3, 2008 at 9:58pm —
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A journey to a thousand miles is one of the situation which we can meet our success in life. For me, If I will given a chance to visit a certain country, for sure I choose New Zealand. Why? Because of many reasons I have to fulfill my dreams to go in New Zealand. One of my reason is, I want to see the breath taking beauty of natures there, Second, I want to see and experience the hospitality of people around the country, third one, I want to learn the culture of New Zealand, fourth, I want to…
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Added by studynz2008 on October 8, 2008 at 1:26am —
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http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com/2008/08/digital-studentsanalog-school-videoclip.html
Be sure to budget enough time for your visit, since I link to another blogger's posts, and several of my own.
-Lynn
Added by Lynn Marentette on August 23, 2008 at 8:06pm —
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Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent for the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, moderates a panel discussion at the 3rd annul Teaching & Learning Celebration that was held in New York City last month.
Panelist: Billy K. Cannaday, Jr., Michael Flanagan, Kim Oliver, Roy Romer, Andreas Schleicher, Eliot…
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Added by Jack Olmsted on April 16, 2008 at 11:20am —
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