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This is a companion list to the EdQuotes Group.
Updated on 2009-12-01
Created on 2009-07-15
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Preschool - Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control? - NYTimes.com
"But Tools of the Mind was clearly a different strategy. “It’s an immersion approach,” she said. “It’s not that these kids are pulled out and they do self-control for half an hour a day. Everything is about self-regulation, every single moment. Everything about the culture that the classroom creates reinforces that.”"
*In the end, the most lasting effect of the Tools of the Mind studies may be to challenge some of our basic ideas about the boundary between work and play.-
In the end, the most lasting effect of the Tools of the Mind studies may be to challenge some of our basic ideas about the boundary between work and play.
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The School Issue - Preschool - Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control? - NYTimes.com
*Dramatic play, he said, was the training ground where children learned to regulate themselves, to conquer their own unruly minds.
*The ultimate goal of Tools of the Mind is not emotional or physical self-regulation; it is cognitive self-regulation — not the ability to avoid grabbing a toy from the kid next to you (though that’s an important first step), but the much more subtle ability to avoid falling for a deceptively attractive wrong answer on a test or to concentrate on an arduous mental task.-
For Vygotsky, the real purpose of early-childhood education was not to learn content, like the letters of the alphabet or the names of shapes and colors and animals. The point was to learn how to think.
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Dramatic play, he said, was the training ground where children learned to regulate themselves, to conquer their own unruly minds.
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Preschool - Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control? - NYTimes.com
*Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early-childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it belongs in the boardroom than the classroom: executive function. Originally a neuroscience term, it refers to the ability to think straight: to order your thoughts, to process information in a coherent way, to hold relevant details in your short-term memory, to avoid distractions and mental traps and focus on the task in front of you. And recently, cognitive psychologists have come to believe that executive function, and specifically the skill of self-regulation, might hold the answers to some of the most vexing questions in education today.
*The ability of young children to control their emotional and cognitive impulses, it turns out, is a remarkably strong indicator of both short-term and long-term success, academic and otherwise.-
Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early-childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it belongs in the boardroom than the classroom: executive function. Originally a neuroscience term, it refers to the ability to think straight: to order your thoughts, to process information in a coherent way, to hold relevant details in your short-term memory, to avoid distractions and mental traps and focus on the task in front of you. And recently, cognitive psychologists have come to believe that executive function, and specifically the skill of self-regulation, might hold the answers to some of the most vexing questions in education today.
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The ability of young children to control their emotional and cognitive impulses, it turns out, is a remarkably strong indicator of both short-term and long-term success, academic and otherwise.
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Author & Book Views On a Healthy Life! - LIVING GREEN - 2050: 75 Million Possibly Homeless Due To Climate Change
Oxfam Australia says that climate change could leave up to 75 million people in the Asia-Pacific region homeless by 2050. The Future is Here: Climate Change says that these island nations are already suffering from drought, food shortages and rising water levels.
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Kerry: Climate change will depend on China
“Unless we act dramatically and act fast, science tells us our way of life is in jeopardy,” [Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Kerry] said.
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Presentation Zen: The slideshow...
The tools are there, what we need now is more design education, more understanding about how to present information, and how to tell compelling, relevant stories that matter.
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Isabel Allende tells tales of passion | Video on TED.com
What is truer than truth? Answer, the story.
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Book Review: How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer, by Debbie Millman - Core77
Whether it's said about the graphic design grid, Picasso's cubism, or a Zen book of koans, once the student learns the rules, they can throw out the book. The value comes in the contrast of expectation with the arrival of the truly new.
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Whether it's said about the graphic design grid, Picasso's cubism, or a Zen book of koans, once the student learns the rules, they can throw out the book. The value comes in the contrast of expectation with the arrival of the truly new.
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Fluid Learning
7.22.09
* Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students, lose the ability to make a difference.
* Although RateMyProfessors.com has enlightened students, it has made the work of educational administrators exponentially more difficult.
* The lesson is simple: control is over. This is not about control anymore. This is about finding a way to survive and thrive in chaos.
* ...net filtering throws the baby out with the bathwater.
* Education happens everywhere, not just with your nose down in a book, or stuck into a computer screen.
* The instructor facilitates and mentors, as they have always done, but they are no longer the gatekeepers, because there are no gatekeepers, anywhere.
* The center of this argument is simple, though subtle: the more something is shared, the more valuable it becomes.
* You can’t download experience. You can’t bottle it. Experience has to be lived, and that requires a teacher.
* Recommendations: 1) Capture Everything, 2) Share Everything, 3) Open Everything, 4) Only Connect
* All of this [filtering] has got to stop. The classroom does not exist in isolation, nor can it continue to exist in opposition to the Internet.
* Mind the maxim of the 21st century: connection is king. Students must be free to connect with instructors... administration... [and] their peers.
* The challenge of connectivity is nowhere near as daunting as the capabilities it delivers.-
Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students, lose the ability to make a difference.
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Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students, lose the ability to make a difference.
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The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com
7.21.09
* The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site.
* A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive.
* As I sat in my K Street office, Fred’s life as an independent tradesman gave me an image that I kept coming back to: someone who really knows what he is doing, losing himself in work that is genuinely useful and has a certain integrity to it.
* It would probably be impossible to do such work in isolation, without access to a collective historical memory; you have to be embedded in a community of mechanic-antiquarians.
* Good diagnosis requires attentiveness to the machine, almost a conversation with it....
* The regularity of the cubicles made me feel I had found a place in the order of things. I was to be a knowledge worker.
* A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world. Academic credentials do not guarantee this.
* In the boardrooms of Wall Street and the corridors of Pennsylvania Avenue, I don’t think you’ll see a yellow sign that says “Think Safety!” as you do on job sites and in many repair shops, no doubt because those who sit on the swivel chairs tend to live remote from the consequences of the decisions they make.
* Our peripheral vision is perhaps recovering, allowing us to consider the full range of lives worth choosing. For anyone who feels ill suited by disposition to spend his days sitting in an office, the question of what a good job looks like is now wide open. -
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, October 20 - 22, 2009, San Francisco, CA
7.21.09
*...Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion.
*...we’re constantly asked about "Web 3.0." Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more.
*...successful network applications are systems for harnessing collective intelligence.
*The question before us is this: Is the Web getting smarter as it grows up?
*The Web is growing up, and we are all its collective parents.
*Key takeaway: A key competency of the Web 2.0 era is discovering implied metadata, and then building a database to capture that metadata and/or foster an ecosystem around it.
*The Net is getting smarter faster than you might think.
*The increasing richness of both sensor data and machine learning will lead to new frontiers in creative expression and imaginative reconstruction of the world.
*All of these breakthroughs are reflections of the fact noted by Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM, that real world objects have "information shadows" in cyberspace.
*In adding value for ourselves, we are adding value to the social web as well. Our devices extend us, and we extend them.
*Data analysis, visualization, and other techniques for seeing patterns in data are going to be an increasingly valuable skillset. Employers take notice.
*Anyone who searches Twitter on a trending topic has to be struck by the message: "See what’s happening right now" followed, a few moments later by "42 more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them."
*Businesses must learn to harness real-time data as key signals that inform a far more efficient feedback loop for product development, customer service, and resource allocation.
*But 2009 marks a pivot point in the history of the Web. It’s time to leverage the true power of the platform we’ve built. The Web is no longer an industry unto itself – the Web is now the world.
*...we must take the Web to another level. We can’t afford incremental evolution anymore. It’s -
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | Video on TED.com
7.20.09
*The media landscape that we knew, as familiar as it was... that professionals broadcast messages to amateurs is increasingly slipping away.
*We are increasingly in a landscape where media is global, social, ubiquitous, and cheap.
*...a world of media where the former audience are now increasingly full participants.
*...media is less and less about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals and is more and more often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting groups.
*The really crazy change...the fact that people are no longer disconnected from each other.
*The size of the network, the complexity of the network is actually the square of the number of participants.
*As recently as last decade, most of the media available for public consumption was produced by professionals. Those days are over, never to return.
*They [barackobama.com] had understood that their role with MyBO.com was to convene the supporters, but not to control their supporters. -
China Applies New Strategies to Control Flow of Information - NYTimes.com
7.20.09
*In the wake of Sunday’s [July 5, 2009] deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China’s central government took all the usual steps to enshrine its version of events as received wisdom: it crippled Internet service, blocked Twitter’s micro-blogs, purged search engines of unapproved references to the violence, saturated the Chinese media with the state-sanctioned story.
*“They’re getting more sophisticated. They learn from past mistakes....”
*“For Twitter or the Internet, when they see too many factors they cannot completely control, they shut down and block. But for foreign journalists, they feel that as long as they can keep those people under control, it may serve better the government’s purpose.” -
Marzano's IWB Sweet Spot - EdTechTeacher
The “Sweet Spot” he [Marzano] says, the perfect storm of student achievement according to his findings, was when the technology was used by an experienced teacher, having had it for 2 years, using it 75% of the time in class, who has had training. That teacher shows a whopping 29% gain in scores.
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The Innovative Educator: Ten 21st Century Education Quotes I Carry With Me
1-Technology is only technology to those who were born before it.
2-We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past-Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist.
3-Teachers need to stop saying, “Hand it in,” and start saying “Publish It.” Alan November
4-We have moved from “know what” learning to “know where” learning.
5-The largest number of podcasts in education are about Podcasts in education.-Marco Torres.
6-Kids DO want to learn, but schools get in the way.
7-Digital Media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves. - Marco Torres
8-What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know that just ain't so. Mark Twain.
9-We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living.
10-If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow. -
NECC 2009 - Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools
7.15.09
*We work best/learn best when it matters to us. 15
*Tools don't teach, but they can change the way we teach. 22
*The schools we need [are] understanding driven. 40 -
10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com
*The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports.
*So, how can we as teachers continue to monitor our students understanding of reading material without killing the love of reading?
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