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ideas and thoughts for educational blogs from otheres
Updated on 2009-11-08
Created on 2009-02-20
Category: Schools & Education
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CMS Test results invite scrutiny - CharlotteObserver.com
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Staff at both schools will collect 10- to 15-percent pay hikes based on this year's scores, money that goes away next year. The raises, paid for by county commissioners eager to see kids succeed at low-performing schools, illustrate the rewards and penalties that can hang on test scores.
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In 2006, a principal split Garinger into five academies with specialized themes. The New Technology school emerged strong, but the rest of the campus struggled.
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Schools slowly add phones, PDAs to curriculum - Tech & gadgets- msnbc.com
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In addition to the applications that students use, having the PDA teaches them responsibility, he said.
"Cell phones aren't going away. Mobile technology isn't going away," he said. "Right now, what we're telling kids is 'You go home and use whatever technology you want, but when you get to school, we're going to ask you to step back in time.' It doesn't make any sense," he said.
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"Kids don't worry about small screen sizes or typing trouble. Kids today are the mobile generation and it's time we embraced this as a way to better educate our students."
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2020 visions (WP)
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CEO of General Electric
when he said, "If the rate of change inside an institution is less
than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight."Schools that ignore the trends shaping tomorrow will cease to be
relevant in the lives of their students, and will quickly disappear.
We must transform all formal institutions of learning, from pre-K
through college, to insure that we are preparing students for their
future, not for our past.
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Creative Educator - Interview:Futurist David Thornburg
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Because we don’t have a singular Sputnik-like goal driving us, we have lost our focus. We have allowed NCLB, and our misinterpretation of it, to make accountability our primary concern. If the test is all that matters, what reason is there for an educator to teach anything else? As Tom Peters said, “What gets measured gets done.” As a result, we have created a generation of kids who can pass a test, but often have little interest in the fields they are studying. Because the focus in on knowledge and facts, and we don’t require our students to think about big ideas or grapple with complex problems, they are unlikely to remember this content six weeks later.
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A fixed body of content that we stuff into kids’ heads and have them regurgitate back is not what’s really important. True education is empowering students to learn what they need to learn in order to solve the problems they think need to be solved.
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