Vicki Davis (coolcatteacher)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Member since Mar 22, 2008, follows 559 people, 21 public groups, 3034 public bookmarks (3184 total).

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Innovative Learning - Free Newsletter Fall 2009 on 2009-11-06
TeachingWithContests.com on 2009-11-06
TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership on 2009-11-04
NetSmartzKids: Tunes on 2009-11-04
Social networks and kids: How young is too young? - CNN.com on 2009-11-03
- a growing number of children are flouting age requirements on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, or using social-networking sites designed just for them.
- which some therapists have linked to Internet addiction among adults
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- - In two surveys reported this year by Pew Internet Research -- of 700 and 935 teens, respectively -- 38 percent of respondents ages 12 to 14 said they had an online profile of some sort.
Education Week: State of Mind on 2009-11-03
- how to identify, retain, and support the most effective teachers
- effective teachers are distributed among all schools,
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- - “Disheartened,” “Contented,” and “Idealists.”
  - Members of that group, which accounts for 40 percent of K-12 teachers in the United States, tend to have been teaching longer and be older than the Idealists.
  - More than half teach in low-income schools.
  - school administration
  - disorder in the classroom
  - Only 14 percent rated their principals as “excellent” at supporting them as teachers
  - undue focus on testing
  - 61 percent cited lack of support from administrators as a major drawback to teaching.
  - viewed teaching as a lifelong career
  - three-fourths feel that they have sufficient time to craft good lesson plans.
  - 94 percent have been in the classroom for more than 10 years, a majority have graduate degrees, and about two-thirds are teaching in middle-income or affluent schools.
  - the Idealists—23 percent of teachers overall—who voiced the strongest sense of mission about teaching.
  - 4 percent strongly agreed that all their students, “given the right support, can go to college,
  - 36 percent said that even though they intend to stay in education, they plan to leave classroom teaching for other jobs in the field.
  - half the Idealists believe their students’ test scores have increased significantly as a result of their teaching, a higher percentage than the other teachers in the survey.
  - “Good teachers don’t join for the money or bonuses. They join because they want to make a difference.”
  - bitterness characterized the Disheartened
  - Twice as many spoke of likely burnout as did the Contented and Idealists.
  - student-behavior problems and a lack of a supportive administration are major issues feeding discontent among teachers, alongside the perception of low pay.
  - Perceived lack of administrator support, discipline problems, class size, low pay, and lack of prestige loomed as much larger negatives for the Disheartened.
  - Low salaries and “little prestige” were not top issues,
  - The Disheartened were more likely to mention higher pay
  - removing students with severe behavior problems from the classroom
  - More than a third of Idealists voiced a desire to move eventually into other jobs in education.
  - Others may be good teachers trapped in dysfunctional schools and, in the right environment, might change their views and become Idealists.
    Vicki Davis on 2009-11-03
    
    Am so glad to see that this article recognizes that it is not all about the teacher - sometimes it is a FUNCTION of the environment.
  - “Copers,” whose main focus is successfully completing the work of each day, and “Transformers,” who aim to change the schools they manage.
  - he degree to which the most idealistic teachers could be Transformers, effectively helping struggling students become eager and accomplished learners,”
Crowdsourcing or Loudsourcing? | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology on 2009-11-03
Findings - Ethnographic Study Looks at Gossip in the Workplace - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-03
- once someone made a negative comment about a person who wasn’t there, the conversation would get meaner unless someone immediately defended the target.
- gossip in the workplace also tended to be overwhelmingly negative, but the insults were more subtle and the conversations less predictable, says Tim Hallett, a sociologist at Indiana University.
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- - Office gossip can be a form of reputational warfare
  - Dr. Hallett found that the teachers became so comfortable with him and his camera that they would freely insult their bosses during one-on-one interviews. But at the teachers’ formal group meetings, where they knew that another teacher might report their insults to the principal, they were more discreet.
  - they sometimes offered obliquely sarcastic comments to test the water
  - praise the predecessor
  - The teachers’ gossip never got as blatantly mean as the teenage girls’
  - The principal felt that her authority was being undermined by gossip and retaliated against teachers she suspected (correctly) of criticizing her.
  - in this case it was also a form of warfare that brought everyone down
  - it is more realistic to try managing it.
  - That simple question, a dare made in a pleasant voice
  - “Don’t we have some work to do here?”
flatclassroom09-3 - Workflow Software - Discussion - Teacher Feedback from Mrs. Davis on 2009-10-28
flatclassroom09-3 - Workflow Software on 2009-10-28
- Skype.
- we sit down and really think about it
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- - Our project ( WFS) will be u
  - like the administrating works and stuff,
  - PayPal
  - Hibbert Ralph Animation (HRA)
  - Calenders
  - iphones

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Ad4dcss/Digital Citizenship

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ADVOCATES FOR DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP, SAFETY & SUCCESS. Grassroots effort of educators, parents, and teens to promote digital citizenship, safety, and success. Advocacy for wise, balanced, researched based actions in the offline world to promote online citizenship, safety, and success.
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Web sites and articles related to how the brain works, and things that can be done to alter the way it works.
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