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Effective Practices - SloanCWiki on 2008-08-03
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five guiding principles known as the pillars—learning effectiveness, scale, access, and faculty and student satisfaction— helps communicate how quality, scale and breadth develop.
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Strategies for Managing the Online Workload - SloanCWiki on 2008-08-03
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workload management strategies
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(1) Authoring Strategies, (2) Teaching Strategies, (3) Course Improvement and Revision Strategies, and (4) Institutional Strategies.
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Unlike the learning curve for traditional course instruction, which can be facilitated through the study of a wide selection of publications, participation in courses, seminars, and workshops, or through interaction with more experienced colleagues, mastery of the online learning environment is relatively new and undocumented.
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ulletin and discussion boards, online collaborative projects, a wealth of quizzing and testing capabilities, and direct personal interaction with each student provide a rich assortment of design options to add to the online educational experience. These same capabilities also require faculty to expend additional time and energy during all phases of online activities, including initial design of the course, as well as delivery, management, and revision.
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he sustainability of the Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN) environment extends beyond the limited numbers of early faculty adopters
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Public Schools are the Backbone of Our Nation - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics on 2008-07-28
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here is a culture in public schools of shallow assignments and busywork
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I have to define lists of vocabulary words, write essays that the teacher dictates the structure of, and create craft projects. It's rare to see a project that uses creativity.
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regular interactions with many different age groups and demographics, especially with adults, and found myself better socialized and better prepared to communicate with people and actually deal with the real world, as opposed to the rigged, controlled situations found in institutions.
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The "real" education is in training you for a successful stint as a worker-drone - the perfect employee. The team player.
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high school education is that it trains you to be on time and do what you're told
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public schools ensure a permanent underclass
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the rich kids get in their rich private schools is contacts
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we get trained to succeed at losing, and accept it.
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http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/22/51/39317423.pdf
"…while teacher salaries appear high in absolute terms when compared with those in other countries, relative to GDP per capita teachers’ pay in the United States is among the lowest in OECD countries."
"At the primary level teachers in the United States are required to teach 1 080 hours per year, which is more than in any other OECD country and considerably higher than the OECD average of 803 hours"
My tendency has been to cite the fact that we spend more per student that almost any other country, but looking deeper it seems there is a need for higher teacher salaries.
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The unstated purpose of public education is to raise students to a given level- and
cut them off right there.
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Education - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics on 2008-07-28
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My only experience with public school was my own experience
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on the surface, negative: poor instruction, bigotry, bullying, a sterile and stagnant atmosphere, and pointless, arbitrary discipline were some of the main traits of the schools I attended
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Coming from a highly educated family meant that I never had to worry about whether school would give me the skills and tools necessary to succeed in life: my parents were always available to help me with homework, teach me a new word, suggest a book to read, or answer a question.
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There are elements of truth in that interpretation. Mass public education in America was historically built on the "factory model" (originally from Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave [New York: Bantam Books, 1981, p. 29]):
Mass education taught basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, a bit of history and other subjects. This was the 'overt curriculum.' But beneath it lay an invisible or 'covert curriculum' that was far more basic. It consisted - and still does in most industrial nations - of three courses: one in punctuality, one in obedience, and one in rote, repetitive work. Factory labor demanded workers who showed up on time, especially assembly-line hands. It demanded workers who would take orders from a management hierarchy without questioning. And it demanded men and women prepared to slave away at machines or in offices, performing brutally repetitious operations.
I graduated from high school still convinced that I had barely escaped being "institutionalized."
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appreciate the socialization I had undergone in public grammar school. In college we heard a lot about "diversity," and saw a lot of valuable racial, ethnic, and national diversity. But there was relatively little economic diversity.
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In high school, on the other hand, I knew and hung out with kids who came from trailer parks, broken homes, and struggling families. I had friends with debilitating substance abuse problems, criminal records, and tough lives. The experience was invaluable, because without it I could have ended up completely sheltered.
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Fool’s Gold: The Debate on Education in America - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics on 2008-07-28
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Democrat Bill Richardson sees the virtue of an extended school day, even extended school years. But instead of avoiding the question of payment, Mr. Richardson would institute a
federal minimum wage for school teachers; $40,000. Such a program, he suggests, helps retain quality teachers and attracts qualified individuals that otherwise may have taken their talents to another profession.
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Iowa State Education Association's Delegate Assembly, Kucinich summed up his plan as "Peace protecting Genius." With a 15% reduction in what he called "the bloated Pentagon budget," he would institute a universal pre kindergarten program. He also mentions the possibilities of fully funded elementary and secondary education, a fully funded Individuals with Disabilities Act, and universal college.
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Richardson, Kucinich and Baucus are taking steps towards the "wholesale transformation" Herbert and so many others believe is necessary.
In fairness to the New York Times, their October 4th edition contained an article on school teacher Damion Frye, whose creative thinking deserves the attention it has received. In an effort to get parents involved in their children's schoolwork, something studies have shown to improve quality of youth education, he assigns homework to the parents. A blog has been created where parents must post responses to the readings assigned.
While this program raises concerns about its applicability on a broader scale, particularly in schools where parents may not have access to internet, at the least it offers something tangible for people to discuss. Now if only we can get Op-Ed writers to sink their teeth into ideas like this, the debate on education will be a whole lot more satisfying.
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Education - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics on 2008-07-28
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education and its role in social movements, activism, and what we're doing now as the Netroots.
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The virtue of being educated does not absolve you or any others of existence that is, in many respects, divided and inequality-stricken. In fact, it may make you a bit more elitist and condescending to others while ignoring deep societal problems. I won't deny that having an education makes you smarter, more perceptive, and possibly more critical, but all that stuff is for yourself.
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rare people who had both a private school and a public school education, which was a real honor. The private school I went to for grades 6-8, where everyone called each other by their first names and there were only about 85 people, was quite political and is the single reason I’m as liberal as I am. Participating in Model UN was mandatory, field trips to science museums were constant, we had a school-wide bowling day and we had recess. Recess folks, and when the weather got nicer I don’t think we ever stayed inside for more than an hour.
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When Education Is Not Enough: The Separation of Knowledge and Change - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics on 2008-07-28
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The right tone with a spot-on message can certainly set people alight and inspire them to action. Education, as well as
effective art as J-Ro has pointed out, often are elements of a powerful social movement. The Black church in the Civil Rights movement served as a place of education, as well as hymnal and inspirational messages.
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We should be interested in the notion of a progressive and critical pedagogy that doesn't get so mired in its own existence that it doesn't have implications for the real world.
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An education devoid of the insight and follow-through of changing objective conditions is not political action. DuBois's action-oriented education was a driving force behind the Civil Rights movement, demonstrating that Washington's merely vocational education is not a critical (and therefore not an effective) education at all. One's personal education needs to work towards establishing a new set of material conditions, one that aims to eliminate oppression where ever it lies.
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we shouldn't just be "educating" other like-minded individuals
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Taking action on issues shouldn't be spoon-fed to kids. That's called indoctrination, teaching little kids that X,Y and Z are the issues we adults have decided are important, ones that you should devote yourselves to. That's all wrong in my eyes. The idea is to provide a quality education, one that allows for independent thinking (something the current system does not do as adequately as it should), and then let the individual make the thought-to-action transition on their own time, of their own accord. Individuals, educated individuals, should pick the battles they want to fight, not the writers of course curriculum.
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Building in volunteering to high school curricula, and combining those experiences with some serious sociological discussions of what the root causes of social problems actually are, could go a long way toward making education more hands-on and action-oriented without losing the intellectual depth one would hope to see.
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Additionally, theoretical conversation happening on the internet over issues of urban poverty, racism, children's needs, or global trade to name a few hot topics, exclude the populations most directly affected. Such a need-based model of development—whereby an outside elite determines the problems and solution needed by another group without consultating them first hand—- is inferior to asset-based development, which engages with a marginalized group's strengths first-hand.
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political battles are fought largely in the media
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questioning their media and holding media sources more accountable, as well as creating new channels of sharing information and ideas, blogging promotes democracy
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Serious Change, as Alex points out, is one example. Open Left's Bush Dogs campaign (www.openleft.com) is another example. Fundraising, of course, is something the big blogs have made a major impact doing. And conferences like YearlyKos are vital. The internet and the networking it promotes, both in real life and online, introduce people to each other who never would have met otherwise.
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activism in general is centered around simply "raising awareness,"
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Connecticut Public Schools are the Latest to Provide Online Courses - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics on 2008-07-28
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Personally, I'd like to see programs like
Channel One, which are full of commercial advertisements, replaced by online learning opportunities. The American Academy of Pediatrics
has found that children who watch channel one tend to remember the commercials more than the news. This is not how you use technology to teach. The high data transmission speeds made possible by cable should be used for many-to-many communication, rather than the top down, one-to-many style of television.
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NEA: Technology and Education, Online Learning, Online Guides on 2008-07-28
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Teachers and students need access to laptops and pocket PCs, digital cameras and microscopes, Web-based video equipment, graphing calculators, and even weather-tracking devices.
They need to become responsible and savvy users and purveyors of information. They need to need how to collaborate successfully across miles and cultures.
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Fully preparing and supporting educators in the instructional use of technology is critical. Teachers and school staff must know how to do more with technology than simply automate practices and processes. They need to learn to use technology to transform the nature of teaching and learning.
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NEA Positions on Technology and Education
More funding is needed at all levels to better integrate technology into schools and classrooms.
The technology available to educators and students should be compatible with, and at least on the same level as, technology in general use outside of schools.
Education technology budgets should reflect the importance of professional development. At least a third of all tech budgets should be reserved for school staff to become proficient in using and integrating technology into their classrooms.
Educators themselves should be involved in decisions on planning, purchasing, and deploying education technology.
Teacher education programs need to embrace educational technology and help prospective teachers use it effectively in the classroom.
Technology should be deployed and applied equitably among all students and educators, regardless of geography or demographics.
Students should also be taught the appropriate and safe use of technology.
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McCain Fumbles His "This Week" Appearance on 2008-07-28
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"I'm running for president of the United States because I want to help with family values. I think family values are important when we have two parent families that are parents of the traditional family."
EXCEPT when it comes to my own family... said McC.... then I believe in going after a younger prettier richer chick and letting my wife and kids twist in the wind...
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That said... this is July, and with 63% of sub-40 voters being Dems, it means that a loss in November will leave a Repub out of the WH for the next 20 years or so.
The point? Expect anything and everything.
Much like this country's "war against ter ror", the Dems will be fighting by rules to which the opponent will not adhere. It certainly doesn't help when approximately half of America still owns a 1960's trailer-park mentality, but slowly... voters are becoming more educated, more informed, and more committed to haulting what has been the most embarassing 7 years in American history.
There is something you can do; when a con comes on here and spouts lie after lie after lie, call them on it. They'll eventually understand that when they're only able to repeat claims vs. support them, there might just be something wrong with the message.
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