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Heather Sullivan's Public Library

  • “Here are some presentations that I think you’ll enjoy while you’re exercising or driving around. After you’ve listened to a few, let me know what you think!”
Jan
23
2012

  • all Howard County middle schools would have a 50-minute, seven-period schedule, as opposed to current variations on a 45-minute, eight-period day.
  • Traditional reading classes would be eliminated, as literacy instruction would be infused into other classes.
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  • The university announced Nov. 30 that the popular simulation, known as “Platform Wars,” would be freely available on the MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources website, following the lead of MIT’s OpenCourseWare program, a seminal experiment in higher education’s sharing of open course material.

    In “Platform Wars,” students set the price of hardware, negotiate royalty rates with game makers, and decide if they should subsidize the first few games for their gaming system.

Nov
17
2011

  • Garver’s goal is to turn his lectures into albums of two- to five-minute tracks.
  • At the beginning of each class, Garver uses classroom clickers to quiz students on the concepts covered in the previous night’s lectures. For the rest of the class period, Garver typically divides the students into teams and asks them to apply those concepts to specific use cases. “What we can focus on is the upper end of Bloom’s Taxonomy,” he says — that is, hands-on learning.
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  • A Pew Research study tracking voting trends among different generations uncovered an interesting tidbit: 26 percent of of people aged 18 to 30 classify themselves as unaffiliated with a religious tradition. Sure, that leaves 74 percent dutifully God-fearing Millennials, but that 26 percent marks the largest number in history, and the largest of any generation.

  • The new rules, enacted at the start of the school year, require Mr. Shelton to do as many observations for his strongest teachers — four a year — as for his weakest. “It’s an insult to my best teachers,” he said, “but it’s also a terrible waste of time.”
  • But tweaking the rules may not be nearly enough. A recent article in Education Week said essentially that things were so bad in Tennessee, there was a danger that the grant program would be undermined elsewhere.
Oct
27
2011

  • Here's the thing: We have lots of data about our kids - test scores, ability measurements, learning inventories, teacher observations etc. We have a lots of different ways to teach and a wealth of diverse teaching resources. What the classroom teacher lacks in the time to analyze and match the individual numbers with the intervention.
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