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Just FYI - you came across that Phone Book video in the <a href="http://plpadvis.wikispaces.com/">ADVIS PLP Cohort</a>. Just a little plug for your "other" job.
I had some <a href="http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2009/12/shift-in-digital-divide.html">brief thoughts</a> on that NPR story. I ask that iPhone question ("what will the iPhone look like in X years and what does that mean for educators?") in pretty much every presentation I do. No matter the participants' thoughts on how important devices such as those are, it always starts a good and thoughtful conversation.
One-Third of U.S. Colleges/Universities Now Test-Optional | FairTest
"The number of test-optional institutions in the U.S. has soared past the 830 mark, as five more schools – Agnes Scott, Assumption, Sacred Heart, SUNY Pottsdam, and Washington & Jefferson – have announced they are dropping ACT/SAT requirements. About one-third of all accredited colleges and universities in the country now do not require all or many applicants to submit test scores before admissions decisions are made. "
The Landscape of Educational Culture « Constructing Meaning
"We can’t have both. We can’t create a thriving, innovative, creative, vibrant learning environment and pair it with common standards supported by textbooks and assessed by standardized tests. The two ideas are diametrically opposed. To waste time and money attempting to force these two into a relationship would be as futile as Romeo and Juliet’s parents trying to keep them apart. And remember, in the end their kids died."
Inside School Research: Texas Merit-Pay Pilot Failed to Boost Student Scores, Study Says
"Texas Merit-Pay Pilot Failed to Boost Student Scores, Study Says"
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Piloted between the 2005-06 and the 2008-09 school years, the now-defunct Governor's Educator Excellence Grants, or GEEG, program distributed more than $10 million a year in federal grants to 99 Texas schools that managed to turn in high scores on state tests despite enrolling large numbers of students from low-income families. The program differed from some other merit-pay schemes, though, because it required schools to involve teachers in designing the performance-incentive plans for their own schools.
fat dumb happy | Gapingvoid
“The days where a blue collar guy like my uncle could have a nice life without doing much,” my friend said, “those days are gone. Gone forever.”
I also heard a statistic a couple of weeks ago– I don’t have the link, sorry– that there are sixty million children in China currently taking piano lessons. Sixty. Million.
Happy 40th birthday, Internet! | COSMOS magazine
"Any twentieth-century expert viewing this future in a crystal ball would have declared it pure science fiction. And it isn't the technology that would have shocked them. It's our changed behaviour. Welcome, dear experts, to the twenty-first century, where our only constant is constant change."
Half an Hour: An Operating System for the Mind
Stephen Downes in defense of 21st century skills
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