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Great article and video about the modern school librarian/ "information literacy teacher."
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Brilliant!!
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The first thing you should learn in a course on entrepreneurship is how to make yourself valuable.
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The trick is to get paid while you're doing the failing and to use the experience to gain skills that will be useful later.
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These are so funny I had to read them in short spurts, like when you cut an artery and your lifeblood is spurting out of your body...
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Great article about what the more successful school systems from countries with higher international student assessment scores have in common. And what do you know? They give their teachers better training and support, and have actual chunks of time for planning and collaboration programmed into the schedule. And they pay them well, and respect the profession. Go figure.
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Fun day, full of sanity and thought and humor, and a couple of great charities WIN!
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This is so good - it rings so true and makes me so sad. I experienced this. I opted out of the system because I didn't want to become like that. It's completely tragic.
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Add Sticky Notetomorrow's lesson will be on perimeter or from the new "algebra in-utero" curriculum
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Maggie Wolfe Riley on 2010-10-31HAHAHA - I laugh, but it's not really funny. It's crazy, some of the standards they have - haven't those people ever heard of Piaget?
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Add Sticky NoteNot only has the standardization of curriculum begot test-prep and boredom, but "pacing" is its toxic spawn. Teachers are not only forced to pretend that every student is "keeping up" with whatever the pacing guide throws at them
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Maggie Wolfe Riley on 2010-10-31
AAAAAAAAH! Pacing IS eeeeevilllll!!!
MY class couldn't keep up, or I should say *I* couldn't keep up... not if I wanted to feel my students actually LEARNED anything on the way to the test, that is. But all that is valued is the score. I HATED that system!!
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"...our inability and refusal to contend with the underlying biases of the programs and networks we all use is less a threat to our military or economic superiority than to our experience and autonomy as people."
A kind of weird article - overstates the case by quite a bit, I'd say, but still makes a valid point about learning programming. Also explains why most hackers seem to come from Russia - ha.
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Add Sticky NoteDigital tools are not like rakes, steam engines, or even automobiles that we can drive with little understanding of how they work.
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Maggie Wolfe Riley on 2010-10-03
Not sure I agree with this. Tools are tools. We need to know how to use them safely, though, whether it is a car or the internet.
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Add Sticky NoteThese tools are not mere extensions of the will of some individual or group, but entities that have the ability to think and operate other components in the neural network--namely, us.
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Maggie Wolfe Riley on 2010-10-03
Wait - are you saying Skynet is about to attain self-awareness!?? OMG, HEAD FOR THE UNDERGROUND LAIRS!
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This article presents models for using blogs and offers recommendations for faculty who are considering using blogs in their courses.
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This is why I never want to work in education - at least not in public education. Teachers are continually the scapegoats and the system keeps making it harder and harder for them. Every politician who comes up with these policies should be forced to teach in a poorly performing public school for a year under them.
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Fantastic rant about an anti-technology "study" - which was sorely lacking in sense. Clay is one of my favorite bloggers, about education and politics and life in general, and this is one of his best rants - his other blog is all about fighting "schooly-ness" in education, and he continues that theme here. READ THIS if you want to use technology in the classroom!
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two examples showing how blind the UCLA research was to today's possibilities, how behind the times.... It's easy, efficient, and turbo-effective literacy, research, and information management. It's unique to the Berners-Lee Age. Gutenberg would have loved it. Some high-profile "researchers" apparently know little of it.
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It's easy, efficient, and turbo-effective literacy, research, and information management. It's unique to the Berners-Lee Age. Gutenberg would have loved it. Some high-profile "researchers" apparently know little of it.
This is good - I think this, in the end, gets back to the need for non-college track education. In our rush to educate everyone, we've forgotten that some people would be happier as mechanics and carpenters, and also that we need them! There is so much pressure on teachers, on kids with NCLB and high stakes testing - in California they can't pass High School without Algebra, but what about shop classes and the like? These are just as important for many students - a well-rounded education should include many things, not just the college track academic subjects.
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