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06 Nov 09

National Journal Online -- Education Experts -- Are Turnarounds A Losing Strategy?

  • In a recent Brown Center Letter on Education, "Don't Forget Curriculum," "Russ" Whitehurst at Brookings pointed out that changes in curriculum and selecting effective instructional programs were far more effective than charter schools, merit pay, or any of the other strategies embedded in the Race to the Top.
25 Oct 09

Op-Ed Columnist - The New Untouchables - NYTimes.com

  • That is the key to understanding our full education challenge today. Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait. Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive. Therefore, we not only need a higher percentage of our kids graduating from high school and college — more education — but we need more of them with the right education.
    • I think this is the key for those of us in education today as well. We have to find ways to make what we do in our schools "untouchable," so that we are inventing smarter ways to do what we do. Friedman talks about ways for schools to foster these qualities; we must foster them among our staff and reward them for it. - on 2009-10-25
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17 Sep 09

LeaderTalk: New Relationships with Content

  • Successful online writers use their creative and curious spirit to generate content not only to inform, but will inspire, even transform the lives of their audience. Success on this age of read/write web is not determined by how much you know, how many pages of content your produce, or how long you have been "expert" in your content area. Success is determined by how your audience responds.
    • This is a huge difference than the success that most teachers of writing understand. The disconnect is not in how old our teachers are, but rather how they view consumption of writing today. - on 2009-09-17
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  • Perfect penmanship, knowledge of participles, and the perfect 5-paragraph essay will not be enough to adequately prepare students for the content that will be mediated and vetted by a global audience that demands consideration.
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09 Sep 09

What Should Colleges Teach? Part 3 - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com

  • If you’re about to be fired because your memos reflect your “own identity and style,” citing the CCC resolution is not going to do you any good.
    • This one will be bandied about the faculty room, I am sure. - on 2009-09-09
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  • You’re not going to be able to change the world if you are not equipped with the tools that speak to its present condition.
29 Jul 09

Weblogg-ed » If Every Student Had a Computer

  • Imagine if our students were being taught in systems where technology was just a natural part of the way we created and constructed and connected and learned, that it was how we do our business
27 Jul 09

Poll: One in Four Americans Read No Books Last Year - Associated Content

  • A new Associated Press-Ipsos poll concludes that one in four Americans did not read one book in the past year. The actual percentages are 73 percent who have read a book in the previous year, 27 percent had not. The poll's margin for error is three percent plus or minus.The figures
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    Poll: One in Four Americans Read No Books Last Year
     from the poll of 1,003 adults taken August 6-8, 2007.
07 Jul 09

Popular literature making its way onto summer reading lists west of Boston - The Boston Globe

  • Some of the more unconventional choices are “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,’’ by David Sedaris; “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,’’ by Dave Eggers; and “Fast Food Nation,’’ by Eric Schlosser.
    • Now this is summer reading. Imagine the dialoge you'd have when you got back into classrooms--so much more lively than if you read Jane Eyre. - on 2009-07-07
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  • “I think it’s just heartbreaking,’’ she said. “These are classics because they possess a beauty of language and a richness of language that has survived decades or even centuries of reading.’’
    • I don't think you'd find anyone to debate this point; however, why does it have to be that if we teach anything other than the "canon" that we are abandoning cultural tradition? - on 2009-07-07
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Popular literature making its way onto summer reading lists west of Boston - The Boston Globe

    • What's she reading? I see no letters or words. - on 2009-07-07
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  • “I’m concerned about turning reading into work,’’ said Donna Johns, a library teacher at Newton North High School. “Sometimes you do read for work, for information, for class, but sometimes you really should just be reading for pleasure.’’
    • Here is where I think we see our major disconnect. My feeling is that there should be push by schools to encourage the habits that great readers employ, only apply them to the books that will hold their interest. Who's to say that we cannot deconstruct the symbols in use within Brown's "Angels and Demons?" - on 2009-07-07
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02 Jul 09

10 Rules That Govern Groups « PsyBlog

  • when tasks are additive and each person's contribution is difficult to judge, people will slack off to an impressive degree.
    • That is a classic line. I wonder how often I have slacked off to an "impressive degree?" - on 2009-07-02
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26 May 09

Blog Them Out of the Stone Age

  • Blog Them Out of the Stone Age is the finest example of the application of a historian's passion and tradecraft in the new medium of blogging. It combines research, analysis and pedagogy issues with a keen desire to engage with the broader public." -- from the
21 May 09

MeTA musings: Caught not taught

  • If metacognition and self-assessment are worthy ideals, what are we doing to help this practice rub off on our students?
    • This is a marvelous question! It goes back to the idea of modeling our thinking processes out loud for students. - on 2009-05-21
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  • Do our facial expressions, tone of voice and attitudes towards teaching indicate to our students that the content is interesting or dull and boring?
    • If you've watched teachers that do this well, it's like watching a trained actor. - on 2009-05-21
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19 May 09

The Last Days of Cubicle Life - The Future of Work - TIME

  • When you do come in to work, your boss will know. If anything can be measured, it will be measured. The boss will know when you log in, what you type, what you access. Not just the boss but also your team. Internet technology makes working as a team, synchronized to a shared goal, easier and more productive than ever. But as in a three-legged-race, you'll instantly know when a teammate is struggling, because that will slow you down as well. Some people will embrace this new high-stress, high-speed, high-flexibility way of work. We'll go from a few days alone at home, maintaining the status quo, to urgent team sessions, sometimes in person, often online. It will make some people yearn for jobs like those in the old days, when we fought traffic, sat in a cube, typed memos, took a long lunch and then sat in traffic again.
    • This sounds an awful lot like how we hold students accountable via things like Google Docs or wikis. Their work, and when they did it, is public knowledge, therefore can be used to hold them accountable to the group. - on 2009-05-19
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08 May 09

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    • questions that trigger an immediate response
    • questions that induce grappling
    • questions that motivate authentic expression
    • questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction
    • open to anyone (minimize cultural bias)
    • Here is a great example of principles from one discipline making sense in another. I am looking at these questions and thinking that they make great descriptions of what we want to see in the essential questions we create for curriculum. - on 2009-05-08
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10 Mar 09

Dangerously Irrelevant: Iowa - 21st century curricula

  • Instead, we must fundamentally realign the curricula and instruction that occurs within our schools in order to produce the workers and citizens that we need
    • Is our job as teachers and administrators to produce workers? - on 2009-03-10
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06 Mar 09

Eduflack: Beating Up on 21CS

  • The debate over 21CS skills should not be one between one set of curricular goals versus the other.  This isn't core knowledge versus soft skills.  No, our focus should be on how we teach those core subjects that are necessary.  How do we teach math and science so that we better integrate technology and critical thinking skills?  How do we teach the social sciences in a manner that focuses on project-based learning and team-based activities?  How do we ensure that a 21st century student is not being forced to unplug when they enter the classroom, and instead uses the technologies and interests that drive the rest of their life to boost their interest and achievement in core academic subjects?  And most importantly, how do we ensure all students are graduating with the content knowledge and skills needed to truly achieve in the 21st century economy?
    • This one is the goods here. One does not go forward by jettisoning the skills with which we gathered. To me it's not about introducing new content, but rather how we engage students in content using the "soft skills" that we need them to develop. The ability to have a lasting understanding is our goal here, and providing relevant context to what we do in the classroom is a great way to get there. - on 2009-03-06
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25 Feb 09

Well - The 3 R’s? A Fourth Is Crucial, Too - Recess - NYTimes.com

  • “It’s pretty clear that all human beings experience attentional fatigue,” Dr. Faber Taylor said. “Our attention has to be restored from that fatigue, and there is a growing body of research evidence that nature is one way that seems particularly effective at doing it.”
    • I remember my Freshman theology teacher telling me that he kept his homilies to 5-7 minutes because after that, you just lost people "unless you asked them to run around the pew." I get that now after working with both students and their teachers. Change their state. - on 2009-02-25
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10 Feb 09

Learning Beyond Boundaries » LBB ASCD Annual Convention Technology Presenters 2009

  • 2251 Bosco, James Curriculum Directors' Perspectives on Web 2.0 Web 2.0 applications such as social networking, gaming, wikis, blogs and virtual reality have a large and growing presence in our world. Is Web 2.0 an asset or a problem for schools? What role can they play in improving the learning environment of schools? This presentation will report on a MacArthur foundation funded survey of district curriculum leaders which was done by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) in cooperation with ASCD.
    • This one looks interesting. - on 2009-02-10
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