Steve Hargadon's Public Library

Social cognitive theory is rooted in a view of human agency in which individuals are agents proactively engaged in their own development and can make things happen by their actions

David Wiley

what we really want to be able to do is to enable each person to make his or her way in the world, to pursue their own good in their own way

What are these audacious goals? And what are the strategies that we are mobilizing to reach these goals?

"When competition on level playing fields is upheld as a cultural model both of the way the world is and of the way it should be, getting unfair advantage is what makes sense for people to do. The more fields are leveled, the more the people who race can be seen reconstructing new obstacles for those behind them.”

But the site quickly revealed that the true passion of said blogger's life was not academe at all, but the minutiae of software systems, server hardware, and other tech exotica. It's one thing to be proficient in Microsoft Office applications or HTML, but we can't afford to have our new hire ditching us to hang out in computer science after a few weeks on the job.

Several committee members expressed concern that a blogger who joined our staff might air departmental dirty laundry (real or imagined) on the cyber clothesline for the world to see.

Certainly we can use technology to deliver those lectures to thousands, or even millions, of students at a time, but a lecture does not automatically produce learning any more than attending a class does.

But in industrialized countries, where prosperity is the norm, an education does not necessarily translate into a significantly higher standard of living. In these countries, there is no longer a large economic incentive to learn, so the motivation to learn must become intrinsic.

Research findings make it clear that human capital is one of the most important levers we have for improving school effectiveness and student achievement. However, educators, district leaders, and policy makers are just beginning to recognize that strengthening human capital should be their top priority and to act on that recognition.

Helping students create effective online presences

Helping students create effective online presences

"Accountability is something   that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."

 

Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the   goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success   today, was never excellence. It was equity.

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then standardized test scores aren’t necessarily the symptom. They might just be the disease.

But if today’s social networks are troublesome, they’re also doomed, Ceglowski contends, much as the CompuServes and the Prodigys of an earlier era were undone. It’s not so much a question of their being out-innovated, but rather they were out-democratized.

Much of the focus on STEM education shortfalls has been on the failures of K-12 classrooms to adequately prepare students. But as the NYT points out, this doesn't begin to explain the whole story of what is happening, particularly at the college level.

students were losing sight of why they wanted to be scientists and engineers in the first place