"With fewer than 10 days before the launch of #etmooc, we currently have about 680 registrants representing about 37 countries. To provide a sense of what that looks like, I created a rough, mapped visualization using a tool called MapAList. Take a look below at the interactive, zoomable map based on early registration data."
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"In addition to that wealth of advice, here are links to other useful resources: Finishing the School Year Strong and Teaching Secrets: The Last Day of School are two pieces I've previously written for Education Week Teacher. Ideas for English-Language Learners | Celebrating the End of the School Year is a post I recently co-authored for The New York Times Learning Network. Middleweb has pulled together a very nice collection of related posts and articles. And, finally, you might want to explore The Best Ideas On How To Finish The School Year Strong.
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"Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence." Delete the scoop?
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Katie and I can't cover the entire education app industry by ourselves. Luckily, there are dozens of other sites specifically devoted to education app reviews for teachers and students." Click the title above to go to the article for the list of 46 sites.
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"Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomethings: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade." What the "facts of life" lead you to say to someone in their 20's.... "Thirty is not the new twenty so claim you adulthood. Get some identity capital. Use your weak ties. Pick your family."
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"The tech industry is officially out to remodel your kid's classroom -- and it feels like there's a good chance that it's going to succeed. After years of more or less resisting the pull of the web, both college and K-12 seem ripe to be remade for the digital age. There's political buy-in. There's investor buy-in. There's, frankly, a pervasive sense that it's just time. But what exactly will tomorrow's schools look like after they get a SIlicon Valley-style makeover? What exactly are we trying to accomplish pedagogically by integrating computers more deeply into the classroom? And how do we work more science, math, and tech education into our schools? These were some of the issues that the guests at The Atlantic's Technologies In Education Forum tackled earlier today. Here are a few of the interesting ideas I took away from the wide-ranging discussion."
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"I posted earlier today about a new Xerox machine that is being marketed to “read” and grade student essays. Not to score bubble tests, but to grade essays. Granted, this is not a new idea. There are now different companies selling machines to grade student writing. I have seen demonstrations of this technology, and I can’t shake the feeling that this is not right. Why? I am not opposed to technology. But here is the nub of my discomfort. I am a writer. The moment I realized I was a writer was when I discovered many years ago that I write for an audience. I think of my reader(s). If I am writing for a tabloid, I write in a certain style. If I am writing for the New York Times, I write in another way. If I am writing a letter to a family member, another style. If I am writing for a scholarly journal, something else. When I write for this blog, I have a voice different from the voice in my books. I don’t know how to write for a machine."
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"Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on how student debt is crushing the American dream, and what to do about it.
It’s cap and gown time all over the country. And since it’s this country, that means a lot of new young college graduates graduating with a lot of debt. $26,000 on average now for student loan borrowers. In total, more than a trillion dollars in student debt. Famously more student debt now in this country than credit card debt.
Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says this isn’t just an astonishing number. It’s a real drag on the US economy, and a real promoter of US inequality. It’s got to change, he says. This hour, On Point: Nobel laureate Joe Stiglitz on student debt in America." Delete the scoop?
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"With soaring costs, stagnating incomes and little help from the government, there is only one way to pay for higher education: debt." "A certain drama has become familiar in the United States (and some other advanced industrialized countries): Bankers encourage people to borrow beyond their means, preying especially on those who are financially unsophisticated. They use their political influence to get favorable treatment of one form or another. Debts mount. Journalists record the human toll. Then comes bewilderment: How could we let this happen again? Officials promise to fix things. Something is done about the most egregious abuses. People move on, reassured that the crisis has abated, but suspecting that it will recur soon. The crisis that is about to break out involves student debt and how we finance higher education. Like the housing crisis that preceded it, this crisis is intimately connected to America’s soaring inequality, and how, as Americans on the bottom rungs of the ladder strive to climb up, they are inevitably pulled down — some to a point even lower than where they began."
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"When you're perusing Learnist, you come across great things. I [Dawn Casey-Rowe] wanted to provide a little guidance and share my favorite Learnist boards by teachers."
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"Bees disappearing. Cicadas coming out. A new generation of scientists coming up. We'll talk with super-biologist E.O. Wilson about our future and nature." "Super biologist, naturalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E.O. Wilson is as big as popular figures come in science these days. Father of sociobiology. Master of ants. Marvelous communicator. He’s 83 now. But once, E.O. Wilson was just an Alabama kid crazy about snakes and bugs. He followed a passion for the natural world around him into a life in science. Now he wants to show others — young people — the way. The country needs you, he says to the young. The world needs you."
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"Cultural critic and author Daniel Pink, who has explored such cornerstones of culture as the science of selling ideas and the psychology of motivation, sets out to define what a “brand” is: 'I would define it two ways: from the sender’s point of view and from the receiver’s point of view. I don’t want to make it overly complicated, but from the perspective of P&G or Dell or any other company, a brand might be a promise: a promise of what awaits the customer if they buy that particular product, service, or experience. From the receiver’s point of view, I think a brand is a promise … a promise of what you can expect if you use the product or service, or if you engage in the experience.' ..... But Pink sees in this a double-edged sword, one readily exploited by the marketing of planned obsolescence: 'If a brand is making a promise that you’re going to feel better about yourself if you buy it, they’re making a false promise. Human beings metabolize their purchases very quickly. … This is an element of what social psychologists call “the hedonic treadmill”: If you’re always looking to validate yourself and get satisfaction from buying stuff or having a bigger house, then you’re on an endless, addictive treadmill. There’s no enduring satisfaction to this. If a brand’s only purpose is to get you on that hedonic treadmill, it might be good for business in the short run, but in the long run, you’re doomed. If you look at the components of long-term well-being, it has nothing to do with material goods. Once you’re past a certain level of material well-being, people’s long-term happiness and wellbeing is about having deep personal relationships, believing in something larger than themselves, and doing something meaningful that they enjoy.'"
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"School calendars are different across the nation, so while classes may be in session for another two months where you teach, in another district, it’s time for prom, awards season and commencement. Below are some ideas for reflecting on the school year that can be adapted to wherever you are in the semester, and for students of any age and with any level of English proficiency. Since this is the final post in our English-Language Learner series for this school year, we also invite you to tell us, below, if you’d like to see “Ideas for E.L.L.’s” return next year. What could we do to make the series more useful for you?
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A study is making the rounds that details a few of the best ways to improve student achievement. It also touches on the least useful methods.
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"It's both a fun time of year in high school and a time to reflect. I've had kind of an interesting juxtaposition of a couple of items. We have a couple of students that I know at my school who are graduating and think they want to become teachers (we have a great Teacher Cadet program where they get an opportunity to learn about teaching/learning as well as a mini-student-teaching opportunity). In many ways I think this is great - we must be doing something right if we have bright, amazing students thinking they want to become educators. But the second item gives me pause, so I thought I'd take just a few minutes to share some numbers that I've come across recently."
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"Miriam Hughey-Guy will never be a household name, but she is a star among principals."
"Dora Sue Black, the lead teacher for reading at Barcroft, said Hughey-Guy 'encourages staff involvement in decisions and implementation. She provides support when teachers come with ideas to support and challenge the students.'
'She is a whirling dervish that doesn’t stop,' said Arlington County School Superintendent Patrick K. Murphy. 'She always has an opinion, has strong beliefs and is always action-oriented.'
Sixty-one percent of Barcroft’s 481 students are from low-income families. Fifty-two percent are Hispanic, 23 percent white, 10 percent black and 9 percent Asian. The school has an 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. extended-learning program. It offers Spanish as a foreign language to all students.
Hughey-Guy said she plans to spend more time with her husband while spreading the word of how to build a great school. She loved talking to kids. She encouraged teachers to be leaders. She shared and analyzed new student data immediately. She had her staff plan for each student. She had frequent meetings with parents." Delete the scoop?
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Diane Ravitch says: [The] data-driven focus [of Houston Independent School District's Apollo Program] contains the seed of its own destruction.
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"Young writers show an appetite for risk in college application essays about money, class and the economy, submitted at a columnist’s invitation."
"What these four writers have in common is an appetite for risk. Not only did they talk openly about issues that are emotionally complex and often outright taboo, but they took brave and counterintuitive positions on class, national identity and the application process itself. For anyone looking to inspire their own children or grandchildren who are seeking to go to college in the fall of 2014, these four essays would be a good place to start." Delete the scoop?
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"A new 2-year computer science graduate program at Georgia Tech will run on open online courses and cost between $6k and $7k." "Georgia Institute of Technology announced that it will offer a two-year master’s degree in computer science in the format of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), reports Douglas Belkin of the Wall Street Journal. Georgia Tech is the first top-tier school to offer this type of online program for a graduate degree. The program will be offered through Udacity, a widely-used MOOC platform. 'We have our name reputation and excellence behind it. These people will be assessed graded, take exams, have help, will have access to individuals that answer questions.' The course is available to anyone, but in order to obtain the degree from Georgia Tech the student must gain admission and pay the course fees, which will amount to between $6,000 and $7,000. Students must have a bachelors degree in computer science or the work equivalent and earn a grade of B or higher in the first two classes."
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"If ever you come across a set of math teachers, whether at a common planning meeting or a bar during happy hour, bring up the conversation of calculators and watch the sparks fly. The arguments for and against calculators have the spirited vigor of a Red Sox vs. Yankees game without the animus. One side argues for the use of efficient and available technology in the classroom, while the other argues for numeracy and fluency to the highest order. In other words, are you old school or new school?
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"Annie Lennox delivers Berklee's 2013 commencement address, sharing the history of her love of music, and how it singularly shaped her future. She reflects on milestones from her own musical journey, hoping to inspire the students as they move forward in their lives and careers at this critical moment of profound change. Delete the scoop?
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"Citizen scientists, environmentalists and anyone who lives near a power plant -- your services are requested. Climate change scientist Kevin Robert Gurney needs your help in a grand undertaking: the mapping of all the power plants in the world." "'We thought, there are lots of people around the planet who live near power plants. Maybe they could tell us where the plant is, how much energy it produces, and whether it uses coal, oil or natural gas' he said. 'That alone would give us more information than we have now.' To make it more fun for people to contribute, the lab turned the project into a bit of a game. Users contribute information about a power plant by pinning it to a Google map. The more information about power plants they contribute, the more points they get. When the project ends in 2014, the winner will be declared the 'Supreme Power Plant Emissions GURU!' and will get a trophy. The person will also be named a co-author on a scientific paper that demonstrates the usefulness on crowd-sourcing in scientific research."
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"The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in a new study, found that 30-year-olds with student loans were now less likely to have debts like home mortgages than 30-year-olds without student loans — even though most of those with student loans are better educated and can expect to earn more money over their lifetimes. The same pattern holds true for 25-year-olds and car loans. 'It is a new thing, a big social experiment that we’ve accidentally decided to engage in,' said Kevin Carey, the director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a research group based in Washington. 'Let’s send a whole class of people out into their professional lives with a negative net worth. Not starting at zero, but starting at a minus that is often measured in the tens of thousands of dollars. Those minus signs have psychological impact, I suspect. They might have a dollars-and-cents impact in what you can afford, too.'"
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"Teachers need to create the right conditions for students to concentrate and focus, writes Dr. John Jensen." "Studies to date have found that multi-tasking causes all the tasks to suffer in effectiveness due apparently to the cost of the effort at switching focus. To take the research a step further, the Carnegie Mellon study examined first the effect on mental tasks of interruption compared to non-interruption. Interruption made the brain 20% dumber. Other variables were introduced. Research subjects were told to expect an interruption (which later occurred), and then were told to expect one but that did not occur. In the former, being able to expect the interruption improved mental efficiency from a 20% deficit to a 14% deficit. The results of expecting an interruption but it not occurring, however, were startling. Mental efficiency improved 43%, exceeding even the control group."
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"Reformers have invested massive financial resources and political capital in new teacher-evaluation systems, but early results show that these policies won’t lead to improvements on their own. To generate more effective teaching through evaluations, teachers, principals, and school system leaders need to embrace a culture of ongoing two-way feedback and a commitment to continuous improvement. Surveys are a critical component of well-designed continuous-improvement systems, which high-performing organizations inside and outside the education sector have adopted as a reliable, cost-effective means of gathering and valuing front-line perspective. Surveying teachers, and acting on the results, respects teachers’ voice, provides diagnostic information regarding principals and schools, and provides an invaluable, authentic lens into classroom implementation. Used well, teacher surveys just might save evaluation reform from itself. The problems evaluation reform is trying to address are deep-seated issues of culture and management. There is still an aversion to distinguishing based on performance; principals haven’t been expected to provide rigorous feedback, and teachers aren’t accustomed to receiving critical appraisals. But perfunctory evaluations are a symptom, not the cause, of lackluster performance management, and inserting test scores into the equation won’t produce meaningful evaluations of teachers on its own. The changes that require the most attention relate to building the will and capacity of leaders and inspiring teachers to embrace evaluation as an improvement strategy, and these aren’t easily advanced through quick fixes in policy."
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"Thirty years ago, Quebec decided to make teaching a true profession, one that would require professional training, command a decent salary, attract top-notch candidates and stem the outflow of discouraged teachers. What happened? Stagnation on all fronts, said Maurice Tardif, professor with the Université de Montréal’s education faculty and a keynote speaker Thursday at the first of a two-day international symposium on education. The symposium, which attracted 900 participants from around the world, is taking place in downtown Montreal. The lack of momentum in the teaching profession is hurting students as much as the teachers themselves, Tardif said. There’s a strong link between that stagnation and the province’s stubbornly high dropout rate of 30 per cent. The same people go into teaching today who went into it four decades ago, said Tardif, quoting the results of a recent survey carried out in teacher training programs in the province."
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