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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 5:22 PM
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"The Seven Spaces provide a common language that does not make mention of architectural or technological concepts, is totally accessible and lets more members of the school community take part in building a new school or new ways of learning. When the time comes for schools to rethink their physical space or technology deployment, teachers, leaders and students can fall into a trap: rather than thinking about what they know about most (teaching, leading learning and learning for themselves), consultants and architects will attempt to 'teach' them how to 'speak architect' or technology geek talk. The result is that too many educators and learners end up with technology and physical space that is great for teaching the old way, painful for teaching in different styles and which locks learners into a groove for many years to come. The Seven Spaces are changing that."
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 4:50 PM
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The science of learning can offer some surprising and useful perspectives on how we guide and educate young people.
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 4:23 PM
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By Joanne Barkan "All children should have access to a good public school. And public schools should be run by officials who answer to the voters. Gates, Broad, and Walton answer to no one. Tax payers still fund more than 99 percent of the cost of K–12 education. Private foundations should not be setting public policy for them. Private money should not be producing what amounts to false advertising for a faulty product. The imperious overreaching of the Big Three undermines democracy just as surely as it damages public education."
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 3:46 PM
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In a wide-ranging consideration of 21st century education, Noam Chomsky argues that much of what passes for education reform is 'a way of turning the population into a bunch of imbeciles.' Via Raising Modern Learners
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 3:15 PM
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By Matthew Farber "Mashable defines gamification as "applying game thinking or even game mechanics into a non-game context. " Game mechanics in the "real world"include earning badges, completing missions and leveling up. Non-game companies, like Amazon, Deloitte and Salesforce.com, gamify to increase customer engagement. Gamification puts the customer on a journey motivated by intrinsic, or personally meaningful, rewards. An example is earning a "mayorship" badge on the mobile application Foursquare by "checking in" regularly to the same location. "Gamification in the classroom has many benefits, too. After all, engaging a student intrinsically in the learning process, rather than with extrinsic motivators like grades, is the goal of every teacher. Awarding badges for academic accomplishments is a method to gamify the education. Global Kids, Inc. notes that badges "support learners to give language to and value what they are learning, by offering names for their new competencies and providing a venue that recognizes their importance." "As a teacher, I assumed that game design had more to do with coding than the study of human behavior. To truly understand gamification, I realized that I needed to understand the process of game design. In gaming terms, I decided to go on a quest."
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 1:49 PM
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By Steve Foreman "If an organization is to evaluate learning management system (LMS) products and vendors effectively, what should it do? Finding the LMS that best meets your organization’s needs is not easy. There are hundreds of LMS products available. The investment of time and cost that organizations make in learning management systems and related technologies is significant, as are the risks of disruption from selecting the wrong solution."
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 10:03 AM
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"On Monday, June 17, at 4:00 p.m. EST senior writer Anya Kamenetz will be moderating a discussion with Gorbis. Tune in to find out how you--and everyone else--will be learning in the future. I"n our latest Futurist Forum live discussion, we’ll be talking with Marina Gorbis, author of the new book, The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World andexecutive director of the Institute For The Future. Gorbis will share insights from her current research on social production (aggregating microcontributions from large networks of people utilizing social tools and technologies) and specifically look at how it’s changing the face of education--through innovations from MOOCs to educational experiences we haven’t even imagined yet. You can read some of Gorbis’s talk about how the future classroom won’t exist, because the whole world will be a classroom in our Futurist Forum series here. "Simply follow this link to register with Cisco’s WebEx software now, and then sign in on Monday to take part and bring any questions you might have."
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from Into the Driver's Seat
June 12, 2013 9:28 AM
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By Maryellen Weimer "Here's a great story. A graduate student is attending a lecture being given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire. She takes notes furiously, trying to capture as many of his words as possible. Seeing that she is keenly interested in what Freire had to say, his translator asks if she would like to meet him. Of course! She is introduced and he begins by inquiring about her work. Then he graciously agrees to respond to a set of questions she and her colleagues hoped they would get the chance to ask him. She is impressed beyond belief, but time prevents her from asking one last, difficult question. They meet accidently once more at the event and he wonders if she asked all her questions? No, there is one more. "Given your work, we want to know 'where is the hope'?" Without hesitating he moves toward her, takes her face in his hands, looks into her eyes, and replies, "You tell them, 'you are the hope, because theory needs to be reinvented, not replicated ... it is a guide. We make history as we move through it and that is the hope."
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Jim Lerman
June 11, 2013 4:39 PM
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By Micahel Gecan "American education used to be locally controlled and highly pragmatic. Those days are gone, and we're looking for reform in all the wrong places."
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Jim Lerman
June 11, 2013 12:36 AM
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“Digital platforms are worthless without content. They’re shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they’re empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you’re reading. It is about whatyou’re reading.” – Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, March 10, 2013."
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Jim Lerman
June 11, 2013 12:07 AM
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By Ryann Warlick "When your students are deciding what language to specialize in, this infographic may come in handy, and may hold some surprises. This infographic shows the ten most spoken languages in the world, and where they are spoken. However, students shouldn’t just factor in the most spoken language all over the world when they choose a language, they should also factor in where they will be speaking the language? Will it just be here in the US, or are they going to travel. And don’t forget to remind them, they can always learn a new language as their dreams change. "First of all, it was interesting to discover that English is not the most spoken language. It is easy to assume that every educated person in the world has learned English, but English fell to number three, after Chinese and Spanish. With the Chinese increasing in their power across the world, this would be a good language to learn if your students plan to go into international business, if they were willing to put in a great amount of effort. Also with so many Spanish immigrants coming into the United States, this would be a great language if your students planned to work with the general public."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
June 10, 2013 4:01 PM
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by Lisa Nielsen Summary by SmartBrief on EdTech "Educator and administrator Lisa Nielsen in this blog post offers six social media outlets -- ranging from Facebook to Pinterest -- that offer opportunities for individual teachers and school communities to foster two-way communication with parents when face-to-face interaction can be difficult. "Not only is the use of social media good classroom practice, but in places that have quality reviews (an assessment and evaluation system for schools), engaging parents with social media will help schools shine," she writes."
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Jim Lerman
June 10, 2013 3:19 PM
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By Byron McCauley "The high schools are among nine early college high schools initiated by KnowledgeWorks more than nine years ago. Schools in the Ohio Early College initiative were prototypes for the Fast Track early college model being deployed nationally by EDWorks, a subsidiary of KnowledgeWorks. "Early College High Schools’ dual-enrollment approach allows students to earn high school and college credits simultaneously. More than 3,000 students have been served by the initiative since its inception. In 2012, Ohio’s early college students earned an average of 40 hours of college credit before graduating from high school. Nearly one-third of Ohio’s 2012 early college class earned associate degrees or two years of college credit by the time they graduated from high school."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
June 12, 2013 5:07 PM
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posted by Nathan Parcells "Recruiting is changing at a rapid pace in 2013. So are the ways students are learning about your company, culture, and making decisions about whether or not to join your team. We surveyed over 100,000 active internship seekers for our State of the Internship Report to help provide definitive answers on some of the most pressing internship questions of 2013. These include: -How has Google, social media, and other online tools changed how students find internships? -What perks do millenials value the most when considering an internship offer? -How do 82.1% of interns feel about accessing personal social media accounts on the clock? "Below are a few of the results. While some answers are to be expected, many were very unexpected and hint at how Gen Y and in the near future, Gen Z, are thinking differently about internships and the work place. -Just 3.8% of students said that they found their last internship through a career fair. This pales in comparison to students who use traditional networking, as well as online job sites. -Work place flexibility (being able to work from home or a coffee shop) is viewed as the most important perk to students in Gen Y. Very few employers currently offer such an option which represents a large opportunity for those willing to do adapt. -Google search is now the #2 most common tool used by students to find internships. Google is not seen merely as a research tool, but the best way to for many students to begin applying for roles. Having a hard to find or out of date career page is a huge issue for any employers in 2013. "You can download the whole report for free by clicking the button below!"
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 4:30 PM
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by Kevin Fitchard "A group of French researchers believe that the sensors and transmitters we wear will route and relay data, not just collect it. We won’t just be connected to the network. We’ll be the network."
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Jim Lerman
from "Analytic" Leadership
June 12, 2013 4:04 PM
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 3:30 PM
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by Emine Saner "Is Nick D'Aloisio exhausted? Apparently not. In a week that has seen the 17-year-old newly minted tech millionaire hit the headlines, give back-to-back interviews across the world, fly to America to appear on primetime TV shows and find time for a quick phone call to me from the back of a New York taxi, he still sounds sparky. "I've got a lot of energy," he says. "I don't know why. It's been like a marathon." "The high point? "Seeing [the news on] the front pages of newspapers," he says. "Those kind of things have been shocking, to put it mildly. When I started it two years ago, it was just a hobby." And the low points? There haven't been any, of course. D'Aloisio radiates positivity. "The proudest moment for me has been seeing these tweets coming through from teenagers saying, 'You've inspired me,' and I'm so excited about that." "We met in London several days earlier – the day after internet giant Yahoo announced it had bought D'Aloisio's app for a reported $30m [£19m]. He has had about two hours' sleep. Everyone wants to speak to him – who doesn't love the fairytale story of how a British teenager came up with an idea in his bedroom and two years later sold it for millions? "D'Aloisio created an iPhone app called Summly, which summarises news stories, and was downloaded by nearly a million people. "It helps publishers reach out to a younger audience," he says. "There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone – you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content." Yahoo, under recently appointed CEO Marissa Mayer, is repositioning itself to capture the growing mobile sector, so Summly appears to fit right in." Via Raising Modern Learners
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 2:07 PM
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Nikhil Goyal, 18, is the author of One Size Does Not Fit All and gave a very passionate speech at the June 8th Rally in Albany, NY. By Peter DeWitt "Nikhil Goyal graduated from Syosset High School in New York and is the author of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of School. One of the benefits of attending the June 8th Rally in Albany, NY was that thousands of educators got a chance to see him and hear him speak. Nikhil is a passionate and eloquent speaker so don't let his age fool you. I look forward to when he adds a few years to his age so people won't focus on it so much."
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 1:43 PM
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By David Nagel "Tablets accounted for more than one-third of all client devices shipped to education institutions in the United States in the last calendar year. That volume represents a doubling of tablet purchases from the previous year, according to a new report released last last month by market research firmIDC. And the growth won't stop there. "The report, Tablets Changing the Education Sector in the United States, Major Momentum Underway, found that overall client device shipments to U.S. education institutions hit 8.5 million total units in calendar 2012, up 15.3 percent from the previous year. Those devices include notebooks, tablets, and desktops. But shipments of tablets were up much more — a full 103 percent year-over-year, representing about 3 million total units, or 35.4 percent of the total. In 2011, they represented 19.4 percent of the total".
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Jim Lerman
June 12, 2013 9:47 AM
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via Valerie Strauss' column in the Post, guest writer Carol Burris. This paragraph intro was written by Strauss. "Here is a new piece from award-winning Principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York. Burris was namedNew York’s 2013 High School Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York and the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and in 2010, tapped as the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State. She is the co-author of the New York Principals letter of concern regarding the evaluation of teachers by student test scores. It has been signed by more than 1,535 New York principals and more than 6,500 teachers, parents, professors, administrators and citizens. You can read the letter by clicking here."
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from Into the Driver's Seat
June 11, 2013 4:55 PM
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"Making Learning Connected (#clmooc) is a collaborative, knowledge-building and sharing experience open to anyone who’s interested in making, creativity and learning. As we design and then engage in “makes” that tap into our personal (and professional) interests, share what we’ve done with the Making Learning Connected community, learn from each others’ experiences, and reflect on our own growth, we’ll be agents in the recursive creation and re-creation of this experience known as a Massively Open Online Collaboration (MOOC). Throughout the MOOC, we’ll engage with and employ Connected Learning principles as they relate to making and learning. "All are welcome to engage at whatever level and to whatever extent makes sense. Making Learning Connected includes pathways – for making, for connecting, for sharing – that allow for greater and lesser degrees of independence and guidance. Follow a linear thread through the six weeks of this MOOC or dip a toe in at one place or another, to create a unique path. For more information, visit the Making Learning Connected FAQs."
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Jim Lerman
June 11, 2013 3:18 PM
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By Christopher Swanson and Sterling Lloyd Summary by Public Education NewsBlast "A new analysis from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center finds the graduation rate for America's public schools was approximately 75 percent for the class of 2010, the most recent year for which data are available. The graduation rate rose nearly 2 full percentage points from the previous year, and 8 points over the past decade, reaching its highest point since 1973. However, it is projected a million students from this year's class will not graduate -- 5,500 students lost per school day, or a student every 31 seconds. For Latinos, graduation rates rose 16 points during the past decade, to 68 percent for 2010. Rates for black students, now 62 percent, rose 13 points over the same period. Native Americans experienced modest improvements -- an increase of 3 percentage points, but a downward trend since 2008. Rates for whites and Asian-Americans increased by 6 and 5 points to 80 and 81 percent, respectively. The white-Latino diploma gap nearly halved since 2000, with the black-white gap shrinking 30 percent. Across states, a 28-point gap separates Vermont (graduating 85 percent of students) from the District of Columbia (57 percent). Among the nation's largest school districts, Fairfax County, Virginia ranks first with a graduation rate of 85 percent; Maryland's Baltimore and Montgomery counties follow closely at 84 percent each"
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Jim Lerman
June 11, 2013 12:19 AM
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by mrsenorhill "St. Louis is becoming an increasingly awesome place to be. We’ve experienced 13% growth in the IT sector over the past year and have a median salary for IT employees of 71K. In 17 months over 50 companies have moved into an old office building downtown, creating a veritable “tech city” in an area needing a catalyst. This past year, our “Arch Grants” competition drew hundreds of applications, finally giving $1 Million to 20 companies who agree to move to St. Louis for a year and build their vision. "This is great! But there’s a problem. "Our schools and community organizations aren’t prepared for this renaissance. They’re not teaching the necessary skills for kids to participate as adult creative employees, and they’re not empowering our young people to take the risks necessary to start their own ventures as adults. They’re preparing for end of course exams and boring students out of school. "This is par for the course across the nation, but it stings in my backyard."
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from Into the Driver's Seat
June 10, 2013 4:53 PM
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013, 3:00-4:00 PM ET ; FREE Are you a forward-thinking educator interested in starting an innovative K-12 next generation learning program or moving your current program to the next level? If you are, you have probably been looking for that resource to help you start the planning and designing process. Well, look no further. In this iNACOL Special Edition Webinar, participants will be introduced to RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning, a toolkit created by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and iNACOL to guide district, charter, and school leaders as they conceptualize, design, and develop a next generation model school. This toolkit can help you and your team understand next generation learning and the need for change; gain a working knowledge of the planning and change management processes; plan and design a framework for next generation learning; and understand how to ensure quality and continuous improvement for your design. This flexible and dynamic resource offers links to existing communities who are currently planning for and/or implementing next generation learning. It also offers an overview of critical topics, each of which includes an introduction, a set of guiding questions, and resources and tools centered on the topic that you and your team will need to tackle while planning and designing your program. So, what are you waiting for? Join in the webinar to learn more and give your students the powerful learning opportunities they’ve been waiting for! Speakers: Dave Edwards, Quality Assurance Director, iNACOL To download the toolkit, go to: http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/rethink-planning-and-designing-k%E2%80%9312-next-generation-learning
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Jim Lerman
June 10, 2013 3:22 PM
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"Part one of the Competency based education series includes a working definition for competency education, examples of states doing the ground breaking work in this area and an appropriate role for the federal government to remove policy barriers and to create diagnostic and assessment tools to measure effectiveness. Included in this publication is a continuum to help innovators and policymakers differentiate between full-scale competency models and those that have begun to pave the way for this work."
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