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A propaganda film for the teacher's union and public workers in Wisconsin
is a great example of the way individuals can create highly effective pieces that would have not been possible, much less distributed widely, in any age but ours. Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Protest from Matt Wisniewski on Vimeo. Technology allowed these teachers and others to communicate so well and quickly that they could gather and…
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EDT 6050: an untraditional course reviewed
The name of the CUC class is “Using technology to assess and make data-driven decisions,” or something like that. It doesn’t matter because it’s the way the class happens that interests me. It is not at all a traditional course, although its subject matter is pretty standard. Yes, like the other courses in this Educational…
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EDT 6050: an untraditional course reviewed
The name of the CUC class is “Using technology to make data-driven decisions,” or something like that. It doesn’t matter because it’s the way the class happens that interests me. It is not at all a traditional course, although its subject matter is pretty standard. Yes, like the other courses in this Educational Technology masters…
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Dr. Tom McCann 10 rules for quality "Authentic" writing assessments
, Northern Illinois University Associate professor of English, Tom McCann, gave a wonderful “Administrator’s Academy” at Elmhurst College in March 2006 in which he outlined the basics of “authentic” writing assessments. (With the late Dr. Larry Johannessen and others, he has authored 2010’s The Dynamics of Writing Instruction: A Structured Process Approach for the Composition Teacher in…
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Google should really send me a Cr48 if they want me to be fair to them
when I suggest purchasing thousands of netbooks. I don’t want to believe the stories of the Google Internet device‘s disfunctional trackpad and memory limitations, or its jerky scrolling you can read about at sites like this, this, and this. After all, I’m a happy Google app user, and would expect the same functionality in an important piece of…
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When Facebook goes to war
or, What happens when social media like Twitter and Facebook begin mediating one of mankind’s oldest interactions: organized armed aggression? And what happens when the human urge to communicate interferes with the smooth operation of vital security missions? We know that neither our elusive terrorist enemies nor this battle has been decisive: who wins in…
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Some examples of teacher (mis-)appreciation
Thanks to the ever-awesome Nancy Flanagan, who in a recent excellent post about seniority protections linked to Kevin Bushweller’s 2006 article on burnt-out teachers. Bushweller cites Carol Dweck, psychology professor at Stanford University saying: “Students need to feel that learning is exciting and that their teacher is completely devoted to helping them develop their intellectual skills. … How…
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My edu-glog: a starter page for the digital migrant
This was done for a CUC class last semester, and it occurred to me that it might be useful to wikiness readers, especially the older teachers, looking for a simple launch pad to web 2.0 resources. And it includes the Common Core Standards link we may all have in our minds in another year or…
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The seeds of revolution: school textbooks?
Whoever says that teachers and classroom experiences don’t “build the future” ignores the fact that ideas children learn affect them in the long-term. This interesting read from the Los Angeles Times suggests that putting Tunisian kids through a paradigm of change–in this case, wresting the textbooks away from the religious in the mid-1990s and letting…
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Climbing the mountain of NCLB: a scorecard of progress
Thanks to Rachel Jachino’s presentation on a central Illinois school district’s state test scores, we have this stark image of the madness of NCLB: How powerful and rational the slope, and how mountainous. For a flat-lander like, me, mountains are exciting. So if nothing else, NCLB has taken us all on an exhilarating trip up…
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