Posts Tagged ‘ education ’

Flipping classes

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July 12, 2011

If you have already looked over Salman Khan’s Kahn academy, you may already have an idea what flipping a classroom is all about. The basic premise is to record your presentations in such a manner (via video: ala YouTube, Vimeo, or other hosting sites, or with recorded white board presentations using such tools as Prezi, [...]


21st century teacher

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July 9, 2011

I just ran across an interesting looking community for teachers (to join!). 21st century teachers looks to be a new community which may help expand the base of teachers involved with internet and web 2.0 technology…beyond the comparatively older and more established communities such as Classroom 2.0, the Flat classroom project, or Educator’s PLN. These [...]


ShowMe

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July 9, 2011

The interactive white board (i.e. smartboards, et.al.) are fine technology, but they have the problem in being in almost every classroom I have ever taught in, and I have never seen them used…There are plenty of ways to describe this white elephant of educational technology…as a waste of money (usually they are several thousand dollars [...]


don’t know much about history…

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June 26, 2011

This is a topic which gives me headaches, and has been giving me headaches ever since I first saw Jay Leno’s man on the street interviews with the Burbank elite (no pun intended). This is not a new problem. Many Children Still Don’t Know Much About History http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/14/137174384/many-children-still-dont-know-much-about-history?sc=tw&ft=1&f=1001 The good news: "At all grades, the [...]


The revenge of the sith…

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June 25, 2011

Just the other day, I posted an article summarizing a listing some counterarguments to the idea that there is an education bubble, and that this is a big problem. While I may disagree (just a bit) I do respect that both of the articles cites were presenting reasonably cogent arguments about the value of a [...]


PLN’s for educators

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June 24, 2011

Personal Learning Networks are one of the most important and (after the fact) most obvious extensions of the information explosion we are in the middle of. The general idea is that there are more forms of professional or scholastic support than from merely who you can talk to. There are all kinds of online communities, [...]


Positive views on the humanities

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June 22, 2011

I’ve presented a number of views related to the Education Bubble, views which (as a chorus) present arguments that the secondary education industry is a economic bubble, that Colleges are fundamentally so corrupt (as a system) that there is a desperate need to work on finding worthwhile replacements for the beloved baccalaureate degree, and other [...]


A college education…

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June 9, 2011

A lot of accomplished entrepreneurs and industry heavyweights have been throwing their ideas into the education malaise which is our college system (as distinct from the malaise which is out K-12 system…). There have been a lot of broad attacks and criticisms of college education, of the plausible idea that there may be an education [...]


What’s all of this about SmartBoards?

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June 8, 2011

I can easily say that the vast majority of classrooms I have been in since I became a teacher have some form of interactive smart boards. Of course, in all of these classrooms (in several states and countries) I have never seen any of them ever being used…this has led me to some reasonable conclusions [...]


new reading skills

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May 31, 2011

How quickly modern internet tools and skills are adopted by elementary school kids always astonished me… I have seen this happen so often that I have no real reason to feel this way…but I always do… A perspective on this experience is what this link relates to, along with a quite interesting idea. Many of [...]


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