More madness - coming to NZ at some stage? "Education Department’s obsession with test scores deepens"
Education Department’s obsession with test scores deepens
In a new public display of its obsession with test scores, the Education Department is embarking on a study to determine which parts of clinical teacher training lead to higher average test scores amo...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/education-departments-obsession-with-test-scores-deepens/2012/02/06/gIQAP7yuyQ_blog.html
Why is NZ destroying our education system by copying the US destruction of its education system?
Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System -
Chris Hedges' Columns -
Truthdig
We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests. These instructors obey. They teach children to obey. And that is th...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/why_the_united_states_is_destroying_her_education_system_20110410/
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You Khan’t Ignore How Students Learn
From Harvard EdCast's "The Celebrity Math Tutor" (transcript below)
Buffy Cushman-Patz: What efforts do you take to ensure that your pedagogy is consistent with what education research shows abo...
http://fnoschese.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/you-khant-ignore-how-students-learn/
I knew there was a song called : VENUS ! I did a search and found it....I often hear people talked about it. So here it is! Venus by Shocking Blue
Venus by Shocking Blue
Promo video: Shocking Blue performing "Venus" in front of some caged monkeys.
Line-up: Robbie van Leeuwen (vocals, guitar), Mariska Veres (vocals), Klaasje van der Wal (bass guitar), and Cornelius van Beek (drums).
Working on my (very short) presentation for the Computer Based Math summit. Here's slide #1. I'm hoping to speak for more freedom in what is learned at the k-12 level. I think that this route is right for some people, but I would like to see many paths for learning mathematics.
This is over 600 images layered over the top of each other to create a star trail image. Taken in the south west of Western Australia in a little place called Mullalyup!
Scientists at Cern's Large Hadron Collider near end of the search for the Higgs boson
The £5bn particle accelerator has operated for a year, generating billions of pieces of data in the hunt for the Higgs boson, nature's building block. But it hasn't been found and scientists are runni...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/09/cern-physics-large-hadron-collider
Standing up for education is different. It’s not about reacting to an immediate crisis…it’s about advocating for the future. It doesn’t carry that immediate call to action to fend of an impending attack. Nonetheless, it requires those of us invested in the cause to speak up for what we know to be good and true and right about public education’s role in the future of our civilization. Yet most of us in education today have our heads down and are trying to quietly get along during diffic ...more...
Original by Raymond Johnson
Some students see the "=" sign as operational instead of relational. Is technology part of the reason?
MathEd.net: You can press "Enter," but think twice before pressing "="
You can press "Enter," but think twice before pressing "=". I just had a epiphany tonight while reading an article by Alibali et al. (2007) about students' understanding of the...
http://blog.mathed.net/2011/09/you-can-press-enter-but-think-twice.html
Original by La Vergne Lestermeringolo Thatch
Dewey: When education is based upon experience and educative experience is seen to be a social process, the situation changes radically. The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities. P. 59, Chapter: Social Control
Transpiring the existence of others through the reality of one’s self is a trickery of a mind’s ever lasting dreamed ambition to have the “happily ever after” life..
trigger your realism
Transpiring the existence of others through the reality of one's self is a trickery of a mind's ever lasting dreamed ambition to have the "happily ever after" life..
Yes it's that transparent ......
https://ndproductions.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/trigger-your-rules/
Stihl: Inside/Outside
Uploaded with permission from director Hamish Rothwell and Stihl for http://adsoftheworld.com
There is so much activity here that it is very tempting to stay and read some of the great interesting stuff being shared...but it is late here so I wish everyone a good day/night across the globe. I need to look at the back of my eyelids. (But i don't want to...would love to stay and keep sharing...getting addicted?)
How would classrooms be different if teachers came to class not with a lesson plan, but with a concept?
When I was a classroom teacher in a traditional high school, a student and I were chatting about current events. This led to a conversation about economics. I began explaining how the Federal Reser......
http://coopcatalyst.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/how-would-classrooms-be-different-if-teachers-came-to-class-not-with-a-lesson-plan-but-with-a-concept/
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