This is a short video I made to introduce my grade 6-8 students to Frames 5.
05/25/2012 13:14
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05/25/2012 06:49
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Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) talks about making things and their relation to education.
05/25/2012 06:39
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“65 percent of school principals said it was unlikely they would allow personal devices in the coming school year.”
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Schools and Students Clash Over Use of Technology (via gjmueller)
65% of school principals either think we can teach proper use of a device frequently used in the “real world” by not letting students use it, OR they think teaching “real world” skills isn’t important.
Either way, this means 65% of school principals need to start learning or start retiring. (I work for one of the 35%.)
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05/23/2012 19:34
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Test scores plummet — so Florida drops passing grade
Florida gave a new standardized writing test to students in various grades and the scores were worse than awful. Only 27 percent of fourth-graders had proficient scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), which was down from last year’s 81 percent.
State education officials panicked, and at an emergency meeting last week, the Florida Board of Education decided in a 4-3 vote that the best thing to do was to lower the passing score on this exam.
Let me repeat that: In order to make sure that students succeeded on the test, the passing grade was lowered.
photo via flickr:CC | Dowbiggin
05/23/2012 19:29
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“Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time. Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is, more important.”
— John Dewey (via brokage)
05/22/2012 13:11
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The Minecraft Teacher: Watch me live on Tuesday
I’ll be appearing at the Atlantic Technologies in Education Forum in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. I’m taking part in what looks to be a really interesting panel on the roll teachers play in game-based learning. My panel starts at 10:25.
It looks like you’ll be able to watch it live here.
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05/20/2012 21:45
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Today Ira Glass gave the commencement address at Goucher College. Somewhat reluctantly.
05/20/2012 12:39
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A couple of recent posts to @Edmodo.
Those computers no longer have any saved passwords.
05/18/2012 12:25
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