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4 Ways to Get Your Students Involved in the Classroom by Kandace Heller was originally posted on GettingSmart.com. In a day and age when the American education system is under fire, teachers need to think outside of the box in order to engage their students in learning. Children can no longer afford to be passive [...]
Teaching Kids to Code: An Economic & Social Justice Issue by Tom Vander Ark was originally posted on GettingSmart.com. Hadi Partovi wants more kids to learn to code. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerber, Sheryl Sandberg, and many others agree. Partovi wants all high schools to offer computer science classes because it represents a growing cluster of [...]
Future Superintendents Get Lesson in Leadership was originally posted on GettingSmart.com. “Everything is more flexible, if I want to learn something, I Google it,” said a school district administrator, “everyone is more independent and less dependent on traditional structures.” Last week our team had the opportunity to spend the afternoon with a group of talented [...]
MOOCs and Mastery by Dr. Tom King was originally posted on Tom King’s Blog of De-Fog! There was a TV cartoon mouse character from the 60′s who, in pursuit of the cheese, would say, “Savoir-faire is everywhere.” He had the know-how, or the savoir-faire, to steal those delicious cheesy lumps right from underneath the nose [...]
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Oops, They Did it Again! PARCC Servers Crash Due to Demand On May 1 the Common Core assessment consortium PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) released assessment blueprints and test specifications. You may remember that when PARCC first released item samples, the traffic was so high that it crashed their servers. [...]
The Epidemic Of Media Multitasking While Learning by Annie Murphy Paul was originally posted on The Brilliant Blog. Living rooms, dens, kitchens, even bedrooms: Investigators followed students into the spaces where homework gets done. Pens poised over their “study observation forms,” the observers watched intently as the students—in middle school, high school, and college, 263 [...]
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