How the Tenured are to the Job Market as White People are to Racism. Everyone who is thinking and writing about the implosion of the academic job market is by now aware of the dust-up between Rebecca Schuman and the Tenured Radical in late December.* On Dec. 20, Rebecca Schuman wrote the post “Naming and Shaming: UC Riverside Gives Candidates 5 Days Notice” calling the UCR English department on the carpet for telling applicants to their tenure track job they’d be informed of any MLA interviews only five days before the conference, requiring some of them to scramble in a ruinously expensive fashion to travel to Chicago on the basis of a tiny scrap of job market hope.
“This is a move that is both elitist and out of touch,” she wrote, “Dr. Katherine Kinney, you and your committee should be ashamed of yourselves.” Most folks who follow the abuses of the current academic job market found this a legitimate critique, couched in Rebecca Schuman’s typical uncensored style. Really, Executive Director of the AHA? Reading Research Quarterly - Volume 49, Issue 1 - January/February/March 2014. Reviews: Choose a Category.
The Case Against High-School Sports - Amanda Ripley. The United States routinely spends more tax dollars per high-school athlete than per high-school math student—unlike most countries worldwide.
And we wonder why we lag in international education rankings? Darren Braun Every year, thousands of teenagers move to the United States from all over the world, for all kinds of reasons. They observe everything in their new country with fresh eyes, including basic features of American life that most of us never stop to consider. One element of our education system consistently surprises them: “Sports are a big deal here,” says Jenny, who moved to America from South Korea with her family in 2011.
By contrast, in South Korea, whose 15-year-olds rank fourth in the world (behind Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong) on a test of critical thinking in math, Jenny’s classmates played pickup soccer on a dirt field at lunchtime. Sports are embedded in American schools in a way they are not almost anywhere else. Schools got involved to contain the madness. How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses. In 2009, scientists from the University of Louisville and MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences conducted a study of 48 children between the ages of 3 and 6.
The kids were presented with a toy that could squeak, play notes, and reflect images, among other things. For one set of children, a researcher demonstrated a single attribute and then let them play with the toy. Mishra-koehler-tcr2006.pdf. AIRCC Publishing Corporation. 3 Things We Need To Remember For Every Professional Development. There are lots of ideas out there as to why teachers don't want to engage in PD.
Many times the PD, when it is required, isn't meaningful. When I was in the classroom I was part of a team that helped to decide the direction our PD at the school level would take. That was always a lot of fun and we always had positive experiences because the teachers had a voice and role in what we would be doing. On the flip side, at the district level, teachers rarely got to choose the direction of the PD. Now, I understand, working at the district level there are just some things that we need to do PD on for one reason or another. However, one theme that came up again and again was maybe too much blame was being placed on teachers and district administrators.
Integration of Technology in the Classroom: An Instructional Perspective. Integration of Technology in the Classroom: An Instructional Perspective by Ron Richmond SSTA Research Centre Report #97-02: 36 pages, $11.
NSDC and conversations. Mishra-koehler-tcr2006.pdf. Integration of Technology in the Classroom: An Instructional Perspective. How To Use iPads For Personal Professional Development. This post is adapted from a talk that I gave at the iPad Summit in Atlanta.
The Boston iPad Summit 2013 is now accepting proposals and offers discounts for early bird registration! As an educator, when I am given a new tool my first thought is “how can I use this in the classroom? How will I roll this out?” However, I have learned over the years that I need to pause, step back, and think, “Okay, how is this tool going to make my life and job easier? How can I use iPad to make me a better teacher?” It is true that iPad is a great device for consumption. Podcasts Podcasts are simply online radio shows.
News Readers News Readers (commonly called RSS feeds) allow you to keep up with your favorite news sites, blogs, and more. A Must-Have Model For 1:1 Success In Schools. Easier as it would be to pretend otherwise, the truth is that integrating mobile technology into a school is not a ‘one size fits all’ sort of thing.
That said, there are some basic principles which I think probably stand true for all schools going on this journey. This graphic illustrates the model which I think any school would benefit from understanding if not following. Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum. Below is my paper as it appears in Innovate – Journal of Online Education.
Many, many thanks to the fine folks there for all their help. Note: this journal has since gone ‘out of print’. the originals are still available at archive.org but i have adjusted the links here so that they continue to work. Today's Top Ten. Sloan-C Free Downloads.