The Gallup Blog: Teaching May Be the Secret to a Good Life By Brandon Busteed, Executive Director of Gallup Education, and Dr. Shane Lopez, Gallup Senior Scientist Imagine what life would be like if we started choosing our jobs based on the wellbeing they provide us. According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, a career in teaching may be the secret to the good life. Out of 14 major career categories, teachers are No. 2 in overall wellbeing, trailing only physicians. With more than half of U.S. teachers set to retire in the next decade, it’s estimated that we will need roughly 2 million new teachers in this timeframe. Gallup and Healthways define wellbeing as all of the things that are important to how we think about and experience our lives. A career in teaching may not rank high in the minds of most college students, especially those seeking big salaries. Teachers beat out investment bankers, consultants, accountants, engineers, sales professionals, and entrepreneurs on how they rate their lives overall.
Facebook, HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and the Family Online Safety Institute Launch Project:Connect MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) today announced a series of activities to advance healthy online experiences so young people can more easily make smart and responsible choices on the Internet. Under the banner Project:Connect, the four partners will launch an all-day “hackathon” in New York City on Thursday, May 9. “Supporting healthy online communities is a top priority for MacArthur,” said Connie Yowell, Director of Education at the MacArthur Foundation. Surfacing Innovative Ideas – The Project:Connect Hackathon Borne out of a shared belief that technology can advance a dialogue about what it means to participate responsibly in a digital world, Project:Connect’s May 9 hackathon will award prizes in the following areas: Continuing Momentum For Youth During The Summer A Platform for Good For more information about Project:Connect, please visit
12 technologies qui vont changer le monde (et tuer des emplois) L’institut de conseil McKinsey a publié un rapport en mai intitulé « Technologies de rupture : des avancées qui changeront la vie, le commerce et l’économie mondiale ». Dans ce document de 180 pages, douze innovations sont listées, toutes capables de modifier le monde à l’horizon 2025. Une technologie dite « de rupture » a une particularité : comme l’indique son nom, elle rompt avec le marché existant – qu’elle altère ou détruit – et modifie le paysage économique en profondeur. Impact économique et capacité de rupture Les années 2000 ont aussi eu leur lot de ruptures technologiques « en devenir » avec par exemple le téléchargement face à l’achat de formats physiques, le livre numérique, l’e-commerce... La liste dressée par les experts de McKinsey n’est pas exhaustive mais s’articule autour de deux critères : l’importance de l’impact économique et sociétal de ces innovations et leur capacité à rompre réellement avec le marché existant. Une création de richesse astronomique
How fiction can change reality - Jessica Wise How to Read a Book was first written in 1940. It elaborates on ways to effectively read books from several different genres. It was revised in the 1970's to include a list of the top books you should read. INNOVATION INCUBATOR - SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit 2013 SIIA’s Innovation Incubator program identifies and supports entrepreneurs in their development and distribution of innovative learning technologies. The program began in 2006 and has provided mentoring for dozens of successful products and companies in their efforts to improve education through the use of software, digital content and related technologies. simCEO, Jetlag Learning - WINNER | Video simCEO create online learning simulations where students compete and interact with one another - instead of a program - to make the environment and the learning more dynamic. Citelighter, Citelighter Inc - RUNNER UP | Video Citelighter is an academic research platform that allows students to save, organize, and automatically cite content. See.Touch.Learn., Brain Parade, LLC - WINNER | VideoSee.Touch.Learn., an iPad visual learning & assessment system, improves the social interaction & communication skills of special needs students. scrible, scrible - RUNNER UP | Participants: Alternate:
Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy Image by J. F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons Bertrand Russell saw the history of civilization as being shaped by an unfortunate oscillation between two opposing evils: tyranny and anarchy, each of which contain the seed of the other. The best course for steering clear of either one, Russell maintained, is liberalism. "The doctrine of liberalism is an attempt to escape from this endless oscillation," writes Russell in A History of Western Philosophy. In 1951 Russell published an article in The New York Times Magazine, "The Best Answer to Fanaticism--Liberalism," with the subtitle: "Its calm search for truth, viewed as dangerous in many places, remains the hope of humanity." But the liberal attitude does not say that you should oppose authority. Russell criticizes the radical who would advocate change at any cost. The teacher who urges doctrines subversive to existing authority does not, if he is a liberal, advocate the establishment of a new authority even more tyrannical than the old.
Current Projects - MSU EDA University Center for Regional Economic Innovation (REI) - Michigan State University We are pleased to announce that we have officially selected our Co-Learning Plans for the 2013-14 project year. The Co-Learning Plans range from a variety of topics such as Money Smart for Small Business, Pop-Up Businesses and Engaging the Community. The seven Co-Learning Plans are as follows: Expanding Economic Literacy by using the Money Smart for Small Business Curriculum Amanda Blondeau, Northern Initiatives Co-Learning Plan This Co-Learning Plan proposes to develop training videos based on the 10 training areas of the FDIC Money Smart for Small Business program.
Haim Ginott on Teaching Teenagers EQI.org Home | Parenting | Education | Other Important Authors Notes from Haim Ginott's Books Haim Ginott's most famous quote: Notes from two of his books: Between Teacher and Child Between Parent and Teenager If you want to buy these books online from Amazon.com you can help support my site by going through my bookstore. Between Parent and Teenager, Haim Ginott, 1972 "Rebellion follows rejection." Differentiate between acceptance and approval. Ginott offers these suggestions: Don't invite dependence Don't hurry to correct facts. "Concerned adults serve best when with confidence they stand and wait." Insult cuts deeper and lasts longer when it comes from the parent. p 36 Truth for its own sake can be a deadly weapon in family relations. He quotes a child: My father is sensitive to temperature but not temperament. Chapter 3 Primum non nocere (First, do no harm.) First, of all do not deny your teenager's perception. He gives the example of a child who says the soup is too salty. On problem solving:
Need To Grow Your EdTech Startup? Edtech Incubators Are Popping Up Everywhere There is no question that education is an unusual industry: Nonprofit ventures compete with for-profits. (In fact, it’s frequently hard to tell them apart.) The “users” of products aren’t typically the folks who are the “buyers” of products. For those kinds of reasons, it made perfect sense when three experienced Internet businessmen started an education technology incubator, Imagine K12, in early 2011. And since incubators are kind of geographic hot spots, it made sense that entrepreneurs on the East Coast should have one, too. So far in 2013, the U.S. alone has seen five new edtech incubators and accelerators. It’s a telling sign of the convergence of dynamic energies: a supply of talented and passionate entrepreneurs devoted to the space, renewed faith in the education market among investors, and a global belief in the potential for technology to better education. February’s Fab Five Two days after the Kaplan-TechStars announcement, Pearson launched its own incubator, Catalyst.
Education Has an Element of Danger… – Thoughts from Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk I read at least two books a month on social justice, poverty, race issues… Yesterday, I presented a synopis of the true classic, The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, for the Urban Engagement Book Club, sponsored by CitySquare. Dr. Du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP, first African American to earn a Doctorate at Harvard, wrote this book in 1903. The most famous line in the book, which he repeats numerous times throughout the book, is this: for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line… But I especially liked/appreciated this excerpt: The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. And in this book, Dr. Like this:
Mount Royal College - Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Certificate Program Curriculum An Instructional Design Strategy Template Methods of instruction are the domain of the instructional designer. In developing instructional designs, they need to develop designs on the basis of learner needs. This section provides an instructional strategy design template that can be applied for different types of learning. Adapted from Smith, P.L., & Ragan, T.J. (2005). Each phase has specific components. In the next section that describes the template in more detail, the examples provided suggest that the designer can either link the examples to a specific component or apply the activity to more than one component. Introduction Phase The introduction phase prepares the learner for the activity. The introduction phase articulates the learning outcomes or what learners are expected to achieve and demonstrate after engaging in the learning experiences. Body Phase Conclusion Phase Assessment Phase < Return to Unit 1 Curriculum Menu