American Education in 2030 Paul Peterson: Only if Past Trends Persist Is the Future Dismal Simple extrapolations of current trends suggest that public education costs will rise sharply, pupil-teacher ratios will fall, and control over the education system will shift from families and localities to higher levels of government. Courts and collective bargaining agreements will also gain in influence. Meanwhile, high school graduation rates will fall, and learning will stagnate. Fortunately, those trends will be disrupted by an enormous rate of change in curriculum design and information dissemination made possible by technological innovation.
The Digital Primary Teacher: Google Hangout Lesson Today I love Google+ Hangouts! Although I am new to Google+, I have been using the hangout feature since September 2011. It began as a method to connect students together because they had moved to a new school to help with an overcrowding issue. We felt the students would probably like to see their friends and talk about what is different at the "old school" and what cool at the "new school". Our hangouts have continued on, and we get together a couple of times a month to share our writing, poems, songs, and thoughts about our grade one world. USDLA – United States Distance Learning Association Home - Association for Educational Communications and Technology August 14, 2012 Our Space August 14, 2012 After 25 years of hearing the same calls for action in education technology, I'm throwing down the gauntlet. I started in education technology in 1986 as an editor at one of the early educational software publishers, Sunburst Communications (raise your hand if you had one of those traffic-cone-orange binders in your classroom).
For Social Media In The Classroom To Work, Instructors Need Best Practices I’m writing this post to procrastinate grading the last batch of final papers that are sifting into my inbox. After one year of being a proponent of social media in the classroom, I can tell you what worked and what didn’t in the classes I taught at Bridgewater State University this year, and how it compares to what the current scholarly research is finding about student engagement in classes that use social media. At the start of the 2011-2012 school year, I spoke to the faculty of Mass Maritime Academy about ways they could incorporate social media into their teaching.
2011 World Clock POODWADDLE WORLD CLOCKThe World Stats Counter (V 7.0) This minute 250 babies will be born, 100 people will die, 20 violent crimes will be reported, and the US debt will climb $1 million. The World Clock tells more than time. It shows a live picture of our changing world. The World Clock is too large for a single page. It had to be divided into multiple categories.
Ken Robinson on Passion Ken Robinson believes that everyone is born with extraordinary capability. So what happens to all that talent as we bump through life, getting by, but never realizing our true potential? For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed. We need to find that magic spot where our natural talent meets our personal passion. This means we need to know ourselves better. File Extension Dictionary Browse Alphabetically Browse File Extensions by Alphabet Every File Extension in the World -- almost! This is a resource for looking up file extension names or suffixes.
learning with technology Selected Student Generated Ice Breakers and Exercises Draw a tic-tac-toe, in each of the boxes write down one characteristic important to a healthy relationship. When done, we will play "people bingo" with it. Dare Double Dare... If you were required to come up in front of this class and have to do one activity of the list below continuously for 1-3 minutes, which would you be more likely to do? What would you least like to do from this list? Go ahead and number the items from 1-10 on a seperate sheet of paper. ... It's an exciting time to be alive!