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Digital Trends Shifting the Role of Teachers

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 12, Clicks: 3)  View Story

Amanda M. Fairbanks -- As increasing numbers of school districts go digital, many teachers are witnessing a simultaneous change in their roles. To be sure, some see it as simply traditional teaching in disguise, but others describe a seismic shift—from being the lone purveyor of information to assuming a new role of facilitator, coach, and guide.

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Teachers In Moore Gather For 'Sharing And Healing'

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.npr.org (Views: 15, Clicks: 5)  View Story

What was billed as an informational meeting for teachers turned into a session of sharing and healing.

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INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, Labor Spar On Immigration

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.npr.org (Views: 32, Clicks: 4)  View Story

To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is hampering business. To unions and some Democrats, it's more sinister: The push by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to expand the number of visas for high-tech foreign workers is an attempt to dilute a lucrative job market with cheap, indentured labor.

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E-textbooks could save Oklahoma college students hundreds of dollars

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.oklahoman.com (Views: 26, Clicks: 5)  View Story

If University of Oklahoma student Mandi Gatlin had enrolled in Introduction to Sociology last year, she could have expected to pay between $50 and $100 for the course's textbook. But because she enrolled in the class last semester, Gatlin got her book for free.

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5 Oklahoma teachers to receive 2013 Medal for Excellence

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 20, Clicks: 4)  View Story

Experience has taught local educators Jill Steeley and John Waldron that getting to know students is the first step to effective teaching. "You have to take into consideration more than academic performance," said Steeley, who teaches second grade at Central Elementary School in Coweta. "You've got to get to know them well enough to know if there are struggles at home. What is their personality like? You have to get in there and dig and find out all about the child."

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A lot of people agree that employers should have access to (highly trained) immigrants — that they are a benefit to the country, and we are a country of immigrants. I think the question is how much of a good thing is good. -- B. Lindsay Lowell, director of policy studies at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration  

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Re: 5 Oklahoma teachers to receive 2013 Medal for Excellence

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The demands placed upon us as far as accountability have changed. We've always had accountability, but it's this whole sense that we don't trust teachers anymore and that comes from our Legislature. -- Jill Steeley  

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