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The Academic Benefits of Twitter

Skinner sumitted ago via http://backupminds.wordpress.com (Views: 17, Clicks: 11) View Story

Why Twitter? What value does Twitter offer to an academic? And, are you missing out if you are not on Twitter?

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Six Ways the Common Core is Good For Students

Skinner sumitted ago via http://neatoday.org (Views: 14, Clicks: 4) View Story

Cindy Long -- As the Common Core debate heats up, we’ve heard a lot from policy makers, politicians, and even TV talk show hosts about the challenges posed by the new standards and whether they’ll help or hurt education. With all the chatter, the voices of the professionals who are actually responsible for implementing the Common Core have been all but drowned out in the mainstream media.

2 comments | Tags: national education association common core state standards controversy | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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The break-things-into-bits mistake we have been making in education for centuries – happening today with standards

Skinner sumitted ago via http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com (Views: 70, Clicks: 22) View Story

This problem of turning everything into “microstandards” is a problem of long standing in education. One might even say it is the original sin in curriculum design. Take a complex whole, divide into the simplest and most reductionist bits, string them together and call it a curriculum. Though well-intentioned, it leads to fractured, boring, and useless learning of superficial bits.

0 comments | Tags: common core state standards grant wiggins math publisher’s criteria parcc | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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The Common Core Standards: a Defense

Skinner sumitted ago via http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com (Views: 27, Clicks: 4) View Story

Grant Wiggins -- Tis the season to bash the Common Core – to the point of some over the top heated rhetoric. Let’s remind ourselves why the Common Core is just common sense.

2 comments | Tags: common core state standards controversy grant wiggins national assessment of educational progress | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Adaptive Testing Evolves to Assess Common-Core Skills

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 24, Clicks: 5) View Story

Michelle R. Davis -- When Delaware switched to computer-adaptive testing for its state assessments three years ago, officials found the results were available more quickly, the amount of time students spent taking tests decreased, and the tests provided more reliable information about what students knew—especially those at the very low and high ends of the spectrum.

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Re: The Academic Benefits of Twitter

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In the end, the value of Twitter for academics is what you make of it. So, can academics manage without Twitter? Of course they can. But the better question might be “What can academics manage with Twitter?” -- Carole McGranahan

Re: Six Ways the Common Core is Good For Students

1. Common Core Puts Creativity Back in the Classroom
2. Common Core Gives Students a Deep Dive
3. Common Core Ratchets up Rigor
4. Common Core is Collaborative
5. Common Core Advances Equity
6. Common Core Gets Kids College Ready

Re: Definition of a Trapezoid

The exclusive definition has been the norm in our common ed textbooks. And I believe we can adapt ... my concern ... is this going to be a 'secret?' How do we get the inclusive definition out to educators?

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Proclus (also Heron and Posidonius) divided quadrilaterals into parallelograms and non-parallelograms. For the latter, Proclus assigned trapezium to "two sides parallel," and trapezoid to "no sides parallel." Archimedes also defined a trapezium as having precisely two parallel sides (Heath 1956, pp. 188-190).

http://www.mathetude.com/story/view/18861.html

Re: The real problem in education: the ‘opportunity gap’

Money Cuts Both Ways in Education
Power spending on children of the elite may illustrate the dangers of rising inequality. But it may be that the less-lavishly educated children aren't the only losers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/10iht-letter10.html

Re: The Common Core Standards: a Defense

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With national standards comes an explosion of common resources, from both commercial and non-commercial sources. While lots of the anti-common-core talk bemoans the influence of behemoth companies, the fact is that Common Core permits small organizations like mine to create materials and find an audience – something we could not do when there were 50 different sets of standards. And all one has to do is look at the Teaching Channel, EngageNY, and shared lesson sites to realize that teachers now have an extraordinary trove of materials to choose from, across all the states – and those resources will only grow. -- Grant Wiggins

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