 | Rick Wormeli (@RickWormeli) |
Highly recommended: Smart thinking about re-do's & re-takes "Bill Murray, Patron Saint of Re-Do's and Re-Takes" kenc.edublogs.org/2012/11/14/bil… | |
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Tweet from Rick Wormeli (@RickWormeli)
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Vast Majority of Millennials are Very Happy, According to Landmark Study of Young People Across 24 Countries ow.ly/1Pzbkf | |
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Tweet from Chris Sousa (@csousanh)
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20 Ed Apps approved by Parents - IDK about all, but my kids use some of these edudemic.com/2012/11/online… #ptchat | |
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Key middle level documents (@cmtoy)
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Okay or Not Okay? Your Thoughts Please! wp.me/pVzFP-Sq | |
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
gary@hackscience.net has shared: Hide your email just like a spy would - Tips, Reviews and Advice on All Things Digital - The Kim Komando Radio Show
| Interesting... I had middle school students doing this within minutes of when they had access to Google Docs. They also knew that every few seconds the file was saved... talk about an electronic paper trail! | |
 | Hide your email just like a spy would - Tips, Reviews and Advice on All Things Digital - The Kim Komando Radio ShowSource: komando.com The Kim Komando Show: America's top weekend talk radio program about all things digital! Free tips, downloads, software, newsletters, advice and more about the home electronics, iPods, digital cameras, photography, TVs, online security, gadgets and more. |
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First day with Rick a hit. Great CCSS info! Looking forward to day 2 tomorrow #ed_nelms | |
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Tweet from Chris Toy (@cmtoy)
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7 Habits Team wp.me/pVzFP-UB via @BrightFuturesME | |
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Teaching those ready to learn?!?!?!?
http://nblo.gs/EEQMd
This blogger criticizes an attitude that is too obvious in too many educators who have been my colleagues over the years. Sometimes, it is captured in the observation, "I taught it, but they didn't learn it." Other times, the phrase, "it is my job to teach and their jobs to learn," is used to capture the same idea.
I get the idea that learning is an active process and students must engage with the ideas and the people if they are going to learn. Learning, however, is a process that depends on:
- Attention-- We pay attention only to things that matter to us, and the dry presentation of disconnected facts by a teacher, even under the threat of a test, does not meet the threshold of importance to most students.
- Connection-- Learning must proceed from known to new. If connections between new ideas and known ideas are not obvious, then nothing will be learned. Without these connections oneself be able to simulate learning by answering questions, but the "learning" will be unavailable for other purposes.
It is the job of the teacher to make curriculum something that matters to learners and something to which they connect. These are not characteristics of the profession that are negotiable, they ate the foundation of all that we do.
"Teaching those who are ready to learn" really means "teaching those who already know what I am going to teach them." That is like the mechanic who fixes cars that are not broken and the engineer who designs bridges that already exist.
- Dr. Gary Ackerman
This blogger criticizes an attitude that is too obvious in too many educators who have been my colleagues over the years. Sometimes, it is captured in the observation, "I taught it, but they didn't learn it." Other times, the phrase, "it is my job to teach and their jobs to learn," is used to capture the same idea.
I get the idea that learning is an active process and students must engage with the ideas and the people if they are going to learn. Learning, however, is a process that depends on:
- Attention-- We pay attention only to things that matter to us, and the dry presentation of disconnected facts by a teacher, even under the threat of a test, does not meet the threshold of importance to most students.
- Connection-- Learning must proceed from known to new. If connections between new ideas and known ideas are not obvious, then nothing will be learned. Without these connections oneself be able to simulate learning by answering questions, but the "learning" will be unavailable for other purposes.
It is the job of the teacher to make curriculum something that matters to learners and something to which they connect. These are not characteristics of the profession that are negotiable, they ate the foundation of all that we do.
"Teaching those who are ready to learn" really means "teaching those who already know what I am going to teach them." That is like the mechanic who fixes cars that are not broken and the engineer who designs bridges that already exist.
- Dr. Gary Ackerman
Friday, November 9, 2012
Life in Ancient Rome
Perhaps we can make our content seem more connected to our students lives? Actually if we don't help find connections, then students won't learn- at least that's what the brain scientists tell us.
ed.ted.com/lessons/a-glimpse-of-teenage-life-in-ancient-rome-ray-laurence
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- Dr. Gary Ackerman
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Tweet from Wired Research (@WiredResearch)
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The most commonly hacked passwords in 2012 to date are "password," "123456," "12345678," "abc123," "qwerty," "monkey," and "letmein." | |
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Fwd: Find the funding you need
- Dr. Gary Ackerman
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To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: Find the funding you need
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November 8, 2012 Wondering how to find funding to attend a NELMS event like the Annual Conference coming up in April 2013?
Find the funding you need…
Start planning now!We know that at times funding for quality professional development can be a challenge. Following are some suggestions and options for financial support.
- School Improvement Grant (1003g) and 1003a Title I SIG
- Title II funds
- Title III funds
- IDEA funds
- Propose whole team participation funded through local professional development budget
- Make a funding request to a local civic organization. Civic organizations often are very supportive of educational initiatives and they welcome having a follow up presentation from the recipient(s)
- Request a mini grant/funds from a local bank, business, corporation
Remember that education is important and a valuable asset to our communities. Support, including financial, is often available if we make a request.
Common Core Common Sense:
Mastery, Assessment, Reporting, and RealityNovember 13 & 14, 2012
UMass Lowell's Inn & Conference Center
Lowell, MASome think if we just had clear, rigorous standards, such as the Common Core, all of our students would improve test scores and go to college. This hasn't happened in states who already have such standards, however, so there must be something more to it. Our professional responses to the Common Core and their assessment are key. Teachers and principals need the skills and insights to break down the Common Core, and any other curriculum that comes their way, and identify evidence they will tolerate as indicators of mastery. They need practicality on reporting that evidence of mastery as well as how to handle awkward assessment and grading situations that arise in increasingly diverse classrooms that are all supposed to make the same gains in the course of a single year.
As differentiation expert, Carol Ann Tomlinson, alludes, standards are the ingredients for dinner laid out on the kitchen counter, but they are NOT the meal itself. The meal is made by talented teachers knowing the ingredients well and understanding the academic, dietary needs of their students. These teachers proportion, mix, and cook those ingredients into something meaningful and serve the meal in such a way as students will eat wisely, and maybe, eagerly.
Join us for a provocative two-day seminar that explores these elements of highly effective teaching in the Common Core world. We'll also examine the roles of formative, summative, and common assessments, as well as how to set up a standards-based gradebook and many, "What do teachers do if…?" scenarios that arise when implementing any curriculum with standards-based grading, such as whether or not we can scaffold student learning when using the Common Core, what to do if students achieve the standards earlier than classmates, and what to do if students can express satisfactory evidence of standard but only through alternative assessment. Bring your questions and your wisdom to share – It's going to be a productive two days!
For more information and/or to register please click here.
Connecticut Association of Schools &
New England League of Middle Schools Present"Meeting the Demands of CCSS in the Middle(CCSS 101)"
December 7, 2012
CAS Offices, 30 Realty Drive, Cheshire, CT 06410Presenters: Jerry Belair, Charlene Tate Nichols, Amy Radikas, Cristi Alberino and Gail Pagano
Description:Using a backwards design approach, this conference is targeted to teach the substance of the CCSS as well as connect the standards to middle school philosophy and practice. Sample assessments will be used to demonstrate what the CCSS expects students to know and demonstrate on the SBAC assessment.
For more information and/or to register please click here.
NELMS 2012 Literacy Summit
Common Core Strategies For All
Middle School TeachersLiteracy Summit Day 2-December 7, 2012
Wyndham Andover Boston
123 Old River Rd., Andover, MA 01810How to Implement the Common Core in Your
Middle School ClassroomWith the common core, literacy instruction is the responsibility of all content teachers - it is no longer an option, it is a necessity. At the summit you will learn practical comprehension, vocabulary and writing strategies that all teachers can implement immediately to meet the Common Core standards. In addition, you can learn a practical and effective framework to develop a district or school wide literacy plan that will help guide Common Core instructional implementation.
NELMS is partnering with Keys to Literacy to bring you the Literacy Summit. We selected Keys to Literacy because their programs are an effective way to implement the Common Core in the classroom. We have organized the Literacy Summit around these programs to provide participants a practical, easy to implement and effective way to meet the Common Core objectives.
Summit Presenters
Elissa Arndt, Ph.D.
Elissa is a speech-language pathologist and reading specialist with experience providing instruction and intervention in language and literacy to students Prek-8th. She received her bachelor's degree from Gordon College, her master's degree from MGH Institute of Health Professions and her doctorate degree in Reading and Language Arts from Florida State University. Prior to working at Keys to Literacy, Elissa was a curriculum and intervention specialist at the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) at Florida State University. She serves as an adjunct faculty member in the graduate education department at Gordon College teaching graduate classes on reading foundations, adolescent literacy, instruction, assessment, and intervention.
Lisa Klein, M.Ed
During Lisa's 15-year career as an educator, she has been a classroom teacher in private and public schools, a literacy trainer, and a Reading Specialist. She has held several positions in both urban and suburban schools in the Palm Beach County, Florida school system. Lisa is a literacy consultant providing guidance on both Reading and Writing curriculum. In addition, she also worked for a publishing company presenting teacher training for district-wide adoptions across the state of Florida. Lisa graduated from Rivier College with a M.Ed. in Reading and B.A. in Elementary Education and Special Education.
For more information about the agenda and/or to register please click here.
Save the date for the NELMS 32nd Annual Conference
April 4 & 5, 2013 • RI Convention Center • Providence, RI
Tom Burton - Keynote - Thursday April 4, 2013
Carol Ann Tomlinson - Keynote - Friday April 5, 2013
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Fwd: Thursday Live Interview - Preparing Youth to Engage with the World
- Dr. Gary Ackerman
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Join me Thursday, November 8th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview (and pre-event for the 2012 Global Education Conference) with Veronica Boix-Mansilla and Tony Jackson about their free PDF book, Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World.
"In matters of national security, environmental sustainability, and economic development, what we do as a nation and in our everyday lives is inextricably intertwined with what governments, businesses, and individuals do beyond our borders.
"This new reality helps us more clearly define the role that education must play in preparing all students for success in an interconnected world. The United States have invested unprecedented resources in education, betting that our outmoded, factory-age system can be fundamentally transformed to prepare students for the rigors of a global economy. They have challenged states and school districts to set clearer, higher standards and assess student progress in more creative ways, prepare more productive teachers, and provide effective intervention in failing schools.
"These are necessary strategies for change, but insufficient to create the citizens, workers and leaders our nation needs in the 21st century. Missing in this formula for a world-class education is an urgent call for schools to produce students that actually know something about the world--its cultures, languages and how its economic, environmental and social systems work."
(From the Asia Society website, emphasis added.)
Date: Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at http://futureofed.info. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit the support and configuration page.
Recordings: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording and a portable .mp3 recording will be available after the interview at http://www.futureofeducation.com.
Mightybell Space: Resources, videos, links, and conversation about the interview can be found HERE.
See you online!
Steve
Steve Hargadon
http://www.stevehargadon.comVeronica Boix-Mansilla chairs the Future of Learning institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she also acts as a principal investigator for the school's Project Zero. Her research examines the conditions that enable experts and young learners to produce quality interdisciplinary work and develop global competence by addressing problems of contemporary global significance (e.g., globalization, climate change, migration). She recently co-authored Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World with the Asia Society's Anthony Jackson. In 2012 she also published Disciplinary Foundations: Teaching Big Ideas for Deep Understanding in Languages, Mathematics and Science.
Anthony Jackson is Vice President for Education at Asia Society. He also leads Asia Society's Partnership for Global Learning, a national membership network of practitioners and policymakers dedicated to integrating knowledge about Asia and the world as a mainstay of American education. Over the past six years, he has led the development of Asia Society's International Studies Schools Network, an effort within the PGL to create a network of small, effective, internationally-themed secondary schools across the country. In 2011, Jackson co-authored the book Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World, a publication co-developed by the Asia Society and the Council of Chief State School Officers' EdSteps Program. This book defines the concept of global competence as a consensus standard for the field, and provides a cohesive framework for globally focused K-12 education.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
7 habits of tech-using teachers (@mwyman)
 | mwyman (@mwyman) |
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology blog.alwaysprepped.com/the-7-habits-o… via @AlwaysPrepped | |
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- Dr. Gary Ackerman
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Education In The Election: Education Became An Unexpected Star In The Campaign huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/edu… #ed_nelms | |
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Children's health (@nprnews)
 | NPR News (@nprnews) |
Restaurant Meals Mean More Calories And Soda For Kids And Teens n.pr/Wwi1XE | |
An important education issue.
- Dr. Gary Ackerman
Google Mars! (@wiredscience)
 | WIRED Science (@wiredscience) |
Updated Google Mars gives you more detail, more coverage, and more awesome bit.ly/UgZTQ6 | |
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- Dr. Gary Ackerman
Don't let the English teachers see thus
www.youtern.com/thesavvyintern/index.php/2012/11/05/17-hooey-writing-rules-to-unlearn-after-graduation
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Our friends from Maine! (@HuffPostEdu)
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Maine's school laptop program wins praise huff.to/R8XVx0 | |
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