September 2010
9 posts
Five lessons from the nation’s best online teacher →
Educators who teach in an online setting should foster strong relationships with their students’ parents and should offer plenty of positive feedback, says the nation’s first-ever K-12 Online Teacher of the Year.
Teacher Teresa Dove of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) last week was chosen as the first winner of this new award, which not only recognizes excellent teaching but also the...
It's Tuesday...
…so if you’re looking to recommend someone for the directory, I’d ask you to pass on me. Given the issues with the Queue, I’ve been lax over the past week and haven’t really earned it. Instead, please consider recommending some of these folks:
Positively Persistent Teach
The YUNiversity
Adventures in Learning
And of course, Things for Teachers
(Via world-shaker)
Seconded.
Does merit pay pay? →
This letter by Diane Ravitch wants to say that merit pay is a failure, but it seems only to be a failure under the terms she’s hell-bent on clinging to. You can say that this chocolate cake sucks at washing your car, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad chocolate cake.
She says merit pay is to encourage teachers to teach harder. She says that underlying the concept of merit pay is...
University loses its licence →
Accreditation for Lansbridge University, a Fredericton-based online university, has been revoked by the province. (Shawn Berry - The Daily Gleaner Via thebriefingroom)
The license revocation affects only 170 students. It would be interesting to see exactly how the school was found deficient.
“Destructive cultural trends lurk behind the decline of readerly ambition and...”
– Will the Book Survive Generation Text? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse) (via teachingliteracy)
I generally agree with Romano’s points, but his rhetoric (his “eristic moves”) is so overblown and atavistic that I’m afraid this...
Putting Teachers to the Test: The Debate Over... →
(via adventuresinlearning)
There’s a little like logic-defying chestnut in the piece:
Teachers have reason to fear they may be misidentified — roughly one in four would be even after three years of data have been collected, according to a report last month commissioned by the Department of Education. Hanley Chiang, a Mathematica Policy Research researcher who co-authored the report, said,...
The New and Old of Digital Learning : Education... →
(Via educationalrap: Re-posted from EducationNext.org.)
The ending of this piece is especially good/insightful.
“The increasing use of student surveillance and intrusion of school districts...”
– U.S. schools: grooming students for a surveillance state | Privacy News - PogoWasRight.org
Very, very glad my high school days are long behind me…
(via shorterexcerpts)
Indeed! It’s Foucaultian in discretely numerable ways! Beside the obvious, it’s as if they see more information as...