SaTP_38_Learning_and_the_Brain_pt._2.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) The World is Obsessed with Facebook, a staggering kinetic typography video on how much the world uses Facebook. - KB 2) Negative+Math+Stereotypes=Too few women TAT Women earned only 18% of all Computer Science degrees and made up less than 25% of the workers in engineering- and computer-related fields in 2009. These statistics stand in stark contrast to the gains they have achieved in law, medicine, and other areas...
Feb 26, 2011
SaTP_37_Learning_and_the_Brain_Conference.mp3 Listen on Posterous 1) iPad passes Reed College higher ed test TAT (tuaw.com) Reed College took the Apple iPad for a spin in 2010 and was pleased with the tablet's performance as an educational tool . 2) A Dozen or So Reasons I Applaud Lamar High School for Ditching School Library Books by Lisa Nielsen TAT (Tech&Learning) Librarians, educators, and parents are up in arms after Principal James McSwain of Lamar High School in Houston, Texas ditched...
Feb 21, 2011
SaTP_#36_Nextvista.org_and_Rushton_Hurley.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) Introducing TEDbooks We're thrilled to announce the launch of TEDBooks, an imprint of short nonfiction works designed for digital distribution. Shorter than traditional books, TEDBooks run less than 20,000 words each -- long enough to explain a powerful idea, but short enough to be read in a single sitting. … Does this mean the dumbing down of reading? Actually, we suspect people reading TEDBooks will be tradi...
Feb 10, 2011
SaTP_35_State_of_the_Union.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) Kevin’s new Chrome Laptop 2) Internet Down in Egypt . Yahoo and Fox News - Thurs pm CAIRO – Internet service in Egypt was disrupted and the government deployed an elite special operations force in Cairo on Friday, hours before an anticipated new wave of anti-government protests. Jeff Jarvis on the Huffington Post Support for the Disconnected in Egypt 3) Keep All the Top Teachers - OpEd by Michelle Rhee, Sunday (Jan 22) - NYT...
Feb 09, 2011
SaTP_34_Cal_Leage_of_Schools_PLC_and_Tech_Conference.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the week: 1) In Florida, virtual classrooms with no teachers - NYTimes MIAMI — On the first day of her senior year at North Miami Beach Senior High School, Naomi Baptiste expected to be greeted by a teacher when she walked into her precalculus class. “All there were were computers in the class,” said Naomi, who walked into a room of confused students. “We found out that over the summer they signed us up for thes...
Feb 07, 2011
SaTP33.mp3 Listen on Posterous 1) Rethinking Advanced Placement NYTimes - KB “Next month, the board, the nonprofit organization that owns the A.P. exams as well as the SAT, will release a wholesale revamping of A.P. biology as well as United States history — with 387,000 test-takers the most popular A.P. subject. A preview of the changes shows that the board will slash the amount of material students need to know for the tests and provide, for the first time, a curriculum framework for what cour...
Jan 14, 2011
SaTP32.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) Teacher Ratings Get New Look, Pushed by a Rich Watcher NYTimes KB 2) Rethinking Bullying: Kids Don't See It As Bullying TechDirt TAT Danah Boyd, who actually studies social interactions online among young people, recently put up a fascinating post about how kids and adults seem to totally talk past each other on these issues, in large part, because kids don't think of these things as "bullying." 3) Edmodo Is a Social Network for Teachers and St...
Dec 22, 2010
SaTP31.mp3 Listen on Posterous Special Guest - Ellen Masten, Academic and College Counselor Pacific Collegiate School News of the Week: 1) A world of misery left by bullying The Boston Globe - KB A dozen years have passed since Anthony Testaverde roamed the halls of Gloucester High School in fear. Yet the 29-year-old remembers the bullying like it was yesterday: the unsupervised locker room that flooded him with terror. The boy who held his arms while another classmate punched him. The day they ...
Dec 01, 2010
SaTP30.mp3 Listen on Posterous Guests Ellen Masten Academic and College Counselor Pacific Collegiate School and Michele Radcliffe, Director of College Counseling at York School News of the Week: 1) Thomas Friedman’s “ Teaching For America ” Op-Ed piece in Sunday’s NYT Honoring teachers as professionals, preparing & compensating them accordingly; role of parents - The more we demand from teachers the more we have to demand from students and parents. 2) Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distractio...
Nov 28, 2010
Schools_and_Tech_29_The_Federal_Ed-Tech_Plan.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) How Kinect Got an Autistic Kid Gaming (from Gizmodo) GamingNexus editor John Yan has a four-year-old son with a mild form of autism. The little guy's tried to play 360 and PS3 but has trouble getting a hold on the controllers. With Kinect, though, he was an instant pro. 2) Electrical Brain Stimulation Improves Math Skills - New Scientist 3) Teacher’s Death Exposes Tensions in Los Angeles - NYT When The Los ...
Nov 16, 2010
Schools_and_Tech_28_The_Education_Project.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) The Truthy Project TAT Truthy is a research project that helps you understand how memes spread online. With our images and statistics, you can help identify misuse of Twitter. 2) AP History Students in Virginia High School Forbidden to Research Outside Classroom TAT ABC News: Students in one Virginia history course will have to take what they learn in the classroom at face value, as their teachers forbid the u...
Nov 13, 2010
Schools_and_Tech_27_Waiting_for_Superman.mp3 Listen on Posterous Schools and Tech Podcast Episode #27 News of the Week: 1) Cal State Bans Students from Using Online Note-Selling Service Indeed, the provision of the state education code does some raise questions about intellectual property and the ownership of ideas and course content. If the students don't own their class-notes - or at least, cannot sell them commercially - who does? The professor? The university? The state? 2) UK: Every email a...
Nov 09, 2010
Schools_and_Tech_#26_Dr._Collins_Rethinking_Education_in_the_Age_of_Technology.mp3 Listen on Posterous Dr. Allan Collins, Professor Emeritus of learning sciences at Northwestern and author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America http://allancollins.northwestern.edu/index.html When we acknowledge that 3-5% of current K-12 students are being home-schooled (and that that number may grow to 15-18% by 2020), that distance and adult education p...
Oct 27, 2010
SaTP25.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) Bing’s “ Our School Needs ” contest - prizes up to $100,000 - Deadline Oct 22 2) NYT Pictorial Timeline of The Evolution of Learning Machines 3) The demise of XMarks & Bloglines. Where do we go from here? XmarksPremium Pledge? 4) Skype Ideas and Resources http://techlearning.com/blogs/32874 5) A little dated: Blogpost by Shelly Blake-Plock Increase Student Engagement by Getting Rid of Textbooks TAT 6) On a related note - kno.com - Snazzy bu...
Oct 03, 2010
SaTP24.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits - NYTimes 2) In a New Role, Teachers Move to Run Schools - NYTimes NEWARK — Shortly after landing at Malcolm X Shabazz High School as a Teach for America recruit, Dominique D. Lee grew disgusted with a system that produced ninth graders who could not name the seven continents or the governor of their state. He started wondering: What if I were in charge? Three years later, Mr. Lee, at just 25, is get...
Sep 14, 2010
Today on Schools and Tech we’ve got more controversy over teacher evaluations, gender bias in favor of girls and the fate of the complete book in the hands of generation text. Our main topic is service-learning. SaTP23.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battle - NYT - CT the value-added modeling system calculates the value teachers add to their students’ achievement, based on changes in test scores from year to year and how the students perform compare...
Sep 09, 2010
SaTP22.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) Later school start times and Zzzs to A's A growing body of evidence demonstrates that growing bodies benefit from more sleep. When districts push back the start of the school day, good things happen. KB 2) TeacherMate - http://www.innovationsforlearning.org/about_teachermate.php RL 3 ) Monterey College of Law Pilots iPad Programs for Students and Faculty As the centerpiece of a new mobile computing initiative, Monterey College of Law in Califor...
Aug 31, 2010
SaTP21.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week: 1) Waiting for Superman http://waitingforsuperman.com 2) Helping autistic children with iOS devices - TUAW - more help for spectrum kids 3) A College Student Reviews a Smartpen - NYT - a mixed bag 4) Inkling ... interactive college etexts for iPad... cool... A unique feature lets you highlight text and create notes which can be shared over the air with fellow students or teachers. Once a note is displayed on another person's iPad, s/he can respond...
Aug 24, 2010
SaTP20.mp3 Listen on Posterous Schools and Tech Podcast Episode #20 Shownotes News of the Week: 1) Who's teaching L.A.'s kids? A LA Times analysis, using data largely ignored by LAUSD, looks at which educators help students learn, and which hold them back. 2) ADHD Diagnosis Rate May Vary by Age at School Entry The timing of a child's entry into kindergarten may influence the chances of receiving a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which suggests that some diagnoses ar...
Aug 24, 2010
SaTP19.mp3 Listen on Posterous It's back to school time! News of the Week: 1) And just like that it’s gone? Google Wave development discontinued TAT 2) Civil War History Class as iPad app TAT 3) Putting Our Brains on Hold - NYT op ed by BOB HERBERT According to a new report from the College Board, the U.S. is 12th among developed nations in the percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds with college degrees. The report said, “As America’s aging and highly educated work force moves into retirement, the na...
Aug 17, 2010
