Monthly Archives: December 2009

TFK Person of the Year 2009 Call for Votes

TIME FOR KIDS (TFK) issued a call for votes for Person of the Year 2009. Who do you think was the most important newsmaker of 2009? Read about the nine nominees and cast your vote for the TIME FOR KIDS … Continue reading

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Enhanced Daily Learning Plan

The Enhanced Daily Learning Plan describes three (3) steps to use aLEAP (a Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm) to organize a lesson. The plan is based on relationships among research findings about how people learn described in aLEAP. It permits teachers … Continue reading

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World Maths Day 2010

Failsworth Sports College World Maths Day 2010 site offers a short video of third graders in contest mode! You’ll see their smiles and agonies as they race through problems and get instant results. (Yes, maths is correct in the UK … Continue reading

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Pattern Variables of Learning: Abstract of 2nd Dimension of aLEAP

This installment of aLEAP (A Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm) offers the abstract draft of Pattern Variables of Learning. This project leads to an automatic analysis of learning efficiency with Tablet and other mobile PCs. The second dimension of aLEAP consists … Continue reading

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What Your Suit Says about You

“When I teach my class of college students, themselves arrayed in garb ranging from gaudy to grunge to garbage I say, ‘Why do I wear a suit? Because it’s easy, yes. Because it makes me feel professional, yes. But also … Continue reading

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App-Phone Revolution Changes Learning Options

“We are now witnessing the fastest evolution of a mass technology to date in what’s also unmistakably the emergence of the next big genre of computing: the multipurpose, endlessly modifiable “app phone. (…. They) have transformed the very character of … Continue reading

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Digitally Speaking about Digital Learning Teacher Talk

Wake County, NC public school sixth grade teacher Bill Ferriter said, “… it is essential to provide our students with opportunities to become networked, collaborative and globally active learners” in order for them to compete globally. Teachers will find his … Continue reading

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Retaining Teachers: Teacher Retention, Attrition, and Mobility Studies

LPH has an interesting site that offers empirical research studies about teacher retention, attrition, and mobility. “… in an average school year, approximately 1,000 teachers quit each school day and on an average school day an additional 1,000 teachers migrate … Continue reading

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Glory and Exhilaration of Genuine Effort

“Most people go through life without ever discovering the existnce of that whole field of endeavor which we describe as second wind. Whether mentally or physically occupied most people give up at the first appearance of exhaustion. Thus they never … Continue reading

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Gates Among those "Assaulting" Public Education

(Venture Philanthropy) VP not only pushes privatization and deregulation, the most significant policy dictates of neoliberalism1 by championing charter schools, voucher schemes, private scholarship tax credits, and corporate models of curriculum, administration, and teacher preparation and practice, but Venture Philanthropy … Continue reading

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