In Retro Cite 07/14/2012
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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Gooru: Fantastic new education search engine
(via @ktenkely) “Gooru is a education search engine for learning that helps teachers find standards aligned content and study guides. 5th-12th grade math and science topics are covered and include resources like digital textbooks, animations and instructor videos.”
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(via @LarryFerlazzo) “I just don’t understand why “reformers” like the Gates Foundation and others continue to take tools that have incredible potential for teacher development as a formative assessment and destroy their many positive attributes in the name of summative assessment.”
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(via @mcleod) “At the end, the video states Creativity is not inspired by the pressure of time but by the freedom, the playfulness, and the fun.”
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Do you waste learning time? « What Ed Said
(via @whatedsaid) “There are so many routines and procedures that happen in classrooms, just because that’s the way they have ‘always’ been done.”
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Free Technology for Teachers: How Secure Is Your Password? Let’s Find Out
(via @rmbyrne) “How Secure Is My Password? allows you to see how long it would take a person or a computer to guess your password.”
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Have You Found Your Soul? My Advice to a New Teacher
(via @pernilleripp) “What does it mean to be you in a classroom? To truly put yourself out there, invest fully, wholeheartedly, some would even say foolishly. What will you give to the students, because teaching is about giving and not just knowledge, but giving the essence of you?”
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Blaming students and technology instead of us | Dangerously Irrelevant
(via @mcleod) “Classroom management stems from good instruction. Engaging learning environments mitigate ‘off-task’ behavior. We need to stop blaming students or laptops for our own failure to create better learning spaces.”
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Focus on cSHED to Challenge Students Meaningfully
(via @ryanbretag) “We would benefit greatly from seeing learning as a process of knowing (content), doing (skills), thinking (habits of mind), and being (experiences & dispositions) – cSHED. When this process is amplified by a culture rooted in learning, unlearning, and relearning, we have the type of culture I think is needed in education if we want students to feel challenged in a meaningful ways that are relevant to their lives.”
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More Ideas for Flipping Faculty Meetings – The Tempered Radical
(via @plugusin) Here are three (resources) that are definitely worth your time if this is a topic that floats your professional boat:
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Learning Hipstamatic | Rush the Iceberg
(via @rushtheliceberg) “Hipstamatic certainly seems daunting at first tap, especially if you want to make photocopies of your world. I do not want to photocopy my world; rather, I want to tell stories. Stories have nuance, metaphor, and change along with us, just as a great picture should. Hipstamatic helps me tell stories…stories I often did not see when I first took the picture.”
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4 Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks | Men with Pens
(via Mark Swedberg) “Want to know the real problem? Safety. Anybody can draft a catchy headline or write a how-to list, but how many people are actually willing to cut through the generic bullshit and actually expose their ideas to public criticism? It’s gutsy as hell, but it’s the key that will earn you respect and readership.”
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Education Rethink: Teachers Aren’t Doctors
(via @johntspencer) “On the other hand, teaching is inherently relational. Going back to the anonymous comment, if a teacher said to me, “I can treat your child as if I was his father or as if I was his doctor,” I would choose father. I would rather have my children in an environment that feels warm and welcoming than in one that feels clinical, cold, and antiseptic.”
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Two Insightful Pieces on Blogging
(via @ryanbretag) “Ileana Jimenez recent interview and Shelley Wright recent blog post are two insightful pieces as we progress with our blogfolio movement.”
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(via @scotmcknight) There are some arts that have been lost, none more than diagramming sentences.
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Isn’t Your Child More Than a Number? | GeekMom | Wired.com
(via @bonnyglen) “Poet-songwriters Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Barry Lane teamed up to create this poignant melody, which grew out of their concern over the American public school system’s obsession with standardized test scores. VanDerwater and Lane are both writing teachers who work closely with children and are keenly aware of how inadequately a test score reflects the many facets and talents of their students.”
