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Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Education Ride 365: Smile, Your Bad Behavior Is On My Smart Phone! My blog posts on April 17th and 20th covered aspects of student use of smart phones in the classroom. Recently I came across another thought-provoking report about smart phone use in classrooms. This time teachers are being urged to use their smart phones to record proceedings in class----> specifically, bad behavior by students. A major teacher association is encouraging teachers to do what other teachers have been sanctioned for. At the root of the issue is whether or not the classroom is a public forum, as many other parts of the school have been designated. Posted at 3:12 PM (permalink)
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Friday, April 20, 2012 Education Ride 365: Flipping Our Paradigm Can Benefit Students, Parents, & Teachers Alike!One recurring theme I have heard from parents across the country over the course of Education Ride 365---regarding their involvement in the education process of their children---is a feeling of inadequacy about helping their youngsters with homework. Parents are typically a decade or two removed from their experience in the classroom, the information is often taught differently than it was when they were in school, and the level of academic rigor tends to be greater than they recall being exposed to. In my last post I wrote about a school district in Texas that is encouraging students to record their teacher's lesson on smart phones. It occurred to me later another likely beneficiary of this practice (or, perhaps better yet, school-produced recorded lessons) is the parent trying to help their child with homework...and even the parent who wants to continue learning or refresh lessons learned years before when he/she was in school. A comment left in response to my last post noted an emerging trend being referred to as "flipped classrooms." The commenter wrote: A related emerging practice is to use video to reverse the roles of
classwork and homework. (Sorry, I don't remember the name of it.)
Teachers record videos of their lectures and assign viewing them as
homework. Then class time is spent in applying the lesson, working
through problems, clarifying and so on. It also provides the benefit
that class time can be spent in students helping students, which is
beneficial for both the helper and helpee.
It seems to me that this practice will likely benefit students, parents, and teachers alike. Here are just a few ways that jump right out at me: Students:
There are no doubt other benefits for students, parents, and teachers. What do you think? Posted at 2:41 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Education Ride 365: The Spotlight Can Create Harsh Shadows And Illuminate ImperfectionsFascinating. Controversial. Thought-provoking. A district in north Texas is allowing students to use their cell phones to record lessons in class. The video story embedded below explains. The print story can be accessed here. Clearly this practice can improve student performance. One could argue that recording all lessons---or at least crucial parts of lessons---and posting them on teacher websites for later review---or viewing by students who missed class---would be a sound practice towards improving student performance. It is easy enough to do. In fact, a teacher or school produced video may be preferable to a classroom full of smartphones recording at once. Having said that, it is predictable that there would be significant opposition to this practice. It reminds me of when I would start a hypothetical conversation with a group of teachers about the idea of having model classrooms on campus designed with one-way glass and a viewing area for observers behind the glass. Other teachers, administrators, and even (possibly) family members could observe class without students knowing they were doing so. For one, imagine the deterrence factor to poor student behavior if they never knew who was watching from behind the glass. When I threw this idea out there to start a discussion, it was very common that excellent teachers loved the idea, mediocre teachers were quite lukewarm about it, and the least effective teachers thought it was a terrible idea! Of course, there were exceptions. The idea of lessons being video recorded on student smart phones---like this district is now allowing---is not much different in regard to the implications for teachers. It is interesting to listen to the teacher association's basis for opposing the practice as presented in the story below. Does anyone on Earth really believe their stated reasons here for why they oppose this practice? Posted at 9:37 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Education Ride 365: Imagine The Implications Of This Technology For The Future Of EducationIf you are curious about how technology may soon evolve, you should watch this: Imagine! Posted at 10:03 AM (permalink)
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Thursday, April 28, 2011 Trends: Even Bob Dylan Is Probably Shocked By How Rapidly The Times They Are A-Changin'! In the manner of those beyond a certain age, I am fond of thinking about all the ways life is different now than it was just a few years ago! Many reading this can go back further than my recollection of sitting by our dial phone for hours waiting for that certain someone to call. (Just about the time you couldn't take putting off a bathroom run...the phone would ring when you were clear across the house!) Before voice mail, we relied on very unreliable micro-cassette recorders to (when it worked or another family member didn't tape over it) save voice messages for us. Before that, there was no choice but to wait by the phone for extended periods of time just to make sure one didn't miss "that" important call! Nowadays, many of us actually get nervous if we leave home without our cell phone! We are constantly "plugged in." What if something were to happen like you run out of gas or need to reach out to someone immediately?! The story below documents the trend of a dying art form from a near bygone era! The practice of writing and reading cursive is so pre-21st century that it has become perfectly cryptic to many of our young people. Most schools that are still teaching the art of writing in cursive have cut way back on its emphasis. Here are a couple of interesting quotes from the full article you can access from The New York Times by clicking the image below: ...."many districts now teach cursive only in third grade, with fewer lessons." “Schools today, we say we’re preparing our kids for the 21st century,” said Jacqueline DeChiaro, the principal of Van Schaick Elementary School in Cohoes, N.Y., who is debating whether to cut cursive. “Is cursive really a 21st-century skill?” With schools focused on preparing students for standardized tests, there is often not enough time to teach handwriting, educators said. “If you’re a school or a teacher, you can bet that if kids are being tested on it, that it’s going to receive a priority emphasis in your curriculum,” 
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Thursday, April 7, 2011 Trends: Are Online Courses Up To Snuff?The New York Times article below examines the trend towards online learning experiences as an alternative to "in the seat" instruction. This is a major trend, that could be just as impactful to education in America as the charter school trend has been to public education. Will most all learning experiences eventually be conducted in the "virtual world?" No doubt it is a matter of degree and complexion....rather than an either/or. In the near-term, the article below considers the quality---including rigor---of online courses. A couple of years ago now, I took a hiatus from school administration to work on some automation projects in the private sector that allow schools to work better. I'd been consulting on one of these projects for years. It is EdClick. You can go here to see more of this story. Another major project I embarked on was with a distance education company that partners with colleges and universities to help them deliver their courses online. Essentially, this company facilitates distance learning--->from course production to student recruitment to student retention to monitoring of students....and so on. They basically provide a near turn-key solution to the delivery of online content. I worked with them through the Fall before deciding that their model was not for me...and that my opportunities with EdClick and other projects interested me more. Their model was high volume delivery of inexpensive educational opportunities. That is not necessarily bad. "Scalability" was a driving mantra. The online landscape (and technology more generally speaking) is so hyper-evolutionary that the currents are swift. Done wrong, online education can be BIG business at the expense of quality education. I suspect, though, that online learning experiences are much like "in the seat" learning experiences---->specifically, they are inconsistent. I heard a Governor recently say that a parent knows within a week or two if their child has a bad teacher or not. Isn't that so true! There are both quality and inadequate teachers in our schools, just like there are both quality and inadequate online learning experiences. What are your thoughts? From the NY Times article: "Advocates of such courses say they allow schools to offer not only makeup courses, the fastest-growing area, but also a richer menu of electives and Advanced Placement classes when there are not enough students to fill a classroom.
But critics say online education is really driven by a desire to spend
less on teachers and buildings, especially as state and local budget
crises force deep cuts to education. They note that there is no sound
research showing that online courses at the K-12 level are comparable to
face-to-face learning." Click the photo below to access the complete story.  Posted at 5:54 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Trends: Going To School Without Going To SchoolWill this sort of approach to accessing education begin trending even more greatly than other "school choice" options, such as charter schools? The Texas Virtual School Network is government supporting the education of students through electronic means. In their words: "The 80th Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 1788, authorizing the Texas Education Agency to establish and administer a state virtual school network to provide education to students through electronic means. An electronic course is defined as a course in which instruction and content are delivered primarily over the Internet; a student and teacher are in different locations for a majority of the student's instructional period; most instructional activities take place in an online environment; the online instructional activities are integral to the academic program; extensive communication between a student and a teacher and among students is emphasized; and a student is not required to be located on the physical premises of a school district or open-enrollment charter school."  Posted at 10:08 AM (permalink)
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Thursday, February 17, 2011 Communication: Exclusive Thoughts Are Not Exclusive Once On The NetEducators are public figures of a sort, more so every day with the advance of our technologically-connected world. Particularly when they put themselves out there for the world to see...and read. Have you had a frustrating day? Are you a bit more of a cup half empty--- rather than a cup half full--- person? Maybe just today? Regardless...educators must be careful what they project to the world online! What an educator considers to be pretty justifiable behavior can be grounds for suspension or worse. Here is an example of a teacher in Pennsylvania who is getting some unwelcome attention for referring to her school's students as "rude, lazy, disengaged whiners" on her personal blog: Posted at 9:45 AM (permalink)
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Monday, February 14, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Mathematicians---->Are There Enough Email Addresses To Go Around?This is an interesting article from CNN.com that Math teachers and others could use to get the attention of young people. Young people love the internet; these numbers are mind boggling! If you know someone who can use this in their classroom or home---or anyone who just likes interesting information about the evolution of the internet... Posted at 6:32 PM (permalink)
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Friday, January 7, 2011 Trends: Most Americans Are Bilingual After AllI thought this was an interesting article in The Hartford Courant about the increasing frustration level of many college professors regarding student use of abbreviated (some would say "insanely" adulterated) English in place of proper English. Many secondary teachers no doubt feel the same. What are your thoughts?  Posted at 9:45 AM (permalink)
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Web 2.0 Linking People In Ways That Are Profoundly Changing The Human ExperienceThis is an interesting four minute video regarding the evolution of Web 2.0, produced by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University. There are other great ones out there on the topic, some I'll include in future posts. So many things us adults must "rethink" in order to "think 21st Century..." Check It Out! Pass it On! Posted at 2:46 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Education Funny: We All Experience Learning Curves This is a technology help desk joke. Learning curves are part of the human experience, as is resistance to change! Enjoy! |