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POPSWhyville A teaching community for young children using virtual world features similar to Second Life
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POPSSocial Software in the Enterprise Socialtext released an update to the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) case study on enterprise wiki and blog use. Based on the usability interviews performed by Suw Charman, the case addresses ease of use and adoption issues that lead to wiki traffic outperforming the intranet within six months. Specific use cases such as managing meetings, brainstorming and publishing and creating presentations collaboratively are explored in depth.
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POPSGame Theory - an example of the future of the book Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book, I created this website as a way to think to about games. Games, as in computer games, are the subject of my next book, GAM3R 7H30RY. I am interested in two questions. 1. can we explore games as allegories for the world we live in? 2. can there be a critical theory of games?
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POPSPatent Busting Project The Patent Busting Project provides a great vehicle for mounting a systematic legal challenge to bogus patents. Does the Blackboard patent qualify?
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POPSEducation Competencies The Education Competencies define many of the attributes, behaviors, areas of knowledge, skills, and abilities that will lead to superior job performance and professional growth in the education field. These profiles define the critical competencies school leaders and teachers in the 21st century should possess.
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POPSNewAssignment: A New Way Toward Collaborative Journalism As he explains on his Pressthink blog today, Jay Rosen has taken his biggest step yet into the world he’s been writing about for some time now. With the help of several grants he’s starting NewAssignment.net, based on this notion: “Reporter + smart mob + editor with a fund and backers get the story the press pack wouldn’t, couldn’t or didn’t.” Needless to say (because I’ve been saying it repeatedly), I’m an enthusiast. I continue to believe that the people who could pull this off best are the traditional media, and that there will soon be some amazing examples. But the media business can’t do everything, and we need to see experiments of this sort.
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POPSReport from the National Summit on School Design Issued This new resource for community leaders, educators and designers provides eight recommendations to help create schools that encourage student achievement and stronger communities. The 70-page Report from the National Summit on School Design is intended to help communities make better decisions about the approximately $30 billion spent annually on building and renovating school facilities in the United States. The report’s recommendations reflect the unprecedented collaboration of more than 200 public, private, and civic sector leaders and experts who participated in the three-day National Summit on School Design late last year, which was presented by the American Architectural Foundation and KnowledgeWorks Foundation.
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POPSReforms That Could Help Narrow the Achievement Gap Without complementary investments in early childhood education, health care, housing, after-school and summer programs, and other social and economic supports, the academic achievement gap between lower- and middle-class children will never be closed. In this new Policy Perspectives paper, Richard Rothstein, Research Associate of the Economic Policy Institute, outlines a series of reforms, in addition to school improvement, that could help narrow the achievement gap.
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POPSProject Inkwell drafts specs for school tech Hoping to accelerate the adoption and deployment of age-appropriate, one-to-one computing devices in K-12 schools, the members of Project Inkwell say a longstanding disconnect between the education community and technology manufacturers has put schools in the difficult position of taking solutions designed for the business world and adapting them to meet the unique needs of students.
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POPSNCLB has led to gains in achievement--but a narrower curricular focus The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is having a significant impact on the day-to-day activities of school systems, prompting districts to align instruction with state standards and use test data to adjust teaching, according to a new report from the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Education Policy (CEP), which tracks implementation of the law.
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POPSWhat We Must Do to Create a System That Prepares Students for College Success
Millions of high school seniors have signed college acceptance letters as of May 1, but does making it into college ensure academic success and a degree? A new Policy Perspectives paper from WestEd argues that high schools and colleges haven't aligned their separate education systems enough to eliminate college remedial work, decrease college dropout rates, and speed the time toward earning a baccalaureate degree. David T. Conley outlines the alarming indicators of a system that is not functioning as efficiently as it could: (1) Between 30 and 60 percent of students now require remedial college courses, an increase over previous years; (2) For those who make it to college graduation, on average it now takes six years to earn a four-year college degree; and (3) While more companies now expect a college degree as a baseline for employment, the percentage of high school students who go on to earn bachelor's degrees has remained relatively constant over the past 25 years.
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POPSLearning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice In cities across the nation, low-income African American and Latino parents hope that their children’s education will bring a better life. But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. Unless things change dramatically, more than half the students will never graduate and many will face a life of poverty-wage work. Learning Power documents a radical approach to school reform.
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POPSThe Education Revolution The Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to advance learner-centered approaches to education. AERO is considered by many to be the primary hub of communications and support for educational alternatives around the world.
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POPSProfessional Development Analysis LINK BETWEEN HIGH-QUALITY TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & IMPROVED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AFFIRMED A new study from Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) has found that professional development for teachers can have a positive impact on student achievement if it: (1) is sustained over time; (2) focuses on specific content areas or instructional strategies; (3) supports the collective learning of most, if not all, teachers in a school; (4) aligns with school and teacher goals; and (5) provides opportunities for teachers to practice and apply new knowledge. McREL researchers also found, however, that in general, teacher professional development does not reflect these characteristics. As a result, it has had mixed results in improving student achievement. McREL recommends that those responsible for planning professional development ensure that teacher training focuses on particular areas of teacher and student needs.
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