Originally posted on Virtual School Meanderings:
And another item from yesterday’s inbox… View This Email Online COMPLIMENTARY ISSUE BRIEF: Mobility Tech Transforms Higher Education: 5 Key Trends to Watch Hello Michael, If you’re responsible for IT operations on a college campus, you know students and faculty are big fans of mobile technologies—and they expect to…
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OC Gun Shop Sees Increase In Business Since Conn. Tragedy
Investing in our schools
Originally posted on Always teaching, always learning:
**Warning** Venting Session I don’t understand how schools in affluent districts choose not to support teachers or invest in the school in general. I walk around the halls in my school and heaters are broken, graffiti on the walls, and doors are broken all around the building. I…
Violence, Mindfulness
Originally posted on Portland Mindfulness Therapy:
I cannot think of any image that is appropriate so I won’t post one. With great grief, we acknowledge the recent events in our nation, in which innocents have died pointlessly and violently. It is the way of mindfulness to first feel what we are feeling. Before any effective…
Something to think about…
Community Healing Network, Inc.
Community Healing Network, Inc. “Black people have been burdened by the lie of Black inferiority for far too long. It is well past time for us to free ourselves and our children. Take the Pledge to Defy the Lie and Embrace the Truth (CHN, November 29, 2012).” — I have taken the pledge…will you?
Residential Individual Treatment and Interventions
Educational Equality?
Originally posted on Enchanted Wonders:
Achieving equality in education starts by recognizing that nothing is equal to begin with. Actually, everything is pretty much dynamic. It starts with the obvious understanding that children come from different family structures and different socio-economic backgrounds and ends with the recognition that children have diverse abilities and these abilities…
6 Ways MOOCs Will Reshape Education
Originally posted on Education Stormfront:
It’s official. The hot buzz word in higher ed this year is MOOC. This stands for Massive Online Open Course. It’s a new type of online class where you have thousands of people in each class and they take it for free (or very low cost). Up till now, you…
Assessments
Originally posted on Always teaching, always learning:
I think I’m on the right track…summative assessments or formative assessments, however you want to categorize them, they are “driving” the educational world. How do we measure a student’s ability strictly based on filling in circles on a scantron? On one side of the coin…
Bree E. Cook, PsyD 