Archive for the 'Teaching' Category
08-08-29
Tags:Education parenting reading Teaching
Daniel Akst is a successful writer with at least 3 books in print and numerous articles on NYT, WSJ, and LAT. So when he speaks about parenting and the cure of education, it has a distinct tone of a successful person.
I will refrain from making comments here — […]
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08-08-25
Tags:Education reading Teaching Reading the PISA 2006 report, I was surprised to find no mentioning of USA reading scores in the Reading section. They did participate, but according to
InternationalEd.org | PISA
The PISA has been given every three years since 2000 to fifteen-year-olds in the thirty member countries of the Organisation for Economic […]
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08-07-17
Tags:Computing Education Teaching Watch List AppleInsider | Apple filing takes Podcasts to the next level Technologically this makes a lot of sense, and it will be a hit among Universities. Watch for a iTunesU boom. Ironically, tools like this can eventually kill the lecture as we know it.
A student in my lecture […]
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08-05-30
Tags:CiteULike Computing Paperville psy145 Psy97 Research Teaching
I just noticed a link to post to CiteULike while looking up this paper DIVERSITY: Culture, Gender, and Math — Guiso et al. 320 (5880): 1164 — Science
The paper itself isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but is nonetheless a useful update for teaching.
I also […]
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08-05-27
Tags:adoption Paperville Psy97 psychology race Teaching
This is material for teaching Developmental Psych: De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized, according to NY Times. I skimmed through the executive summary of the report. What struck me was that the psychological and sociological publications cited are mostly 5-15 years old. It looks […]
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08-05-26
Tags:Education psy145 spelling spelling bees Teaching
Get ready for the most intense sport for kids under 15 — Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Broadcast Times
The Quarterfinals air live on ESPN360.com from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 29.
The […]
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08-05-16
Tags:Education English psy145 reading Teaching A number of reports from The Primary Review are quite interesting.
May 16, 2008 Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools: processes and contexts Press release: Teaching matters: the last three interim reports from the Primary Review start the countdown to the final report
Overview briefing document: […]
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08-05-06
Tags:Education psy145 Teaching Sara Mead took a more careful look at the latest Reading First report on her blog Early Ed Watch. The discussion focused on the curious finding that late-awardees did better than the earlier cohort.
A Second Look at Reading First | New America Blogs
… researchers found evidence of both increased instructional time […]
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08-05-05
Tags:Education NCLB psy145 reading reading first Teaching
The study of Reading First is not complete, but the early results are not promising. Not at all.
If the program continues to do nothing, it should be abandoned. There’s more than one way to teach a kid to read. Let’s try […]
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08-05-01
Tags:Education NCLB Paperville politics psy145 reading first Teaching It’s on the news: Reading First is this much effective. Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report - Introduction PDF: Full Report (1.64 MB) Created under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, the Reading First program provides assistance to states and districts […]
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08-04-26
Tags:Paperville Research Statstics Teaching I knew F-test is generally robust against violations of normality. I also knew there are a lot of subtleties in this. But I never looked up the sources, until now. This is a good place to start: JSTOR: Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 17, No. 4, (1992 ), pp. 315-339
Summarizing […]
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08-04-23
Tags:Computing Teaching Watch List It’s the end of the semester, and final papers are due. As always, some will be late. I have a student emailing me the paper in Word, with a note that he forgot to bring the hard copy to class. In this case a Microsoft Word Metadata Viewer comes in […]
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08-03-31
Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching Here again is a news story about reading that ends with an advertisement in disguise. Compare this scien-fo-mercial to the poli-fo-mercial. See for yourself how the same tactics were used.
Researcher believes early exposure to the written word can help toddlers read
A U.S. infant researcher says your baby or […]
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08-03-30
Tags:Education psy145 Teaching
The new curriculum is passed today without the suggested reading list. Here are some of the books mentioned in the March 19 draft.
Star-Telegram.com: | 03/25/2008 | New curriculum plan for English includes suggested reading list Suggested readingHere are some of the books that the proposed curriculum says students should "consider" […]
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08-03-24
Tags:Education NCLB Teaching David Hoff of NCLB: Act II reported:
… Kati Haycock of the Education Trust is looking to create education’s version of the National Institutes of Health. "What passes for evidence [in education] is pathetic," she said. She’s also trying to find ways to get teachers the curricula and materials they say they need, citing […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education psy145 reading Teaching At the end of the YouTube Reading story, the question was the Minnesota reading instruction competence assessment was. From the statute page:
4.14 Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 122A.18, is amended by adding a subdivision 4.15to read: […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching A classic example of PR around reading politics. Watch how the reporter baits with YouTube and switch to promote a piece of legislation.
Woodbury Bulletin | Mother uses YouTube to help convey literacy message
A Woodbury mother has turned to the website YouTube to spread the word about […]
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08-03-13
Tags:Education math Teaching Like the Reading Panel back in 2000, this Math panel report is likely to have significant impace on math education in the US. The goals, though, are moderate: Benchmarks in Math Education Fluency With Whole Numbers
1 By the end of Grade 3, students should be proficient with the addition and subtraction of whole […]
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08-03-07
Tags:Education Linguistics Teaching Watch List
UCTV–University of California Television has lots of back programs online, via YouTube or podcasts. Here are a couple of interesting ones:
http://uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=11187
Grey Matters: Understanding Language (#11187; 58 minutes; 7/19/2006) Why are humans the only species to have language? Is there […]
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08-02-15
Tags:Psy97 psychology Teaching
BJS: Basic Causality & Animacy Demo
For our review article, we also created an analogue of the infamous ‘perceptual animacy’ demonstration of Heider and Simmel (1944). This is provided here both with symmetric ‘blocks’ as shapes, and also with oriented ‘darts’ as shapes. Though Heider & Simmel did not study these […]
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