Wednesday October 3rd is the American Association of School Librarians' (AASL) Banned Websites Awareness Day (#BWAD on Twitter), which provides policy makers, educators, parents, and students with an opportunity to talk about the impact of arbitrary filtering and overly restrictive policy in K-12 learning environments. The librarian community is championing the initiative, and they're engaged in a conversation about it with authors, policy-makers, bloggers, educators and students and they want to hear from you! There's...
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Saturday, 29 September 2012
The hottest posts that everyone's reading.
Here’s the roundup of what's been popular on The Innovative Educator blog this week. Below you’ll see the top weekly posts along with the number of pageviews. I hope there's something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired, share it with others and/or leave a comment.ArticleViewsRomney Promises Teen He Won't Back Down from High ...Sep 26, 2012, 4 comments23913 ways to measure students, teachers, & schools wi...Sep 26, 2012, 1 comment1832Cure ADHD without Drugs with These Resources from ...Feb 5, 2011,...
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Big news! Turns out it is okay if you don’t go to college.
Didja hear it? If you were able to catch any of NBC’s Education Nation conversation, It was ever so subtle, but it was there. The part of the conversation that disturbingly has been the banned from the Common Core College and Career Readiness mantra.If you heard it you noticed that the language is changing, slowly but surely, from the lips of the politicians, corporate funders, and even from the administrators who feel they must not deviate...
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
3 ways to assess students, teachers, & schools without standardized tests
A theme at this week’s Education Nation was the failure of standardized tests as a measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness. Those who know better know that standardized tests tell us more about a student’s language acquisition, parental involvement, poverty level, and developmental level than they do about teacher effectiveness or student ability. But, it is hard for anyone to imagine how we would possible assess student, teacher,...
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Romney Promises Teen He Won't Back Down from High Stakes Tests
Nikhyl Goyal: Considering standardized testing has increased to historic levels causing a lot of teaching to the test, billions of dollars spent, and killing creativity, how would you as president change this trend? Mitt Romney: I don't have a better model than a testing system. ------- And there ya have it.Nikhil Goyal, the teenage author of One Size Does Not Fit All, presented Mitt Romney with a...
Back to school reveals that we need to refocus on what matters for success
This American Life episode of Back to School questions what really matters when it comes to helping students find success and looks at what teachers can truly be responsible for. Host Ira Glass asks are we really measuring the right thing and takes a look at if test scores really matter or do they just tell us what we already know.Not surprisingly what Glass uncovers is that when we focus on test scores not only are we focusing on the wrong thing, but we are completely missing the boat when it comes to helping our students...
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