Stretching Cow http://www.squealingrat.org/cow A Compilation of Links for Educators Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Recess, Banning HW, and Physics http://www.squealingrat.org/cow/recess-banning-hw-and-physics/ http://www.squealingrat.org/cow/recess-banning-hw-and-physics/#respond Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:15:37 +0000 http://www.squealingrat.org/cow/?p=139  

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  • Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment? – Greg McKeown – Harvard Business Review
  • How to Choose Summer Reading for Students – NYTimes.com
  • Teacher tells graduating class: you’re not special – New York Daily News
  • Can a National Campaign Get Schools to Rethink Homework? – Education – GOOD
  • More Students Should Participate in Teacher Hiring – Education – GOOD
  • Freakonomics » What’s Wrong With Cash for Grades? A New Marketplace Podcast
  • Three Teachers Are on a Nationwide Quest to Design (and Open) the Ultimate School – Education – GOOD
  • Why Schools Should Help Students Find Their Passion – Education – GOOD
  • The Best Textbooks on Every Subject – Less Wrong
  • No Excuse List
  • Want Kids to Be More Altruistic? Give Them Arts Education – Education – GOOD
  • How We Teach Students to Cheat – NYTimes.com
  • Is Every Single Subject Taught in High School a Mistake? – Education – GOOD
  • A dreadful hoax! – Boing Boing
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  • YouTube for Schools: All the TED Talks, None of the Cat Videos
  • MIT and the future of open-source education – Boing Boing
  • Having The Talk by Al Vernacchio Abridged
  • College Misery: Henchminion Sends In the Tale of “The Magna Carta Essay!”
  • Teachers ‘flip’ their lectures, homework to reach more students – The York Daily Record
  • Yale Professor Moves Class to Room Without Wi-Fi. Cue Outrage. | NewsFeed | TIME.com
  • I Hate Homework. I Assign It Anyway. – NYTimes.com
  • The Case for Recess – Esther Entin – Health – The Atlantic
  • ClassPager Lets Teachers Quiz and Remind Students Via SMS | TechCrunch
  • SendHub • American Education is failing Black Males. Here’s how we fix it.
  • Coursekit
  • Tech Bigwigs Put Their Kids in a School With No Computers
  • What Does the School of Your Dreams Look Like? – Education – GOOD
  • Freakonomics » How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? A Freakonomics Radio Podcast Encore
  • ‘A Test You Need to Fail’: A Teacher’s Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students | Common Dreams
    • ]]>     http://www.squealingrat.org/cow/133/feed/ 0     Finland, Plagiarism and Gamification http://www.squealingrat.org/cow/finland-plagiarism-and-gamification/ http://www.squealingrat.org/cow/finland-plagiarism-and-gamification/#respond Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:58:37 +0000 http://www.squealingrat.org/cow/?p=131
  • Ravitch: Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t) – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post
  • Reading, Writing, Empathy: The Rise of ‘Social Emotional Learning’ – Education – GOOD
  • OpenClassroom
  • Why schools should not grade character traits – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post
  • Winner: ‘Redesign the Report Card’ Project – Education – GOOD
  • Anoka-Hennepin teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000 | The Republic
  • More Than 10 Percent of College Papers Plagiarize Wikipedia – Education – GOOD
  • Devlin’s Angle
  • Superwoman Was Already Here: The Montessori Philosophy, Animated | Brain Pickings
  • Teaching Good Sex – NYTimes.com
  • TEDxKids@Brussels – Gabe Zichermann – Gamification – YouTube
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  • The Stupid Things You Do at Work (and How to Fix Them)
  • Review: 10 Education Tech Startups from ImagineK12 to Watch | WiredAcademic
  • Can a Facebook App Help College Students Study? – Education – GOOD
  • Clutter can kill creativity and innovation | Unclutterer
  • Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School | Video on TED.com
  • Who’s On Top? Color-Coded Maps Rank States’ Education Performance – Education – GOOD
  • Micheal Flaherty: The Latest Crime Wave—Sending Your Child to a Better School – WSJ.com
  • Classes and Scores Soar With Incentives for A.P. Tests – NYTimes.com
  • A Classroom Software Boom, but Mixed Results Despite the Hype – NYTimes.com
  • Why YouTube Videos Will Never Replace Teachers – Education – GOOD
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  • Atheism U? A New Elite University Focuses on Spreading Humanism | | AlterNet
  • Daily Kos: Diane Ravitch at Save Our Schools
  • What Will School Look Like in 10 Years? – NYTimes.com
  • Structured homeschooling gets an A+
  • Teacher’s iPad Experiment Shows Possibilities for Classroom Technology – Education – GOOD
  • Quality Homework – A Smart Idea – NYTimes.com
  • Imagine K12 Graduates Its First Class of Ed-Tech Startups | Hack Education
  • swissmiss | Dear Great Teachers,
  • News Post
  • Why SAT Scores Are Down—And Why it Matters – Education – GOOD
  • What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? – NYTimes.com
  • College undergrads study ineffectively on computers, study finds: Students transfer bad study habits from paper to screen
  • Why Making Creative Schools Requires Radical Change – Education – GOOD
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  • Skipping School: A Look at Free Higher-Education Alternatives – Education – GOOD
  • Freakonomics » Our Daily Bleg: How Should a Professor Incentivize Classroom Attendance?
  • Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine
  • 6 Beneficial Things They Made You Stop Doing in School | Cracked.com
  • Teacher Collaboration Gives Schools Better Results – Miller-McCune
  • Just Google It: How Search Engines Stunt College Students’ Research Skills – Education – GOOD
  • Future of Education: Two Vancouver colleges will make history by giving iPads to over 1,000 new students – Techvibes.com
  • Kno’s Textbooks Is Top Back-To-School iPad App With One Download Every 8 Seconds | TechCrunch
  • Get Rid of Anxiety by Off-Loading Fears on Paper or by Humming a Tune
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  • Demystifying International Tests: What Makes the PISA Special? – Education – GOOD
  • Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Are Schools on the Verge of a Mobile-Phone Revolution? – Education – GOOD
  • Why Are Great Teachers Leaving the Classroom? – Education – GOOD
  • blog dds: 2011.07.23 – How I Dealt with Student Plagiarism
  • Groupon helping CPS for back to school – Chicago Tribune
  • Firewall, What Firewall? The Top Four Tech Hacks For Teachers – Education – GOOD
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  • For the Good of All Students: Why I’m Marching for Education Justice – Education – GOOD
  • Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’ | Cato @ Liberty
  • 19 year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout Andrew Hsu is Changing Education
  • How to fix higher education. – By William Pannapacker – Slate Magazine
  • Missouri Forbids Teachers and Students To Be Facebook Friends
  • Why Alternative Education Needs to Go Mainstream – Education – GOOD
  • The future of education . . . 100 years ago | Daniel Pink
  • EducateNcare Online Tutoring Educates Kids in Developing Countries
  • Take a 20 Minute Break Between Subjects for Better Memory Retention
  • Video – College Conspiracy  :College education is the largest scam in U.S. history!:  Information Clearing House News
  • Where’s Education 2.0? | Digitizd
  • How Obama’s Education Grants Hinder True Innovation – Education – GOOD
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