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How Limited Technology Budgets Failed My Students – The Tempered Radical
work wont be easy—-but neither is trying to keep a group of kids motivated and curious when they cant even find answers to the questions that they care about.
Common Core: Giving Happy Lie to the “Reform Consensus” :: Frederick M. Hess
These reformers imagine broad sentiment that anyone who’s not a union toadie agrees to a whole host of “reformy” things, including the Common Core, sanctity of value-added measures, race-based accountability metrics, niftiness of turnarounds, magic of Race to the Top, and so on. To question any of these has been enough to raise questions about one’s seriousness and judgment. The result has been bad for schooling, bad for reform, and bad for public debate.
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Gamasutra – Features – The POrTAl TwO ARG: The Whole Story
With everyone gathered in Valve’s sixth-floor fishbowl conference room, Gabe Himself lays out the core idea: Somehow use our Steam games to usher in the arrival of Portal 2. That’s it. There’s no agenda and no grand plan. Just pack a room full of fun, creative people and give them unrestricted access to Valve’s resources, including Portal 2 assets. No constraints. No NDAs. This was a project built on trust and mutual respect.
How Law Students Lose the Grant Game, and How Schools Win – NYTimes.com
But it’s a number worth knowing. At Golden Gate and other law schools nationwide, students are graded on a curve, which carefully rations the number of A’s and B’s, as well as C’s and D’s, awarded each semester. That all but ensures that a certain number of students — at Golden Gate, it could be in the realm of 70 students this year — will lose their scholarships and wind up paying full tuition in their second and third years.
Build Your Own Digital Textbooks | Scholastic.com
In districts from Arizona to Indiana, educators are opting out of textbooks altogether, culling from vetted electronic resources and courseware to essentially create their own texts. Online articles, simulations, and audiovisual files, along with lesson plans shared through wikis, can be found on the syllabi for a growing number of secondary classes. This approach, while piecemeal and labor-intensive, makes for materials that are inexpensive (except for the cost of the technology) and easily updated.
HBO Schedule: MASTERCLASS 06: FRANK GEHRY
—-What i’ve seen of this is awesome.
Architect Frank Gehry, world-famous for his organic and unconventional designs, works with five young artists to grow their understanding and appreciation of the challenges and opportunities in urban design. Gehry dares James, Cat, Jen, Sheena and Joe to plan a new city. “Hanging out with kids, you realize that there is another generation, and they’re going to make it better,” explains Gehry. “It’s beyond just making your own stuff, making your own mud-pies–you enable some other mud-pies to be made.” As the students work on their project, Gehry reminds them that the structures must be functional first and beautiful second. (TVG) (NA)