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Top 25 Free Math Resources

Posted on January 23, 2012 by edfivecs90

Free.  25 links.  Divided into categories such as: inquiry and application, online tools and apps, interactives, math support, resources, practices, Math in the Media.  If you’re not a math teacher, forward this link on immediately to all of your math colleagues. List provided by Bradley Lands.

…Students should be engaged in creative, critical thinking when they are solving problems. Teachers should articulate that there are multiple ways to arrive at the same solution to any given problem and allow students to struggle in order to make discoveries on their own with guided facilitation and appropriate scaffolding.

To help with this problem, I am sharing my Top 25 Free Math Resources For Education that allow for student inquiry, exploration, and application. I hope you find useful ways to integrate these online resources into your instruction!

LINK: The Landscape: My Top 25 Free Math Resources for Education.

Post Source: The Landscape

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The Business Case for Reading Novels

Posted on January 16, 2012 by edfivecs90

FINALLY!!! An answer to all of the metrics-driven, bottom-line, how will this help my child be successful in REAL life questions regarding reading.  That noise you hear is librarians and English departments celebrating…

I’ve been a devoted, even fanatical reader of fiction my whole life, but sometimes I feel like I’m wasting time if I spend an evening immersed in Lee Child’s newest thriller, or re-reading The Great Gatsby. Shouldn’t I be plowing through my in-box? Or getting the hang of some new productivity app? Or catching up on my back issues of The Economist? That slight feeling of self-indulgence that haunts me when I’m reading fake stories about fake people is what made me so grateful to stumble on a piece in Scientific American Mind by cognitive psychologist Keith Oatley extolling the practical benefits to be derived particularly from consuming fiction.

LINK: The Business Case for Reading Novels by Anne Kreamer

Post Source: Harvard Business Review

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Sex Education Standards Encourage Teaching ‘Safe Sex,’ Sexual Identity, Anti-Bullying In Schools

Posted on January 16, 2012 by edfivecs90

Start with the overview of the standards by Kimberly Hefling that appeared in HuffPost Education. Links to the actual standards as well as another summary by Nirvi Shaw in EdWeek below.

Young elementary school students should use the proper names for body parts and, by the end of fifth grade, know that sexual orientation is “the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender,” according to new sexual education guidelines released Monday by a coalition of health and education groups.

The non-binding recommendations to states and school districts seek to encourage age-appropriate discussions about sex, bullying and healthy relationships – starting with a foundation even before second grade.

LINK: Sex Education Standards Encourage Teaching ‘Safe Sex,’ Sexual Identity, Anti-Bullying In Schools.

Download the National Sexuality Education Standards in PDF format.

LINK: Overview of new Standards by Nirvi Shah in EdWeek

Post Sources: HuffPost Education.  Education Week

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Are Teachers Overpaid? A Response to Critics

Posted on January 16, 2012 by edfivecs90

If you haven’t had a link to the original article forwarded to you yet, you will soon.  The link below actually takes you to the response to the response to the original article about teacher-pay.  This is one case where you can start at the end of the story…

It is a view as ubiquitous as it is simplistic: To improve public education, pay teachers more—a lot more. Union officials, education reformers, scholars, laypeople, and politicians of all stripes endorse this principle in one form or another.

However, as we determined in a study released Nov. 1, 2011, by the Heritage Foundation, “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers,” the average public school teacher already is paid more than what he or she is likely to earn in the private sector. Although some may well be underpaid, the typical public school teacher makes roughly $1.52 for every dollar made by a private-sector employee with similar skills.

LINK: Are Teachers Overpaid? A Response to Critics.

LINK: Assessing Compensation (original study)

LINK to NYTimes op-ed by Nicholas Kristof referencing the study: The Value of Teachers

Post Source: Education Week

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Sebastian Wernicke: 1000 TEDTalks, 6 words

Posted on January 8, 2012 by edfivecs90

This video has only been up for a few days. It’s already crossed the 120,000 views mark AND it’s drawing strong positive and negative reaction.  At the very least, an interesting thought exercise laced with humor.

Sebastian Wernicke thinks every TEDTalk can be summarized in six words. At TEDxZurich, he shows how to do just that — and less.

LINK: Sebastian Wernicke: 1000 TEDTalks, 6 words

Post Sources: Sam Wagner’s MVS Blog “Late December Articles of Interest” and TedTalks

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