episode #32

SaTP32.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week : 1) Teacher Ratings Get New Look, Pushed by a Rich Watcher NYTimes KB 2) Rethinking Bullying: Kids Don't See It As Bullying TechDirt TAT Danah Boyd, who actually studies social interactions online among young people, recently put up a fascinating post about how kids and adults seem to totally talk past each other on these issues, in large part, because kids don't think of these things as "bullying." 3) Edmodo Is a Social Network for Teachers and Students LifeHacker TAT Edmodo is a teaching tool modeled after social networks with a focus on communication and not merely distribution of information from the teacher and grade reporting -- Curiously, I just made an account on Friday, based on a recommendation from the PBS gang. Would use it for sure if we didn't have moodle. -CT 4) Legislator Wants to Mandate Homework Help - TribStar - CT An Indiana state legislator intends to introduce a bill to require mandatory homework assignments for early elementary school students and measure parental involvement in its completion. State Rep. Jeff Thompson, R-Lizton, said the legislation is aimed at identifying students who lack parental support and increasing community efforts to assist those students.... Teachers would then be required to report that information to school administrators, who would then make the homework completion rate public without identifying the individual student or classroom teacher. 5) Minority Teachers: Hard to Get, Hard to Keep - Miller-McClune - CT Past studies have shown that teachers of colors are drawn to poor urban schools out of a desire to "give back" to their communities, and they tend to stay there longer than whites . But previous research by Ingersoll found that in 1995 and 2005, minority teachers had turnover rates that were 20 percent and 18 percent higher, respectively, than for whites, which was puzzling. 6) Google Chrome OS Notebooks and Education: What Cr-48 Means for Classrooms - - KB 7) Study: Blame parents, not teachers - Portland Press Herald - TAT An Associated Press-Stanford University Poll on education found that 68 percent of adults believe parents deserve heavy blame for what's wrong with the U.S. education system 8) California's education outlook: huge classes, shorter school years, less learning - Redlands Daily Facts - CT Headline is premature and possibly hyperbolic but still... fair warning to state districts: It ain't gonna be easy. "The budget picture is so grainy that no one has specifics. But supposing a $4 billion cut, districts would lose $644per student....To save enough simply by reducing the school year, the state would have to cut back the school year to 150 days, said Ron Bennett, president of School Services of California, which advises school districts." Endorsements : Cammy: RSS feed Psychology Headlines Around The World from The Social Psychology Network Kevin: Google Lit Trips Exploring the settings of great literature with Google Earth Tim: EFF guide to E-Book Privacy Permalink | Leave a comment »

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episode #32 is an episode from Schools and Tech by Kevin Brookhouser, Cammy Torgenrud, Tim Torgenrud, and Roger Luckenbach.

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This episode was published on Dec 22, 2010.

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