Teaching

Coopetition - Cooperation among competitors during competition.Collaboration among competitors, as in the New Economy. Social capital (networks, shared norms, and trust), as fostered in collaboration and alliances, may be as important as physical capital (plant, equipment, and technology), and human capital (intellect, character, education, and training) in driving innovation and growth. Competitors cooperate in order to gain advantage over other competitors, as in a...

Chester Finn, a prominent education policy analyst, and Michael Petrilli (former Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary in the Office of Innovation and Improvement), worry in Fool Me Twice that recommendations for version 2.0 of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) will increase U.S. Department of Education mandates over state and local operations of public schools. Most likely the say, the NCLB commission saw its...

The Commission on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) hosted by the Aspen Institute released its report and recommendations on February 13, 2007, Beyond NCLB, at the Russell U.S. Senate Office Building, Washington, DC."The commission worked tirelessly and in a bi-partisan manner to come up with a comprehensive package of reforms that we believe will significantly improve the law."The 75 recommendations in the report focus...

Lisa Rosenthal, GreatSchools Senior Editor, asks What's so bad about teaching to the test? If teaching content standards is considered "teaching to the test," it may not be such a bad thing. ... If the test measures the skills students are expected to be learning and teachers prepare students by teaching those skills, then teaching to the test is a good thing. She explores...

The Fall, 2006, issue of The Stanford University newsletter SPEAKING OF TEACHING offers an interesting review of ways to use online technology to extend lessons beyond classroom walls. Much of the information is familiar to educators younger than, say 40 years of age and digital appreciators. The review provides summaries and references from an authorative source that are useful for anyone preparing case statements,...

Meg Stewart describes how Vassar College uses HP Tablet PCs to teach geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping by taking students outside.In mobile mapping, the tablet’s pen is used to draw in features, or digitize, on a map. Lines, such as faults or bedding contacts or a stream, and polygons, like tree stands, impervious surfaces, or urban survey regions, are easily drawn into the...

J. Ricky Cox, Chair, Research Policy Committee, teaches chemistry with a Tablet PC at Murray State University. He offers links that visualize noncovalent interactions in proteins and protein-ligand complexes that students and teachers may find useful. Great job, Ricky.

About 170 invited participants and guests at The 21st Century Literacies Impact Conference will focus on how teaching and learning 21st century skills are embedded in and supported by teacher education, assessment, and professional development.Ideas generated at the conference will jump-start collaborative efforts among invited educators and member organizations of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills to accelerate the pace of reform, particularly in...

BobtheVlog offers an interesting interview with Gallaudet University President Robert Davila. Bob also offers free download of software so you too can post your own vlog. Kudos, Bob from another Bob.

Gallaudet University announced it will receive a grant of $3.5 million over two years to establish the Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2), thanks to the National Science Foundation (NSF). The center ... will bring together deaf and hearing researchers and educators from a variety of disciplines to explore how deaf people acquire visual language and learn to read....