"Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." – Roger Lewin
Who says teachers don’t have a voice! With already nearly 500 responses, Eduwonk.com is taking Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s comment literally by offering to rename the No Child Left Behind law.
Take a look and vote at http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/02/a-contest-name-that-law.html.
My personal favorite is “AARRRG! Aligning America’s Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic Grades” by Jacob. Charlie Brown would be proud.
Charlie Brown, "AAUGH!"
Illustrator: Charles Shultz, 1922-2000
Source: 2020 Forecast: February Update – The Future of Education is Here
“The earliest forms of writing enabled accounting and commerce, while the invention of the alphabet facilitated symbolic thinking and the rule of law. Block printing gave access to humankind’s works and religous tenets to the elites. Movable type created a print culture in which any literate citizen could access ideas. Radio and television reduced the need for literacy and spread mass cultural ideas. Then, the digital era ushered in an exponential growth in the spread of information. Today, the proliferation of digital media, cheap storage, and mobile networked devices is rapidly propelling us towards a time when anyone, anywhere in the world, can hold the collective knowledge of humanity in his or her hand.”
I wrote this Final Grades Estimator as an example program in my Computer Programming I course. It was written in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005.
This program is for teachers. It takes a list of student names, compares those names to another list or a comparison text, and displays any resulting matches. The matches are weighted with the most likely listed first. I originally wrote it as a time saver. Let me explain: As a teacher, I was beginning to be overrun with lists of students in my school email account. Students who were going on a trip, or taking a test, or assigned to detention, or, or, or… Some days I was getting so many of these lists that I wasted a significant amount of time reading through them to see if any involved my students. It was too much, so I invested a few hours making this little gem – which was time well spent. I know I’ve saved hours and hours since I started using it and now you can too.
I am releasing it as Freeware. Post a comment if you have suggestions for improvement.
Student Name Matcher Screenshot
Student Name Matcher 1.0 Setup (ZIP)
The icon for this program was created by Tomoyuki Miyano, better known as IronDevil (irondv @ din.or.jp). Though his web site at http://www.din.or.jp/~irondv/ is no longer active, you can still download his icons from Leo’s Icon Archive.
I wrote this Random Seating Generator as an example program in my Computer Programming I course. It was written in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005.
This program is for teachers. It takes a list of students and randomly reorders the list. I originally wrote it to generate a random seating chart in my classroom, but have since found it useful for randomizing other information too. For example, I’ve also used it to randomize a list of wrong answer choices for test items.
I am releasing it as Freeware. Post a comment if you have suggestions for improvement.
Random Seating Generator Screenshot
Random Seating Generator 1.0 Setup (ZIP)
The icon for this program was created by Tomoyuki Miyano, better known as IronDevil (irondv @ din.or.jp). Though his web site at http://www.din.or.jp/~irondv/ is no longer active, you can still download his icons from Leo’s Icon Archive.
I wrote this Final Grades Estimator as an example program in my Computer Programming I course. It was written in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005.
This program is for students. It calculates the final grade in a course for a student and tell’s the student how many points are required to make a certain grade based on rounding. Rounding up is assumed.
I am releasing it as Freeware. Post a comment if you have suggestions for improvement.
Final Grades Estimator Screenshot
Final Grades Estimator 1.0 Setup (ZIP)
The icon for this program was created by Tomoyuki Miyano, better known as IronDevil (irondv @ din.or.jp). Though his web site at http://www.din.or.jp/~irondv/ is no longer active, you can still download his icons from Leo’s Icon Archive.
Source: How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law – Take 2.0
Alvin Trusty really knows how to teach. I first ran across the original version of this video presentation about a year ago and loved it then. This version is better in almost every way. It’s long, but it’s worth it and Alvin is humorous so the time passes quickly.
Now, if you’re a teacher like me you might prefer he split his material into two separate parts – one for the copyright information and one for the presentation information. Here’s a breakdown of those sections. The Copyright and Creative Commons sections go together. The other three go together as well. You could skip the book section at the end if you’re stretched for time, but the very end shows his works cited. I think it’s worth being included.
Lastly, in the presentation Alvin mentions a web site he uses to get Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr. That site is http://www.compfight.com/ for those that missed it.
Source: A Model for Applying Common Craft Videos – Common Craft
This article is a really good model for education. I think they got it right when they said too many people start out too far in their understandings for students to “get” the content. Enter the Common Craft “In Plain English” videos. They fill knowledge gaps in a few short minutes and everyone really can begin on the same page.
Now if only all teachers looked at their craft in this way?
Source: A surprisingly not-dumb idea: What if you designed computers that made mistakes? – SciGuy
An interesting article. This is worth pursuing for those interested in computer science, computer engineering, chip design, and programming.
I’ve added outlines for each of the first four Computer Applications I objectives to my box.net account. It should be available to you now in the box.net sidebar. I also created a new folder for test items. These are ExamView and Quiz Show compatible BNK files.
There are over 50 questions available across these four objectives. I tested my students collectively on all four objectives together and got good results. View the status file in the Test Items folder to get an overview of test item content at any time.
Source: GROW TOWER – EYEZMAZE.
Hooray! I beat Grow Tower today! This is the first grow game that I have finished completely on my own without help. (Of course I had to force myself to do it. They’re so well done that you just have to finish them!) It took me 28 tries to get it right after I got organized with a list of all the different combinations on buttons.
The grow games are great little deductive reasoning logic puzzles. I recommend them to anyone with a scientific or mathematical bent or interest. They test your noodle while being great fun at the same time.
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