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Start Me Up: Dispatch from Startup Weekend Washington DC EDU
Over the weekend, I had the privilege to attend a portion of the second Startup Weekend event focused on education. Startup Weekend is itself a startup organization that organizes gatherings of developers, designers, business and marketing experts, and investors to … Continue reading
Posted in computing, edtech101, edu tech, education, teach for america
Tagged data, edu tech, education, internet, technology
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Crowd-Sourced Funding Gap for the Critical Middle
Middle school is a critical time for students, particularly those in high poverty schools. The stats are stark: by 4th grade, students in low-income communities are 2-3 grades behind higher-income peers; graduating seniors in low-income communities average 8th-grade achievement levels … Continue reading
The Areas of Our Expertise (30 Days of Creativity, Day 28)
When I told the colleagues and contributors I used to work with through Science Progress that I was leaving my job to teach, they’d usually assume that I was headed to a science classroom. “I wish,” I’d say, “But I … Continue reading
Posted in science, science policy
Tagged #30daysofcreativity, data, education, science, tfa
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A History, A Theory, A Flood: Review of James’s Gleick’s The Information
This is Day of Creativity 22. Review also cross-posted on goodreads.com. A bench scientist or an engineer will tell you the same thing: the distinction between “science” and “technology” is important. Science is more about the undirected search for answers … Continue reading
Posted in books, computing, science
Tagged #30daysofcreativity, data, genetics, science, technology
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Your Dropbox is Almost Full! Teacher Collaboration With Cloud Storage (30 Days of Creativity: Day 12)
Update below Teaching With Cloud Storage So since the very beginning of TFA Summer Institute, the hands-down most important web tool for me as a teacher (aside from email) has been Dropbox. Dropbox is a feature-rich, cross-platform file-syncing service. If … Continue reading
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Tagged #30daysofcreativity, cloud, data, edu tech, education, storage, tfa
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#30DaysOfCreativity – Day 11 – Embassies in the Park
Day 11 is another running map; route goes by the Czech Embassy and the Indonesian Embassy Residence: goo.gl/maps/DofH View Embassies in the Park in a larger map (I totally tweeted this last night, so it was on time.)
30 Days of Creativity – Day 6 – The Standard Run
So I love maps and I love running, but only just got around to mapping the familiar run that is my default loop when I just want to stretch the legs and know exactly every inch of pavement along the … Continue reading
Of course I remember having you in my class.
At the beginning of the Great Depression, high school graduation rates in the United States were 30 percent. In 1940, it was 50 percent. This educational leap forward is the lede for David Leonhardt’s piece in the New York Times … Continue reading
The data on measuring big goals
This is the second written response to the TFA pre-institute work (response 1). The focus is on the importance of setting big goals. Research demonstrates that leaders who set exceptional expectations for their teams can get exceptional results. TFA’s own … Continue reading
Count on it
Next fall I will be teaching secondary school English, and in order to be effective I’m going to need to brush up on my math. As I was starting the process of applying to Teach for America, one of the … Continue reading