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Re: An educator's dilemma with fairness

elizabethkoh — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:44:16 -0000

Thank you all for your sharing and examples. I really am touched by your effort in responding to my post.
Replurking the conversation we are having in plurk:
Skip Z
That's a good statement of the dilemma of being student-centered but not project-based.
elizabethkoh
Skip Z Z are u suggesting some kind of dichotomy between project-based learning and student-centered?
bookjewel
It's tricky, isn't it? I often give the students who volunteer to go first a few extra marks for their effort!
GingerTPLCsays
I responded here. (the first post on top)
mindeleisays
I really like the focus of GingerTPLC's classroom. I have to agree that being "fair" isn't actually fair because some students need more in some areas than others. Providing equal opportunity (or as Ginger said, being equitable) is what is actually the most "fair" to all.
elizabethkoh
thks for all your reponses!!! i think GingerTPLC's suggestions were very useful and demonstrate how to be equitable to all students. will see how i can use her suggestions for my classroom this year...
so it's not exactly about fairness... more about being equitable ... providing fair opportunities.
GingerTPLCsays
You have to be sure you inform parents! Parents are sometimes the worst perpetrators of "equal = fair." You have to bring them on board. Start with the parents of bright kids and tell them that you're going to expect higher levels of thinking. (not more work) Then talk to the
parents of struggling students. Tell them you're going to give them work that challenges THEM and not work they can't do. Not too tough to use differentiated instruction strategies in your classes. Then tell them this also extends to behavior. Some kids will earn more trust by their work and conduct. Others will earn MORE supervision by their lack of work and proper conduct. But always put it on their shoulders. THEY'RE earning their + and - consequences. Then you can begin to use equitable. You'll have to frequenly revisit the idea of fair is equitable, not equal. They'll get it. Parents will *eventually* get it. Also, get your admin on board so s/he can back you when a parent begins to get edgy. AND DOCUMENT kids going right and wrong.
loonyhikersays
great post! i left a comment too
GingerTPLCsays
Ack! You're working at University level. I'm sorry. I think my blog comments are ok, but these here, maybe not so applicable!
elizabethkoh
GingerTPLC grateful for the advice. not so relevant, but still useful for whoever reads. And the principles are there -
elizabethkoh
loonyhiker thks for the great analogy!

Re: iPhone: Transfer Pictures and Videos from iPhone to XP

elizabethkoh — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:01:23 -0000

Thanks alot for this. I almost deleted my iphone photos when I thought that i could upload my photos by syncing it with itunes.

Re: Five changes in education - a meme

elizabethkoh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:30:23 -0000

@MrsSmoke aka Dyane Smokorowski just started a wiki to compile all these memes. It's at http://5thingseducation.pbw... Do spread the word!

Re: Just call me Tenzing Norbook, I guess.

janholmquist — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:04:30 -0000

What a great and very important discussion. I am contributing even though there is a difference between US and Denmark, Europe (Where I am lucky to be a librarian).

Let me start by saying that all contributers here are a great inspiration to me. There is no doubt that there are a lot of librarians making a huge difference for a lot of people everyday (and I am lucky to work with some fantastic librarians who do) - but it is a fact as well that there is a big challenge for libraries and that not all librarians is aware of how serious it is. I think that is the core. Mr. Godins puts a spotlight to that issue and I think that is important.

I am loving the fact that so many in the library field is reacting and showing that there is a future for libraries because many is aware (and yes almost all librarians have been training people to take intellectual initiative for a very long time).

So let´s continue to make it known what great difference libraries and librarians do everyday... Let´s communicate it, and let´s keep inventing new ways to inspire and help people navigate information, (un)learning and also give them good reading experiences. *** Enlight, entertain, enrich, empower, educate *** - Like Justin I will like to thank you all for this great discussion.
@janholmquist

Re: El-fejl kunne have kostet bibliotek

janholmquist — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:08:39 -0000

Kære Folketidende
Tak for artiklen men som jeg oplyste var det arrangement i nævner netop det arrangement hvor røgen udviklede sig.
Vi regner fortsat med at kunne benytte salen til vores spændende arrangementer i næste uge - men ellers finder vi andre steder at byde vores gæster velkommen.
Jan Holmquist

Re: Children Will Teach Themselves to Read When They're Ready | Foundation for Economic Education

janholmquist — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 01:49:18 -0000

Interesting perspective.
Greetings to the author from a name brother from Denmark, Europe :)

Re: NaNoWriMovember is coming!

Peta — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:11:10 -0000

A big thank you for the Movember donation. And it's good to see the movember badge in your sidebar.
We are hoping to resurrect last year's blog to provide updates on the team's progress.

Re: From a Tweet to zendesk

Peta — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:31:09 -0000

I'd say that they are both correct or at least acceptable. 'Data' is the plural of 'datum', but 'data' is now also being used (one could argue more commonly used) in the same sense as "information" which is uncountable. Who ever heard of informations?Now if it was daughters! :-) How safe is my daughter? How safe are my daughters?

Re: Elvis Costello Sings “Penny Lane” for Sir Paul

Peta — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:28:36 -0000

It's a lovely version. That appears to be a cornet, not a piccolo BTW.

Re: Dash it all – give Jane Austen the last word

Peta — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:22:22 -0000

check out this video on the future of the pen. This opens up all sorts of possibilities for studying how writing might be done.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Too bad Jane didn't have one of these.

Re: New Twitter Is About 50 Percent Rolled Out — Where’s The Facebook-Style Backlash?

Peta — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:45:42 -0000

I didn't care too much about the web interface precisely because I use it so rarely. I access twitter through iphone apps (brizzly and twitterific), chromed bird (chrome extension) and echofon (firefox extension). With that much variation, what's the big deal with a rework of the web interface. That said, I do like the new twitter.

Re: http://www.freedomtodither.com/post/1437199427

Peta — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:13:37 -0000

A law degree combined with a postgraduate qualification in library studies might be a good option to become a law librarian.

Re: Blogger: Login to read

Peta — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:26:58 -0000

Testing disqus

Re: Blogger: Login to read

Peta — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:55:14 -0000

Will this increase the count?

Re: http://inn0vate.blogspot.com/2010/10/smcgc-october-meeting.html

Peta — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:04:20 -0000

The second link in the slide set does not work in Diigo webslides. https is not supported.

Re: http://inn0vate.blogspot.com/2009/05/splashurl-now-has-qrcode-generator.html

Peta — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:49:04 -0000

Google and Bitly now also offer a similar shortening service. See these articles for more information.
http://likeiknowit.wordpres...
http://lifehacker.com/55117...

Re: Innovate: Further exploration of QR codes

Peta — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:09:32 -0000

I created an event code, but neither QuiQR or Upcode has been able to decode it. Not sure why.

Re: Innovate: Reading Library eBooks on iPhone

Peta — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:31:28 -0000

That's good to know, I'll mention this to my local library.

Re: Innovate: Bookmarking Articles Comparison

Peta — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:46:35 -0000

Thanks Sarah. Good luck with Zotero. If you are working at all with University of Otago, they have a libx toolbar for Firefox which you might find useful for research. http://libx.org/editions/li... I couldn't see one for Griffith Uni or the Otago Polytechnic, but ask a Librarian. If they don't have one it might inspire them to create one for their users.
It does brilliant things, like reloading subscription database pages via ezproxy for quick access to institutional collections.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_29... and also search options built into your browser for databases and catalogues.

Re: Innovate: Giving Brainshark a Whirl

Peta — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:55:10 -0000

In Chrome, slide 2, which is a web page URL slide, appears outside of the frame of the presentation. Looks OK in Firefox.

Re: Innovate: Get that paywalled content via ezproxy on iPad

Peta — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:48:03 -0000

Hi Aaron. Thanks for mentioning the instructions for ipads and iphones. I hope other readers find them useful too. It was only a moment's searching after I thought about doing this to finding your blog post at the top of the results.

Re: http://inn0vate.blogspot.com/2009/02/dont-have-visio-draw-anywhere.html

Peta — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:09:46 -0000

It looks interesting. I'll ask if anyone else at MPOW has tried it.

Re: Innovate: Talking about online presence

Peta — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:56:29 -0000

Should have mentioned that I use disqus for comments.

Re: Innovate: CCAEducause 2011

Peta — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:48:37 -0000

I'd like to hear how that goes for your event. What are the arguments you're hearing against opening it earlier.

One of the presenters told me that she would have liked to try using a poll but with only a few days before presenting wasn't ready to risk it going wrong with such a short time for preparation, never having done that sort of thing before.
Releasing the mobile app a month earlier would have allowed some early adopters to give some feedback for tweaking prior to the event too.

Re: Innovate: CCAEducause 2011

Peta — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:17:17 -0000

Summary of Twitter usage at CCAEducause http://summarizr.labs.eduse...