tional Education Association, which similarly to Education World is a great resource for lesson planning. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the National Education Association site was also a resource for dropout prevention. The Foundation for Child Development hosts a site that strictly focuses on improvement of the education system. I found this site to be a little too plain. Another site that was too simple for my taste was the American Association for School Administrators; however, I included a link to it because I found it to be a great resource for news articles. Anyone who is interested in education resources should make sure to visit the U.S. Department of Education. On this well-managed site, one can view the fiscal budget proposed by government. The only thing lacking on this site was interaction, but if it is interaction you are looking for, then you must see the New York Times Learning Network. It hosts a site for Teachers' connections, and I praise it highly for its ability to encourage interaction. If you are not looking for interaction but for substantial reading, make sure you stop by the Journal of Education Controversy. Not surprisingly, a couple of my favorite sites were blogs that I found. Education Reporting was an outstanding blog whose purpose was to provide reports, news, and tools, but the best blog I found was one titled 2 Cents Worth. The author, David Warlick, has a passion for education that is evident through his work. Both blogs met the standards laid out by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Awards Criteria. Likewise, the previously mentioned sites hosted by organizations or businesses met the Webby Awards Criteria. I believe my excursion of the best sites for education improvement was truly a success.
3.03.2008
An Excursion into the Web: Successfully Locating Resourceful Sites
I spent this week browsing the Internet for interesting sites pertaining to the field of education. The very first site in which I became entirely engaged was Edutopia. What I enjoyed mostly about the site was its many components: it has articles from the Edutopia magazine, video clips from the media, and a list of priority topics with links to external sites. Some sites, though, are smaller and easier to navigate, such as Education World. Education World focuses on a total of five components so it is much simpler, but subsequently it is also a little less interesting. Other sites hosted by organizations that proved to be useful resources include the National Education Association, which similarly to Education World is a great resource for lesson planning. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the National Education Association site was also a resource for dropout prevention. The Foundation for Child Development hosts a site that strictly focuses on improvement of the education system. I found this site to be a little too plain. Another site that was too simple for my taste was the American Association for School Administrators; however, I included a link to it because I found it to be a great resource for news articles. Anyone who is interested in education resources should make sure to visit the U.S. Department of Education. On this well-managed site, one can view the fiscal budget proposed by government. The only thing lacking on this site was interaction, but if it is interaction you are looking for, then you must see the New York Times Learning Network. It hosts a site for Teachers' connections, and I praise it highly for its ability to encourage interaction. If you are not looking for interaction but for substantial reading, make sure you stop by the Journal of Education Controversy. Not surprisingly, a couple of my favorite sites were blogs that I found. Education Reporting was an outstanding blog whose purpose was to provide reports, news, and tools, but the best blog I found was one titled 2 Cents Worth. The author, David Warlick, has a passion for education that is evident through his work. Both blogs met the standards laid out by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Awards Criteria. Likewise, the previously mentioned sites hosted by organizations or businesses met the Webby Awards Criteria. I believe my excursion of the best sites for education improvement was truly a success.
tional Education Association, which similarly to Education World is a great resource for lesson planning. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the National Education Association site was also a resource for dropout prevention. The Foundation for Child Development hosts a site that strictly focuses on improvement of the education system. I found this site to be a little too plain. Another site that was too simple for my taste was the American Association for School Administrators; however, I included a link to it because I found it to be a great resource for news articles. Anyone who is interested in education resources should make sure to visit the U.S. Department of Education. On this well-managed site, one can view the fiscal budget proposed by government. The only thing lacking on this site was interaction, but if it is interaction you are looking for, then you must see the New York Times Learning Network. It hosts a site for Teachers' connections, and I praise it highly for its ability to encourage interaction. If you are not looking for interaction but for substantial reading, make sure you stop by the Journal of Education Controversy. Not surprisingly, a couple of my favorite sites were blogs that I found. Education Reporting was an outstanding blog whose purpose was to provide reports, news, and tools, but the best blog I found was one titled 2 Cents Worth. The author, David Warlick, has a passion for education that is evident through his work. Both blogs met the standards laid out by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Awards Criteria. Likewise, the previously mentioned sites hosted by organizations or businesses met the Webby Awards Criteria. I believe my excursion of the best sites for education improvement was truly a success.
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It seems that one of the pillars of the American culture is choice. We love having choice, in Los Angeles there are hundreds of stores that just sell dog couture, we need entire sections of town dedicated just to a style of clothing and have enough museums to rival the stock of Paris. But another such pillar that this blog effectively and eloquently brings to light is education. The thesis of this blog, that students should have choice in their curriculums and possibly in their actual school is an amazing notion. Though of course as a USC student I am not a dropout from high school, I did however graduate a year early because of the sheer boredom of attending classes like home economics that will really never apply to my future and certainly not engage my attention.
The post does a great job of incorporating facts that engage the reader immediately and allows me to relate to this post within the first sentence. Although I live in LA, where drop out is high and crime runs rampant in the nightly news or on the drive home on the freeway, I am from Maine where drop out rates are also high and several of my graduating class dropped out. The other point about alternative education stating, test scores produced by students in alternative schools were not much higher than the test scores of dropouts. Is extremely interesting to me because my high school offered an alternative education program, and almost every one of the people that attended this during my tenure were involved in one of the following, crime, truancy, or teenage pregnancy. Moreover, following graduation from this program these students seemed less driven than they were while in the high school and few of them attained jobs. The alternative programs seem to promote the mindset that hard work is not always necessary.
If proposed with choice and the use of technology to engage the child’s intellect which is a dynamic one as the blogger suggests, “Programs like No Child Left Behind are in place to make sure that all students are on equal playing fields, but we should recognize that students have a wide range of talents. Programs that give students no feeling of choice in what they study could be very discouraging.” The idea that we would ask students what they want to learn about and incorporate this into the fundamentals of education seems like a groundbreaking idea in education and truly the blogger may have discovered the solution to a slew of problems.
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