http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org Aristotle Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:03:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, I survived and I had fun doing it! I have to be honest, the idea of blogging for this classroom scared the [bleep] outta me when I first heard about it. But now that it's over and as I look back, I realized that it was quite ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/12/03/the-end-is-here/ Comment on Carrie's blog "You are What You Measure" Comment on Carrie's blog "Presidential Candidates on NCLB" Comment on Dan's blog "Too Much Technology?...Really?" Comment on Eli's Blog "Some Interesting Ideas..." Comment on Eric's Blog "Let's Go Ban Books!" Comment on Nathan's Blog "Novels on Myspace" Comment on Shakura's Blog "Student Teachers" Comment on ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/12/02/my-comments-hope-this-works/ Someone in the state's educational establishment has finally shown some sense about testing. Oh my goodness, I found an article bashing standardized testing! YES! haha  I did not think that was possible, but while looking through my feed on standardized testing, I came across this article from the Winston-Salem Journal that ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/12/02/trim-the-tests/ Standardized testing that seeks to measure students' English language proficiency has improved significantly nationwide since 2001, when Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, according to a UC Davis report released today [November 28, 2007]. I was shocked to have found an article that focused on standardized testing for English ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/12/02/english-proficiency-testing-has-improved/ I am a huge advocate for technology in the classroom, so when I came across this article from Information Resources and Technologies, I was very eager to read what it said about students and technology. I also enjoyed how the article spoke of social networking ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/11/28/trends-in-student-use-of-information-technology/ Designing educational policy to leave no child behind is the equivalent of driving forward by looking in the rear view mirror. The article I read starts off by saying this. We should drop the name "No Child Left Behind" and make the defining goal for schools "A College Diploma in ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/10/23/a-college-diploma-in-every-hand/ The article I read, "Into the 21st Century: Technology, Teachers, and Nicky Future Ready," was about schools in North Carolina implementing every kind of technology they can get their hands on into the classrooms. The author of this article, Terry Stoops states: Yet catch phrases and buzzwords cannot hide the ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/10/23/an-end-to-silly-old-fashioned-book-learning/ O.k., where to begin. First of all, this was an awesome experience and I am so glad I made the decision to go. I had never been to any kind of academic conference before so I wasn't sure what to expect. In the end I feel that ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/10/23/mcte-thoughts/ Well I haven’t had much luck with finding articles on my other topic, technology in education, so I decided to scan through the feeds for standardized testing once again and came across another interesting topic; Parental Smoking Associated with Teens' Below-Par Test Scores. According to this article, “Teenage exposure ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/25/7/ One of the topics that I chose to focus on during this semester is standardized testing and why/why it’s not important. I came across an article that focused on NCLB and the idea of standardized testing. I was amazed once I started reading this article, because the idea ... http://christiedeanna.edublogs.org/2007/09/24/no-to-no-child/