The Wisdom of J. E. Russell (1900)
The ideals which determine the growth of educational systems never remain long fixed: they change from age to age, to conform to the development of the political, economic and spiritual life of a people. –Written by J. E. Russell in 1900 on Teachers College Record
2010 AERA, 5.1.10: The Presence of China
A Move toward Creativity
I enjoyed the panel discussion about teacher development and classroom teaching driven toward individual creativity led by two vice presidents (Mr. Youqun Ren and Mr. Qi Dong) from two best renowned colleges of education in China. I’m very glad to see this emergent change in K-12 education in China. This country was the earliest country invested printing, compass, paper making, and gunpowder, etc. for the world. However, the contemporary China seemed losing its ancestors’ creativity. The “stereotype” of Chinese students is that they are the most diligent but silent and obedient GROUP. They lack INDIVIDUAL voices and often times individual uniqueness is covered and negated by their group.
2010 APA Style
Minor changes have been made in the 2010-version APA book, including the levels of headings, abbreviations and certain punctuation marks.
2010 Youth Trend Report: China
mobileYouth has partnered with enovate which just opened a new office in Shanghai, in developing the latest 2010 Global Youth Trends Report. As reported, by 2015 there will be 500 million people under age 30 in China–roughly the population of the entire European Union. The report is written based on data collected from the two … Read more
Courage, Love and Responsibility
She could have accompanied her father during the last moment of his life. But she chose not to cancel yesterday’s class. Before the class began, she apologized to everyone that she would have to turn her cell on because her father was very sick, which would be the first time in her life teaching a … Read more
Positive/Negative Perfectionism?
Are you a perfectionist? What do you think is the perfect way to teach or to educate your children? Are you an adaptive perfectionist or maladaptive perfectionist? There is an interesting paper just published in the January issue of journal Personality and Individual Differences, where the researchers describe an experiment that illustrates the importance of … Read more
SECTtOR Exhibit (Work in Progress)
I was honored to design an exhibit with my colleague for the incoming SECTtOR (Support Early Career Teacher through Online Resources) event at TC which will be attended by President Susan Fuhrman and a few professors in the teacher education programs at TC. The whole album so far can be viewed here. Special thanks to … Read more
Survey Design: Elements of Both Content and Format
I happened to see the following teacher survey sheet at the Office of Accreditation and Assessment at TC, and thought it was a good example of format design of survey questions. With over 100 questions included, this annual teacher exit survey (on one double sided sheet) was designed in a very succinct format, which as … Read more
Potential Theories for DST
After reading Jenkins et al (2006)’s white paper, which provides a systematic understanding of pedagogical practices in media education, I started to think more about the theoretical section in my proposal. Among the eleven suggested core skills and competences for students “learning” in a participatory culture, the play, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, are the … Read more
Foursquare: The Better Twitter?
Foursquare: A Social Networking Site helpful for Campus Experience According to latest Mashable news, schools such as Harvard and UNC Charlotte are getting creative with Foursquare , a location-aware social networking site (and mobile application). It is a smarter-version Twitter that not only lets users update their status and connect with friends online, but also … Read more
Children Who Use Technology are ‘Better Writers’
BBC News – Children who use technology are ‘better writers’ Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust. The report, based on a survey toward 3,001 children aged 9 to 16, is intriguing. It states that students using social media were … Read more
Virtual Tours of 19 World Heritage Sites
Google and UNESCO Announce Alliance to Provide Virtual Tours of 19 World Heritage Sites Today, school field trips can really happen on web, from a botanical garden to a famous city abroad. According to the recent UNESCO initiative, it collaborates with Google to provide digital tours of important world heritage sites, including 19 historical places. … Read more
Wikipedia Co-founder Launches YouTube-like Website for Children
This site, which features videos from National Geographic, YouTube, and Google Videos, among other sources, is intended to complement and enhance the learning experience for students as they study concepts that are traditionally hard to learn. I had a look at several high rated videos in language arts and feel the site is still at … Read more
MathMaze Prototype on iPhone
Last month, with my colleagues at the EdLab, we released the first very rough prototype of MathMaze. Guided by a few learning principles, MathMaze is to be developed as an adaptive math game which has self-reported (informal) evaluation and data generation function for students, teachers, and parents. We aim to provide students with multiple opportunities … Read more
