The bias SATs

In the article, Correcting the SAT's Ethnic and Social-Class Bias: A Method for Re estimating SAT Scores, by Roy O. Freedle, he discusses how to change to cultural bias of our nations standard on college admission. He feels that the SAT's a basis on two levels culturally and statistically. By using a reformed scoring idea, R-SAT's, Freedle feels that more minority students may enter prestigious colleges. Different cultures view things differently leading to much different test scores. The highest difference in scores in in the verbal part of the SAT, which is often because of cultural differences. Freedle shows many different studies that show that most of the time the African American students do better on the hard questions by whites in volume preform better. There is also evidence that lower income white students would benefit by the R-SAT way of scoring. This article takes a hard look at the test that every high school student must face. It is time that we make college a fair fight.

The Value of Hard Work

In the Article The Value of Hard Work: Lessons on Parent Involvement from an (Im)migrant Household, by Gerardo R. Lopez, the concept of parental involvement in education is discussed. This articles follows the academic progress of a migrant family though the education process. When we think about parental involvement it normally pertains to the PTO or the amount of time spent helping children with their work after school. In this article we see a different perspective on parental involvement. The Padillas family taught their children to value education in a very different manor. The parents both taught their children to work hard in the fields and by doing so encouraged the children to continue their education so as not to have to work the fields in the future. It also taught the children the value of hard work and also manual skills that they could always fall back on. Although this was not the traditional way to be involved in the schools, the Padillas saw all of there children, one still in high school, continue on to college. It is important to look at all the ways that parents can be involved in their children's education.

Laptops In The Classroom

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Laptops In The Classroom

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Scrapblog

For my third emerging technology post I choose to do a digital scrapbook. I used the Scrapblog website. It was very easy to use and I had a wonderful time putting up pictures of Wesley ans Sam playing hockey. I did not add many stickers and borders to the scrapbook because it does cost a small amount of money to do so. Many of the scrapbooking websites make you pay without a free trial which was a nice bonus to scrapblog.

I did have a couple of problems posting the scrapbook. If you click on the full screen button at the bottom left hand corner you can see my pictures.

Enjoy!

hockey scrapblog

Yammer

https://www.yammer.com/iupui.edu/home#home

Here is a link to my Yammer account. This is a great networking site for those in the work place. I am part of the IUPUI Yammer You can use this site to stay in contact with the people you go to school and work with. This would be a wonderful way to network when working or trying to find jobs. It was extremely easy to sign up for and interesting to see the others involved in the site. It is a wonderful place to see what people are doing in your workplace.

You do have to sign into yammer with a username and password but the link will get you to the home page.

Podcast

I know that this was the very first time I looked into what a podcast really was although I had heard to word before. It was refreshing a very easy to learn. The site I used walked you through the process a step at a time. It took me just a few minutes to set up my first podcast.

This will be very helpful as a future teacher to help the children explore and post their own podcasts adding excitement to any project!

I have been playing around with some different podcasts and here is the first attempt at yet another new and exciting chapter on my journey into computer technology.......


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