What’s new in my feeds: QR codes, value-added scores and unemployable students

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What’s new in my feeds: QR codes, value-added scores and unemployable students

By Tyler on November 30th, 2010

Here are a few blogs and posts I’ve stumbled upon in my trusty Google Reader in recent weeks. If you want to learn a thing or two, I suggest giving these folks a follow!

1) Linda Perlstein is the public editor of the Education Writers Association (she writes for Slate, as well). At The Educated Reporter, she blogs about what education writers SHOULD be writing about. Here’s a post where she wonders what parents think about the value-added teacher data some districts are releasing.

2) I haven’t been able to stop babbling about QR codes lately. (Just ask Ivy…) And it’s partly due to this great post on Jeff Utecht‘s blog where he predicts 2011 will be “The Year of the QR Code.” Check it out and maybe you’ll catch the QR bug like I have.

3) The Huffington Post’s new Education feed is definitely worth following. In this great post, Ewan McIntosh explains why he thinks our traditional schooling structures are churning out unemployable students, and not nurturing “self-starting, creative, entrepreneurial youngsters.”

4) If you follow Scott McLeod’s blog, Dangerously Irrelevant, you should check out his Mind Dump blog too. I think it’s a Tumblr blog, and it’s full of great nuggets of knowledge that make me smarter every day. Here’s a doozy from Friday.

What have you been reading lately?