A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). Thus, the biggest challenge I had to overcome was a fixed mindset regarding how I could use a tool like this to improve my capacity as an educational leader.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Photo by smjbk Used Under a Creative Commons License On December 4th, I was tagged by Carrie Ross and Kristy Vincent. Then, I was tagged today by Joel Adkins and Carl Hooker. So, after four tags, I think it''s probably my turn to participate! Why did you start blogging? Wondering what the heck I''m talking about?

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Hansen's Link to Tech

JULY 2, 2019

Get your personal PD on by either subscribing or following your favorite resource blogs. Providing educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Common Sense is a huge resource to view information such as digital citizenship, edtech ratings, and expert advice.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 22, 2020

It’s a place for stories big and small, joyful or sad, one-off contributions or daily audio blogs. Recordings are shared as an evolving global database of open-source, Creative Commons-licensed resources for folks to use in teaching, journalism, research, art and media projects, and more. Every story is welcome.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

We’re excited to announce our first #STEMchallenge, a call to innovative science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educators everywhere to create and share their most inspiring and tech-rich STEM lessons. 26, 2015 on the Graphite blog. Stay tuned all month long (and beyond) to the Graphite blog and Twitter.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2020

And a Facebook group you've heard of is full of educators who are, like you, interested in project-based learning. Common Sense Educators : A Facebook group with over 15,000 educators dedicated to a collaborative culture of digital learning and digital citizenship, this is a closed group, so you'll need to request to join.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

Common Sense Education provides teachers, librarians, and education technology coaches with a variety of ways to customize their learning over the summer. STEM, STEAM, or science teachers can browse hundreds of games, apps, and websites tagged for NGSS with the NGSS Explorer. Consider becoming certified.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

Common Sense Education provides teachers, librarians, and education technology coaches with a variety of ways to customize their learning over the summer. STEM, STEAM, or science teachers can browse hundreds of games, apps, and websites tagged for NGSS with the NGSS Explorer. Consider becoming certified.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Also, a related question is: With all of the information available at any given moment on the Web, how can I possibly hope to keep abreast of the cutting edges issues in education? It is my front-line solution in staying on top of education issues. For example, one of my favorite blogs is Lifehacker.

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ProfHacker

MAY 28, 2015

Her primary role is a faculty developer but she also teaches educational game design to undergrads and ed tech to in-service teachers. She blogs at [link] and tweets @bali_maha.–@JBJ. It makes complete sense for an architecture class, but it also makes sense for other disciplines, and others have done it (see here and here ).

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Citizen- Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world. Educators: Create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that build relationships and community. Empowered Professional 3.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 20, 2018

Work hard Be Reliable Be Reflective Be Positive Hard work, a sense of humor, tenacity, and a stubbornly fought for positive mental and professional attitude. I curate, I share, I write a little, blog, Tweet, chat, plan, dream, and strategize. I curate, I share, I write a little, blog, Tweet, chat, plan, dream, and strategize.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The speakers, sessions, food, venue, and even the name tags surpassed all expectations. I had a great time encouraging educators to give students as much ownership over their devices and learning as possible. The Augmented Reality puzzles are fun and educational and a great activity for your classroom. What else is new and cool?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Play games that will develop your child’s sense of happy familiarity with mathematics. Reinventing the Classroom - Correction.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 31, 2016

What is happening to America’s public higher education system? Let me pull out some details, which can apply to other public colleges and universities – i.e., the majority of American higher education. Let me also refer you to CUNY professor Corey Robin’s corroborating blog post. students are paying more.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is known as sentiment tracking, a method that may well come in useful in education in the future. An hour later, I searched on Google for some e-learning blogs, and landed on my first page. It's a very effective marketing ploy, but there is also enormous educational potential. But how did KLM know to respond to my tweet?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 16, 2019

All resources mentioned have a free version or trial for educators and many are registration and ad free so that students don’t have to give their private information. Common Sense has a digital citizenship curriculum for K-2 and 3rd-5th with videos, printables, and engaging activities. STEAM Tools and Apps.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2015

a way to quickly accomplish common tasks. It makes sense to activate Waze any time you’re in your car, just in case. Educational Applications. It quickly became a favorite of lots of tech-savvy educators because it offers a growing number of ways to automate daily tasks that suck the minutes out of already-busy lives.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 1, 2010

Ken Royal of Scholastic Administrator Magazine recently wrote a blog post which resonated with me. As much as I love the world of social media and all of the benefits it has to offer education, I, too, worry about educators who run headlong into using free web resources with K-12 students. Posted from Diigo.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 9, 2017

What does it mean to be an XYZ-certifed educator? Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Shades of the reactions to the outcomes-based education reforms of the mid-1990s.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Chatterbox is receiving rave reviews at many schools and top universities across the UK, and Hedayat would love to extend that reach to elementary and high-school classrooms, as well as higher education, across the US. Users can search for resources by tag, audience, and even type (e.g., infographics or videos).

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 22, 2014

Changing the learning landscape is a one day workshop on social media and learning in higher education that will be held at the University of Warwick on April 24. Clearly this is an important area of development for all education professionals, in whatever sector they work. Unported License. Unported License.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is making the rounds to promote his new book.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thinking about whether and how such obfuscation techniques might be applied in education by privacy-minded students or educators (in PreK-12 or postsecondary settings) is…hard. Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thinking about whether and how such obfuscation techniques might be applied in education by privacy-minded students or educators (in PreK-12 or postsecondary settings) is…hard. Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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