A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2016

There is a great deal of evidence to make educators reflect upon their use of technology. The most glaring was the OECD Report that came out last fall. Here is an excerpt: " Schools have yet to take advantage of the potential of technology in the classroom to tackle the digital divide and give every student the skills they need in today’s connected world, according to the first OECD PISA assessment of digital skills.

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 27, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 12. Driving Question: Where Does the "T" Fit in STEM? Let's compare two scenarios for learning about STEM: *In Scenario 1 , students focus on a societal or environmental problem that they think needs solving. They attempt to understand the issue in an interdisciplinary way, consulting those who are affected by the problem as well as experts working on solutions.

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The Jose Vilson

MARCH 27, 2016

The New York Times posted a puzzling op-ed from Dr. Angela Duckworth on the subject of, you guessed it, grit, and why we shouldn’t (!) be grading students on grit. You already know my objections that I laid bare in the same space. The idea that we must test for grit because it gives us more data is absurd on its face in that we already have plenty of data about the plethora of disadvantages our kids face and, when we don’t, we have any number of ways right now that more than suffice.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2016

The post 52 Of Our Favorite Inspirational Quotes For Teachers appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 27, 2016

March , 2016 Below are three very good map tools you can use with students in class. These are Chrome extensions that empower you with a bunch of excellent features to create, edit and.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2016

The post 27 Ways To Inspire Innovative Thinking In Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 27, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … develop a better understanding of how. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 27, 2016

By now, nearly everyone understands that most employers and many universities use social media to screen candidates. That means it’s more important than ever to ensure all students are well-Googled by the time they graduate high school by their full names. Most recruiters favor LinkedIn which is a great place to start not only developing a digital footprint but also a digital portfolio.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 27, 2016

I read this very short post yesterday , yet it resonated with me all day. “Developing leaders is our #1 priority.”. “Leader Development is in everything we do.” . “The heart of this unit is its leaders.”. “Good leadership is our most important asset.”. Sound about right? But when was the last time you participated in a unit leader development event that was focused on the practice of leadership?

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techlearning

MARCH 27, 2016

Clever story-based geometry game builds spatial reasoning skills.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 27, 2016

There are few things that annoyed me more as a teacher than picking up my students from P.E. or lunch (or having a small group return from a resource room pull-out class) only to discover that some students had been completely out of control while they were gone. With some classes I taught, it seemed like the moment I was out of sight, there was almost guaranteed to be an incident of disrespect to another teacher, a physical altercation between students, or something even worse.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 27, 2016

Evernote is a 21st century day planner. In Part 4 of his productivity series for school leaders, organization consultant and former principal Frank Buck singles out Evernote as a must-have for collecting school and home information in an easily accessible way.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 27, 2016

Horror at tv “news” seems to be building this month, which has some implications for information literacy. Last week I mentioned reports of some people working in tv “journalism” coming forward (anonymously) to share a sense of self-loathing at what their enterprise has done to the 2016 US presidential election. Now a leading print journalist has cut loose.

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