A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

'As part of the PDK International Emerging Leader Award , I had the opportunity to attend an amazing professional development experience in Washington DC. During the first session there was a presentation on the Finnish Education System and the characteristics that make is the most successful system in the world in terms of student achievement. Here are some aspects that called out to me: Culture of trust and moral/social responsibility.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

'As technology changes and schools upgrade software, add new apps, change hardware or operating systems, and more, faculty, staff and students need training and support. GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. They have a large amount of free computer training resources that are well designed, easy to use and understand, and great for sharing with faculty, staff, and students.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

'Wanna know more about my Things That Have Me Thinking series? Read more here. Practical PBL-The Challenges of Ongoing Assessment : Problem-Based Learning is growing in its use thanks to multiple resources available. However, one of the challenges that remains is how do we ensure each student in the groups "pull their weight?" Assessing student participation has always been a sticky subject for me.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

'GUEST POST: Continuing the conversation on writing, author MJ Fletcher explains how he first began his adventures with the written word. "What''s that?" I asked my mother as I stared at the explosion of color and action on the cover. "It''s a comic book, do you want it?" Two men locked in mortal combat, one wearing a massive red cape while the other, some type of alien, attacked him.

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

'Last night, the #edchat topic was, "How should teachers deal with colleagues who are comfortable with 19th century and punitive measures for non-compliant students?" Judging by the responses, many teachers either felt they could gently prod this colleague to changing his or her practice. Others did not see this their responsibility at all. They saw it as the responsibility of the administrator.

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Educational Technology Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

'I just recently posted an article with Free Computer Training Resources and another one with a Collection of free training resources for Windows, Office, Google Apps, and more as I''ve been collecting resources for our staff, faculty, and students. I just found another great resource on Microsoft Office. We are transitioning from Office 2003 to Office 2010 and, as many of you know, there are major menu changes in terms of where commands are located.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

'Students often view presenting in front of the whole class with the same disdain as facing a firing squad or are so self-conscience that they act like idiots. Additionally, finding precious time for whole class presentations can eat into high-paced curricular calendars. We are still trying to get back on track from Hurricane Sandy, so this project was a quick way to get students to present and share without the stress of being in front of the class or take up class time.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

'In my previous series on using QR codes in speech and language intervention, we covered how clinicians can use this engaging visual strategy to easily "hide" text and images behind a code scannable by mobile devices. The result is kind of a high-tech (but simple) hide and seek where stimuli related to articulation, vocabulary, sentence structure, narrative skills, you name it, can be accessed by your students.

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

'Now that 45 states (and 3 territories) have adopted the Common Core Standards, edu-preneurs and opportunists have gone into overdrive, churning out tons of materials, programs, and trainings to help schools and school districts implement these standards. Not a day goes by that I don''t receive 15 or so emails from companies and individuals offering their wares and promising successful and complete implementation of the Common Core Standards.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

'You might be surprised that when Anthony Salcito , VP of education for Microsoft speaks with educators around the world and asks them who’s doing a 1:1 laptop program or 1:1 tablet program or 1:1 interactive whiteboard program, he tells those with their hands up : “Stop doing that.” He explains that he’s seen whole initiatives centered around various devices to the point that many other useful tools and pedagogy are thrown out the window so the device-driven initiative can be supported.

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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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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

In his 1970 book Deschooling Society, the radical philosopher Ivan Illich wrote: 'Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

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EdTechSandyK

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

'It is Edublog Award nomination time again! I participated in the nomination process last year , and really enjoyed getting to give shout-outs to some of my favorite resources. So, here I go again! It''s always hard to narrow down the best of anyone or anything, so I choose to focus on resources that have been valuable to me recently or have been resources I return to again and again over time.

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

'Now that I have had the opportunity to test drive a Nook Tablet, I can say, without a doubt, if you’re looking for an e-reader, you may want to consider purchasing a Kindle, rather than a Nook. First, not all the books I purchase through Barnes and Noble are available across all my devices. For example, I purchased a special edition of a book entitled Crucial Conversations, and I am unable to access that book on my iPad.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

'Guest post by David Bernstein I’m relatively new to the battle for wholesale educational change, but have fast learned that fighting for a different school model while parenting kids who go to fairly traditional schools requires a tortuous mental balancing act. On the one hand, I’m agitating for change to a badly broken education system, and on the other, I’ve got to make sure that my own alternative-learning-style kids come out of the school system in one piece.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

'Join me Tuesday, November 27th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with author and self-acknowledged autodidact Charles D. Hayes. I contacted Charles after finding his books Self University (published in 1989) and Proving You''re Qualified : Strategies for Competent People Without College Degrees (1995). I told him that I''m particularly interested in the topics of self-education, life-long learning, and accreditation and how they are changing because of the Web

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Many times I've heard it said that there is no evidence that technology improves learning. This is a vacuous claim, based on ignorance of the research literature, and possibly borne out of a fear or dislike of technology in general. My usual retort to such a claim is that children with special educational needs are a classic example of technology improving learning.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

'When it comes to the Edublogger Awards, I''ve "always (been) a bridesmaid and never a bride" but surprisingly (for me!) that''s.OK. Because I get SO much more from the Edublog Award process learning about and from new teachers, librarians, administrators, etc. than I can ever explain. It has been a super game changer and PLN builder for me. NEXT year for this I''ve got a new idea.I''ve created a new Sqworl group to save all those amazing blogs & educational sites I run across that I''m keep

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

'When it comes to education, it seems no matter where in the world you are from, the same innovative practices bring us together. This week at Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Global Forum hundreds of educators from more than 80 countries came together to showcase, learn, discuss and think about innovative teaching, learning, and leading practices. Take a look below to see what was hot around the globe and think about how you might tackle one or some of these where you work in the New Year.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

'Kiran Bir Sethi is the Founder/Director of the RiversideSchool in Ahmedabad, India, and her TEDIndia talk (embedded below) has been viewed over 600,000 times. She is also also the founder of ‘ aProCh ’ - an initiative attempting to make cities more child friendly, for which she was awarded the Ashoka Fellow in 2008. In 2009, she was also presented with the ‘Call to Conscience’ award from the King Centre at Stanford, for the citizenship/liberation curriculum that RiversideSchool implements.

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Connecting 2 the World

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I thought I had posted about this topic, which was actually an important idea that had to be cut from my dissertation. However, Colin Gray 's current research on design and innovation resonates with the findings that design is a social construct rooted in multiple cultures within distributed groups. He speaks of the disruption of thought which is something that distributed groups do when they negotiate meaning.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

'Please join us Monday, December 3rd at 8PM Eastern, TL Virtual Café hosts our 2nd annual FREE EduTech Smackdown/Open Mic night webinar. Please plan on visiting or participating! "You don’t have to be a librarian to play! We welcome classroom teachers, tech directors, administrators, enthusiastic partners of every persuasion! It''s more fun when we can learn from each other!

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

'By Lisa Nielsen and Willyn Webb | Cross posted at the Teaching Generation Text blog Talk about progress. Just a year ago Teaching Generation Text: Using Cell Phones to Enhance Learning , hit the market during a time when most schools still viewed cell phones as the enemy. For many they were simply a device that caused discipline issues and were viewed as a distraction and a cheating tool.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

'Join me today, Thursday, November 29th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Jim Groom. Jim is the director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has been working for over fifteen years in education with a consistent focus on the development of teaching and learning in higher education.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Reflection and Amplification Now that I have some time, I can sit down and reflect on an extraordinary two hour session with my BA Education Studies students this morning. They are only a small group of a dozen students, but over the last few months, my elearning module group has created a very large amount of content, including blogs, wiki pages and videos.

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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

'This Thursday, only two weeks after joining the Livescribe Sky pen pilot program, we had 50 SKY pens in the building along with Janet Sankar, an education specialist from Livescribe. Janet worked with me to help the kids set up their pens. We learned as we went along, our second class of kids was much smoother than the first. What made the big difference?

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog this week. Below you’ll see the top weekly posts along with the number of pageviews. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired, share it with others and/or leave a comment. Article Views Want to succeed in STEM? Listen to the experts!

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

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Comfortably 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

'There are lots of great things happening in your school district or classroom right now. Are you telling those stories? If you don''t start telling those stories, someone else will! An easy way to showcase those events is by using the iMovie app. Yes, it is a bit pricey at $4.99, but the the benefits far outweighs the cost. One of my favorite features of the iMovie app is the Trailer feature.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

'A recent U.S. study, Creativity and Education: Why it Matters , sheds new light on the role of creativity in career success and the growing belief that creativity is not just a personality trait, but a learned skill. A summary of some of the key findings are listed below: Image credit: [link] 85% percent of professionals agree creative thinking is critical for their career success, and 68% of respondents believe creativity is a skill that can be learned.

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My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

'I can feel the voices I hear shifting, even on twitter. A few weeks ago I found a great person, @ERHSnicewords, on twitter. HIs user name is "Against Bullying." Following his tweets I was impressed by the number of positive and supportive messages he sends. On his site he explains: ERHS Nice Words started as a Twitter account on August 18, 2012. @ERHSnicewords.

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

'Here’s my 2012 Edublog nominations. While it is difficult to narrow down my choices, these are sites I visit and read just about every single day and important nodes in my own professional learning network. Thanks to all! Individual Blog Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day : Consistently, day-after-day provides links to valuable information for all educators.

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