Sat.Jan 26, 2013 - Fri.Feb 01, 2013

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Learning Math Should be Fun and Engaging

A Principal's Reflections

'Kanchan Chellani, currently a math teacher at New Milford High School , is a strong believer in making the learning process fun, interactive, and meaningful for students. To engage students in her classroom, Mrs. Chellani has utilized a variety of tools to help her develop an interactive, student-centered learning environment. Through the use of technology, collaborative learning exercises, and teaching mathematical concepts in the real-world and interdisciplinary context, she has managed to su

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So.You Wanna Be A Good Digital Citizen

The Web20Classroom

'This is an update from a post a wrote a while back. I''ve included some new resources to check out. Recently, my district began a huge initiative to combat bullying/cyberbullying and to help students become more aware of the choices they make both in their face-to-face lives and their digital decisions as well. There is no one right way or right answer that will stop the problems.

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How to Decode a Tweet

EdTechSandyK

'When you first start using Twitter, one of the things you have to figure out is how to decode Tweets. What does each part represent? What does it mean when a word starts with a #? Below is a Tweet as it might be displayed on the Twitter website when viewed on a computer. Note that not all Tweets might include all of these exact attributes. If you are using an app or third-party service like Hootsuite or TweetDeck to read your Tweets, they might look slightly different, but the parts will still

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8 Must-Have Skills for Spotting Misinformation for 21st Century Students

The 21st Century Principal

'A 21st century skill that all students need badly is the ability to spot misinformation. As educators, we desperately need to do as Loren Collins states in her book, Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation. We need to "arm our students with baloney-detecting tools to prevent false and unsupported beliefs so that such beliefs can be better contained.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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The Lowell Milken Center Discovery Award

A Principal's Reflections

'Innovation and creativity are at the core of the American spirit and they are the qualities that build the foundation for progress in education, technology, business, and, well, just about everything. As a principal, I often write about of the importance of creativity, innovation, and discovery in the classroom. When it comes to innovating in the classroom, project-based learning has gained increased attention as teachers and reformers seek ways to the move our classrooms away from the often mu

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A Wrap Up Of Day 1 At #FETC

The Web20Classroom

'I''ve had the pleasure of spending time at the Florida Educational Technology Conference, better known as FETC. Held in Orlando, educators from across Florida and the world really, are here talking educational technology and learning together. Today was filled with lots of sessions and even a presentation from yours truly. Below are the links to everything I did today.

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3 Steps to Managing Your School or District's Online Reputation

The 21st Century Principal

'In their book, Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online , authors Andy Beal and Judy Strauss entitle one chapter "You Don''t Own Your Company''s Reputation." That idea is equally true for schools and districts and should remind twenty-first century school leaders that they "don''t own their school or school district''s reputation either.

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Introduction to iPads: Part 1--Hardware

wwwatanabe

'How does a teacher start to use iPads in the classroom? This post will include the basics for getting started. Part 1 focuses on the hardware fundamentals, while Part 2 focuses on iPad integration in the classroom. Hardware basics Turning on / off the iPad : Hold the sleep button for five seconds until you see the apple appear on the screen to turn it on.

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Apple on Google: Gmail

SpeechTechie

'Last week I posted about the valuable role of the iOS mail app. In more of a philosophical note on email, I like to compartmentalize my accounts. Particularly on my iPhone, I don''t like to have my happiness disturbed by a work-related email while checking my personal Gmail for Facebook notifications or other enjoyable nonsense. The fact that the iOS Mail app automatically checks all of your added accounts, and can blend them into a All Mailboxes feed, makes it difficult to avoid such disturban

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5 Rewards of Teaching Young Students to Blog

The Innovative Educator

'By Mrs. Yollis This was originally published on SmartBlogs and Mrs. Yollis' Classroom blog to help parents have a good understanding about the benefits of blogging. I have been an elementary-school teacher for more than 25 years and I am always on the lookout for meaningful ways to engage and motivate my young students. I started Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog in 2008 with the idea of sharing class activities with parents.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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4 Principles for Fostering and Maintaining Authentic 21st Century Leadership

The 21st Century Principal

'In his book entitled The Mindful Leader: Awakening Your Natural Management Skills Through Mindfulness Meditation , Michael Carroll writes, "When we lead a career that is sharply focused on being more successful, more admired, or just more comfortable, we can deceive ourselves into neglecting the world around us. We end up managing our lives like projects rather than actually living them.

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Live Tuesday Feb. 5 - Carol Black on "Occupy Your Brain" (and Special Screening of "Schooling the World")

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, February 5th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with returning guest Carol Black on her essay: " Occupy Your Brain: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense." I previously interviewed Carol about her hugely thought-provoking film, Schooling the World , which Carol has generously agreed to make available again for free viewing between now and the 12th of February.

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Just Wanderful! Living Books Are Back!

The Daring Librarian

'Brøderbund''s Living Books Are Back for the iPad & iPhone Thanks to Wanderful Books ! On Friday I was looking pensively at my boxed sets of the Living Books CD-ROM collection in my school library. I have resisted for YEARS (ok, like 10+) to weed them knowing how AMAZING & special these interactive stories can be for ESOL or special ed kiddos but alas - the sad weeding day has finally come.

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How Kids Really Learn to Write

The Innovative Educator

'Patricia Zaballos shares some radical notions about how kids can become writers in her article in Life Learning Magazine. These notions share little resemblance to what writing looks like in schools today. Though she has extensive experience as a public school student and teacher, her insights are drawn from her fifteen years spent homeschooling her own kids and watching them become writers as well as more than a decade of facilitating writer’s workshops and the twenty years she spent becomi

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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21st Century Leadership in Schools with Changing Demographics

The 21st Century Principal

'Recently, the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy released an updated study entitled " Racial and Economic Diversity in North Carolina''s Schools: An Update." The study by Charles T. Clodfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor, had some interesting bulleted points regarding the demographic status of North Carolina Public Schools. Since the early 1990s with the end and weakening of school desegration policies and measures, North Carolina schools became increasingly segregated.

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Live Thursday - The Effects of Health and Poverty on Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Thursday, January 31st, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Stephen Bezruchka, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Health Services, the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. A recent set of widely-reported studies are highlighting statistics that don''t surprise Stephen, but are shocking to those previously unfamiliar with their findings.

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10 Google+ Communities I'm Recommending to Our Faculty

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

'Here are ten Google+ communities I''ll be recommending that our teachers check out. 1. STEM on Google+ - "Feel free to post into the appropriate section by selecting from the drop-down ''share'' menu." (8399 members as of 1/25/13) 2. Music Producers - Gear, Techniques, Tips, Tricks & Advice (258 members as of 1/25/13) 3. Film Professionals Network - Community of filmmakers from all parts of the world (203 members, 1/25/13) 4.

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Research says social media is easier to recall than textbooks

The Innovative Educator

'Scientific American recently reported what many innovative educators instinctively know. Image: Katie Sayer/Flickr "H umans are better at remembering information if it appears as a social network post." The article reveals that r ecollecting Facebook posts is easier than recalling the same information in a book. It also takes less effort to remember posted matter than someone''s face, according to new research.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Penultimate: Handwritten Notes App for iPad That Syncs with Evernote

The 21st Century Principal

'Earlier this week, I mentioned Notability as an app of choice to take handwritten notes on the iPad. It is an excellent choice for those looking for an inexpensive option for notetaking and an app with a number of features. Another app for the iPad that offers users an excellent experience in taking handwritten notes is the iPad app, Penultimate. Now that Evernote has assumed control of this app, it''s ability to sync with that application offers users an interesting feature not found in Notabi

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Flipped Classroom: How many hours does an instructor REALLY put into teaching

Connecting 2 the World

I'm writing my blog instead of preparing for my class today. Part of the reason is that I find Blogging a way to ease back into academic writing that will be published (rather than writing my dissertation which I have now completed). However, this blog post has weighed on my mind for the last 24 hours. I have previously written about my participation in a "flipped classroom" project through our school.

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Book Club 2.0 Wiki + Papert and Dewey Virtual Events

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'I''m doing a FutureofEducation.com show on Tuesday, March 5th, with +Ben Rimes on his Book Club 106 (the current book is Switch ), and running virtual book clubs is something I''ve wanted to do myself, having talked with +Audrey Watters and +Gary Stager and many others over the past year about how we might do this. So, the bonus of 1) my adoration of Wikispaces , 2) my current consulting for and similar adoration of Mightybell , and 3) my previous employment with Elluminate/Blackboard Collabora

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5 Cs to developing your personal learning network #PLN

The Innovative Educator

'Thinglink is a cool tool that brings ideas into a nice visual graphic. Check out this one based on my article, "The 5 Cs to developing your personal learning network.".

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Notability: Simple and Easy Way to Take Handwritten Notes on the iPad

The 21st Century Principal

'Notability is an iPad app for taking typewritten and handwritten notes. It has a simple interface, with only the minimal features that support these tasks. Here are some of its most prominent features. Take or write handwritten notes. You can use multiple colors, and even move your handwritten notes about the page. Record and attach audio notes to your documents.

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VoiceThread in the Classroom

MSEDTechie

'Do you want a way to allow students to record digital stories? Allow students to link their voices with pictures they illustrated? www.voicethread.com VoiceThread is an awesome resource to use with students. It is very user friendly, and it allows to students as young as Kindergarten to work independently recording their voices on the app. The other great thing about VoiceThread , is that it is both a website resource, and an iPad app.

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Live Tuesday - Looking at Education Through the Work of W. Edwards Deming

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, January 29th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Gary Obermeyer about the work and philosophy of W. Edwards Deming (see the Wikipedia article on Deming for a good overview). Deming, who is widely credited with helping to dramatically alter the economy of Japan in the 1950''s, argued articulately and with data against the "tyranny of the prevailing style of management" in business, government, and education.

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The hottest posts that everyone's reading

The Innovative Educator

'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. Entry Pageviews High school dropout pursues passions, becomes millionaire.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

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

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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An Innovative Way to Increase Police Presence in Schools

The 21st Century Principal

'In the wake of Sandy Hook, there have been a number of suggestions on how to best address safety in our schools. Those suggestions have ranged from arming teachers and principals to paying for armed security guards for each building. As a building level administrator, the last thing I want in our building is an untrained person toting a weapon around.

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Game changers in the Training Zone

Learning with 'e's

This week, ahead of my speech at the Learning Technologies Conference I recorded a 10 minute podcast interview for the Training Zone. You can listen by clicking on the embedded link below. If the link below doesn't work for you, try this one. My interview is at 18.45 in the podcast. To give you a taste of what was discussed, here is some of what I said in an excerpt from the transcript: Q: What are the big technological developments we can expect to see implemented in 2013?

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Puppets = Engagement

My Paperless Classroom

'Stewart, the kids say he looks like me Pi Turnstyle, my 3rd puppet So the question of the week is "What''s with the puppets?" and it is a fair question. I was working with some finger puppets recently and started figuring out the green screen video program. I have turned to puppets because I like puppets and someone has to be in these videos. I came up with a fun concept the "Tweet of the Week" staring Candide Cow.

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It Doesn't Hurt to Ask

Comfortably 2.0

'A couple of weeks ago, one of our Kindergarten teachers came to me and asked if I had any ideas on how to integrate some technology into a unit they were doing on Penguins. It caught me off guard a little bit, but my response was something like, "Why don''t we email the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha and see if someone would Skype with us about their Penguins?".

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.