A Principal's Reflections
MAY 15, 2013
'This year’s Holocaust Study Tour took place from April 1 through 14. I am proud to say that this unparalleled learning experience, under the direction of Colleen Tambuscio, has taken place for the last twelve years at NMHS. Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history.
Educational Technology Guy
MAY 17, 2013
'PBS KIDS'' Design Squad Nation is an Emmy Award winning program with STEM related videos, activities, games and an interactive community. There is also a Parents and Educators section with lesson plans, curriculum guides, and more. There are some great new features to it, including a Solar System unit with games, activities, and lesson resources about our solar system, a roller coaster project where students compete to build the best roller coaster out of poster board, and a variety of other re
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The Web20Classroom
MAY 16, 2013
'I have been a big fan of eduClipper and an even bigger fan of the their founder, Adam Bellow. Adam is a great friend of mine and I have seen, first-hand, the dedication, countless hours, and sweat he has put into eduClipper. And it definitely shows in this latest round of updates. What is eduClipper? Think of it as Pinterest, only more awesome and with an educational focus.
The 21st Century Principal
MAY 14, 2013
'“Teacher mind frames are the most important enhancer and barrier to students’ learning.” Alan Bain and Mark Weston, The Learning Edge: What Technology Can Do to Educate All Children Our relentless pursuit for some magical formula that will suddenly transform our schools is a fruitless quest. There are no magical formulas or tools, and there are no heroes who will ride into our schools and school districts and suddenly save the day and turn our schools into magical places of learning and engagem
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The Innovative Educator
MAY 12, 2013
'By now, you''ve probably seen the video of high school student Jeff Bliss demanding an end to what he calls "packet teaching." Instead he puts out a call to action for teachers to work to touch the hearts of kids to open their minds. The interaction was ignited when his teacher told him to stop his b g about the test and kicked him out of class. A student flipped open the cell phone, caught his reaction on tape, and published it.
Educational Technology Guy
MAY 17, 2013
'Wonderopolis is a great, free resource that has some great resources to help students learn and explore all kinds of topics. It has topics ranging from the science of why the sky is blue to how sound effects are made to pretty much any question, or "wonder" a child has. There are quizzes to help reinforce knowledge and connect to related ideas, mobile design and navigation, social networking features, ways for users to share ideas, and over 900 different topics of wonder.
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The 21st Century Principal
MAY 16, 2013
'“Integrity is acting for what is right. When we do this, we feel whole and uniquely powerful.” Gus Lee & Diane Elliott-Lee, Courage: The Backbone of Leadership How many of you have had the rare opportunity to work with a leader that you would follow no matter where they led? I’m not referring to blind-followership. I am referring to following out of devotion because of who that leader is and what they are made of.
The Innovative Educator
MAY 14, 2013
'Guest post by Bradley Lands | Cross posted at The Landscape of Learning At the behest of politicians, educators nationwide have been told to view students as statistics, not as individuals, and to view the purpose of the educational enterprise as raising test scores rather than developing capable minds [1]. While I was taking a survey today about Response to Intervention (RTI) I began to reflect about how RTI and Data-Driven Instruction have affected my school.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
MAY 11, 2013
'This first pass at a "Student Bill of Rights" was inspired by: 1) " A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age " that Audrey Watters and I were able to discuss at length in a podcast, and that I felt was unimaginative and particularly reflected an institutional perspective; 2) my interviews at FutureofEducation.com ; and 3) the EducationDeclarations.org project.
SpeechTechie
MAY 14, 2013
'Apps that go beyond a simple screen and involve people around a play space have great potential for interactivity and "speechieness," or using language in the context of the app. Ice Cream Truck ($1.99) is one of those apps- it''s somewhat in the vein of Toca Store but it has additional contexts. With Ice Cream Truck, your young students can "drive" the iPad around a space (incorporating augmented reality through the camera) and decide where to park for their customers, using the horn and music
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.
The 21st Century Principal
MAY 17, 2013
'Name one person who always “triggers” strong emotion and anger in your life. If you are a district level leader, that person might be a board member or local politician. Or if you are a principal, it might be a parent, student, or even a teacher. If you’re a teacher, it might be one particular student or a colleague. In each of these cases, this individual usually knows and is highly skilled in knowing how to push your buttons and make you lose your cool.
The Innovative Educator
MAY 17, 2013
'It turns out my support of student activist Jeff Bliss caused at least one teacher to announce on his blog that he wants to quit Tweeting and blogging. Friends bombarded me with the post, accompanied by comments like, “This is great. We don’t need someone like that representing our profession.” Or, “Wow. He must really be threatened by students being heard.
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
MAY 11, 2013
'Dear Faculty, Google''s Education on Air series this week featured innovative teachers who use Chromebooks in the various subjects: Math, Science, Social Studies and Foreign Language, Special Education, and Language Arts. The coolest thing about the ideas presented is that they can be used on any device. So you don''t need a Chromebook to play. Each hangout is about an hour long.
SpeechTechie
MAY 16, 2013
'Pepi Tree (free Lite version available, full version $1.99) is a fun little app presenting "mini-games" at different levels of a tree, all illustrating in some way the life and "work" of animals in the forest. Mini-games are an interesting concept for therapy, as they can be used as different contexts for concepts, language structure and vocabulary development within the same app.
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The 21st Century Principal
MAY 15, 2013
'The field of education “focuses on initiatives targeting computer-to-student ratios and administration process automation, not learning processes or outcomes,” according to Alan Bain and Mark Weston, authors of The Learning Edge: What Technology Can Do to Educate All Children. Though we claim to focus on student achievement with our technology initiatives, that focus is more often on the “stuff” rather than on what we have students and teachers do or achieve with that “stuff.
The Innovative Educator
MAY 11, 2013
'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. Post Views What''s your digital footprint?
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
MAY 16, 2013
'I produced a version the following "Core Beliefs" and "View of Change" statements for the Hack Your Education Tour I did in the fall of 2012. I think they give some context to my recent A Student Bill of Rights post (and website ), and I welcome any discussion of them. My Core Beliefs: That every child has unique inherent worth and value. Unfortunately, we tell huge numbers of children and their parents that they are "defective" or failures because they aren''t succeeding based on a relatively
Learning with 'e's
MAY 12, 2013
'We learn best when we are fully involved in the process. John Dewey advocated ''learning by doing'' and Seymour Papert called it ''learning by making''. These are theories that guide many educators today. Mindful of these theories, I have recently been working alongside students to encourage them to write for an audience. Nothing new in that, you may think.
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Nik Peachey
MAY 17, 2013
123ContactForm may not sound like the kind of tool that would be of interest to educators, but as I discovered when they asked me to review their online form creation tool, they offer quite a range of features that can solve many of the problems we have as 21st century teachers. We can use it to: Create surveys to do research and action research We can create interactive materials based around multimedia objects We can eve use it to sell our materials or services online and take payments The too
My Paperless Classroom
MAY 11, 2013
'If you have not yet seen the video of high school student Jeff Bliss schooling his world history teacher, you should really check it out. This video has over a million views and more importantly it has people talking about the importance of high engagement teaching. In the video Mr. Bliss is clearly frustrated but makes a really well-reasoned argument.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
MAY 16, 2013
'I run a number of physical and virtual events under the umbrella of Web 2.0 Labs ( [link] ). They are based on a belief in the power of educators being able to connect and learn from each other, and combined they had 100,000+ attendees last year. All of these events are free to attend, but they are not free to put on, so this email is the pitch to those who potentially have sponsorship budgets: we need you!
The Daring Librarian
MAY 12, 2013
'@Slideshare , my favourite presentation & file sharing site, is celebrating 10 Million Presentations Uploaded to SlideShare by creating the infographic below -- and astoundingly, the featured me! (I know, crazy right!?) So.of course I have to share it with you! (and my Mom! LOL) Also featured on the infographic is the presentation that changed my graphical & preso life and is one of the most viral slidedecks on earth.
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.
Educator Innovator
MAY 17, 2013
By idecoursy; Cross-posted from The Webmaker Blog —. On May 9, programmers, designers, educators and learning innovators came together in New York to hack for a better web. The Project:Connect hackathon — hosted by the MacArthur Foundation, Facebook, the Family Online Safety Institute and Mozilla — kicked-off this year’s Digital Media and Learning Competition.
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