A Principal's Reflections

MAY 9, 2013

'The following is a guest post by Juliana Meehan. As I sat with my stack of 100+ personal narratives waiting for grading, the enormity of the task threatened to swamp whatever energy I had. After thirteen years of teaching high school and middle school language arts, the idea of having to mark those papers with notations like “run-on” and “fragment” ad nauseam drove me to seek a different solution.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 8, 2013

'eduClipper is a great app from EduTecher Adam Bellow that provides a way to clip anything from the web and then share it with anyone. It''s free and allows you to clip and capture anything from the web including articles, links, videos, lesson plans and more. You then create a clipboard to organize what you have clipped and then you can share the clipboards with students, colleagues, the public or just keep it for yourself.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 6, 2013

'So, I''ve been playing a lot of Candy Crush lately. yeah, that addicting Facebook game. yup, that one. I know I shouldn''t admit it, but. there is some relevancy. While I usually write about technology in the classroom, I think it''s appropriate considering the events of the past two weeks to talk about how seemingly silly games serve an important purpose.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 6, 2013

'Quest2Matter is a youth-focused effort that encourages young people to tackle problems that break their heart. The Quest seeks to unlock the potential of young people to think entrepreneurially and innovatively and use modern tools to change our world. What is The Quest? The Quest is a catalyst that challenges students: Students who accept this challenge will know that they matter and that they can make a difference in our world.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 7, 2013

'Another way to promote the awareness of the importance of speech during Better Speech and Hearing Month (or other times) is to explore the idea of silent film. Many kids are unaware that there ever were films that have no sound, and any language-neutral visual can be a great context for having kids generate language. I found this treasure, " Unspoken Content: Silent Film in the ESL Classroom " just in a quick search about this topic.

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wwwatanabe

MAY 4, 2013

'In Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate with Tech--Part 1 , the focus was how to do a close reading. In Part 2, the focus is how to annotate with iPads , and insights gained from a lesson done with students in first through third grades. iPad apps for annotating Many apps can be used for annotating. I''m listing a few apps that can be used for close reading, and will go into detail on the one I''ve used the most with students.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 5, 2013

'Did you know that anyone (in the US) can receive Tweets on their phone even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter? Twitter Fast Follow allows anyone to follow Tweets right from any phone with texting capabilities. For a school community, this can provide a simple way for people to get information they care about in real-time. It is a terrific way to build and strengthen the home-school connection.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 9, 2013

'Although it is nice to be slowing down a bit as the school year winds down, I am looking forward to some summer events I would like to mention. Hope to see some of you at one of these! July 12-13, 2013- Long Beach, CA: ASHA Schools Conference- Presenting two sessions, "One Digital Story at a Time: Apps to Target Narrative and Expository Language" and "''Out of the Box'': Apps through a Language Lens.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 5, 2013

'Promote Reading With QR Code Loo Reviews & Pocket Videos! Here''s a fun idea! Combine QR Codes that link to video book trailers on a laminated sign taped to the back of a bathroom stall door that says "Do NOT Scan These!" and you should get the kids streaming into the high school library to check out books! Let''s face it, kids sneak their smart phones into the bathroom to check their text messages why not take advantage of that & get them into the school library!

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

'It''s something we already know, or at least have suspected for a long time. Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. My own father, now 84 years old, started a Facebook account so he could keep in touch with distant relatives in such places as New Zealand and Australia. He''s having a whale of a time.

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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 Innovative Educator

MAY 8, 2013

'Editor's note: There are plenty of questions around if college is really worth the time and money. Personally, I found a way to graduate college as a teen without going into any debt, so the decision wasn't too difficult. More and more people are finding innovative ways to have their cake and eat it too. Here's one such story. Guest post by Laura Fokkena.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 7, 2013

'Previous guest John Hunter joins me Wednesday, May 8th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation now that his book is out: World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements. John, a teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia, created an eight-week student-participation exercise called the World Peace Game. In his own classroom, the game triggered a transformation of the children from students of a neighborhood public school to citizens of the world.

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Saving Socrates

MAY 8, 2013

'I confess. I started as a chalk and talk teacher. I admit it. I loved to lecture. I still love giving presentations before people. I enjoyed learning from lectures in college and grad school. My favorite high school teacher, Ms. Petrusky was a lecturer. I still love logging on to itunes and watching a great lecture. I especially loved the amount of content I could cover in a given lecture.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 6, 2013

'A recent longitudinal study may provide clues about why some have more Twitter followers than others. The study, entitled A Longitudinal Study of Follow Predictors on Twitter analysed the social behaviour and message content against follower growth for more than 500 Twitter users over a 15 month period. The research concludes that if you want to attract more followers, your content has to be good quality, and how you say it also matters.

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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 Innovative Educator

MAY 4, 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 Pageviews 7 free ways to capture student responses.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 10, 2013

By Barbara Ray, originally posted May 6, 2013 to Remake Learning , the blog of the Pittsburgh Kids + Creativity Network— Several years ago now, I visited a new charter school in the shadows of Chicago’s public housing projects. The elementary school was part of the University of Chicago’s charter experiment, where some of the best minds in education reform had designed the curriculum and school structure.

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Saving Socrates

MAY 6, 2013

'We tell our students that life is one large resume. That every action they perform has consequences. We tell them that many of their decisions in high school will affect the rest of their lives. We try to explain to them the notion of an opportunity cost. That when you choose to do one action you are also making the simultaneous choice to not do another.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 9, 2013

'"I never teach my students. I only provide them with the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein The social web is replete with self-organising spaces. Take Wikipedia for example. It is now the largest single repository of knowledge on the planet and continues to grow with over 4.2 million articles in English, and many more in other languages.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 9, 2013

'If you are responsible for helping to build and strengthen the home-school connection, you’ll want to follow Principal Joe Mazza on Pinterest. Mazza uses Pinterest to pin resources aligned to t he National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs which build upon the six types of parent involvement identified by Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 5, 2013

You, too, can learn to program and to teach programming with Scratch. ScratchEd, a network of educators and learning theorists working together to learn about teaching programming in the Scratch environment, offer a range of ways to learn about Scratch. Creative Computing Course. For the Summer of Making and Connecting, ScratchEd is pleased to offer a free online course in Creative Computing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 7, 2013

'Join me Thursday, May 9th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Professor Peter Gray on his new book, Free to Learn : Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. From the publisher''s description (emphases added): "Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests—often against their will.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 5, 2013

Have fun learning new web making skills as you explore the Connected Learning framework in NWP’s massive open online collaboration — or mooc. It’s not a course—there are no quizzes or papers, only creative opportunities to make and share while exploring the Connected Learning design principles and hearing from amazing educators who have used them to push their practice forward in innovative ways.

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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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Educator Innovator

MAY 5, 2013

For educators, the opportunities to see the world from the vantage point of the youth with whom we work are as important as they are rare, so the symposium with young makers captured in this video is especially precious. John Dewey, in the Child and the Curriculum, talked about curriculum as traversing between the logical and the psychological. The logical, the arrangement of knowledge in the disciplines for example, is what we often think of in crafting a curricular path.

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