A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 10, 2010
'As I write this post I am sitting in the Des Moines airport waiting for my flight back to the East Coast. I was fortunate to spend the last few days here in Iowa as a guest of Scott McLeod who founded and runs the C.A.S.T.L.E. program at Iowa State University. The purpose of my trip here was to learn about the deployment, facilitation, and observable impact of 1:1 laptop programs in various Iowa school districts.
The Web20Classroom
OCTOBER 14, 2010
'9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations With Social Media tags : presentations socialmedia favorite Creative Ways to Use Podcasts in the Classroom tags : podcasts favorite Online Tools For Collaboration tags : collaboration favorite Using Technology to Support Diverse Learners tags : differentiatedinstruction favorite Learning All About Podcasting tags : podcasting favorite Ideas to Inspire - Ways to use an iPad in the classroom tags : ipad favorite The Importance of Teaching Digital Citizenshi
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SpeechTechie
OCTOBER 13, 2010
'Fall is an interesting time in the private practice. We focus on social communication groups, and though we go to great pains to match kids well to get some good dynamics, sometimes you just don''t know what is going to happen until they are all in the room together. Plus in the Fall, some kids are brand new, others had no interventions over the summer, and yet more just.change.
Connecting 2 the World
OCTOBER 15, 2010
I have noticed lately that the emails I get from my students are shorter and much more direct. I have also noticed that some of the comments on my kids' facebook seem almost cruel in their brevity, communicating something that can be misunderstood. After doing some quick analysis, I realized that those messages that stood out as being "different" were sent from mobile technology.
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A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 9, 2010
'Facebook, the premiere social networking site, is used by hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. While the site has become somewhat of a nuance for most teachers—they distract from valuable study and class time—some schools are embracing the social media site with welcoming arms. Not only are some schools incorporating Facebook into their lesson plans, but they are also tutoring students as young as 6-years-old on how to ''properly'' use the site.
The Web20Classroom
OCTOBER 14, 2010
'I get asked a lot about Twitter. From how educators are using it to more basics like what does RT mean or what are those funny little things called hashtags? Over the past few days I have been going through my over 1000 sites I have saved in Diigo to find the best stuff on Twitter. I have compiled it all into a Livebinder. (If you don''t know what a Livebinder is, check this out.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 12, 2010
'Join me Wednesday, October 13th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Roger Schank , one of the world''s leading visionaries in artificial intelligence, learning theory, cognitive science, and the building of virtual learning environments. He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations.
The Daring Librarian
OCTOBER 13, 2010
'Being asked to be the keynote at MASL was a huge compliment, and I''m honored to speak to my fellow Maryland teacher-librarians. My tough-love message is one that is a little hard to hear, one that doesn''t accept the "yeah, buts" and excuses of county filters, the locked net monster, and draconian IT departments but hopefully one that will offer a lot of easy ways to make the digital shift that will solidify our position as invaluable and undeniably the EdTech and literacy leaders in our build
The Web20Classroom
OCTOBER 13, 2010
'Back again this year is the very popular eInstruction Classroom Makeover Contest where you can win over $75,000 worth of technology for your class and school. Entering is simple. Create a video with your students on how you are using technology to enhance learning. Some more information on entering from their website: Please be sure to follow the contest rules when planning, creating and submitting your video entry.
SpeechTechie
OCTOBER 14, 2010
'Last I left you, I was frazzled, having had a rather bumpy 1st group with some new kids. There were mass interruptions, some shouting, mean words. The promise of time with my iPad grounded everyone, pretty much saving the session from utter ruin. There was an incident with a tree upon exit, but we don''t need to talk about that. One of my favorite sayings, attributed to Einstein: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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 Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 12, 2010
'Join me tonight, October 12th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Sylvia Martinez, President of Generation YES , who will discuss the myths of technology integration (like, "we need more PD"), how education reform needs to start from the classroom, that digital citizenship is more than safety and manners, and much more!
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
OCTOBER 15, 2010
'Full-blown educational cloud computing -- love it! Google Apps for Education Users Grow to 10 Million By Tammy Wolf, TMCnet Copy Editor The idea of the classroom being the only outlet for students to learn from and interact with faculty is almost antiquated, as the development of out-of-the-classroom tools continues to skyrocket. One of these includes Google’s (News - Alert) Apps for Education, a version of Google’s online productivity tools geared toward K-12 schools and universities.
The Daring Librarian
OCTOBER 9, 2010
'Now, I know being on the Board of Directors of ISTE means I''m a wee bit biased.But they don''t pay me and I''ve been an avid ISTE association fan & member since I attended my first NECC conference in 2007 - Atlanta - where Kathy Schrock first introduced to me the virtual world of Second Life! I''d been presenting every year at my state affiliate MICCA now MSET since 1996 but had never had the $ or the gumption to go to the "big show until 2007.when I finally decided that saving all year fo
SpeechTechie
OCTOBER 11, 2010
'Check out this great interactive from Switcheroo Zoo that allows kids to not so much "design" a habitat but make choices and receive feedback on elements such as preciptation and vegetation. The site approaches the activity with humor, as the creatures'' thought bubbles let you know what they think about changes in the habitat. Language Lens: Curriculum concepts around habitat and adaptations are abstract in nature and difficult for students to grasp; this site visualizes a lot of that content
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.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 9, 2010
'I''m SO behind on alerting folks about this. Conference presentation proposals are due for the CUE and ISTE 2011 conferences this week--and the CUE proposals are due by early Monday morning! Especially I want to encourage the submission of presentations on Open Source Software , but more on that below. CUE: Computer-Using Educators, [link] SUBMISSION DEADLINE : Monday, October 11, 2010 by 7:00 am (Pacific Time) SUBMISSION DIRECT LINK : [link] CONFERENCE DATES : March 17-19, in Palm Springs, CA
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
OCTOBER 11, 2010
'The American Library Association has put together a terrific list of resources about bullying: Speaking OUT about Bullying [link] Here''s the embedded article: Immediate Help The Trevor Project A national 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for gay and questioning youth. The Trevor Project Youth are Speaking OUT The Equality Project An organization founded on Facebook by openly gay public high school students.
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
OCTOBER 12, 2010
'The power of one -- quite impressive. The Khan Academy is "a not-for-profit organization with the mission of giving access to knowledge to anyone, anywhere." Thank you, Aimee, for letting us know about this website of free, short video lessons of math, with more subjects to come. Khan Academy is Harvard MBA and fund manager Sal Khan ''s non-profit baby and has received a lot of press.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 14, 2010
'Join us tonight, October 14th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com Webinar with Kathleen Cushman on homework. Is your homework the kind of “deliberate practice” that forms the backbone of lasting learning? Or do your students see it as busywork to avoid wherever possible? Kathleen and the students of What Kids Can Do took up that subject in Chapter 8 of their new book Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery.
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SpeechTechie
OCTOBER 11, 2010
'Please click on over to the ADVANCE blog today to read my post about another application for SLPs of Google''s free tools- Images!
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 10, 2010
'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page.
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