A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

'Cross-posted at teach.com. Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology. These schools and educators, whether they realize it or not, are not only enhancing the teaching and learning process, but they are also providing their learners with essential skill set

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 30, 2012

'It''s been almost 1 and half years since I last wrote about my favorite Twitter chats. Since then many have come and gone, some have changed and some new ones have emerged worth checking out. First, to participate you don''t need a Twitter account. Chats are a great way to passively learn with lots of people. I am a big believer in the power of the network.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 28, 2012

'Many school leaders and policy makers still express a high level of skepticism regarding social media’s potential as an educational tool. This is evident by administrative efforts across the country to block and ban the technology rather than engage it instructionally. As authors Ronald Williamson and J. Howard Johnston write in their book The School Leader’s Guide to Social Media : “Given the explosive growth of social media, and its tremendous potential to change the way we communicate, learn

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SpeechTechie

MAY 3, 2012

'I thought it might be helpful over the next few months to share some iPad tips here, not necessarily the basics like turning on and off the device, but functions that can be viewed through an SLP lens as to how they affect our work! The arrival of the "New iPad" (3rd Generation) and its "retina" display, which is Apple''s way of saying the screen is as HD as your eye (what about people who wear glasses?

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APRIL 28, 2012

Well. not exactly. Paulo Freire, that great Brazilian educational thinker died in 1997, just as the World Wide Web was emerging in the Western world. So Freire didn't actually live to see the power and potential of social media, or the impact blogging would have on education. But what would he have said about blogs if he had been witness to the participatory web in all its present glory?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 28, 2012

'Join me Tuesday, May 1st, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC). We''ll talk about the NMC Horizon Project the NMC Horizon Reports, their summer conference, and more. With over one million downloads in the past nine years, the NMC Horizon Report series serves the higher education, K-12, and museum communities across the globe in their desire to understand the impact of emerging technologies on thei

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SpeechTechie

MAY 1, 2012

'Students of all ages continue to enjoy playing board games! I recently worked with authors Nichole Ontis and Danielle Sears, two school-based SLPs, along with Barbara Fernandes, on a new app that translates the board game format into an exciting and fun experience for the iPad. Language Adventures (unless I missed something) is the first speech and language board game for the iPad , and takes advantage of the electronic medium to add aspects that can be lacking in traditional board games: color

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The Electric Educator

MAY 2, 2012

'Google Chrome is the world''s second most popular web browser. Chrome features fast and reliable access to the web. This series of posts highlights Chrome extension and web applications, which enhance and extend what can be done with the Chrome web browser. Have you ever been frustrated when you are forced to download a PDF, Word, PowerPoint, or other document from the web in order to view it?

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

APRIL 29, 2012

'Curious about how Google+ and Google Hangouts work in an educational setting? So am I! This Wednesday, I''ll be participating in (viewing) the first Google Air EdTech Conference via Google Hangouts. It''s called EducationonAir I invite you to join me when you have a free moment, either in the Hawaiian Studies Room, or wherever you and your laptop want to be.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 3, 2012

David White is Honourary Director General at the European Commission, and is a passionate believer in lifelong learning. Ahead of his keynote speech at this year’s EDEN conference , to be held in Porto, I asked him some questions about his life, his passions and what he believes about technology supported education. Here is the interview in ten questions.

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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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SpeechTechie

APRIL 29, 2012

'I attended my second Edcamp Boston Saturday, making it my 3rd official "unconference." Edcamps are really more of a movement than anything, an acknowledgment that we as educators have so much we can learn from each other! The unconference format forgoes pre-set agendas, structured proposals, presentations and PowerPoints in favor of informal sessions run by people who are passionate about education and collaboration.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 30, 2012

'Google Apps for Education has become a platform for accessing web-based tools as much as it is a tool itself. While Google Docs, Sites, Calendar, etc remain the core tools, more and more third party services are being made available. In addition to the growing popularity of Google Apps for Education, the Chrome web browser and operating system continue to gain popularity as a gateway to the web.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 30, 2012

'Today, I purchased the Galaxy Tab 7.7 with 4G capability on which I am writing this post. So far I am highly pleased with the device. The graphics are amazing. Using the apps are fairly easy for me as well since I''ve been using a Droid phone and my Kindle Fire for the past few months. The camera takes quality photos and video as well. I purchased the small docking keyboard to go with the device and it works extremely well.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 30, 2012

'Join me Wednesday, May 2nd, for a unique community brainstorming session on PicLits.com , the "creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture." PicLits was conceived by Terry Friedlander in 2002: "I read an article from USA TODAY which talked about the most often searched words and listed in the top t

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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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Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2012

In a speech I gave yesterday to the University of Chester's final year teacher trainees, I touched on the concept of multi-literacy. This was in response to a question from a student about the potential dumbing down of language through SMS texting. She was concerned that txting was encouraging bad spelling which might adversely affect students' academic work.

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 4, 2012

'The administrator who just purchased an Android Tablet can easily get lost among all the apps available for the device. While having experience with using an iPad helps, it is important to keep in mind that many of the apps available for that device are not necessarily available for the Android operating system. With that in mind, when I started loading apps on my Galaxy Tab this week, the first apps I wanted were those that give me access to my web tools and files across devices.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 3, 2012

'Join me Thursday, May 3rd, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Buffy Hamilton and Kristin Fontichiaro, editors of School Libraries: What’s Now, What’s Next, What’s Yet to Come. Their crowdsourced eBook, which is available for free download, is a collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 28, 2012

The Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony. In a Gramscian sense, hegemony describes the power exercised by the ruling class over the population in order to maintain control of the means of production. Cultural hegemony is imposed as political doctrine largely through the state education system, but also via other means including print media and broadcasting.

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