A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
'The other day Bill Ferriter told me that he was working on an article for ASCD and asked if I would answer a few questions. Of course I obliged as we are working on a book together for Solution Tree Press and I have come to know and greatly respect him as a member of my PLN. He is the author of The Tempered Radical. If you have never read his blog I highly suggest you do!
The Web20Classroom
OCTOBER 1, 2010
'Over the past few days all the talk in the edubloggersphere and on Twitter has been about the Education Nation project from NBC, the Waiting For Superman movie and on education reform in general. The topic on #Edchat this week centered around moving education reform conversations forward and many, many blog posts and conversations have centered around the topic.
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The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
'Between the NBC "Education Nation" Summit , Waiting for Superman , The Oprah Winfrey Show , and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg''s $100 million gift to Newark city schools , there has been a lot of media attention focused on the topic of education reform. Unfortunately, much of it has excluded actual educators, let alone students. Furthermore, and perhaps as a consequence, the dialog has become divisive, blaming, and ultimately counter-productive.
SpeechTechie
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
'I am not sure how much students are held to knowing about the Dewey Decimal system as part of the Library curriculum (it probably varies), but the system itself is an interesting use of abstract categorization, a skill that often eludes our students. Dewey Digger is a very cool visual and interactive look at the system, where a click will bring you to subcategories, then visual search results (I''d recommend going to Google Images at that stage).
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EdTechSandyK
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
'In a talk given at the 2008 Apple Education Leadership Summit , Randy Nelson, Dean of Pixar University, defined collaboration with these words: Collaboration for Pixar means amplification. The amplification you get by connecting up a bunch of human beings who are listening to each other, interested in each other, bring separate depth to the problem.
The Web20Classroom
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
OCTOBER 1, 2010
'People have asked me, "Why Charlotte?" in the name of this blog? My answer: I wanted the name to constantly remind me of the child-like excitement I felt as I learned about the newest technologies at the 14th Annual American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Conference held in Charlotte, North Carolina, in November of 2009. Today, I''ve decided to change the name of this blog to MauiLibrarian2 in Olinda , where every day I feel that same excitement as we experiment using new technologies
SpeechTechie
OCTOBER 1, 2010
'Thanks to Moms with Apps for some great bargains today on the (US) iTunes App Store. Story Builder for iPad provides visual and written prompts to build basic stories. With clinician scaffolding, students can record sentences for each picture, and listen to a complete oral story at the end. This would be a great app to use in lower grades to build complex sentences and story grammar.
The Web20Classroom
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
'Doing a "FLIP" Across the Curriculum tags : flip flipvideo favorite What is Prezi?| The Committed Sardine tags : prezi favorite Learning with ''e''s: The truth about blogging tags : blogging favorite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Connecting 2 the World
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
Let me begin by defining the 21st century classroom. It is not the stagnent classroom of my childhood or university. Rather it crosses grades, generations, locations, and cultures. And yet, walk into any classroom today and it will physically look like the classroom my father sat in over 70 years ago. Education today is life long, formal and informal, and dynamic.
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.
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
'Our library is a warm and fuzzy place in an idyllic setting. It''s also a place where exploring new ways to infuse technology into the curriculum is encouraged and celebrated. This news story tells is like it is -- libraries are keeping up with the times, and should always be part of the mix. The desirable bottom line? Access to information for all.
SpeechTechie
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
'While I have been finally, I think, adjusting to the pace of the school year, a few pieces I wrote popped up elsewhere, and I figured I should link to them! Please click on over to the Mindwing blog to see my post about how Google Earth can be used to teach kids about the narrative element of setting , complete with a screencast showing you exactly how to do it.
The Web20Classroom
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
'Recently Microsoft, MSN and Bing launched Redu , a platform for conversations centered around school reform. Over at the Redu site there are lots of articles on what is working in public education and how simple changes can make big differences. One project they have going on right now is Ask Arne. In case you didn''t know Arne Duncan is the U.S. Secretary of Education.
Connecting 2 the World
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
Recently, there has been a national discussion of education in the US within our media. NBC and the Oprah Winfrey Show both had programs about education in the last two weeks. The final verdict: tenure is the reason our schools are failing and the responsibility of education is in the teachers' hands alone (they must be accountable for failing schools).
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The Electric Educator
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
'Thanks for subscribing to my blog. I always appreciate feedback on my posts.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
'Join me Tuesday, September 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Paul E. Peterson , author of Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning , the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University, and the Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance. This is a particularly timely interview, as we''ll let Professor Peterson describe the "unintended consquences" of mission-drive school reformers of the past, and discuss what may be
The Web20Classroom
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
'Build Literacy Skills with Wordle - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas tags : literacy wordle favorite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
The Daring Librarian
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
'((re-post from my MHMS Media Blog - showing how we use our Google Forms, Google Docs and Wikspaces to have a conversation with our community!)) Murray Hill Middle School strives every day to put into practice our motto “excellence is our standard” and in doing so we need your help and your action! Utilizing Google forms, docs, and wikipages we provide many ways for you to feel connected to our school and to have a voice!
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The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
'I feel uncomfortable promoting an event that I am speaking at if there is a cost involved to attend, but the Education Week Leadership Forum that I''ll be speaking at next week in Boston looks to be very worthwhile. It''s all-day Friday, October 8th, and the forum topic is "Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning." Members of my community and/or blog readers can save $100 when registering at [link] or 50% off the walk-in rate by using the promotion code "CLSRM".
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 27, 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.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
'Join me Thursday, September 30th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Ben Daley , the chief operating officer and chief academic officer for High Tech High. Date : Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.
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