A Principal's Reflections

JULY 27, 2011

The other day USA Today writer Greg Toppo highlighted some of the advances we have made in his article entitled "Social Media Find Place in Classroom." Here are some of the specific comments from the USA Today article: It is a shame they don''t worry more about the kids not knowing how to read or write.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 2, 2019

Many articles have been written on how the idea of a Flipped Classroom has gained currency with the advent of eBooks and digital learning content. Related: How to Create STEM Courses for Best Learning Outcomes. Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 27, 2019

These four groupings provide an outline on how to cluster different ways to implement and integrate technology in education. For example, allowing students to use a computer to search for scholarly articles to write their reports instead of manual text-based library searches.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2019

Technology is a show-stopper for some who feel unequipped to handle online LMSs like Blackboard, class forums, virtual get-togethers, homework submittal, and more. But before I help with tech issues (like how to use the virtual meeting or the discussion boards), I ask students to try to solve the problems themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Outlandish claims have been made that this next advance — from ballpoint pens to blackboards, from radios to desktop computers — will change everything, though it invariably doesn’t. And the dismal results of remote learning circa 2020 only reinforce how far ed tech is from delivering on these grand promises.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2013

Date : Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 Time : 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link]. psid=2013-08-20.1120.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&loginid=194153

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

24th, they say “how to use technology to differentiate instruction” (51 percent) and “how to use educational games in the classroom” (35 percent) are at the top of their wish list for professional development this year. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

A prolific writer and speaker, Tom has published thousands of articles and blogs. Date : Thursday, September 27th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at [link]. psid=2012-09-27.1459.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 15, 2008

In reading Tony Karrer’s blog today, I realized that there is so much technology that I don’t understand and know how it works. For example, he has a number of statistics that I am sure I should know how to use, yet I can’t figure it out. I feel sometimes that there is a secret code that I have yet to crack.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

Date : Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8 pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2019

In their edWebinar, “ Build a Positive School Culture with a Student-Run App,” Kym Prewitt, Leadership Teacher at Vestavia Hills High School, and Whit McGhee, Director of Public Relations at Vestavia Hills City Schools, shared what they learned and how the kids continue to surprise them. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Blackboard.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Join me Tuesday, October 9th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Blake Boles, entrepreneur, educator, and author of Better Than College : How to Build a Successful Life Without a Four-Year Degree. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In a Mightybell "space," you can collect and curate a variety of types of content--one use of Mightybell is like a living textbook, where you can draw in articles, websites, video, and ideas, and are then able to have threaded discussions about each one, as well as a general conversation inside the space. Hope you''ll join us!

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 17, 2017

They had four top areas which they wanted to know more about: recommendations about apps to use at home to support learning, types of technology or workplace skills their child is learning, what type of technology they should have at home to support learning, and how to work with teachers to improve learning opportunities.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

So, how do we fix that? First, by teaching students how to read, write and participate online in the best way possible: through hands-on, experiential learning. The Web doesn’t lend itself to textbook and blackboard-style teaching. Read the full article at te@chthought. ” By Chris Lawrence.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 4, 2017

Discuss with participants prior to identify any roadblocks, concerns, and how to best proceed. Read this article from Harvard Business Review for more tips on effective agendas. This advice comes from declassified information from a CIA manual on how to sabotage productivity. So what do you think?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 30, 2012

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 ten was writing/poetry. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. The numbers that I read were staggering.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Date : Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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ProfHacker

MAY 15, 2015

The following are just articles that I’ve found of interest over the past few weeks, and I hope some of them will also spark your interest. The first is a pair of articles on academic conferences. I want to start thinking about how to reconcile two somewhat distinct traditions in Digital Humanities text-oriented projects.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. The digital tutor asks questions or gives nudges depending on how close the student is to completing the task correctly.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2015

21st Century Tools, Skills and Competencies Take Center Stage at Global Library Conference “How can we delight our users and customers?” That is one of five questions libraries should ask, according to author Steve Denning in his recent Forbes article about the future of libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

One way to accomplish this might be to have students write news articles about various sessions. Individual students can attend sessions and write articles about these sessions. A high school journal team can take responsibility for writing a few articles, editing submitted conent, and publishing them using a tool of their choice.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

The FCC did not return emails and phone calls requesting an interview for this article. Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online. Related: Most students go to a school that meets federal standards for internet speed.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

This is the first in a series of articles which are about that project, but which are also about how I learned how to learn data science. These statuses are all recorded on Blackboard, our course management system. Blackboard (like all LMS’s) lets you export the gradebook as a CSV. What’s in a name?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

We''ve got an amazing, and FULL, schedule for this week''s Reinventing the Classroom event - all about how ed tech is reshaping the classroom experience. Never used Blackboard Collaborate before? Learn how to collect and share data that connects your library to student learning. No problem!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 5, 2014

Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Each week we interview teachers, principals, superintendents, authors and presenters to learn about how to become more effective educators! Saturday, August 9th at 12pm Classroom 2.0 Classroom 2.0

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 17, 2015

Most schools now have online learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, and Edmodo are just a few. It addresses some of the most common ethical challenges college instructors face, including how to treat all students equally (i.e.,

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

So explained Dr. Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Project Tomorrow, in an edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard , examining findings from the program’s 2020 annual research project, Speak Up , for which 10,000 K-12 students nationwide shared their preferences and expectations for two-way communications with their teachers. Dr. Julie A.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In an article from a few years ago, Michael Feldstein describes courseware as the combination of (1) content, (2) platform, and (3) design (see the graphic at the bottom of the article.) ” is not a question we know how to answer today. We know how to talk about the component parts of courseware with regard to open.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

Either way, it is important for all edtech entrepreneurs, especially those who develop instructional technology for use by teachers and students in the K-12 grades, to understand how to position their products for maximum sales success. How do your customers see you? Curriculum Solutions, Tech Platforms: Taking it from the top.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

This graph comes from an article in the online publication Vox that includes a couple of those darling made-to-go-viral videos of young children using “old” technology like rotary phones and portable cassette players – highly clickable, highly sharable stuff. A good myth. A dominant ideology.) Whose gets preserved?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sandeep Acharya answered when his teachers and classmates called him Sand-eep, even Sandy, for 12 years before he decided he couldn’t take it any longer: “Junior year of high school, I walked up to the blackboard in every one of my classes and drew a circle with lines radiating from the center. Sun-deep,’ I said in a loud, firm voice.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 4, 2015

This good article on search and hardware makes me think so, and that “disintegrated computing” describes where we’re heading. Educators and researchers will have to figure out how to move data through an increasingly complex ecosystem. In education, wait for Blackboard and Microsoft to make this as sales pitch.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

He will explain how design is in the doing and how internship programs that are advisory-based support passion. Join this Blackboard Collaborate session here. Kirsten Winkler''s latest article, The New Oil , explores the privacy concerns and market implications of student data being collected during this ed tech explosion.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 8, 2020

There's a passage that I like to repeat from an article by historian of education Ellen Condliffe Lagemann: I have often argued to students, only in part to be perverse, that one cannot understand the history of education in the United States during the twentieth century unless one realizes that Edward L. But behaviorism did not go away.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2013

Debates about education often revolve around standardized testing, taxes and funding, teacher certification—everything except how to best help kids develop learning skills. His books and articles have been published on all six continents, translated into ten languages and he continues to lecture globally. Log in at [link].

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