A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 25, 2018

Apparently, I was dead wrong on this assumption and quickly learned that Twitter in itself wasn’t a powerful tool, but instead, it was the conversations, ideas, resources, and passionate educators that connected with me. As a result, I was flooded with speaking requests and asked to write even more books, including Uncommon Learning.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 27, 2021

The post Take Student Collaboration to the Next Level – SULS0120 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Learning When to Make Changes. Vicki made changes to her original lesson based on her conversation with Kasey. But she also learned a lot from her students. . © Shake Up Learning 2021. Adding Support.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. KITABOO is an end-to-end cloud-based digital publishing platform that allows learning content to be published & distributed with ease. Students use Seesaw to showcase their learnings, while teachers and parents use it to monitor students’ performances.

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TeacherCast

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Given what we’re trying to help teachers with at Edusight , I was attracted to two sessions – making assessment meaningful, and reinventing the parent-teacher conference. Here are the top 3 things I learned about how teachers can make assessment more meaningful every day! Can they communicate what they’ve learned effectively?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

Mary Howard’s students build and learn in Open Sim , a virtual world like Second Life. Then of course, the curriculum is gamified, so they have different levels of challenges that they have to engage in — which are knowledge based — in order to learn the curriculum, but also succeed in the virtual world.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

.’ You might even understand the purpose of a PLN–to provide educators with a collaborative learning environment–but think you don’t need one, or staff development provided by your school is all you can handle. Attend virtual conferences. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. What is a PLN.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In addition to the usual suspects—more augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps—a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning (SEL) and interoperability become part of the mainstream. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2016

“The decline in math over the last three to nine years is not statistically different than the drop in math in OECD countries overall,” Jon Schnur, Executive Chairman of America Achieves, said in a press conference this morning. That said, these results show we have a lot of work to do.” Nearly 450 schools in the U.S.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Like any edtech tool or feature, these new Classroom additions can be abused, focusing not on historical thinking skills but low level learning. Focusing on teacher centered, standardized learning rather than student centered, authentic learning. Especially the one feature that has most caught the attention of teachers.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

Congress passed ESSA in 2015, but one area still challenging schools is the tiers for evidence-based interventions and materials. to determine what programs will assist with meeting learning goals. Step 3 – Learn the basics (about ESSA levels). Furthermore, administrators must also consider local buy in.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 21, 2016

The 21st century student and learning to learn. I think that schools should rephrase their purpose statement and include “learning to learn” in it. In order to become highly accomplished members of the workforce, the 21st century student needs to learn how to learn. Read on to find out.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

All of our teachers have had ample professional development in writing process and pedagogy, which helps to provide a strong knowledge base around the most effective practices,” says Gale. The district is seeing great results from its investment in technology-based tools and in training teachers to use them.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I see it as imperative for both genders to thrive, not just survive, in the global, knowledge-based, information/technology-driven world they’ll live and work in together as adults. Over time I learned yes, yes it was enough, as long as I approached it with a boy-responsive mindset and as if I were a sports coach.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Finding a new story (or stories) for education becomes imperative because so many other aspects of our lives are dependent on our vision of how teaching and learning take place. However, a new and, to most people, a surprising learning super-hero has been actively championing this second story: the educational technologist.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

The Traditional Model The traditional model used by organizational learning theorists begins with the depth of knowledge. This can further be linked to depth of knowledge being greater as it is internalized (Yaklief, 2010), as exhibit 2 illustrates. Individual content knowledge: Resume and portfolio of work.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2011

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. Join Laura and special guest Allison Powell, Vice President of iNACOL, for "The Landscape of K-12 Online Learning". What does the future of learning look like?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

From academic search engines that open doors to vast knowledge bases, to kid-safe search engines that ensure a secure online experience for our youngest learners, this post aims to provide a well-rounded resource for anyone involved in education. It’s an excellent resource for teachers looking for classroom-ready content.

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The 21st Century Principal

AUGUST 13, 2013

ASCD Conference on Educational Leadership (event): On November 1–3, 2013, join ASCD in in Las Vegas, Nev., for the 2013 ASCD Conference on Educational Leadership. ASCD membership offers more information and ideas about learning and teaching than any other single source. Enjoy ASCD’s resources? Become a member.

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Connecting 2 the World

MAY 26, 2011

There were differences in interpretation, often based on the different understanding of how end-users/trainees would learn, need to know, and use what they learned. One participant, for example, had credentials in healthcare, but the group did not perceive him as having procedural or tacit knowledge for the project.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 18, 2018

Second, we held an ideation exercise at the Emerging Learning Design conference hosted by Montclair State University. A group of thoughtful learning designers were corralled into a room and led through a design thinking process by this hairy maniac: We used versions of the questions from the February-March ideation week.

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techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018

Incident IQ , the K12 technology support platform, has unveiled its new Incident IQ Apps Architecture that enables support for dozens of popular K-12 technologies at the ISTE Conference (Booth #2033). Apps Architecture has allowed the creation of dozens of ready-to-use support apps for K-12 learning applications and data management tools. [

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 18, 2018

Second, we held an ideation exercise at the Emerging Learning Design conference hosted by Montclair State University. A group of thoughtful learning designers were corralled into a room and led through a design thinking process by this hairy maniac: We used versions of the questions from the February-March ideation week.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The Twitter bot was built to “learn” by parroting the words and phrases from the other Twitter users that interacted with it, and – because, you know, Twitter – those users quickly realized that they could teach Tay to say some really horrible things. See, for example, the learning management system.)

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest. In an op-ed published Dec.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Facebook had its big developer conference this week, and honestly I couldn’t bear to pay attention. Via Techcrunch : “Thousands of academics spurn Nature ’s new paid-access Machine Learning journal.” “ AI will soon beat pupils taught knowledge-based curriculum,” Schools Week claims.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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