A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 25, 2018

I never imagined I would have authored or co-authored a book, let alone six. My unexpected journey began with a decision to give Twitter a try in 2009. This should never have happened either as I was convinced that any and all social media tools were a complete waste of my time and would not lead to any improvement in professional practice. 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, ide

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 25, 2018

Do you like graphic novels or comic books? Are you interested in learning how to code? If you answered, yes, then you’ll love Dystopia 2153 ! This brand new, three-episode series teaches kids the basics of coding through a digital graphic novel. It connects 21st Century skills with the love of reading, inspiring the next generation of coders and storytellers.

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 25, 2018

As a Globalizing the Classroom fellow at Harvard University this year, I’ve been giving thought to standards and how to connect what we want to do as teachers with what students need to learn.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2018

A Classroom Of Proficiency: 6 Factors To Guide Your Teaching by Terry Heick First, a definition. An academic classroom is one where the primary goal is to promote proficiency of academic standards. Everything else, while appreciated and winked at, comes after. The class, curriculum, and instruction, by design, are built to move students in their academic proficiency. […].

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TeacherCast

MARCH 25, 2018

Have you ever accidentally hit the send button and wished that you hadn't? Did you know that there are powers inside of your Gmail application that can control the fate of your career and ultimately change the course of time and history completely? In this video, we will learn how to activate and use the most popular feature in the Gmail settings panel.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 25, 2018

For those of you asking about Android math apps to use with students in class, here is a list of some our favourite picks. From homework helpers to math solvers and graphing calculators, the.read more.

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Teacher Tech

MARCH 25, 2018

Pre-Order Kasey Bell’s Book If you’re not already a Shake Up Learning fan, you’re about to be. Kasey has been a consistent source of innovation and teaching ideas on her blog and on Twitter. Kasey understands that it is not the tech that teaches, but YOU. Tech allows for so many possibilities but we have to […]. The post Shake Up Learning Book – Win a Copy appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 25, 2018

This year at ISTE 2017, I had the opportunity to meet the team from LEGO Education and learn about their great products coming out for the 2017-2018 school year. I was very impressed with the direction that the LEGO team is going in their Duplo lineup. As a father of 3-year-old triplets, I am constantly… The post 3 Great Ways Your Students Can Learn From @LEGO_EDUCATION this School Year appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2018

TeachThought Reader Survey Spring 2018 by TeachThought Staff In our continued effort to provide you with the best blend of progressive content about teaching and learning, we have something decidedly non-progressive, but critical: a survey to get feedback from you on what we’re doing well, and what we could do better. It’s not very long. […]. The post TeachThought Reader Survey Spring 2018 appeared first on TeachThought.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 25, 2018

This year at ISTE 2017, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Learning.com, the nations leader in helping school districts teach students technology skills. For the last 18 years, Learning.com has been partnering with school district to provide award winning curriculum in key subjects such as Digital Literacy, Digital Citizenship, Coding, and Programming.

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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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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2018

The curriculum provider Open Up Resources will have its curriculum -- which is created on an open license -- distributed through Microsoft 365. The post Big ‘Open’ Educational Resources Provider Joins Forces With Microsoft appeared first on Market Brief.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 25, 2018

Steve Jobs narrates the first Think different commercial "Here's to the Crazy Ones". It never aired. Richard Dreyfuss did the voiceover for the original spot that aired. The post What can we teach out students after watching “The Crazy Ones”? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 25, 2018

If ever there was a time to think about how to prepare our students for the larger stage of the public civic sphere, it's now. Teacher Kevin Hodgson interviews author and educator Steven Zemelman who has been working with teachers to move kids from inquiry into action.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2018

Vinlisa Khoeum. My eyes started to glaze over as I read the seemingly endless questions contained in the 10-page federal financial aid application. I had to complete the form so I could get the money I needed to attend college. Some of my high school classmates had parents, older siblings or friends who’d gone to college to turn to for help. Me?

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 25, 2018

For this week's Apps Gone Free series, we are featuring 7 interesting iPad apps you might want to try out since they are free. Some of these apps (e.g., Multi Translate ) is really pricey. Some of.read more.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 25, 2018

Seeing tweets, over and over again, regarding the villainization of “worksheets,” (I know I have been guilty of this as well) I tweeted the following: Teachers… If you give a worksheet in your class, you are not bad at your job. If that’s all you do all the time, that’s a different story, but that’s true of any strategy. — George Couros (@gcouros) March 23, 2018.

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 25, 2018

Wooldridge (2011) describes four charges against the discipline of management that also have some truth to them when thinking about the discipline of educational leadership. First of all, like management, the discipline of educational leadership is currently often incapable of “self-criticism.” In its embrace of practicality and praxis, there is little room left to genuinely critique the discipline of educational leadership.

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MiddleWeb

MARCH 25, 2018

Picture Rita Platt standing still in the school lunchroom, full tray in hands, skirt around her ankles. For real. After 20 years as an educator, she takes humiliation in stride, mostly. Find out her tips for damping down ego and building community at the same time.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 25, 2018

Whether you are an innovative educator or a student, in the 21st century, we’re all global learners who make global collaborations. This means being able to effectively interact with people whether they are in your classroom, district, or across the state, country, or world. You do not want your meetings or calls to look like this: When you do, there are some protocols to put in place.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 25, 2018

Image from Wikimedia Commons Last week I posted a Twitter poll with the question: Which myth is the most damaging for learning? Before I reveal the results, here's the reasoning behind the poll: I am constantly amazed at the persistence of 'mythical beasts' in education. I call them mythical beasts, because they are like unicorns. They seem very attractive in appearance, but they don't exist, and believing in them has no purpose other than to make you look foolish.

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 25, 2018

".Management theory is an immature discipline, unusually open to charlatans, or semi-charlatans, and congenitally prone to fads." Adrian Wooldridge, Masters of Management Wooldridge (2011) writes that “management theory is an immature discipline” (p. xviii). This is true also of educational leadership or educational administration as a discipline. It too, is still an “immature discipline” as well, in spite of its existence since the turn of the 20th century, It lays claim to being a positivistic

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EmergingEdTech

MARCH 25, 2018

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap: a young man from Sweden has. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 25, 2018

4 Fab Text Generators for Web or Blog headers.or Just for Fun Geeky Stuff! 1. Ransom Note Generator I really like this Ransom Note Generator.but it's a bit tricky.you have to play with it to get good results, adding spaces and the like. But when you're done you can download the image to your HD & I crop it with PicMonkey or Photoshop, but I think it's right nifty!

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edWeb.net

MARCH 25, 2018

When educators think about diversity in the classroom, culture may be one of the characteristics that crosses their mind. But as they select their curriculum and develop their lessons, most teachers are not accounting for how culture will impact a student’s ability to participate and learn, says Dr. Almitra Berry-Jones, nationally recognized speaker, author, and consultant on the topic of culturally and linguistically diverse learners at-risk.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2018

Earlier this year, math educator and Demos executive Dan Meyer published a piece entitled “Lonely Math Teachers” in which he raised the shortcomings of social media and the need for innovative math teachers to connect online. In his post, he made the case for Twitter. At its best, he argues, Twitter can be an invaluable tool for professional development among educators.

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Reading By Example

MARCH 25, 2018

A personal goal of mine is to learn how to use Adobe InDesign. It is a digital publishing program that allows you to draft visual documents such as flyers and eBooks. Photo by Mikaela Shannon on Unsplash. I’ve opened it up several times, played with the tools, will often end up frustrated, and eventually shut it down. Yet every time I open up InDesign, I learn something new.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 25, 2018

I hear from teachers on at least a weekly basis who are struggling with chronic pain and illness and want to know how to adapt my productivity strategies and work/life balance advice for a season of life in which they’re just not at their best. Almost everyone will experience this challenge at some point in the career, whether it be from a difficult pregnancy, recovering from a surgery, or dealing with an issue that is more ongoing.

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