A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 18, 2017

There are so many important questions that we have to ask and attempt to find answers to. Many of these questions start with what, how, and why. Simon Sinek reminds us that the most important questions we should be asking need, and should start with, a focus on why. Check out this shortened version below of his famous TED talk. His simple golden circle brings some needed context that can help to drive meaningful change in any organization.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 18, 2017

Published in 2008, "Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns" predicted that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Along the way, innovators have often over-promised and under-delivered, causing many smart people to wonder if we’re now in a frothy bubble of irrational exuberance, most eloquently summarized by Audrey Watters in Hack Education, who worries that “education technology [merely] serves as a ’Trojan Horse’ of sorts, carrying. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into publ

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Doug Levin

JUNE 18, 2017

The NEA covers personalized learning in its membership magazine. BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow covers student privacy in parent agreements for school-issued laptops. Richard Colvin takes on the New York Times' Google in K-12 coverage. Fire, meet gasoline.

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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 18, 2017

June 18, 2017 Technology has become an indispensable component in teachers toolkit and its potential to transform learning and teaching is considerably huge. The massive uptake of web technologies.read more.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 18, 2017

Welcome to this first post in a series that promotes student inquiry in PBL and STEM. This series is dedicated to helping educators create a student-centered Driving or Investigative Question… which is so important in STEM and PBL. You will discover multiple resources and ideas in this series, along with some great ideas for finding student success in student owned inquiry.

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Teacher Tech

JUNE 18, 2017

Add or Remove Assignment Numbers for Class Documents My best best tip for using Google Classroom is to number your assignments. If it’s in Google Classroom, number it! It really has so many benefits. I also recommend numbering the “attachments” (although nothing is really attached, they are linked from Google Drive) to match. I have […].

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 18, 2017

The post Let’s Stop With The Worksheets And Create Engaged Readers appeared first on TeachThought.

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 18, 2017

Do teachers always need to be the tour guide and plan every step of the learning journey? Consultant Gravity Goldberg believes teachers can also be co-explorers and create opportunities for students to make their own discoveries. Her sample reading unit shows how.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 18, 2017

June , 2017 Here are 3 good iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time. The first app, Word Seek HD, is an interactive word search game students can use to develop and expand.read more.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 18, 2017

The post TeachThought Podcast Ep. 76 Deeper Learning Through Collaborative Edtech Tools appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 18, 2017

Picture this… I have been appointed the new principal of your school. As my first form of business, I think that the library should go. Although they are full of information, there are much better ways to use that space and money that is allocated to that room. How long do you think I would last? Yet, as bothersome as this scenario would be to some (including myself), many have no issues with taking away devices from students in classrooms that not only have access to all of the informati

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 18, 2017

Here’s a fun idea for innovative educators who do workshops or presentations. When you want participants to share after they have turned and talked, use this random participant generator that also helps those in attendance learn fun facts about one another. Who has worked in the field the longest? The shortest? Where did you grow up? Go to college? In addition to being a fun method to get the conversation going, another benefit of this method is that everyone knows they may be selected.

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EdTechnocation.com

JUNE 18, 2017

It's one of the biggest international EdTech conferences of the year! Are you going? Are you ready?! You've got to take full advantage of every day, so let me help you plan! Read on for a HUGE collection of ISTE Pro Tips, planning resources, where you can find me at ISTE, other events, after parties, happy hours, meet ups, and even a #NOTATISTE group!

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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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MiddleWeb

JUNE 18, 2017

With her classroom door closed for summer, Michelle Russell looks back at the goals she set 9 months ago: to know her students in a meaningful way, to use formative assessment effectively, and to bring more joy to her classes. She shares her successes and some fails.

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EmergingEdTech

JUNE 18, 2017

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. I spent Sunday through Wednesday this week traveling to. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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User Generated Education

JUNE 18, 2017

This post discusses my Cardboard Creations Maker Education Camp that was taught to fifteen 5 to 12 year old learners for five days, 2.5 hours each morning during Summer, 2017. It is split into three sections: Rational for Using No Tech, Minimal Cost Materials. Some Pedagogical Perspectives. Summer Maker Education Camp Project. Rational for Using No Tech, Minimal Cost Materials.

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