A Principal's Reflections
MAY 12, 2019
The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears. - Dan Stevens There are many impediments to the change process. One of the biggest culprits is fear. Many times, this either clouds our judgment or inhibits our motivation to take needed risks to both challenge and upend the status quo.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 12, 2019
Elementium is a great periodic table app that is free today and only for a limited period of time. Elementium helps you explore and understand elements using a wide variety of educational resources.read more.
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MiddleWeb
MAY 12, 2019
Michelle Russell's plan to end the year with some "serious teaching" has quickly collapsed under the weight of special events. That's okay. "It came to me eventually that I also want to enjoy the last few weeks I will have these students." Here's what she decided to do.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 12, 2019
For this week's Apps Gone Free series we have selected you these 9 apps that are on sale today and only for a limited period of time. The collection include: language learning apps, news apps,read more.
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The Innovative Educator
MAY 12, 2019
Steps to make accessible photos in Twitter Social media enables us to produce content for authentic audiences. However, it is also important to ensure this content is inclusive. That means making photos accessible. To do this, the creator of the post must include alternative text (alt text). Unfortunately, it's not baked into most platforms without taking a few extra steps.
The Principal of Change
MAY 12, 2019
I was asked the following question from Kim Powell on Twitter: @gcouros If you were on an interview committee for HS principal, what questions would you ask to look for an #InnovatorsMindset ? Great opportunity to move forward and would love your expertise ! #leadership. — Kim Powell (@kimpowelledtech) May 8, 2019. Although I had written a post more focused on interview questions for teachers , I had not done one specific to administrators.
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EmergingEdTech
MAY 12, 2019
Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content from across the web, posted on Twitter over the past week and collected here to share with our blog readers. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
Learning with 'e's
MAY 12, 2019
David and me in the studio - Photo by Steve Wheeler David Hamr is a well known Czech broadcaster and radio journalist. He produces programmes about social trends and culture and is particularly passionate about alternative education. Based in Liberec, in the north of the country, he operates out of ?eský Rozhlas Liberec radio station which has three fully equipped sound studios.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 12, 2019
Our topic today is parenting guilt. I’m going to share some info and studies about how this has become an increasingly bigger issue in recent years, and then I’m going to let you hear directly from other educators about how they’re managing it. Want to listen instead of read ? Download the audio, and listen on the go! ?. I think it’s a particularly pervasive issue in education because you’re not just choosing between work and family.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 12, 2019
Approximately five million students who are served by public care agencies have multiple official adults in their lives — judges, lawyers, therapists, volunteers, teachers, counselors, case managers, social workers and more — people paid to support them when they experience significant life circumstances like homelessness, foster care or incarceration. .
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 12, 2019
Elsie Mae Boyd worked as a domestic worker, cleaning white people’s houses, through the 1950s and ’60s in Pittsburgh. When I was born in 1970, my biological mother struggled to take care of me so Elsie — the woman I call Mom — informally adopted my older brother and me, with my younger brother joining us a few years later. Mom only had an eighth-grade education, so to make money, she and her daughter Mary “watched,” aka took in or babysat, about a dozen other kids for a nominal fee while she rea
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