User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Recently I wrote a blog post about Intentional Creativity. Here is the graphic created for that post. Below the graphic are specific ideas I am using with my gifted elementary students this school year. What follows are the activities I am using this school year to be intentional with sparking creativity in my gifted education classrooms. The titles are links for these activities.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

As quoted in: Singer, Natasha. “ Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.” New York Times. 2 September 2017. Unlike industry influence in medicine, however, the phenomenon of company-affiliated teachers has received little scrutiny. Twitter alone is rife with educators broadcasting their company-bestowed titles. “If medical experts started saying, ‘I’m a Google Certified Doctor’ or ‘I’m a Pfizer Distinguished Nurse,’ people would be up in arms,” said Douglas A.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

While Hurricane Harvey was pummeling Houston and nearby cities like Rockport, Marissa Ford felt helpless because she couldn’t do anything for her students. The second grade math and science teacher didn’t know if she was going to have a class to go to, a school to return to. “There was no escaping this at all,” she said about the devastating hurricane.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

As quoted in: Singer, Natasha. “ Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.” New York Times. 2 September 2017. Unlike industry influence in medicine, however, the phenomenon of company-affiliated teachers has received little scrutiny. Twitter alone is rife with educators broadcasting their company-bestowed titles. “If medical experts started saying, ‘I’m a Google Certified Doctor’ or ‘I’m a Pfizer Distinguished Nurse,’ people would be up in arms,” said Douglas A.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

In a previous post I shared about the results of flipping Back to School Night. Today, I'm going to show you step by step how I used blended learning to achieve those results. The first few days of school: (Nothing crazy here) Have your Class Expectations typed up on either a Gdoc or Word document, photocopied and distributed to the students. I also include an area on the document for student and parent signatures.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

I remember one student I worked with who was quite a handful for teachers. He was very quick on his feet, and if he noticed that he got on your nerves, he would double down on what he was doing. Although I was bothered by his behaviour, I did see that his ability to read people was quite amazing and he had some genius in him. I worked with him quite a bit to focus on how to use his abilities to raise people up, not tear them down, and as he grew into an adult, he became very successful using th

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

The following is a crosspost from my school blog. I thought it might be relevant here as well. Have an excellent Labor Day weekend! – Matt. Two members of the maintenance team stopped me in the high school hallway. “Are you good with us taking down the cedar tree in the front of your building?”. When asked, I was 98% sure which tree they were referring to.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Image from Wikimedia Commons The notion of technology as a mind tool is seductive. Being able to enhance or extend any or all of the capabilities of the mind through the use of distributed memory, crowdsourced knowledge and enriched experiences is a goal for many researchers and developers, especially in education. Perhaps the most seductive of all goals is the capability to enhance or improve vision.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

September 2, 2017 Here is a handy infographic by Kudoswall to use with your students in class. The visual features a number of interesting tips to help students build and manage their.read more.

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