A Principal's Reflections

MAY 6, 2018

The other day I was conducting some learning walks with the administrative team at Wells Elementary School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD). Throughout the school year, I have been assisting them with digital pedagogy as it relates to blended learning and the use of flex spaces. The primary goal has been to take a critical lens to instructional design with a focus on increasing the level of questioning, imparting relevance through authentic contexts and interdisciplin

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User Generated Education

MAY 6, 2018

I, along with many others, have been impressed with how articulate the Parkland students have been regarding their school shooting and gun laws. When students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High debated gun control in class last November, they never imagined they were preparing to lead a national discussion on how to prevent school shootings. As the debate team filled Google docs with research on state laws, brainstormed arguments for and against universal background checks and wrote speeches, they

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 6, 2018

3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t mean we’re all suddenly omnipotent cyborgs, nor does it mean we’ve all become mindless social media addicts that spend our cognitive might tapping, swiping, and drooling on our smartphone and tablet screens.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

To Impact Investors, Foundations, and Policy Makers, Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats I wish you knew deep in your bones why it’s so hard for teachers to light that fire for students. I wish you had to plan a lesson and teach a class. At least once. In a public school. Figure out how to boil down a big subject into scaffolded, age-appropriate and differentiated chunks.

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Teacher Tech

MAY 6, 2018

Create a Branching Google Form One cool thing about Google Forms is the ability to send students to a section based on answer. This only works for multiple choice, not free response. Try out my branching Google Form. You will want to fill it out more than once so you can see that the Form […]. The post Google Forms: Creating a Branching Quiz appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2018

Hazim Hardiman, Rhodes Scholar and graduate, Community College of Philadelphia. submitted photo. Hazim Hardiman is a graduate of Commu ni ty College of P hiladelphia and Temple University a nd the first student from these schools to win the Rhodes Scholarship. Derived from a graduation speech made by Hardiman at CCP on May 5, 2018 , this Op-Ed has has been lightly edited for brevity and clar ity. .

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 6, 2018

You know those simple tech tips that make a big difference? For me it was learning Ctrl+K is the shortcut to hyperlink a word. I use this one constantly. I'm going to share one with you that you probably never knew you needed, but once you learn it you're going to come back here and thank me. This tip is for anyone who values collaboration and i f you're an innovative educator that means you.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 6, 2018

You know that session you led at that conference recently with the 99% positive reviews? Which review do you remember the most? The 99 that were awesome or the one that was a bit mean? I was having this conversation recently with a colleague of mine, and we were discussing this phenomenon of being so fixated on the negative “shot” at you, while there are a plethora of positive words coming your way.

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EmergingEdTech

MAY 6, 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 … Apple is giving iPads to. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MiddleWeb

MAY 6, 2018

Mary Tarashuk just finished a required teacher self-assessment, using a large array of rubrics designed for her state by a former principal and leadership consultant. It has her wondering if top education and corporate leaders might benefit from a rubric, too? She offers a 1st draft.

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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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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 6, 2018

While planning a post compiling all the cool global literacy projects out there, I began having so much fun with one simple project that I decided it was worth its own little post. The 5 Clue Challenge is a traditional guessing game, kinda like Name that Tune. Here’s how it works. In short videos, students and teachers offer five progressively narrower clues about a place or animal or person or space object or musical instrument they are describing.

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techlearning

MAY 6, 2018

Vegas PBS, through a state grant for distance education, has partnered with Nevada Learning Academy (NVLA) to provide additional opportunities for students to prepare for industry-recognized certifications in Health Science, Information Technology, and Business Management. This initiative enables students to enroll in online career pathway courses through NVLA at a reduced cost of $75 per course, per semester.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 6, 2018

Tic Tac Toe is a "skill" you can enable on the inexpensive Echo Dot just by asking Alexa to play it. Since we interact with Alexa only by speaking and listening, it will be important to make a visual sketch while playing the game. You and Alexa just pick positions (top left, top, top right, left, center, right) and so on, therefore providing a context to target: turn taking, concepts, listening skills, "thinking with the eyes," and self-regulation.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 6, 2018

The post FREE Shake Up Learning Stickers! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Want some FREE Shake Up Learning stickers? Some teachers (and students) go nuts over stickers! We plaster them all over our laptops and favorite gadgets. Stickers are fun, and I frequently give away hundreds during my presentations. I love stickers, and guess what? I’m giving them away on the blog!

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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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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 6, 2018

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: The Productivity Roundtable talks about time-saving tech tips and tricks for digital organization for teachers. I’ve always thought it would be really cool to get a group of master teachers together to hash out some of their toughest challenges and also to share what’s working. So, I’ve gathered a group of educators to create a Productivity Roundtable.

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MindShift

MAY 6, 2018

In the classroom, good teachers constantly test small changes to class activities, routines, and workflow. They observe how students interact with the material, identify where they trip up and adjust as they go. This on-the-fly problem solving is so common in classrooms many teachers don’t realize they’re even doing it, and the expertise they are gathering is rarely taken into account when schools or districts try to solve larger, systematic problems.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 6, 2018

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: The Productivity Roundtable talks about time-saving tech tips and tricks for digital organization for teachers. I’ve always thought it would be really cool to get a group of master teachers together to hash out some of their toughest challenges and also to share what’s working. So, I’ve gathered a group of educators to create a Productivity Roundtable.

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