A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 7, 2018

“ If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle I love the quote above. It did not resonate with me early in my career as a school administrator, but later became sort of a personal mantra. For years I always looked at the world through a “glass half empty” lens. Challenges morphed into excuses, and in the end, nothing changed. In a sense, I wasn’t pushed to be innovative or bring about substantive changes that genuinely impact school culture in powerful ways.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2018

For those of you working in academia, research students, and anyone else keen on learning how to properly cite sources in different styles, the tools below are definitely worth your attention. These.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The phrase “student assets” is heard a lot in education circles. But what does it truly mean to take on an assets based teaching mindset? What does that look like in our classrooms and lesson plans? ELL expert Valentina Gonzalez shares strategies to make it real.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2018

In yesterday’s post we reviewed 8 of our favourite citation generator tools to help you easily generate and format your references. One of the tools we covered is Tweet2Cite which we want to.

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Wisdom Amouzou shared his approach to developing a community high school with education leaders across the country at the Tech & Learning Leadership Summit in Denver, CO. His approach consists of these four phases: 1) Participatory Research 2) Mission, Vision, Values 3)School Model 4) Community Outreach The Community Design Team consists of 23 students, 8 parents, 6 community members, and 10 educators who came together twice a month for dinner meetings where every member had an equal voice i

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Maybe you feel overwhelmed? Maybe you feel that you are on the wrong path? Maybe you feel there is a personality conflict? Whatever the reason, feeling like you are not getting support from your administrator can be frustrating and can lead to a lower quality experience for your students. Not because you are not giving it your all, but as human beings, we can be worn down and that will take a toll on things.

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 7, 2018

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)!].

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

. In July, I worked in Jamaica, where I developed and led an educational summer camp for students from underprivileged backgrounds. The experience prompted me to see my role as a teacher in a whole new light. Jamaicans bring a new meaning to community. Despite having access to fewer resources than many Americans, the people I met in this Caribbean island nation are committed to lifting one another up and collaborating to create an inclusive community designed to work for everyone.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Roughly half of American school children have experienced at least some form of trauma — from neglect, to abuse, to violence. In response, educators often find themselves having to take on the role of counselors, supporting the emotional healing of their students, not just their academic growth. With this evolving role comes an increasing need to understand and address the ways in which student trauma affects our education professionals.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 7, 2018

BlackTrax helps young dancers shine The use of Notch and BlackTrax was particularly important to Zachary Burton, co-founder with Richard Saunders of IKONIX and the operator at CGEN 2018, because it allowed their creativity free reign by enabling the use of on-the-fly and reactive content to complement the AutoBlend and AutoMap blending and warping functionality available with the Avolites Ai software.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Personalized learning is being heralded as an antidote for much that ails the education system. It is deemed by some as a way to inspire and motivate students, tailor instruction to meet student needs, and scale instruction with the support of technology. Many schools nationwide are exploring ways to personalize the learning experience. But a fundamental question to ask early in the journey to personalize education for students is: What are we actually personalizing for?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 7, 2018

LDI2018 Panel Session: Shattering The Fourth Wall Through Tracking in Three Dimensions Not to be missed, at the LDI 2018 trade show, Cirque du Soleil will host a free-to-attend panel session in Room N264 on Thursday, 18 October 2018 focusing on Shattering The Fourth Wall Through Tracking in Three Dimensions. The discussion will be chaired and moderated by Peter Thompson, Cirque du Soleil, Technical Manager-Lighting, Multimedia, SFX and will bring together some of the foremost experts who will de

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techlearning

OCTOBER 7, 2018

wysiwyg helps new TV show achieve great ratings CAST Software’s wysiwyg lighting design and previsualisation software has been instrumental in bringing one of the world’s most popular TV shows to Israel. View the 8 images of this gallery on the original article Having first aired in Japan in 1997, Ninja Warrior has rapidly become a must-watch TV show around the globe.

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