A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2017

Leading change in any organization is a difficult task. In many cultures the status quo is so entrenched that shifting mindsets and behaviors can be daunting. Clearly establishing the why is a natural starting point and can help to propel the change effort at hand. The how and finally the what should then follow this. Even when leaders tackle issues and problems using this recipe, other challenges and obstacles frequently rear their ugly head.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 16, 2017

It’s no secret that learning to code has massively increased in popularity over the past decade. A quick peek at Google Trends gives you an idea. Since 2011, interest in the subject has exploded. While I’m certain coding will never be as important as literacy was in the 19th and 20th century, it’s obviously going to matter a great deal nevertheless.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 16, 2017

July 16, 2017 Another collection of good educational iPad apps specifically curated from iTunes App Store for high school teachers and students. These are apps to help students with chemistry.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2017

In this file photo, a Mississippi kindergarten student thinks about how to correct a sentence written on the white board during class Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Helping African-American boys improve their ability to tell stories in preschool could increase the speed at which they learn to read later on, according to new research from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 16, 2017

Student Reflections Reflection is an important part of the learning process. One tool I developed for reflection is the Chrome extension SlideShot. It automatically takes a screenshot every minute. Students have the option to manually add screenshots as well. Clicking finish on the extension automatically creates a Google Slides presentation of the screenshots.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 16, 2017

July 16, 2017 Whether you are a new or a veteran practitioner of project based learning approach in your teaching, the books below will provide you with a solid theoretical and pedagogical grounding.read more.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 16, 2017

We may assume that by middle school children have developed social skills, but this is often the age when they need to work on grounding activities the most. Carla Tantillo Philibert and Peggy Collings offer 4 tips to make SEL part of everyday teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2017

In a June 1998 commencement speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President Bill Clinton called for computer literacy to be a high school graduation requirement and declared that training should begin in middle school to ensure students had early exposure to invaluable tech job skills. Clinton made a powerful case that mandatory computer training was not only crucial to the American economy but a potent tool to address inequality by giving impoverished minority children a path to

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MiddleWeb

JULY 16, 2017

Literacy coach Shawna Coppola urges us to rethink the familiar start-of-year writing activity – the personal narrative. In its place she suggests a framework of ideas to free students to write about what interests them. As we try new approaches, we also renew ourselves.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2017

Jobs in almost all fields will require proficiency by the time today’s youths enter the workforce. Not too long in the future, almost all jobs will require some fundamental skill with computing, and many of the best new jobs will require a mastery of it. Yet computer science remains a subject on the periphery – if it is covered at all – in most Maine high schools, where students should be getting their first taste of this high-opportunity field.

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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.

JULY 16, 2017

The post The New Periodic Table Song (In Order) appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 16, 2017

Innovative educators who are fortunate enough to present at or attend an education event, have a moral imperative to share what they are learning beyond that day and that building. There is a whole community out there thirsty for the knowledge that you had the opportunity to receive. A powerful way to share learning is by livestreaming using Periscope.TV.

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techieMusings

JULY 16, 2017

One of the questions I most frequently get asked is what tools I use to make my flipped classroom videos. It took me a number of years to perfect my flow, to be honest. One of my major issues was that I use a Mac but in making my math videos, I absolutely needed a way to handwrite. This was a major hurdle for me. When I started making math videos back in 2010, I had a tablet PC for work.

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ASIDE

JULY 16, 2017

Source: TED Ed In light of our recent post , we thought it worth sharing one of the latest TED Ed videos released this summer. It is entitled “ How To Stop A Misleading Graph ,” by Lea Gaslowitz. We haven’t used this with our students yet, but we plan to this fall. Graphs can aid us in grasping complex data; that does not mean they always tell the correct story.

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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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EmergingEdTech

JULY 16, 2017

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 … continuing in the spirit. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2017

When parents and teachers and parents work together, children arrive at school ready for kindergarten. I have spent the past ten years teaching at in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, in Boyle, Mississippi, the most recent four of those years teaching kindergarten for 5-year-olds at Bell Academy. Nearly one-third of the population of Boyle lives below the poverty line, as do more than 40 percent of those who are under 18 years old.

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