A Principal's Reflections

JULY 29, 2018

Leadership is a team sport. It is not about what one person does, but instead the cumulative actions of everyone in an organization. Sure, a leader has to make some pretty important decisions at times that might require bypassing consensus or collaboration, but those are few and far between when you look at the big picture. Success requires broad embracement of ideas where people are motivated to change because they want to, not necessarily because they are forced to.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2018

MTI 557: Building Digital Citizens. This college-credit class starts in one week– Monday , August 6th ! Last chance to sign up. Click this link ; scroll down to MTI 557 and click for more information and to sign up. Click to view slideshow. MTI 562: The Tech-infused Teacher. MTI 562 starts Monday, August 6th! Last chance to sign up. Need more information?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 29, 2018

12 Apps For Smarter Teacher-Parent Communication by TeachThought Staff Teacher-parent communication is, ideally, a two-way street. It is best thought of in terms of purpose: Why do teachers and parents need to talk? How can learning experiences be designed that require that interaction? What systems can be put in place to respond when the communication–for […].

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TeacherCast

JULY 29, 2018

This year at ISTE , I had the opportunity to sit down with Sara Cornish and Trish Cloud from the Minecraft Education team at the Microsoft Education booth. The big announcement at this years ISTE Conference revolved around the two new updates for Minecraft. Topics Include. Minecraft Aquatic Edition. Filing the oceans of Minecraft with marine life.

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JULY 29, 2018

Every Classroom Is A Team And Every Teacher Is A Coach contributed by Molly Bruzewski, Ed.S. This is a 2-part series on strategies for promoting a team approach to academic achievement and high-performance teaching. Strategy 1 for running your classroom like a team: Modeling In this current atmosphere of accountability, educators are often challenged with […].

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TeacherCast

JULY 29, 2018

This year at ISTE , I had the opportunity to sit down with Tricia Van Hollebeke, Justin Chando and Mike Tholfsen from the Microsoft Education team at the Microsoft Education booth. Topics Include. Brand New Updates. Microsoft Teams. Rubric Grading inside of Teams assignments. Individualized Assignments. Microsoft Forms integration. Sway. Immersive Reader.

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TeacherCast

JULY 29, 2018

Learn about the brand new updates to Office 365 and how you can use them in your classroom this upcoming school year. TeacherCast LIVE from ISTE 2018. The post What Can Teachers Look Forward To This Year from Office 365? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 29, 2018

Stop motion animation, as we argued in a previous post, is a cinematographic technique that consists of animating a set of static pictures or objects through placing them in separate frames.read more.

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The Game Agency

JULY 29, 2018

Game-based training transforms traditional learning from a passive experience into an active experience. Through play, points, badges, leaderboards and rewards, users engage at a much higher level. The study “A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Instructional Effectiveness of Computer-Based Simulation Games” found that simulation game-based training results in 20% higher self-efficiency, 9% greater retention, 11% greater declarative knowledge and 14% greater procedural knowledge than i

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The Principal of Change

JULY 29, 2018

It seems like every day I’m blessed to work with teachers and administrators who are doing incredible things with and for students and are providing opportunities that I could not dream of when I went to school. The rate of change in classrooms has been incredible, and the shift to delivering both engaging and empowering opportunities for students to develop as creators and learners both in and out of school has been incredible.

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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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MiddleWeb

JULY 29, 2018

When Sarah Cooper launches an op-ed writing project, students respond best if they have wide latitude to choose a topic, picking an issue that sparks a personal connection. Beyond research and writing, the highlight for kids is sharing their op-eds with an audience.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2018

. I am friends with a married couple in their early 30s, each a well-paid professional. The due date for their second child was Sept. 1, exactly the cutoff date for school entry where they live. The birth was going to be by C-section so they could schedule the delivery within a window of a couple of days on either side of the due date. If they chose Sept. 2 or later, their child would be the oldest in his class when starting public school (a very good thing from their perspective).

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Reflections

JULY 29, 2018

She had called to tell me about the mistakes the young man had made. We were both advocates for this student but it seemed that each time he successfully completed three steps forward, he'd take five steps back. On the surface, it almost looked deliberate. As if it was a test of our character to still believe in him or to let him go. We agreed that this incident might better become a life lesson for him and that as much as we wanted to will him into not acting this way, we didn't have complete c

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 29, 2018

Innovative educators know the importance of ensuring student learning is real, relevant, hands on and fun. That’s why they also understand the importance of a maker mindset. Teachers with a maker mindset help their students do work that is important to them. They aren’t looking for a specific answer, but rather support students in asking the right questions and finding new answers.

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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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Think Exam

JULY 29, 2018

Online quiz tool is a remarkable medium to assess the candidate’s aptitude. With such an advent development in innovation we all have been somewhere a part of online test experiencing the ease of its features. The flexibility that the online assessment software provides ranges from quick test assessment to report generation within a matter of time. The post Quiz building software – A platform to create exclusive Quizzes for your students appeared first on Thinkexam Blog.

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MindShift

JULY 29, 2018

Most principals have an instinctive awareness that organizational culture is a key element of school success. They might say their school has a “good culture” when teachers are expressing a shared vision and students are succeeding — or that they need to “work on school culture” when several teachers resign or student discipline rates rise. But like many organizational leaders, principals may get stymied when they actually try to describe the elements that create a positive culture.

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EmergingEdTech

JULY 29, 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 … the advantages of blended. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 29, 2018

Image by Mike McKenzie via www.vpnsrus.com Fake news. Alternative facts. Deception. Lies. The media seems full of reportage on how social media carries content designed to deceive users. This recent article from the BBC News website calls into question some of the electoral results, including allegations of deliberate targeting of voters during the Brexit referendum.

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