A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2017

I fondly remember when I was first asked to consider what my future career path might be. Mrs. Williams, my kindergarten teacher, asked the class to draw a picture that articulated what we wanted to be when we grew up. I immediately knew exactly what I was going to draw. That was the easy part. The difficult task, for me at least, was to then utilize what limited artistic abilities I had to create an illustration that depicted my future career.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 20, 2017

Torrence, whose focus was on creativity, developed the Torrence Incubation Model of Creative Thinking (TIM) model. As emphasized in this video, embedding creativity into the curriculum can and should be a strong component of content area teaching and learning. In other words, educators don’t need to plan to teach creativity as another part of curriculum.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

(Mostly) back from my August hiatus, I’m pleased to offer up the next edition of A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News. In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

Today, schools and districts are making social-emotional development a priority, and with good reason. Research shows that educators play a profound role in promoting students’ social-emotional skills and beliefs. But what if students have greater confidence that they can improve than their teachers? That’s one of the surprises we found in our recent survey of more than 2,400 teachers and 36,000 students.

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AUGUST 20, 2017

Cloudflare relies on the randomness of lava lamps to encrypt communications on the internet. This strikes me as both awesome and terrifying - and a stark reminder of the limits of computing.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 20, 2017

Version History in Docs, Sheets, and Slides An essential feature of G Suite is “Revision history.” This has now been updated and renamed to “Version history.” It’s a small modification to the name so hopefully, it isn’t too confusing. It is, however, one additional click. Choosing “See version history” allows you to find the revisions […].

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AUGUST 20, 2017

If you are a STEM teacher, you’ve likely made productive teamwork one of your goals. Just as likely, you’ve probably learned that simply putting kids in groups does not automatically make this happen. Anne Jolly shares a step by step process to build successful teams.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 20, 2017

The post What’s The One Thing They’ll Remember From Their Time With You? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 20, 2017

August , 2017 Factile (former Jeopardy Rocks) is an excellent web tool that enables teachers to create multimedia quiz games for their classroom. Using a simple and intuitive gameboard,read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 20, 2017

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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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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 20, 2017

Critical thinking is essential to survive in today’s highly competitive world. In the times of tight deadlines, critical thinking helps people make sound and bold decisions. Phrases like, “Thinking out of the box” stem from the concept of critical and creative thinking. The quality of thinking critically is a great tool for the success of […].

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 20, 2017

Amid the enthusiasm and anticipation that typically infuse the start of school, author Debbie Silver shares advice to help teachers plan a successful year by choosing actions that will decrease stress, build stamina, and make sure they take care of themselves first.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 20, 2017

Listen in on a coaching call I conducted with a graduate of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club. His name is Jim, and he’s entering his 4th year of teaching. Jim works on a grades 7-12 campus and is a high school geometry and 7th grade honors math teacher. The questions that Jim submitted to me were mostly about getting student buy-in with room arrangement and routines/procedures.

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Adjusting Course

AUGUST 20, 2017

My family has a multitude of traditions that keep us grounded and connected to one another. For example, during Winter Break we know that we will be driving through the snow-covered streets to look at Christmas lights together. With hot cocoa in hand, we’ll laugh, admire the lights, and take a little time to throw judgment at the light displays that miss the mark in our eyes.

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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

AUGUST 20, 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, there's an Augmented Reality. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 20, 2017

This quote from Rick Wormeli is powerful: Let’s admit to students that we aren’t really sure what the author meant symbolically, what really happened during a particular moment in history, whether or not a politician is misleading us, what an object is made of, or if our teaching strategy is the best way to teach. Let’s get out of our students’ way and not limit them to our imagination.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 20, 2017

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 20, 2017

Sentence Master is a fun iOS app to help students work on their Language Arts and Grammar skills. This is done through a simple game where users select a word (from a list of scrambled ones) to form a correct sentence. Scoring is done by how fast a person completes the sentence. Sentence Master has 4 difficulty settings and is also multiplayer. For a more detailed review check out Edshelf by clicking here.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 20, 2017

Every year, I have a new group of students who become obsessed with dinosaurs and every informational and narrative book about them. I’m excited to introduce Dustin Hansen to my students. Dustin has been writing and creating art for the video game industry for over 20 years. He is the author and illustrator of the Microsaurs series. Follow That Tiny-Dactyl was released in January of this year, and Tiny-Raptor Pack Attack was released in July.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 20, 2017

Sketch Nation the amazing free web tool or mobile app (iOS/Android) has just released their latest update to bring new exciting features to game creation. Students can now create a multiplayer "platform" game in their new "Arena". Also, users now have the ability to upload their own sound effects or music to add into a game, Here are more details regarding Version 4.2. * Side Running, Arena and Platformer now have double jump as an option. * All genres now have a powerup duration slider for chan

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 20, 2017

Projector Screen Store is a great site for educators or parents looking to find screens, projectors, cables, and more for home or their classroom. Also, this is an ideal place to find good deals and other resources such as: how to build a home theater or how a green screen works. I highly recommend checking out Projector Screen Store by clicking here !!!

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