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The Limitations of Being a Disconnected Nomad

A Principal's Reflections

'It seems like just yesterday that I was a disconnected nomad working hard to maintain the status quo and conform to a rigid system commonly known as education. You see, prior to 2009 I was adamantly opposed to even the thought of using social media for both personal and professional reasons. As a building level leader burdened by endless responsibilities, I could not fathom wasting even a precious minute in what I saw as a perpetual time sap.

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4 notes on taking notes

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

'This made me laugh. I saw this image (source unknown) and saved it to my photos on my iPad. Later that day, I tweeted it out and since then it has had quite a response. And then the teacher said… You may take notes. pic.twitter.com/4xYBAKi2jN. — David Truss (@datruss) June 3, 2014. In one of the responses to this tweet, Maurizio Basso ( @moba3030 ) said , “ @datruss so true seeing more of this.

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The Problem with Educational Apps

My Paperless Classroom

'If back to school night has one lesson for me. It''s that parents of elementary students are looking for someone to talk to about iPads, phones, tablets, and how their kids are using them. I''m lucky enough to work in an amazing school with a great approach to technology education. Last night at back-to-school night I got to share with the kindergarten through second grade parents why we do technology the way we do.

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Google Classroom: Resetting Teacher Permissions

The Electric Educator

'The first time a teacher visits Google Classroom they will be asked if they are a teacher or a student. If for some reason the teacher selects "student" they will find that they are unable to create classes; they can only join them. Students who select "teacher" will have the ability to created classes. Fixing this issue is easy, but requires the assistance of someone with access to the schools Google Apps for Education control panel.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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The Ultimate Gift For an Educator

A Principal's Reflections

'Contrary to the belief of some, educators work extremely hard for little financial incentive when you look at the amount of hours that are put into the job. Whether you are a teacher or administrator, your work has always been about the students first and foremost. To a lesser extent, but important nonetheless, has been the desire to collaborate with colleagues to enhance learning environments and experiences for education''s number one stakeholder - our students.

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How Changing One Word in the Flipped Class Changes Everything

Turning Learning On Its Head

'Image: Emily Danielle Photography. There is a word that I would like to take out of the vocabulary of flipped classroom teachers. It is the word, watch. Students are supposed to watch a video at home and then come to class prepared to learn. Watch is a passive word. Students watch Batman, they watch The Voice, but we don’t want students to watch flipped class videos.

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5 Ideas to Make Lectures and Presentations Interactive

The Innovative Educator

'When I was a student, I had a problem staying awake in class. I felt bad and teachers were mad. Today, as a teacher myself, I discovered the blame was misplaced. I was sleeping because of boring lesson delivery. When I teach a class or an auditorium with hundreds, there is never any sleeping going on because I have an interactive and engaging delivery.

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Welcome to Social Studies: Hoopa City

SpeechTechie

'In this month''s column for the ASHA Leader App-Titude series , I discussed how relevant science concepts and content can be used as a context for language therapy ( see the great work of Barbara Ehren on curriculum-relevant interventions ). Like science, social studies has much opportunity to teach language underpinnings involving the skills that our students can struggle with, thereby providing rationale for our interventions.

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Remind Announcing Stamps: Get Instant Feedback from Your Class!

The Mobile Native

'Remind is excited to announce Stamps, a new way for students and parents to provide instant feedback on your Remind messages! With Stamps, you can easily ask questions and get quick answers from your class in real-time. For example, you can find out who is going on a field trip, who is confused about a new topic you introduced, or even, who likes the messages you’re sending.

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Can we work smarter?

My Paperless Classroom

'This week almost all the teachers I know are back to school, prepping lessons, collecting papers, and trying to find enough time to get all of the work done in a professional and thoughtful manner. And the question rings out across the land "is there a better way?" We have been told that teaching out of the filing cabinet is no good. We need to be responsive to the kids in front of us, we need to differentiate, we need to empower student voice and choice; all of this is true.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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#BackToSchool Must-Haves For Innovative Educators

The Innovative Educator

'As the school year begins there are numerous resources to ease and enrich the lives of innovative educators and their students that will facilitate effective teaching and learning. Here are my top picks for 2014/15. I want more ».

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"Back to School" Links

SpeechTechie

'I have been enjoying a few weeks off before things pick up again! Though out of the traditional school schedule, my work still revolves around the academic year, with therapy groups starting in September as well as school consults, programming, and evals (and most of my presentations and trainings as well). Over the summer, I had a great time blogging about research for Mindwing Concepts'' blog and their "Summer Study Series.

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Back to School Special: Open Mic Edition

The Daring Librarian

'For the last five years at the #TLChat Virtual Cafe we''ve offered a FREE webinar to help librarians and teachers of all subjects and levels get ready for the next school year. This casual discussion generates ideas on how to build school allies, support new teachers, & become indispensable to administration & staff at the beginning of EVERY school year.

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The point of no return

Learning with 'e's

'This is number 27 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. Previous posts in this series are all linked below. The previous post featured Abraham Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. In this post, I will examine Jack Merizow''s Transformative Learning theory.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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 hottest posts everyone's reading

The Innovative Educator

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews It''s #SoMe - Great #BacktoSchool Activity for Digi.

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Let's Get it Started!!! The Keys to Tech Savvy Teaching!

MSEDTechie

'The Keys to Tech Savvy Teaching! As we begin this new school year, we need to evaluate our past teaching experiences, and how effective they were. Start by taking a moment to reflect. Think about last year. On a scale from 1 to 5 (1 not well, and 5 being very well) How well did you integrate technology in your classroom? The key word is INTEGRATE. Notice I didn''t say how well did you USE technology in your classroom.

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Support Our Free Professional Development! 3 Clicks Brings Us a Dollar and Brings You 24 Interactive HP Training Programs.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'SUPPORT OUR FREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT! Our Learning Revolution FREE educational conferences had 100,000 attendee log-ins last year. Hopefully you benefited from one or more of them! You can now help support this amazing free PD by signing up for the (also free) HP LIFE e-Learning Initiative - for every registration through the links on this page HP will give LearningRevolution.com $1.

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Why PD is like piano lessons

edWeb.net

'We all think we’re going to have more time over the summer – to read, to relax, to clean out the attic, to catch up on PD! But PD is like piano lessons. It’s best to do a little bit, regularly, all year long. edWeb makes it easy. Attend one of our free webinars – it only takes an hour. You’ll connect online with educators all around the country, and the world. edWeb.net is a community built especially for educators and provides free professional learning commu

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Introduction to iPads iOS 7: Part 1--Hardware

wwwatanabe

'How does a teacher start to use iPads in the classroom? This post will include the basics for getting started. Part 1 focuses on the hardware fundamentals with iOS 7, while Part 2 focuses on iPad integration in the classroom. Hardware basics Turning on / off the iPad : Hold the sleep button for five seconds until you see the apple appear on the screen to turn it on.

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What students love about online learning…

IT Bill

'Students say they love their online courses when their instructor is accessible and responsive, when their instructor is hard to reach or unresponsive – not so much. We recently surveyed our online students regarding distance learning support services. The last question in the survey asked for “any other comments” they wished to offer.

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Comment Bubble

Technology Tidbits

'Comment Bubble is a neat little site that I just found out about from Ozge Karaoglu on Technology & Learning. The way this works is a user uploads a video and then selects what kind of feedback/comments they want to allow. Once this is done a person can then leave text, audio, or even video comments to any video. This is a great way to carry on a discussion about a video, as well as generate interactive graphs.

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Connected Courses Begins September 15

Educator Innovator

Connected Courses , a free open online learning experience that starts September 15th, is designed to get educators ready to teach open, connected courses no matter what kind of higher-ed institution they’re working in. The 12-week course will focus on how blended learning, openness, and collaboration can improve practices and allow for the development of new and innovative open approaches.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Why We Need to Make Math More Relevant and Rigorous In Schools

Saving Socrates

'It''s pretty much a known fact by now that the US lags far behind many other nations in our math education. This is not to say that there are not some terrific mathematics programs out there that are currently being employed in schools throughout the country or that many schools have some great projects they do in math at an early age. NYC''s recent museum opening (ok relatively recent) of the Museum of Mathematics is an attempt to make math more approachable to students starting at a young age

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Can more data points inform "Who Am I Being" as a teacher?

Learning With Lucie

'The Day 3 prompt for the Te@ch Thought''s 30 day blogging challenge " Discuss one “observation” area that you would like to improve on for your teacher evaluation." coincided with a tweet that came across my twitter stream. Alternative to test scores: innovations in student surveys by start-up called Panorama. [link] — Tony Wagner (@DrTonyWagner) September 4, 2014 As I followed the link and read an article about the startup company, Panaroma launching an open source design for a survey that mea

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StoryMap JS

Technology Tidbits

'StoryMap JS is a new (beta) site that I just found out about from Richard Byrne''s excellent blog. It reminds me a lot of MeoGraph in that it lets users create digital stories surround by maps. On these maps a user can add text, video, image, to create a story linked to the map. StoryMaps is a great learning tool that History/SS teachers could use to have students create historical digital stories or for digital storytelling.

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Webmaker Teaching Kits as “Invitations to Connect”

Educator Innovator

Summer is a wakeful and wily tinkerer’s tale about freedom and justice – it’s told with light and scribbled in a notebook hacked with stars. Or at least that’s the way it seems to me after working with all sorts of teachers and learners engaged in the Summer to Make Play and Connect. I came to this greater connected learning project as kind of a coach this year, helping friends allied through Mozilla and the National Writing Project prepare for #clmooc and level-up their

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Google Online Summit This Weekend! - Gaming in Ed - Support Free PD

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'The Learning Revolution Weekly Update September 2nd, 2014 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Support LearningRevolution.com''s Free PD --> 3 Clicks = 1 Dollar [link] The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions.

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What I love most about teaching

Learning With Lucie

'The James Barrie quote in my signature line at the bottom of all my emails does not surprise anyone. It is evident that I love what I do for work and that I feel very fortunate to have found a profession where I can''t tell the difference between work and play. So when I saw today''s Te@ch Thought''s 30 day blogging challenge p rompt "The thing that you love the most about teaching." it was not difficult for me to relate to it.

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Adjective Detective

Technology Tidbits

'The Adjective Detective is a fun online game I just found out about from Technology & Learning. This game explains what an adjective is and provides a lot of interactive exercises siting examples. Also, it has students being a detective and finding the adjectives (i.e. superlative and comparative) by highlighting them in a sentence w/ a magnifying glass.

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We Are Born Learners

Educator Innovator

This post originally appeared at Common Sense Graphite. Our awareness of the world and our place in it is fueled by a natural sense of inquisitiveness and curiosity. When we encourage this motivation in ourselves and in others, we discover that our capabilities extend far beyond the limits of school and work. School does many things well, but it wasn’t built for today’s culture or technology.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.