A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 20, 2011

'At New Milford High School we have begun to leverage technology that many students possess. This has led to a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) initiative, where students are encouraged to bring in their mobile learning devices, which include cell phones or personal computing devices (laptops, tablets, iPod Touches, eReaders, etc). Students that bring their own computing devices have the ability to connect to our secure wireless network.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 21, 2011

'Cell phones and other mobile devices are beginning to take whole in classrooms around the county. And let''s face it, even if our schools or districts haven''t embraced the technology for learning, kids are still using phones whether we know it or not. According to Pew Research the cell phone "has become the favored communication hub for the majority of American teens.

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The 21st Century Principal

OCTOBER 21, 2011

'How many times have classroom teachers pondered statements like, “If my students engaged in learning like they do video games…” Lots of teachers have decided that learning can''t resemble video games and to try to do so cheapens the content. But there are a growing number of researchers out there beginning to earnestly ask the question, "Is it possible to design learning to resemble video games?

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wwwatanabe

OCTOBER 15, 2011

'Teching it Up K-12 -- Success Stories, Part 3 In Part 2 of "Teching it Up K-12 -- Success Stories," originally presented at the Arizona CIO/CTO Forum 2011 , we focused on developing a learning culture through peer coaching. In Part 3, we focus on 21st century learning, blogging, and PLN. Pedagogical Shift There is a pedagogy shift happening in our district.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Publication of research is one of the most important facets of academic life. I can't stress enough how important it is for good research to be as widely and swiftly disseminated as possible. Without it, our practice is less likely to be informed, and more prone to repeated errors. As a researcher myself, I take this challenge very seriously. Along with other educational researchers, I attempt to identify key issues for investigation and then spend considerable time and energy examining as much

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 18, 2011

'Today I spent some time talking to a education related company, offering feedback on their various products and their social media presence. First, kudos to them for bringing in teachers and other educational professionals to have open and honest feedback about what they are doing right and a little about how they could be better. And here is where I am at a crossroads.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 21, 2011

'I read an article, " Why Don''t We Teach Kids How to Use CTRL+F? " a couple of days ago and it reminded me of two things: We make a lot of assumptions about what people know about using computers. No matter how much we know, there are always some basic fundamentals that we don''t know. Technology has too many facets for anyone to know everything. For instance, did you know that CTRL+F is a key combination that works for searching a web page or document in every standard web browser and in Offic

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 19, 2011

'As part of a teen social skill group recently, I used this strange-but-cool resource from Australia that allows you to make a visual "art cube" of your interests using Google Images or YouTube clips. The kids worked in 2 groups to assemble a cube with their favorite things (in this case, 3 kids per subgroup, so each got to pick 2 sides of the cube).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 15, 2011

'Join me Thursday, October 20th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Mark Surman , executive director of the Mozilla Foundation. We''ll be talking about Mozilla''s Open Badges project , the issues around recognizing skills and achievements that happen outside of traditional learning institutions, and the HASTAC Badges Competition: Badges For Lifelong Learning.

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Blackboard Digital Badges Training Groups 59

Connecting 2 the World

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Imagine being an oncologist or hospice healthcare provider and being told that you will be evaluated on how many patients die. If many die, you will be fired. What does this have to do with education? Well, according to NPR, the president wants to extend no child left behind legislation and to include a provision for states to develop ways to evaluate teachers.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2011

'“Be the change you want to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi On a beautiful Saturday morning in October hundreds of educators from numerous states in the Northeast descended upon New Milford High School for a day of learning, connecting, and reflecting at The Edscape Conference. As I addressed the crowd to begin the event I was in awe of all the passionate educators who took the time to gather on a weekend for the sole purpose of getting better at their craft in order to better meet the needs

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 20, 2011

'The British Council''s LearnEnglish Kids'' Haunted House is a fun activity you might consider exploring Halloween week with your kids. The activity contains six creepy rooms filled with scary surprises, and kids are tasked to find one item in each room beginning with a certain letter. The clues are presented in a rather unsettling voice, so make sure you preview it and use with "no tears" kind of kids!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

'This new weekly blog post / email is replacing the regular email I have sent out for the last couple of years for the now-defunct Host-Your-Own-Webinar program (I still have hopes of resurrecting that near-to-my-heart program, and when that happens we''ll wrap it into this weekly missive). There is lots of fun below, and especially don''t miss the first weekly recorded podcast with Audrey Watters!

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The 21st Century Principal

OCTOBER 15, 2011

'The Education Commission of the States (ECS), an organization whose stated mission is "to help states develop effective policy and practice for public education by providing data, research, analysis, and leadership" has released a report entitled "More on Pay-for-Performance." In that report it describes Pay-for-Performance models, and it reviews the current research regarding pay-for-performance policies in schools.

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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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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 18, 2011

'In previous posts, I showed how you can use Kaywa to generate individual QR codes for URLs, images, or text. If you want to create an activity that involves students moving around and scanning many QRs (i.e. a scavenger/treasure hunt) with text questions, prompts or stimuli, ClassTools.net''s QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator is a good resource to do this quickly.

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 17, 2011

'Apple has been much in the news lately as, besides Steve Job''s passing, they have released a new phone, the iPhone 4S, and a new operating system for existing iPads and iPhones (and newer iPod Touches). I have not bought the iPhone 4S since I am happy with my 4, but I am tempted by its new artificially intelligent personal assistant, Siri. Siri helps you accomplish many tasks with voice commands such as texting, emailing, Internet searching, and adding items to the calendar.

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The 21st Century Principal

OCTOBER 16, 2011

'Recently, I received a email from someone in response to my post The 21st Principal''s Top 10 Web Tools for Administrators asking me to be more specific on how I use each of these tools. Here’s a bit more explanation on how I use Evernote. Evernote serves mainly as "an information collection tool",” though I use it as well for task management by placing my To-Do Lists there.

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The 21st Century Principal

OCTOBER 17, 2011

'Every so often someone comes along with one of those tech ideas that rise above other tech ideas. Dropbox is one of those ideas. Dropbox has become a regular part of my routine as school principal. I continue to find ways to stretch its uses. Here’s five good ways to use this cloud storage tool as a teacher and administrator. Set up a faculty-staff forms and documents filing cabinet.

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