A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

'New Milford High School proudly joined 37 states, 15,000 teachers, and over 2 million students on February 1 for the inaugural Digital Learning Day. This day, however, was not really much different than any other day at NMHS as we have made a commitment to integrate digital learning into school culture for some time now. As Principal I am proud to state that many of the pedagogical techniques, learning activities, and tools described in the rest of this post are consistently in use on a daily b

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

'ASCD Express 6.16 - Energizing a Collaborative Community tags: collaborative community favorite 5 Simple Apps That Let You Do More With Evernote tags: Evernote favorite The Top 10 Best Dropbox Services, Addons and Hacks - TNW Apps tags: Dropbox favorite 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning | Digital Learning Now tags: digital E-Learning favorite Creative Commons: an Educational Primer | EdReach tags: copyright creativecommons favorite Mobile Learning For Special Needs tags: ipad apps ml

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

'On Monday, February 13th, the New York Times published a story which profiled Mooresville Graded School District in North Carolina. They have implemented a 1:1 laptop program for students which due to its success in improving student achievement has become a model that is being looked at by schools across the nation. The article was intriguing to me in at least two aspects.

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The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

'This week I spent a couple of days at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA learning more about Google''s plans for the Chrombook. Joining me were 25 educators and resellers from around the country. It was a good crowd of familiar Google Certified Teachers and Apps Certified Trainers. The Google Apps for Ed team ( Dana Nguyen , Jaime Casap , and Cristin Frodella ) were our hosts and were awesome as always!

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SpeechTechie

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

'If you were intrigued by my post on Scratch yesterday , but have committed to being an iPad-only kind of person, I mentioned there was an analogue app. Now, don''t get me wrong, neither Scratch nor DoInk, the subject of this post, are really simple tools. They are in the realm of object-oriented programming and vector animation, respectively, so I wouldn''t recommend them unless you are comfortable stretching your techie boundaries.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

While waiting for my flight home from Cyprus last week, I did an impromptu interview for some colleagues from Pakistan in the departure lounge. They quizzed me about my views on quality in education, and recorded my responses on video. They intend to share the video online once all the airport public address announcements have been edited out. In the meantime, here's the essence of the interview: My view on quality in primary education is that is cannot be solely measured through standardised te

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My Paperless Classroom

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

'Notice, these pens have no point. While most of the tech in my classroom is pretty advanced, one of my favorite tools is my smart board stylus. Running any classroom requires flexible on-the-spot problem solving and this holds true for all things tech. As a SmartBoard user, I have struggled with line quality and alignment. These issues have improved over the years with updates to the software.

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SpeechTechie

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

'I apologize to email and Google Reader subscribers that earlier today I sent out a blank post. Something happened when I tried to edit this post on iPad, and then published it. You can''t, as far as I know, get a post back when you send it out! Good thing I don''t often type swear words in my posts for fun and accidentally publish them. Anyway, swear words could possibly be heard when I published the blank post.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In our digital literacy teacher training programme at Plymouth University we create environments that encourage critical thinking. My colleague Peter Yeomans (AKA @ethinking on Twitter) says we create the 'bear pits' for our students. In other words, we enable digital and physical learning spaces in which they can freely explore ideas, argue with each other (and us) over concepts and theories and in so doing, develop their reasoning and thinking skills.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

'PBS NewsHour is part of our great experiment to help tap the tremendous capacity of the Classroom 2.0 and Library 2.0 audiences and help worthwhile education projects get feedback from real educators. We think you have a lot of advice to offer those who want to serve education! First, if you haven''t already joined the PBS NewsHour feedback group, you can do so at [link].

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

'CUE Unplugged is a series of crowd-sourced activities that take place in, around, and with the support of the annual CUE (Computer Using Educators) Conference , held in Palm Springs each year. All of these events are free and do not require signing up anywhere except to be registered for CUE, so just come join us! Specific locations will be posted prior to the conference.

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