A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 24, 2011
'Earlier this month I was fortunate to speak at #140edu in New York City. The title of my 15 minute presentation was "School Improvement One Character at a Time." I used this opportunity to discuss the positive impact that social media has had on the culture of my school and professional growth as a school leader. Here are 6 ways I am using social media in education to improve teaching, learning, and leading: Communication.
The Web20Classroom
AUGUST 26, 2011
'In most places students are either starting school or getting ready to go back. But before we get to far into the year it is a good idea to step back and reflect a bit about our place in the classroom and the year ahead. Here are five questions to consider as we start this new year: 1) What''s my hook? Everyday is an opportunity to capture the attention of our students.
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The 21st Century Principal
AUGUST 20, 2011
'This fall, I return to the classroom. Well, partially return to the classroom. I am going to be teaching Theater Arts this year, and serve as school principal. I''ve heard all the arguments over the years about administrators returning to the classroom to teach once in a while. The argument usually goes that administrators sometimes forget what it''s like to face a classroom full of students.
SpeechTechie
AUGUST 22, 2011
'Planet Orange is a robust interactive site from ING investing company that teaches kids about money. After a quick free registration, you can guide kids to complete missions on 4 different "continents" in order to earn "OBucks." Because you have registered, you can save your progress within a group session and return to continue the activities. The site is fun, simple, and practical, and besides all of that, I really like orange.
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EdTechSandyK
AUGUST 22, 2011
'This video from Birdville ISD in Texas is well done and covers several digital citizenship and online safety situations which are relevant to the young students in our classrooms. Additionally, it serves as a great example of a student project. Think how much these young ladies must have internalized about digital ethics by participating in this video!
The Web20Classroom
AUGUST 22, 2011
'Using Google Docs to Support Your PLC tags: googledocs plc Ten ideas for interactive teaching tags: pedagogy favorite Ten tips for using social media in school communications tags: socialmedia communication favorite eFront Learning: Introduction to Evaluation in eLearning tags: evaluation e-learning favorite What''s Working:Let Me Learn My Own Way tags: differentiation favorite Using Twitter to Build Your PLN tags: Twitter PLN favorite 7 Elements Of Writing A Differentiated Lesson Plan tags: di
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SpeechTechie
AUGUST 24, 2011
'A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to present a day-long workshop for the EDCO (Greater Boston) Collaborative about using interactive technologies in speech and language interventions. One of the main ideas as always was that language skill-building opportunities and contexts are everywhere if you know how to look for them. After reviewing the FIVES criteria as a framework , the participants spent some time "mining" a site that features many many many interactive resources, looking for nugg
wwwatanabe
AUGUST 22, 2011
'I had the privilege of working with five different groups of educators on PBL this past summer. There were conversations in each of the trainings that I cherished. One of those conversation occurred with our elementary teachers. As small groups were brainstorming their PBL topic, I heard a conversation about focusing on counting money. As the conversation progressed, several key questions came up.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 20, 2011
'Join me Thursday, August 25th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Bob Compton, producer of the new documentary film The Finland Phenomenon , an "inside look at the world''s finest secondary education system." Narrated by Dr. Tony Wagner of Harvard ( a previous guest on our show ), the film does a very good job of showing the surprising factors that educators and policy-makers in Finland believe accounts for their consistently being ranked as one of the best (if not th
Learning with 'e's
AUGUST 21, 2011
Many long days have passed since my last blog post, but I have been busy on another continent. I have just returned from a week working out in Kenya, where I spoke at a conference and visited several primary and secondary schools. It was my first visit to Kenya, and most of my time was spent in the coastal town of Mombasa. I had fascinating conversations with many of those living in Mombasa, and spent time with some of the school children who were very proud to show us around their schools.
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.
Comfortably 2.0
AUGUST 25, 2011
'Some of you might be wondering what those funny looking cut-outs are all over York Elementary School. They are called QR (Quick Response) Codes. They are becoming pretty popular and I bet you have seen them in magazines, at the supermarket, or even in the newspaper. QR codes are basically barcodes on steroids. They can hold a ton of data and are relatively easy to use and create.
Learning with 'e's
AUGUST 23, 2011
In the lead up to eAssessment Scotland where I will be speaking later this week, I offer some thoughts on assessment. There are some things you just can't assess. One is creativity. Another is character. Yet another is how tenacious or resilient a student is - do they persist in their learning despite the odds? Attempting to measure such things actually makes a nonsense of assessment.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 26, 2011
'Join me Tuesday, August 30th, at an earlier-than-normal time for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Richard and Rebecca DuFour on using Professional Learning Communities to improve schools. The DuFours have made two papers available for those who would like to read up before the interview: What Is a Professional Learning Community?
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 20, 2011
'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page.
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Comfortably 2.0
AUGUST 21, 2011
'What a fantastic first week of school! The kids at York Elementary are ready to go and they have filled me with vibrant energy! I wanted to break up the usual first week routine of introductions and the "what you did this summer" so I incorporated an app for the iPad/iPhone/iPod I found about three weeks ago called Songify. .
Learning with 'e's
AUGUST 22, 2011
There are moments in time that shape who you are and who you become. They say that your school years are the best years of your lives, but for many people, school was something to be endured rather than enjoyed. In past blog posts I have related bad experiences of school and have questioned the relevance of current school practices to real world needs.
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