Sat.Mar 24, 2012 - Fri.Mar 30, 2012

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Global Competencies and the Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

'I attended a session at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference early on Saturday morning entitled Common Core and Curriculum 21: Global Competency in Literacy, Math, and Science. The session was facilitated by an organization called Facing the Future. As we move to the Common Core it is crucial that we sustain a renewed focus on engaging students using global issues across multiple disciplines to keep them hooked and in position for achievement.

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#ASCD12-A Presentation On Creating Social Media Policies For Schools And Districts

The Web20Classroom

'Earlier today I had the honor and pleasure of presenting at the Annual Conference for ASCD. It felt like more of a homecoming as the conference this year was in Philadelphia, a city I have been to several times over the past 2 years for conferences and meetings. The presentation was the featured morning session and livestreamed. I presented with Sam Walker , an Instructional Technologist at Kimmel Farm Elementary School in my district.

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3 Considerations for 21st Century Digital School Leaders

The 21st Century Principal

'“Digital footprints and shadows constitute our permanent imprint on the world: a detailed summary of our life for our contemporaries and for people of the future to view and consider.” Erik Qualman, Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence With those words, Erik Qualman outlines the precarious position all of us as 21st century school leaders face.

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Wrapping Up (Maybe) Animonths: Draw a Stickman, Episode 2

SpeechTechie

'I feel like I have possibly a few more posts on animation in me, but maybe not. I saw The Hunger Games movie this weekend and my head is so cloudy.I loved it (HUGE fan of the books) and am consumed with thinking about it! It''s affecting my executive functioning.so we''ll have to see. Anyway, I was excited to recently receive an email from the folks at hitcents.com (I must have put myself on their mailing list) announcing the 2nd Episode of Draw a Stickman.

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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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Shifts and Issues Associated With The Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

'I attended another session on the Common Core State Standards today at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference entitled Educator Readiness for the Common Core: ASCD Findings from Select States. The two facilitators shared input from educators in four states about the standards and the assistance needed to integrate them into schools and classrooms. Image credit: [link] Key ELA Shifts Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction and informational texts.

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Curating Content

The Web20Classroom

'I do a whole lot of research. Whether I am preparing a workshop or writing a keynote I am constantly looking up information and trying to figure out the best ways to organize it all so I can not only recall what I am saving but to make sure I have it, no matter where I am working. I have three, go-to apps and programs I use on a daily basis for just that: Evernote -Hands down, my favorite app for organizing.

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5 Ways to Use Google+ in your Classrooms

The Electric Educator

'Google+ has tremendous promise for K-12 classrooms. Handouts, circles, and selective sharing are three features that will be heavily used and relied upon by teachers. Here are my suggestions on ways to use Google+ in a K-12 classroom. Please share your ideas with me by leaving a comment! Thanks for subscribing to my blog. I always appreciate feedback on my posts.

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What the flip?

Learning with 'e's

Everywhere I look I'm seeing 'Flip teaching' or 'Flipped classroom'. There's a lot of hype about this 'flipping' idea and it's getting me flipping irritated. What does flipping actually involve? Does anyone know, or is the term being misused or misrepresented? Even Aaron Sams, a highly visible proponent of the flipped movement admits that the term is ambiguous.

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Free Teaching Resources From Microsoft Education

The Web20Classroom

'Back in 2010 I wrote a post highlighting some of the great (and free) resources from Microsoft Education. Well I am back to update that information because they have added some more handy guides for the classroom. For me, one of the more handy guides was the Digital Storytelling guide. Hopefully we know that when we give students the opportunity to create something related to what they are learning they are more likely to remember what they have learned and be able to apply it in the future.

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6 Must-Have Mobile Device Apps for the School Administrator

The 21st Century Principal

'Ask yourself what makes an app on a mobile device useful, and the answer is that the most useful apps have these four characteristics: The app is available for and syncs across multiple devices. This means users can use the app on their iPad, Android phone, or even their Kindle Fire. Because of this feature, data created or stored by the app is available on any one of the devices used.

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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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Guest Appearance on The Tightwad Teacher Podcast

EdTechSandyK

'Graphic Used Under a CC By-SA 2.0 License The Guest Appearance A couple of weeks ago, one of my Texas edtech colleagues, Kristy Vincent , invited me to be a guest on the Tightwad Teacher podcast. Kristy just recently became a co-host of the podcast, and she invited me to discuss a topic of my choice. Having just recently attended a thought provoking session on Developing a Culture of Sharing at SXSWedu (my blog notes don''t do it justice), I suggested a focus on professional learning online thr

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Classroom without walls

Learning with 'e's

I've written before about the idea of the classroom without walls. Today, with the sun shining down on the UK's warmest March in recorded history, my students and I sat in a classroom without walls - literally. We went outside and held our final teaching session of the term in the warm sun. The students enjoyed it, and frankly, so did I. It has been a very long time since I last conducted a lesson outside in the open air.

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Live Tuesday March 27th - Alec Couros Talks "Open Teaching"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me tonight, Tuesday, March 27th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Alec Couros on open teaching : the "facilitation of learning experiences that are open, transparent, collaborative, and social. Open teachers are advocates of a free and open knowledge society, and support their students in the critical consumption, production, connection, and synthesis of knowledge through the shared development of learning networks.

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4 Reasons 21st Century Administrators Should Get Out of the Way and Let Students Blog

The 21st Century Principal

'As a twenty-first century administrator, and a former English teacher, I believe in the power of blogging. There''s satisfaction that comes from writing and having others read it. That is fundamental to every rule of composition. So much do I believe in its power, I am excited that students at our school are blogging and excitedly talking about the experience.

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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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When Staff Make Bad Decisions: What Can 21st Century School Leaders Do?

The 21st Century Principal

'As a 21st century school leader, how do you cultivate using "good judgment" in your staff when making curricular decisions and decisions about media to be used in the classroom? I recently stumbled across this article, "Wando Teacher Resigns, Ending Appeal in Jackass 2 Incident." While the article obviously provides only the bare minimum details about the incident, so I an a bit hesitant to judge the teacher, it does prompt me as a school leader to ask this question regarding fostering the use

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Live Thursday March 29th - Two Events, NPR NewsHour Plus Teacher-Driven Change

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me today, Thursday, March 29th, for either or both of two live and interactive shows. First is a quick feedback session for the folks at PBS NewsHour who are asking for teacher help in the redesign of their teacher resource site. Part of the Classroom 2.0 EdIncubator project, this is a chance to both learn about the resources available for free to educators and students, and to help a worthy cause!

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NC Gubernatorial Candidate Pat McCroy’s Stale, Unoriginal Plan for Public Schools

The 21st Century Principal

'Yesterday, North Carolina Gubernatorial candidate Pat McCroy released his plan to reform education. Basically, that plan suffers from a total lack of new ideas and innovation and simply carries the Republican Party line of trying to privatize public education. Here’s the basic components of McCroy’s ed reform package taken from a document on his website entitled “A Passion for Education: The McCroy Plan for North Carolina Schools.