A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2015

The Rigor and Relevance Framework —an action ­oriented continuum that describes putting knowledge to use—gives teachers and administrators a way to develop both instruction and assessment while providing students with a way a way to project learning goals. This framework, based on traditional elements of education yet encouraging movement from acquisition of knowledge to application of knowledge, charts learning along the two dimensions of higher standards and student achievement.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 26, 2015

One of my guilty pleasures is watching MasterChef Junior, a cooking competition for 8 to 12 year olds, and as an educator, I have been analyzing it as a model for good teaching. My observations include: The challenges are hands-on and naturally engaging for these kids. They are based on the kids’ passion for and interest in cooking. The kids don’t need to be graded about their performances.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 29, 2015

“The hashtag, that ubiquitous pound sign followed by a keyword, are part of the language of social media.”- Neil Patel, Forbes. In August 2007, Chris Messina introduced hashtags (#) into Twitter’s code , which meant anyone using the platform could add a # sign front of any word(s) without spaces to make it a clickable link leading to a page where all tweets with this hashtag were aggregated.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2015

By D. Frank Smith The technologies of tomorrow are already making headway into education, and others are poised for mass distribution in 2016.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 31, 2015

from the Cool Cat Teacher Blog From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. What a 2015! The Cool Cat Teacher blog celebrated 10 years , has 167 new posts this year with a total of 3,672 blog posts in the archive. Millions have visited this blog and wow, so many things have happened in ten years. This year was another year of learning and leveling up for all of us.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

At the end of each year, it’s fun to reflect on what I’ve written about and what other educators have gravitated to on my blog. This year the following 5 blog posts generated the most activity and conversation! #1 Thesis Statement Throwdown. This activity is a fan favorite and requires zero technology. It transforms thesis statement writing into a fun collaborative task complemented by dance beats and a healthy dose of competition. #2 Word Sneak: Vocabulary Game Inspired by the Tonig

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2015

By Steve Zurier Innovative districts keep Teachers mobile.

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Securly

DECEMBER 31, 2015

By Tom Walker. A Brief History of Web Filtering in K-12 Schools. When I started my career in K-12 IT, web content filtering in schools was a fairly new creature. The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was still in its early stages and various approaches to content filtering began to emerge. A handful of companies began to surface as the leaders in providing appliance web filtering solutions to deploy in the K-12 infrastructure.

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Battelle for Kids

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Volume 2, Issue 14, Number 14. Wednesday December 30, 2015. P21 Blogazine will feature the following themes in 2016. To contribute a post for a 21st Century Learning theme, contact jab@iriinc.us. Final drafts are due 15 days or earlier prior to start of scheduled month. Volume 3. January: Blended Learning: The Pros and Cons February: Communication in 21st Century Classrooms March: STEAM or STEM?

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Ditch That Textbook

DECEMBER 31, 2015

2015 was a whirlwind year full of change. In education, Google Classroom was around for its first full year and became a mainstay in classes around the world. New tools like Periscope and Seesaw became more popular than ever. More and more educators became connected, joining Twitter, Voxer and other social media. For me and [.].

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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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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2015

By Phil Goldstein, D. Frank Smith Microsoft will end security support for SQL Server 2005 in April 2016, and schools must prepare to upgrade.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Personalized learning received some hot press in the last month. First, in an open letter to their newborn daughter, Max, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan shared their hopes for personalized learning. To make good on their intentions, they've announced that they will donate 99 percent of their Facebook stock, currently valued at $45 billion, of which a portion will support personalized learning efforts.

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Brilliant or Insane

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Brilliant or Insane. Rather than listing our Top 10 posts, which you’ve likely already seen, I decided to share some of our biggest moments from 2015, related to education, blogging, writing, publishing and other areas. Please share your own insights and accomplishments from 2015, in our comment section below. From Brilliant or Insane You made us extremely popular this year.

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Battelle for Kids

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Volume 2, Issue 14, Number 14. Driving Question: How can we get the concept of 21st Century Learning Right? I love the words of the New York Times/PBS News Hour's David Brooks. I try never to miss a column or his Friday night debate with Mark Shields. What's there to like? Mostly his stimulating point of view and razor sharp thinking. Sometimes I agree with him; more often, not.

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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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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2015

By D. Frank Smith Look back on the stories our readers loved and shared the most this year.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 27, 2015

What Is Genius Hour? by TeachThought Staff Genius hour is an approach to learning where students are guided by their own interests, background knowledge, and curiosity to learn. From the. The post What Is Genius Hour? appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Backupery is a service that provides back up of your Evernote Data and Google Bookmarks. It is free for education users. Backupery provides free licenses for teachers, students, or faculty members at a qualified academic institution, high school, university, or community college. The process to get the license is very simple - a user just needs to contact us and provide his/her name, and name of the institution or URL of the institution web page.

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Battelle for Kids

DECEMBER 27, 2015

From 2015 to 2016. This week, I repeat two posts from our outstanding collection of 2015 posts.just in case you missed them. These captured the transition to our 2016 themes. In 2016, our themes will deal with more of the key words that connect 21st Century Learning. I hope will consider writing your story under a theme that reflects your thinking about what makes 21st Century Learning special.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2015

By Tim Kridel Good project planning lays a solid foundation for tech growth in the future .

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Download. Listen in a New Window. iTunes. Stitcher. SoundCloud. Leave a Review. Clammr It. Subscribe via RSS Subscribe on Android Follow @TeacherCast. Leave a VoiceMail. Sphero has just rolled out their new programming platform and community center, Lightning Lab. With this app Sphero positions SPRK programming alongside Scratch and other web-enabled platform.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 28, 2015

For one, don’t make lists because it makes people reach for things that aren’t there. 2015 is the year people forgot some of my titles. I am a full-time teacher at a middle school with a predominantly Dominican-American student body. I am a father to a toddler, a partner to a wonderful woman, a writer for some prominent outlets, and the founder of an activist collective.

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EdTechTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2015

We all know there are new updates to our favorite apps and tools released more frequently than we can keep up. However, Beth and Greg took a few minutes over the holidays to recap the most important features of our top tools for iPads, Apps, and Google Tools.

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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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MiddleWeb

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Under the canopy of the Common Core, student knowledge of academic vocabulary matters more than ever, across all the content areas. As assessment season approaches, MiddleWeb has gathered together our five most popular and helpful articles about word study.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

Widespread public interest surrounds new technologies in the classroom. The infusion of innovative learning systems and computerization into educational settings promises to create significant change in the near future. With many communities anxious to enhance local school systems and increase opportunities for students, teachers and pupils, 2016 appears poised to witness a lot of exciting new developments in the world of education technology.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2015

December 29, 2015 The apps we have curated for you today allow you to add annotations to your videos on the go. As a teacher, you can use these applications to enrich your videos with illustrative.read more.

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EdTechTeacher

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This post first appeared on Edutopia. This past year, iPads, Chromebooks, and laptops continued to flood classrooms. Schools increasingly adopted 1:1 or BYOD programs and constructed new learning spaces. So what’s next? Now that students have increased access to digital tools and devices, I think that 2016 may be the year of student agency — the ability to act independently within a given environment and assume an amount of control and empowerment.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Google has amazing tools for finding school-worthy sources. Too bad most kids don’t know they exist. Ed. note : We’re counting down the top stories of 2015 based on popularity (i.e. website traffic) to No. 1 on Dec. 31. The second Alan November piece to crack the top ten (he had a third in the top fifteen) tackles a pervasive problem — students who graduate high school and enter college or their careers without adequate search skills.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Download. Listen in a New Window. iTunes. Stitcher. SoundCloud. Leave a Review. Clammr It. Subscribe via RSS Subscribe on Android Follow @TeacherCast. Leave a VoiceMail. Does your school technology actually make your day better? Does it push classrooms further or expedite tedious processes? Does it keep you in touch with your school community? Does it do for you what paper and pencil cannot?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 1, 2016

January1 , 2015 Happy New Year everybody, we hope you will have a wonderful year full of happiness and joy. We are officially on vacation till Monday and until then we will be sharing with you some.read more.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 30, 2015

According to thousands of you, here are the top ten posts 2015 with a few words from each post. This blog surpassed a million views since inception. Considering I’m doing this without any major sponsorship, publications, or well-regarded co-signs, I’m ecstatic about this and so much more. Without further adieu, here they are: Opting Out Of Everything. “I wanted to listen to the whole commercial, but, instead I hurried up, paid for my groceries, and got the hell out.

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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.

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