A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 22, 2014

'Change has become quite the buzzword in education as of late. You hear it in schools, during face-to-face conversations with educators, at the dinner table, and most emphatically in social media spaces. Virtually all of these conversations have merit to them. It goes without saying that education, schools, and professional practice need to change in order to provide learners with the necessary skill sets to succeed in today’s ever-growing digital world.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 25, 2014

'I can remember bouncing on your lap when I was about three. I remember the silly gifts you’d give, your incredible sense of humor, your amazing model of how to be a father and grandfather, and how to this day, I consider you the most brilliant man I’ve ever known. I remember your hugs and kisses; your tickles every time we were together. I remember your “I love you, Tommy.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 26, 2014

'Google just announced some great new features for Google Apps that make it even more useful and powerful. Schools, like ours, that use Google Apps for Education will be very pleased with these updates and new features. Google Apps Admins can now restore a user''s Google Drive files from the past 25 days. This is great for one someone deletes a file by mistake. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6052340 Google Drive: huge changes here.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 22, 2014

'Guest Post by Vicki Davis Editor’s note: Vicki Davis just wrote a new book called, Reinventing Writing. I asked her if she could contribute a post to The Innovative Educator explaining specifically how social media has reinvented writing. This is that post. As hall of fame baseball player, Babe Ruth said, “Yesterday’s home runs won’t win tomorrow’s games.

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The Electric Educator

JUNE 25, 2014

'For the first time, Google has designed a product for a specific industry. Fortunately for educators, that product is for them! Google Classroom is a brand new tool designed to help ease the burden of sharing and receiving assignments from students. The excitement surrounding classroom has reached a fever pitch; teachers are ecstatic and can''t wait to get their hands on classroom.

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Philly Teacher

JUNE 25, 2014

'It was 3:00pm on June 20th, the last day of school. The inaugural staff of SLA@Beeber sat around the huge conference table in the main office going over highlights and areas for growth for next year. We picked apart processes, events, successes, failures and made suggestions for next year. We discussed our capacity as a staff, the way our kids had grown so much since September, the way we stuck together as a staff and made some really hard decisions together.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 27, 2014

'Here’s some more evidence that our North Carolina State Legislature despises traditional public schools and favors charter schools that don’t have to play by the same rules as other public schools. Yesterday, the North Carolina House voted to allow charter schools to once again play by different rules. While traditional public schools have been required to disclose to names and salaries of all its employees to newspapers and the other media under public records laws, it seems our legislature do

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My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 25, 2014

'I am happy to announce that with a lot of help from Jeff Bradbury at TeacherCast.net I am officially launching the EduPuppets Vlog at EduPuppets.com. With over 24 episodes, there is plenty to see and so much to learn. Wokka will be Vlogging at the #ISTE2014 conference. Together we hope to make pedagogically sound tech integration accessible to all educators.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 25, 2014

'My co-author Willyn Webb and I had the opportunity to speak with "Tech Page One - Insights from the Evolving World of Tech" to explain why cell phones should be allowed in the classroom. You can read the entire piece at BYOD Goes to School, Here is what we said during our interview with the author of the article. Once considered a distraction, smartphones are now being used by teachers to expand teaching options Lisa Nielsen, who blogs at The Innovative Educator and co-authored “ Teaching Gener

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 24, 2014

'Considering Minecraft in your classroom or just want to know what the buzz is all about? Check out these 12 outstanding resources! I''m preparing for our GHO tonight Minecraft in the Classroom -- Why? Why Not? -- and I''ll be including this post in the show notes. Brain-based research 1. Can gaming change education? Brain research has answers. ecampus news, March 12, 2014.

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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 21st Century Principal

JUNE 27, 2014

'OpenEd recently released its Free Assessment tool. OpenEd''s assessment tool not only provides the question types required by the Common Core curriculum, but it also has some unique capabilities as well, such as suggesting videos to students who miss specific questions. It also suggests questions to teachers to add to their Common Core assessments.

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Ed Tech Now

JUNE 22, 2014

'A summary of my recent contributions to the debate around ETAG To many on the ETAG committee, I am undoubtedly seen as an awkward and disruptive influence—something like the know-it-all who keeps putting their hand up at the back of the class.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 21, 2014

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews Stop saying "balance is key" when discussing tech.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 26, 2014

'This is number 20 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In my last post I featured the work of Marie Jahoda on ideal mental health. In this post, we will explore the Gestalt theory of Kurt Koffka. As usual, this is a simplified interpretation of the theory, so if you wish to learn more, please read the associated literature.

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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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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 25, 2014

'EDpuzzle is vastly becoming one of the premiere web tools around for learning in the classroom. This is fantastic free tool for editing a video, cropping, adding quizzes/polls, narration, etc. then embedding into site/blog. It is being used to flip a classroom or lesson, Project Based Learning, and even for differentiating instruction. The educational portal allows students to sign-up w/out needing an email account and lets educators track student progress in real-time.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 23, 2014

Citizen science—scientific research conducted by nonscientists—is rapidly becoming a tool to bring relevant, hands-on learning to young people. But connecting professional scientists with educators and youth can be tricky. Science center educators are bridging the gap. The Association of Science−Technology Centers, or ASTC, an Educator Innovator partner, recently featured some outstanding citizen science projects on its blog.

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The Electric Educator

JUNE 24, 2014

'An update to ChromeOS now allows teachers and students to organize their Chrome Web Apps into folders on their Chromebook. This will make it much easier for students and teachers to keep their Chromebook content organized and easily accessible. Thanks for subscribing to my blog. I always appreciate feedback on my posts. You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash).

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 24, 2014

'This is number 19 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In my last post I featured the work of Carl Jung and his theories of synchronicity and archetypes. In this post, we will explore the work of Marie Jahoda on ideal mental health.

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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 24, 2014

'The Answer Pad is one of the best and easy to use free Student Response/Dialogue Systems for mobile devices. It is fantastic learning tool that is being used by classrooms all around the world that allows educators to assess their students in real-time on their mobile devices. The way this works is the educator creates from scratch or uses Common Core Aligned templates to create assignments, tests, quizzes, etc and then pushes them out to their student''s mobile devices.

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Mistakengoal.com

JUNE 25, 2014

'It’s been about a year-and-a-half since my last post about my dissertation. Two weeks ago, I defended my dissertation NON-RESPONSE BIAS ON WEB-BASED SURVEYS AS INFLUENCED BY THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND PARTICIPATION GAP. I’ve included the abstract below if you’re interested in its content but I’ll focus here on some of the process.

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Philly Teacher

JUNE 25, 2014

It was 3:00pm on June 20th, the last day of school. The inaugural staff of SLA@Beeber sat around the huge conference table in the main office going over highlights and areas for growth for next year. We picked apart processes, events, successes, failures and made suggestions for next year. We discussed our capacity as a staff, the way our kids had grown so much since September, the way we stuck together as a staff and made some really hard decisions together.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 23, 2014

'This is number 18 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In my last post I featured Bärbel Inhelder''s work on deductive reasoning and her work with Jean Piaget on the formal operations stage of cognitive development.

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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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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 23, 2014

'Superhero Comic Book Maker is a fun iOS app for creating a digital comic. This is a great app that can be used for digital storytelling that has tons of different stickers, animations, backgrounds, and sound effects. A user can even draw/color in their comic and make the stickers move by tapping on it or dragging around the screen. Best of all, a student can record their own narration to take their storytelling to the next level.

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Education with Technology

JUNE 25, 2014

'In my ISTE Sunday 8-10 am poster session, I demonstrate many diverse mobile activities to help students achieve the English Language Arts Common Core Anchor Statements through mobile devices. The mobile activities focus on free common tool apps that are available on both the Android and the iPad. The students use the apps as a seamless tools with which to show their demonstration of the Anchor Statements.

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The PL2C Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

By: Alex Kaulfuss. When I introduce myself to colleagues as an educator who is certified in both English / Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics, I am often met with looks that betray their shared, hidden question: What lusûs naturæ have they placed before us at which to marvel? I understand their response, for, in the minds of many, lit is lit, and math is math, and never the twain shall meet.

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Cycles of Learning

JUNE 22, 2014

'I was honored to be the guest moderator for tonight''s #caedchat on curiosity. Click here to see the archive and access all links and resources. As a reminder, please share sample student work that is grounded in curiosity here , and access the work of your #caedchat colleagues here. Thank you!

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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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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 23, 2014

'Been for Education is one of my favorite new Web 2.0 sites for Social Learning & Bookmarking. This is a innovative site that combines the the bookmarking abilities of Diigo w/ a visual interface similar to MentorMob to create a innovative experience to browse the web. Best of all, this is all done in a protective "bubble" w/ Been''s educational portal that allows educators to create/manage student accounts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 24, 2014

'The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 24th, 2014 The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney J. Harris The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning

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Hansen's Link to Tech

JUNE 22, 2014

'Whether it''s motivation, enlightenment, research, or plain interesting, educators that are implementing an audio class environment have an engaging or productive edge with their students. Cloud Caster - free easily accessible podcast website where you can search, listen, and download any podcasts on your Computer/Chromebook/Android Device. Go to the website or download the app Chrome Web Store or Google Play iTunes Podcasts - discover hundreds of thousands of free podcasts accessible from your

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

We know. You want to relax this summer. But we also know that for many educators summer is a time to collaborate, try new tools, and come up with ideas. And, if you teach in a community of less-privileged students, you may be concerned that your students will fall further behind during the long summer vacation. The race to get into the best schools and build the best college application resumes is only getting hotter.

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