A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry, but was quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. For a paradigm shift to occur and be sustained it must be driven by change agents who are willing to disrupt the status quo embedded in the global education system.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The idea of using a learning management system (LMS) to deliver professional learning and development to K-12 educators is not new—but it’s not quite mainstream, either. Ken Dirkin: The role of the LMS in professional learning is essentially the same as it is for student learning.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2016

An environment that will help teachers and students in an iPad cart classroom create a personalized learning experience. This led to a system in which 5 to 6 students were using the same iPad throughout the day. This led to a system in which 5 to 6 students were using the same iPad throughout the day. Prior to iOS 9.3,

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Available in English and Spanish and on Android, iPad, and iPhone devices, your kid may have found their new favorite bedtime routine. The math app is self-paced and creates a personalized curriculum for each student that adapts to your child’s skill level and how the kid learns. Best Arcade-Style Math Game: Monster Math.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Khan Academy provides personalized learning for students at their pace and is an excellent flipped classroom tool for teachers to identify their students’ strengths and needs. Classroom Learning Management Systems (LMS). TalentLMS is designed for hybrid classrooms and flipped learning classrooms.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2010

I learned at TSETC that Adam runs a 100% free website called eduTecher that reviews and catalogs over 1,100 free web tools as well as offering short videos explaining how to use them in the classroom. In the near future he will have free iPhone and Droid apps.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. At the time, I had no idea this system was called “standards-based grading.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Remember that less than a decade ago, when the first iPhone was unveiled, it would have been impossible to conceive of a world ruled by tiny pocket computers that augment every part of our lives or to grasp the potential of a connected world 1.7 That is because the current design of the school system is more than 100 years old.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here is an example I use a lot where I asked people to give me their thoughts on what a PLN (Personal Learning Network) means to them. They are moving more and more into the mobile market and now you can do video calls on the iPhone. Then the other kids in the class record their thoughts around the image. Need ideas? Cool stuff.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Meanwhile, the schools that shared their ideas focused on student-centered learning and models that honor the differences in students and “think about personalized learning beyond just technology.” She cited research that every seven minutes, a black person dies prematurely due to discrimination.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

She hopes to one day own an iPhone 21, “with 21 cameras on it,” but for now she’s OK not having a phone at all. Belmont Elementary’s 500 students themselves evoke a picture of the nation’s future: The school is part of the Prince William County school system, which serves one of the state’s fastest-growing counties.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I shared the stage that day in Iceland with a person who gave their talk on how, in the future, robots will love us -- how they will take care of us in our old age; how they will teach our classes; how they will raise our children. I can't say I've ever seen other keynote speakers at ed-tech events get heckled.

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 18, 2016

Most school systems have some version of Google Apps for Education available for teachers or GAfE, I recommend uploading and converting your important documents, presentations, and spreadsheets to the cloud for easy editing, sharing, and storage. No fear of crashing. But it’s not a must.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 2, 2015

When I go to each of my devices (2 iPads, an iPhone 6plus, 2 laptops, and a desktop at school) I don''t have to transfer my documents because they are already there once I install Dropbox! So, create albums, add tags to each picture (or group), and set up an easily managed system for the photos in your life. We all have old accounts.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

One of these days, we will find an iphone 6 in the thrift store, and our kids will remember that their parents used to own one of those. Let’s help students celebrate learning with formative assessments that are fun, flexible and informative. Technology will only get better, because we are constantly working to make it better.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

2 – Commit to Personal Professional Development. Organizations following Kaizen look at a system as a whole and make slow, small steps to improve. Personally, I learn so much when I record my own teaching and watch it later. (I I use a Swivl and my iPhone. Let’s learn. Where Do We Go From Here?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

This blog post is sponsored by PowerSchool Learning. We’ll also be hosting a free webinar where I give you a behind-the-scenes look at how I set up my Learning Management System on November 30 at 4:30 EST. Register here. As an illustration, this summer at ISTE, I facilitated a panel of blended learning experts.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. By 2021, most of the student body should be in the system." When this system gets breached, your identity may be forever compromised. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!) The breach affects 1.3

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. By 2021, most of the student body should be in the system." When this system gets breached, your identity may be forever compromised. This past two weeks also saw seven (7!) The breach affects 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Vermont and Maine have passed laws requiring all school districts to phase in the system. He imagined a more holistic system that required students to demonstrate learning before moving ahead.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Children learn number sense and how the base-10 number system works by playing on the four tracks (1s, 10s, 100s, 1000s); four dinosaurs, one per track, is allocated to each child playing. The self-paced and personalized feature adapts to the child’s math skill level and how the child learns.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2018

Sometimes teachers unintentionally set kids up for failure by making assumptions about the prior knowledge and experience they bring into the classroom like presuming that all students grow up in a home with conversation about the political climate in our country, or that they’re all born digital natives with an iPhone in hand.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” The phone was not a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which have been recalled because of battery explosions, but an iPhone 6 Plus. A Wi-Fi system. It includes all the buzzwords : competency-based education, personalized learning, and even blockchain! Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 18, 2018

All of these systems and practices have a history. “Personalized learning,” for example, is arguably thousands of years old, and we can date the idea of individualizing education by using machines back to the 1920s. .” Education technology’s past shapes its present and its future. Design matters.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 27, 2022

KITABOO also supports reading on multiple operating platforms of iPad / iPhone (iOS), Android Devices, Windows, and Mac browsers with online and offline capability. Interactive Media. Google Classroom integrated with KITABOO takes online learning to the next level. Benefits of Integrating with KITABOO.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.” Subscription boxes for teachers are somehow “ personalized learning.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of North Carolina system Board of Governors voted 24 to 3, with one abstention, Friday to bar litigation by the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights. Via Phil Hill : “Some Ed Tech Perspective on UC ’s Billion-Dollar Payroll System Fiasco.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” ” Because I can’t tell you how many times I have needed to prove I have a college degree but I didn’t have a digital copy of my diploma on my iPhone. Paul School Lunch Debt.”

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