Sat.Jun 14, 2014 - Fri.Jun 20, 2014

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Twitter as a Tool For Academic Discourse

A Principal's Reflections

'New Milford High School teachers Jessica Groff and Joanna Westbrook created a Common Core aligned English Language Arts (ELA) task that incorporated Twitter into their unit on Julius Caesar and built on content authentic to the Shakespeare''s history play – i.e. social media re-purposed with and for academic discourse. To accomplish their goal, these teachers began with an informational text on the history of the Roman Forum to ground their use of social media in historical discourse and academ

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For My Prince and Princess on Father's Day

Tom Murray

'In two days, my little boy will be one. In a blink of an eye, he’s gone from a sweet newborn baby, to a crazy babbling toddler on the verge of taking steps of his own. My princess, now four, talks about her wedding day, what she wants to be when she grows up, and her favorite app of the day. I’m not quite sure where time went, but in a few blinks, life has moved on.

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3 Simple Rules For Attending Any Conference

The Web20Classroom

'As the end of June approaches that means the annual ISTE (International Society for Technology In Education) Conference is around the corner. ISTE is one of my favorite conferences because I get to catch up face-to-face with those I haven''t seen in the past year, I get to learn with some incredible educators and I get to see the latests gadgets and must haves for the classroom.

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Creating a Classic Cell Style Animation using Google Slides

My Paperless Classroom

'Links to the finished project: As Published at 1 FPS https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nVJPDYXItycWwFeFBIwMVniRE-xYfD_2wXfG19nJTkU/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=1000 On this link the delay has been modified to create a rate of 12 FPS https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nVJPDYXItycWwFeFBIwMVniRE-xYfD_2wXfG19nJTkU/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=0084 Here is the animation I mentioned.

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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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Writing 2.0: Technology-Rich Approach to Common Core Writing

wwwatanabe

'What skills are most desired by employers? On most lists , communicate effectively is the number one desired skill. How do we communicate? We communicate face-to-face, in writing, through various technologies, and multimedia. What is does it mean to be literate? Being literate is being able to effectively communicate. Therefore, every classroom must teach digital literacy as part of literacy, and not something separate.

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NC Legislators Vow to Find Voucher Money Despite Budget Woes

The 21st Century Principal

'Once again, our state legislative leaders in North Carolina demonstrate where their hearts really are: anything but public education. According to to WRAL, North Carolina State Representative “Skip” Stam from Wake County said he hopes to find “another $7 to 8 million” to pour into the state’s legally challenged voucher program that the North Carolina predominately anti-public education legislature passed last year.

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Video Creation to Empower Students

My Paperless Classroom

'Video and Google Apps for Education from Sam Patterson, MFA, Ed.D. There are times in my life where I feel like a curtain of a type has been lifted and an essential truth has been exposed. This week it happened as I was presenting about GAfE and creating video. I discovered that the reason I love teaching kids about video creating is because authorship changes lives.

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Vine Video Summer Book Trailers

The Daring Librarian

'(Warning: This blog post may load slowly because of all the embedded videos. To hear the audio, click on the tiny speaker in the top left of each video) Every year I get excited to share with my kiddos our district & local library Summer Reading List (more about that below!) and to try and generate new ways to catch their interest in reading over the break.

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BoomWriter Delivers a Free Common Core Aligned Personalized Literacy Tool

The 21st Century Principal

'BoomWriter is an award-winning educational technology resource that is free for teachers and allows their students to create, share, and even publish stories and other original content. BoomWriter’s interactive collaborative writing platform lets teachers deliver a fun and engaging personalized learning experience, while elementary, middle, and high school age students work online to develop their reading, writing, and peer assessment skills.

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10 Tips to help educators break into paid gigs

The Innovative Educator

'Cross posted at Smartblogs for Education Have you ever been inspired by a great conference keynote speech? A workshop presenter that your school or district hired? Do you want to share your ideas, be useful to others, and make some extra money? Have you ever wondered how that could be you some day? Well, it can, but it takes time to position yourself to take your show on the road.

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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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Learn One Thing -Blogger

My Paperless Classroom

'So I am presenting at several conferences and workshops that focus on Google Apps tools for use in the classroom. If you haven''t noticed there are MANY Google tools, but Forms, Sites, Docs, Drive Slides, and Sheets tend to get the first run of attention. When I am sharing Google tools, I love to share Blogger. I think it often gets passed over as "just a blogging platform.

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The shape of minds to come

Learning with 'e's

'This is number 17 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 most recent post I featured Hull''s Drive Reduction theory and its applications to education. In this post, we will explore the work of Bärbel Inhelder on deductive reasoning.

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Value-Added Measures and 'Consulting Chicken Entrails' for High-Stakes Decision-Making

The 21st Century Principal

'“Like the magician who consults a chicken''s entrails, many organizational decision makers insist that the facts and figures be examined before a policy decision is made, even though the statistics provide unreliable guides as to what is likely to happen in the future.” Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization: The Executive Edition Could it be that using Value-added data is the equivalent of consulting “chicken-entrails” before making certain high-stakes decisions?

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The hottest posts everyone's reading

The Innovative Educator

'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 techn.

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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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Sphero and STEM teaching Polygons and Angles

My Paperless Classroom

'This is a review of the the Second main lesson Sphero Education supplies to get teachers started with STEM and Sphero. The video walk through notes the support and structure Sphero has put in place. From clear standards to screen by screen programming guidance. My question to you is, seeing how this is done, what else can we teach with these robots?

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How Physical Spaces Change Learning- an Important Impact of BOLD

Saving Socrates

'I''ve thought about this for some time. When I first began teaching at the Bergen County Academies, I was assigned to teach in a room with 22 computers all placed up against 3 walls of my classroom and chairs facing the computers. I also had the two 4 by 6 tables in the center and chairs (roughly 10) around them. Rarely did I teach a class there with less than 14 and more than 26 (although I once had an elective (Wednesday project, the entire school shuts down for about 2 1/2 hours wednesday mo

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Resources from ASCD for Creating a Positive Classroom Culture

The 21st Century Principal

'Alexandria, VA (6/17/2014)— ASCD , a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading, is pleased to present a variety of professional development resources that support educators in creating a positive classroom culture. The collection of ASCD books and online resources supports all educators in improving their school culture and furthering their school’s continuous growth and achievement.

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Netflix’s founder saves the day for one education software startup

The Hechinger Report

'The Hechinger Report has been publishing excerpts from Richard Whitmire’s book On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope. In this third and final installment, Netflix founder Reed Hastings steps in to take over DreamBox. CHAPTER 25: Danner (and Reed Hastings) Discover DreamBox. March 2010: Palo Alto, Los Altos, California; Bellevue, Washington.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Learn Along with Me this Summer

My Paperless Classroom

'Since this is my first summer working on a 12 month contract, I knew I couldn''t make the commitments I had made in past summers. This wasn''t going to be a summer of running summer camps, or teaching middle school students to blog. What was this summer going to be about? I actually didn''t plan on presenting at many conferences, I sent out a few session proposals for conferences I wanted to attend, and then other opportunities came up.

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Pilot a New iPad Game from GlassLab and the National Writing Project

Educator Innovator

Have the young people you work with put their powers of persuasion to the test with Mars Generation One: Argubot Academy. GlassLab is looking for ELA and STEM educators and summer program leaders to pilot and provide feedback on a brand new iPad game to teach argumentation and reasoned thinking. Designed in collaboration with the National Writing Project and NASA, Argubot Academy transports players to Mars in the year 2054, where they will live among people in the planet’s first city, and learn

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OpenEd Launches Free Common Core Assessment Creation Tool

The 21st Century Principal

'L os Gatos, CA – June 17, 2014 — OpenEd ( www.OpenEd.io ), the largest K-12 educational resource catalog, today announced a free tool designed to enable teachers to easily create assessments with the question types required by Common Core standards. OpenEd’s assessment creation tool enables educators to create tests incorporating their own questions, or existing questions automatically suggested by OpenEd’s unique educational recommendation engine.

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Mission to Marsville

Technology Tidbits

'Mission to Marsville is a online summer program offered by the innovative Game Based Learning/LMS company, NEXED. They are the company that developed Answerables, and are combing their virtual environment into a summer learning program to help kids prevent summer learning loss. This is all done in their safe 3D virtual environment for grades 3rd-8th in the subjects of Math, Science, and Language.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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The Wiki that I Forgot

My Paperless Classroom

'It seems like I am always creating something online: a blog post, a Google+ community, a Wiki, a Livebinder, an account on any number of websites. In general I do a pretty good job of keeping track of the work I create, in general. This morning as I added a pin to the PATUE pinboard I saw this pin and realized that I have at least one orphaned Wiki out there.

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English Common Core Mobile Activities ebook

Education with Technology

'English Common Core Mobile Activities. I recently published English Common Core Mobile Activities ebook. Use these 150+ different mobile activities to guide your students in learning and demonstrating the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Anchor Statements in Language, Speaking and Listening, Reading, and Writing. The activities, organized by Anchor Statements, actively engage your students.

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Scribe: An Inexpensive Outliner Note-Taking Software Alternative for Mac Users

The 21st Century Principal

'Recently, I found myself in search of a simple program that would allow me to outline my readings for my doctoral program. Obviously, I could create those outlines within a word-processor like MS Word or Pages, but when I’m taking notes, simplicity in operation is important. I found a simple outline program in Scribe by Peppered Software. It is a simple outline program that provides minimal features for simple note-taking.

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Pixel Press Floors

Technology Tidbits

'Pixel Press Floors is one of the coolest new iOS apps (free) that I just found out about from the amazing blog, iLearn Technology. This app is perfect for educators looking to integrate Game Based Learning as it lets users create their video game simply by drawing it. The way this works is by printing out a glyph paper and then drawing on it using pre-defined (i.e. x = spike, + = coins) symbols.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

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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Drive through learning

Learning with 'e's

'This is number 16 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 most recent post I featured the theory of Heutagogy by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon and its applications to education. In this post, we will explore Clark Hull''s drive reduction theory of motivation.

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What happens next?

Kyle Pace

We are now one week out from the 2014 ISTE Conference. There’s been quite a few pre-conference posts circulating about what to do, what not to do, and other great pieces of advice that are helpful to newbie and veteran attendees alike. This will be my seventh ISTE conference and I’m always excited to learn, reconnect, and make new connections.

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Differentiate Your Discussions with G+ Hangouts

Hansen's Link to Tech

'Google+ Hangouts is an amazing method for you or your whole class to collaborate and communicate in any subject and for anything. It''s all about content, creativity, engagement, and of course, being a Google for Education school (and having G+ available). If your school is K-8, students CANNOT have G+ accounts (13 or older) but teachers have the ability to utilize their teacher Google account (instead of signing up for Skype, Apple, Ustream.) and connect your class to do amazing and differenti

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Penzu Classroom

Technology Tidbits

'Penzu Classroom is wonderful new web 2.0 site that allows educators/students to create online journals and more. This is done in a safe environment where educators create a journal/class and then students join via unique code (similar to ClassDojo). Once a student has joined a class a educator can send assignments, instructions, comment on student''s work, etc.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

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.