A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2016

There is a great deal of evidence to make educators reflect upon their use of technology. The most glaring was the OECD Report that came out last fall. Here is an excerpt: " Schools have yet to take advantage of the potential of technology in the classroom to tackle the digital divide and give every student the skills they need in today’s connected world, according to the first OECD PISA assessment of digital skills.

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Ditch That Textbook

APRIL 1, 2016

Our brains like words. But they really love images. The brain works in images. When we talk, our brains change the information we’re receiving into images to encode it and make it available for recall later. A powerful way to take advantage of that is visual notetaking — recording ideas using both images and text. [.].

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MARCH 31, 2016

The ancient Greeks thought that the end of the world was today's Morocco and the titan named Atlas bore the weight of the world on his shoulders. Kids today learn about this myth and know better than the most civilized people in the ancient world. Schools bear the same weight on their shoulders, because kids must always know more about our world. There are a lot of aspects to learning and a lot of dedicated people that work together for a better education system.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 1, 2016

April is National Poetry Month. For thirty days, we celebrate the value and joy that poetry brings to our world. According to the Academy of American Poets , the goals are: Highlight the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets. Introduce more Americans to the pleasures of reading poetry. Bring poets and poetry to the public in immediate and innovative ways.

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MARCH 28, 2016

By Jacquelyn Bengfort Grade schools pin high hopes on standing desks and mobile classroom design.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 28, 2016

I’m a huge fan of creating custom resources for student learning. We, as teachers, know exactly what our students need much better than a textbook company hundreds or thousands of miles away. For me, that often came in the form of Google Docs with information my students were responsible for and a website for pointing students [.].

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 30, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 14. There's a reason why so many schools, teachers, and students are excited about STEM or STEAM (STEM plus arts & design, as championed by the Rhode Island School of Design). They make learning more fun and engaging, not to mention provide students opportunities to use content knowledge and skills in ways that are practical and applicable to the real world, just like they would if they were working on science or engineering projects in the field.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 31, 2016

By Wendy Drexler An expert from ISTE offers her advice for moving forward with technology-infused learning.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 31, 2016

The ancient Greeks thought that the end of the world was today’s Morocco and the titan named Atlas bore the weight of the world on his shoulders. Kids today learn about this myth and know better than the most civilized people in the ancient world. Schools bear the same weight on their shoulders, because kids must always know more about our world.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2016

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Q: I can’t convince my students to give up their paper and pencil. What’s a great reason that will resonate with them?

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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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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 28, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 13. Driving Question: How do robotics reveal and inspire deeper learning? The robot's behavior was not what the third grade partners intended. They turned to each other when it stopped short of the target. "2.5 rotations is not enough," said one. "But 2.6 was too much," the other responded. There was a pause and then one spoke again more slowly, "Could there be a number in between?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2016

By Jena Passut 'All good makerspaces put kids first in all that they do.'.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 31, 2016

“Emoji and emoticons have developed to mean much more in language than the faces they represent.”- Lauren Collister (2015). For the past year, I’ve been studying how learners use emoticons, emoji, and text speak to communicate, read and write. Emojis are part of digital literacy and citizenship. When our learners use emojis in their writings, they are humanizing their digital experience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 31, 2016

Here are the most-read posts for the month of March: 20 Websites to Teach Mouse Skills. 22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom. Website Review: ProdigyGame.com. K-8 Hour of Code Suggestions by Grade Level. 3rd Grade Resources. Do You Miss Kerpoof? Try These 34 Alternatives. 20 St. Patrick’s Day Sites For Students. 52 Resources for Read Across America Day. 13 Reasons For and 3 Against Technology in the Classroom. 84 Math Websites for K-8.

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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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The Journal

MARCH 28, 2016

First the educational need, then the technology! Dialogue, not monologue, needs to be a primary learning activity. Supporting dialogue in the classroom, then, is a real educational need. The Collabrify Suite of Apps – free, device-agnostic, and designed expressly for grades 1-8 – meet that real educational need. Read this week’s blog post, increase dialogue by collabrifying your classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2016

By Ryan Petersen With vigilance and technology, such as camera systems and other emergency preparedness tools, schools in the United States will have a better chance at keeping our children safe.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2016

Do you remember the days when a police officer came to your school to discuss stranger danger? Stranger danger today can have various meanings; including, but not limited to: people we know and believe we can trust, people we don’t know in real life, and the strangers who sit behind computer screens, faceless and nameless. All of these strangers pose great concern as parents.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2016

Summer is coming, and so is Summer Tech Learning! Join me with a great group of professionals (who will quickly become your best online friends) for one or more of these four classes on tech topics you want to learn. Note: Early Bird special for those who sign up by May 15th: Use coupon code SUMMERPD to get 10% off! There are four options, detailed below: The Tech-infused Teacher.

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Battelle for Kids

MARCH 27, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 12. Driving Question: Where Does the "T" Fit in STEM? Let's compare two scenarios for learning about STEM: *In Scenario 1 , students focus on a societal or environmental problem that they think needs solving. They attempt to understand the issue in an interdisciplinary way, consulting those who are affected by the problem as well as experts working on solutions.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2016

By Calvin Hennick ‘Data Centers in a Box’ are making their way into the K–12 sector, allowing schools to power their IT systems without new construction.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 28, 2016

I facilitated three workshops at ASB Unplugged in Mumbai, India this year for international school educators. All three sessions went extremely well and the folks at the American School of Bombay were impeccable hosts, as always. In my sessions we discussed deeper learning, greater student agency, more authentic work, and rich technology infusion. We utilized the trudacot discussion protocol to redesign lessons, units, and other learning activities.

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FuelEd

MARCH 29, 2016

Contributor: Lainney Ballew Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 9:45am. Why Students Drop Out. How can we help struggling students so they don’t drop out? In order to help them, we really need to identify why they are struggling and why we are losing them.

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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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Brilliant or Insane

MARCH 29, 2016

Brilliant or Insane. Class participation is critical to successful learning. Sadly, our strategies for class participation are often imperfect. When we’re engaged in something, we do better at it. That’s as true of learning as it is anything else: an engaged student is more likely to learn and succeed than a disengaged one. Technology can play a huge part in […].

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2016

By Heather B. Hayes Investments in high-tech security tools provide eyes and ears in school hallways.

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Battelle for Kids

APRIL 1, 2016

Volume 3, Issue 3, Number 15. Driving question: What's more said about STEM and STEAM? March was a mad month in the P21Blogazine. Our March Madness wasn't so much for basketball as for a slew of outstanding STEM and STEAM posts that came to us. What you read were a basket full of classroom and school stories showing how pre K-12 teachers around the country are fulfilling the promise of deeper learning for all their STEM and STEAM students.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

Welcome to a post that I feel is a must read when it comes to instructional technology in the classroom of the 21st century! In fact, in this article I integrate curriculum, PD, and technology together in a way that makes so much sense. I bring you this as I get ready to join the ASCD Press Core at the annual ASCD Conference in Atlanta, GA. Get ready for some daily posts and tweets throughout the conference that bring you the latest in educational theory with a technology twist.

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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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The Jose Vilson

MARCH 27, 2016

The New York Times posted a puzzling op-ed from Dr. Angela Duckworth on the subject of, you guessed it, grit, and why we shouldn’t (!) be grading students on grit. You already know my objections that I laid bare in the same space. The idea that we must test for grit because it gives us more data is absurd on its face in that we already have plenty of data about the plethora of disadvantages our kids face and, when we don’t, we have any number of ways right now that more than suffice.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2016

By Melissa Delaney Continuous improvement is at the heart of personalized learning plans for Summit Schools and Facebook's partnership.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

The Wayback Machine is a reference tool for the internet Age as basic as a dictionary. When was the last time you saw a student use it? When I’m giving a talk to students about being responsible digital citizens, I’ll tell them, “You know, some day you might apply to college, or run for Congress—and you might regret something you posted online when you were young.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 30, 2016

You teach every day in an offline classroom, but the benefits of spending some class timeonline are impossible to deny. When you bring online learning into the equation, students can step outside the four walls of your classroom, while engaging with the content and building a wide variety of 21st century skills.

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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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