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Teachers as Both Problem and Solution: The Conundrum That Won’t Go Away « Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Great blog post about teacher bashing.
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School 2.0 eToolkit
The School 2.0 eTookit is designed to help schools, districts, and communities develop a common education vision and explore how that vision can be supported by technology.
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Scott McLeod discusses leadership with Technology Coordinators
Video here from Scott McLeod's breakfast presentation at NECC 2009.
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Dangerously Irrelevant: Top 10 K12 Online 2008 podcasts for busy school administrators
Top 10 2008 K12 Online Conference podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the K12 Online presentations that Scott Mcleod thinks are most likely to interest, educate, and entertain administrators as well as make them think!
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Interesting Ways to Use...
Tom Barrett's Interesting Ways series reflects, on a global stage, the idea of collaborating with other teachers to create good lessons. If you're looking for ideas about infusing technology into your lessons, check out the Interesting Ways series started by Tom Barrett.
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7 Things You Should Know About...
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:
* What it is
* How it works
* Where it is going
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School Administrator Questions about 21st Century Learning
Wes Fryer's questions on Google moderator.
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Discouraging lecture hall technology abuse – Encouraging interactive discussions
Two videos here about flip-flopping what we do in class. Assign lectures as homework and do the homework in class.
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Dangerously Irrelevant: Bolman & Deal frameworks
Frameworks for change in an organization.
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Bolman & Deal’s frames can be used at the planning stage of a change
initiative to help diagnose organizational needs, to identify institutional
challenges and contexts, and to devise appopriate actions -
A combination of the four perspectives is nearly always warranted when
implementing a change initiative.
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Social Networks in Education - home
A listing of social networks used in educational environments or for educational purposes.
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For Teachers (Library of Congress)
This is the new teachers' page on the Library of Congress website. Lots of lessons and links here for teachers to use in addition to professional development info.
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Technology and Education - Box of Tricks
Links here to many technology tools for education. Alphabetical list.
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Teaching Copyright
Great resources here for teaching and learning about copyright in the 21st century.
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Teaching with Twitter
Blog post by Steve Wheeler, faculty member in Ed dept. at University of Pymouth about how to use Twitter in education. Links here to other sources also.
