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Education Standards, Test Scores Linked
Five states that made bigger strides than Iowa on national test scores had much tougher standards for what children should learn in school, according to a new study.
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The 5 Stages of iPhone Acceptance
The Five Stages of the Kübler-Ross model The iPhone has become such a part of our collective consciousness that soon entire books are going to be written about the sociological impact of such a groundbreaking, Insanely Great device. Why, it’s so dammed important, that it’s probably pointless to write about any other pressing computing or technology issue.
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Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice
One man's opinion: The more I use these, the more I really don’t care for iWork. Sure, Keynote makes some darned pretty presentations, but NeoOffice (and OpenOffice for the matter) cuts the mustard quite handily. For real polish, you still can’t beat Office 2007/2008, as much as I hate to admit it. What do you think? Oo.org 3.0 looks to rock out loud too. Is iWork irrelevant, or is it just me? Reread the repost below and I’ll give this some more thought next week when I’m back from vacation.
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Podcasting in Plain English
http://commoncraft.com/showA 3 minute explanation of podcasting.
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Wikis in Plain English
We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe. We hope to turn you on to a better way to plan a camping trip, or...
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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Social Studies Map
The 21st Century Skills and Social Studies Map, the first of its kind to be released, demonstrates how the integration of 21st century skills into the social studies supports teaching and prepares students to become effective and productive citizens in the 21st century.
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Building Better Instruction: How Technology Supports Nine Research-Proven Instructional Strategies - McREL
Technology alone has little effect on improving student achievement. However, it can be a powerful tool to support the nine instructional strategies identified in Classroom Instruction that Works. This article from Learning & Leading with Technology (February, 2004 31(5)) briefly explains how the following technology tools can be used to support the nine instructional strategies.
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Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works - McREL
This book suggests ways in which the research-based strategies in Classroom Instruction That Works can be used with educational technologies, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications, multimedia, data collection tools, communication software, and the Internet.
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Shared Leadership for Effective Instruction - Edvantia Professional Development & Technical Assistance
Make an impact on student achievement by becoming intensively involved in curricular and instructional issues. To be effective, share leadership with assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and leadership teams. While other areas are important and equally urgent, teaching and learning must be high priorities if student achievement is to be improved.
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Introduction to Shared Leadership—An Online Course from ePD at Edvantia - Edvantia Professional Development & Technical Assistance
Develop a basic knowledge of shared leadership and gain insight into how it can help your school become a learning community. This four-week course introduces - definitions of shared leadership, school culture, and professional learning community and describes what these look like when they're present in a school - tools participants use to measure individual and school characteristics related to shared leadership - research on shared leadership and leadership practices identified as having a statistically significant relationship to student achievement - six functions of a school leader who effectively shares leadership: inspire, model, organize, monitor, support, reflect
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Principal Connections Online: Enhancing Student Achievement Through 21st Century Skills and Tools - Edvantia Professional Development & Technical Assistance
Learn through stories from real schools, videos from exemplary classrooms, and a variety of research-based tools, all with a special emphasis on the role of 21st century teaching and learning skills. Developed and made popular by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, these skills represent how and what students should learn within the context of a curriculum and how teachers should model them in their teaching. As you learn, you will develop relationships with other principals and administrators taking the course. An integral part of this experience will be reflecting, sharing, and communicating with this online learning community.
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Principal Connections Online: Focus on Technology Integration - Edvantia Professional Development & Technical Assistance
Delve into the best available information from research on technology integration and new compelling video clips of real classrooms where students are engaged in content areas using technology. Gain a better understanding of the stages of technology integration and how to support teacher growth. The course addresses recent policy as well as portions of the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A).
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Simplifying Webcast Presentations - July 2008
Mediasite is a great way to record presentations and make them available to everyone in your district, solving universal challenges like new technology training: how do IT staff members give a presentation to every teacher about new equipment, procedures, programs, etc.?
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Using Time Effectively (Carla Thomas McClure) - July 2008
Educators may sometimes feel they are in a race against several clocks-the class period, the school day, the semester, the academic year, high school exit exams and so forth-as they prepare students for academic success. What can district leaders do to appropriately address issues of time and time management? How can they ensure that what is most important-student learning-is not at the mercy of things that are less urgent? As leaders weigh their options, research offers some important reminders.
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The School Administrator - Organizing and Staffing Technology Leadership (AASA)
Technology plays a vital role in our schools’ ability to serve instructional, operational and administrative needs. Every day we hear about another way in which technology and its applications are changing our field.
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The School Administrator - The Next Wave Now: Web 2.0 (AASA)
While many of us are just getting comfortable with the Internet and e-mail, Web 2.0 technologies are already changing the playing field for education. Though definitions of Web 2.0 vary, the one constant is that Internet users are now content providers rather than content receivers. The top-down approach of the Web we grew up with now has been replaced with users who build information from the bottom up. With Web 2.0, the focus is not on software or hardware, but on practices such as sharing thoughts and information through self-publishing and harnessing the collective intelligence of all users to generate information and solve problems. These technologies are creating huge changes in how educators and students receive and respond to information.
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Best Web 2.0 Applications for Elementary (Langwitches)
Thanks to an amazing list of “The Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education-2007” from Larry Ferlazzo’s Website, I decided to create my own list of the applications that have been the most useful or promising in the Elementary School scene. Maybe I even make a meme out of it to encourage other elementary school techies to create their own lists and publish them on their blog. The list does not have to be in any particular order. Great if you write a short sentence about what the tool does.
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Teaching Tools
Following is a list of sites that are available for teachers to evaluate and/or purchase. I am not personally recommending any of these titles, but have just collected them so you can try them out! Be sure to check out my Icing on the Cake page listed below with links to over 50 tools for teachers and learners.
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Brain Boosters offers kids' educational activities online
Browse through our categorized archive of challenging Brain Boosters.
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Top 50 Web 2.0 Tools for Info Junkies, Researchers & Students
There's a reason why the Web is called the information superhighway - it's full of seemingly limitless resources for learning and research. And with the advent of Web 2.0, harnessing this information has never been easier. These are some of the best tools for organizing, citing, searching, and more online.
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