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5 K-12 Technology Trends for 2010 -- THE Journal
"With technology evolving at the speed of light, and everyone looking to benefit from the latest, greatest hardware and software, keeping up can be challenging for educators, administrators, and school districts themselves. To help, THE Journal spoke with a handful of technology experts and came up with a short list of top tech trends you'll want to watch in the new year. Here they are: "
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"The buzzword for the 21st century is 'engaged learning,' and the whiteboards will serve as a catalyst for getting students out of their seats and up to the board to learn."
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Level 1 seems to be “getting” that there are all these new tools and technologies out there and that we can now publish all sorts of content really easily.
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Level 2 takes it a step further and implies that “getting it” means that there is some real change involved in what’s happening right now, that it’s not just about tools, but about connections and building learning networks for ourselves and for our students
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Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the Digital Age
In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks.
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what might "Your search did not match any documents" imply?
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Add Sticky NoteThis shift requires us to create engaged learners, not simply knowers, and to reconsider the roles of schools and educators.
- Engaged Learners means that students are willing and able to learn and unlearn things as necessary. Too often our students simply learn. - on 2009-07-20
The Associated Press: AP Interview: Ed chief says grants are for reforms
With states jockeying for extra school dollars from the economic stimulus, Education Secretary Arne Duncan reminded them Tuesday the point is to help kids do better.
Cash-strapped states are competing for $5 billion in grants from the economic stimulus for changes the Obama administration wants, such as charter schools and teacher pay based on student performance.
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Add Sticky Note. The latest is California, where a bill was signed Sunday allowing student test scores to be used to evaluate teachers.
- This is reform? - on 2009-10-14
Virtual kids: Actually they’re real, but they go to school online - Kansas City Star
"Eleventh-grader Philip Marten’s second-hour class is orchestra. But first hour, third hour, fourth hour and the rest of his school day are spent not at school but at home in Shawnee.
Philip may look like any other high school kid, but in fact he’s a “virtual” student. For him and others enrolled in virtual schools online, getting an education involves no bells, no lockers, no school plays, no marching band, no snow days and no cafeteria food."
Chasing Data « TransLeadership
http://transleadership.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/chasing-data/
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I have spent the good part of the past 6 years of my professional life analyzing assessment data. NWEAs, NECAPs (NH’s state assessment), school-based assessments, surveys, etc. I have studied proficiencies, RIT scores, grade reports and AYP calculations. I have taught professional development courses on how to use assessment databases and I have met with administrators from other districts to compare our data sets and strategies for improvement.
An online university - with no fees | Education | The Guardian
It has no campus, no lecture theatres and hardly any paid staff, but the International University of the People, which opened last month, does have one big plus point – no tuition fees.
Education Week: Management Guru Says 'Student Load' Key to Achievement
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Published Online: September 28, 2009
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Management Guru Says 'Student Load' Key to Achievement
William G. Ouchi, a management expert, argues that decentralization, in which principals are given management control of their school, can lead to improvements in student achievement, largely because such schools tend to reduce the number of students that teachers face each day.
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Management expert William G. Ouchi wants to let educators in on a secret:
The key to improving student achievement is lightening teaching loads.
Mr. Ouchi lays out that message in a new book, The Secret of TSL, published this month by Simon & Schuster of New York City. The letters stand for “tota
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The key to improving student achievement is lightening teaching loads.
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“When you reduce TSL, you increase by far the likelihood that a student will encounter a teacher in a hallway or an office and have a one-on-one conversation that will motivate the student to keep going,”
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“Data-Driven” Versus “Data-Informed” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
Two very talented educators — Ted Appel, the extraordinary principal we have at our school, and Kelly Young, creator of much of the engaging curriculum we use at our school through his Pebble Creek Labs — brought-up the same point in separate meetings with teachers at my school this week: The importance of not being “data-driven” and, instead, to be “data-informed.”
The Window: Thinking in the Seams: Engaging Interdisciplinary Thinking
Creativity, innovation, and deepened understanding can result from interdisciplinary thinking. Despite these potential benefits, schools rarely cultivate the “mental dexterity” required for thinking in the seams
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“thinking in the
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“points of departure for discovering or confirming similar structures and relations in other disciplines.”
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NetGen Teachers? | Not So Distant Future
I’ve been thinking a lot about Tapscott’s comments about this particular expectation of Net Gen workers, because I believe that not only are we seeing Net Gen students in our classrooms and libraries, we are seeing Net Gen employees in our new(and sometimes in our experienced) staff as well.
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they expect to choose where and when they work; they use technology to escape traditional office space and hours; and they integrate their home and social lives with work life.
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want to be able to work in places other than an office
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Welcome to Welker's Wikinomics Page - Welker's Wikinomics Page
Exceptional Class Wiki site
Using Google Docs in the classroom: Simple as ABC (via activehistory.co.uk / classtools.net)
Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processing, presentations and spreadsheets program.
Unlike desktop software, Google Docs lets people create web-based documents, presentations and spreadsheets that anyone in the group can update from his/her own computer, even at the same time.
Instead of emailing around files and having to deal with the confusion and extra work involved in managing different file versions and manually aggregating input from others, anyone in the group can edit the document online from anywhere -- all you need is a Web browser.
And, since your docs are all stored safely in Google's servers, you don't have to worry about losing data from a hard drive crash or nasty virus.
Effective Internet-Using Educators
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Internet-Using Educators
A book written by Stephen R. Covey titled, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and a 1998 FETC conference presentation based on the book by Dr. Donna Baumbaugh (University of Central Florida), "The ABCs from the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Educators", inspired me to consider taking the basic ideas put forth and applying them to some strategies which educators might use as they are trying to incorporate the use of the internet into their curriculum. I will try to briefly outline the essence of the 7 habits and include some strategies for achieving effective internet use in your classroom.
Colby College | Colby Magazine | Summer 2009
Professor Cal MacKenzie writes about the potential power of computer-based learning at Colby College.
Classrooms Go High-Tech to Engage Students - US News and World Report
Article about using technology in higher education to keep students engaged in learning.
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destroyed the boundaries of classrooms
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Add Sticky NoteSome may see this as a distraction, but students are used to multitasking
- I think the concept of multitasking as a strategy for learning is far removed from our teacher's pedagogy because it is completely contrary to what we have come to believe is teaching and learning. - on 2009-07-23
Seth's Blog: How to make graphs that work
How to make powerful, meaningful graphs. How to allow them to tell a story
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92% of all the business presentations made in the United States are done with templates created by big companies in Excel or Powerpoint
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Which means you're trying to light a fire, make a point, highlight a trend, cause action to be taken. Your graph should reflect that, or you're wasting my time.
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The Committed Sardine - blog
We hear a lot about the 21st Century learner - But what about the 21st Century Teacher?
What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a 21st Century Educator? Well, we know they are student centric, holistic, they are teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know too, that they must be 21st Century learners as well. But highly effective teachers in today's classrooms are more than this – much more.
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1. Adapting
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They must be able to adapt their teaching style to be inclusive of different modes of learning.
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Seth's Blog: Malcolm is wrong
I've never written those three words before, but he's never disagreed with Chris Anderson before, so there you go.
Free is the name of Chris's new book, and it's going to be wildly misunderstood and widely argued about.
The Future of Education is Here » Blog Archive » Game Time
Today, in a school I was working in, it happened again. A teacher hit the school’s filter by attempting to go to a site that was blocked in the “game” category. Games? Bad. Bad site. Game. Bad. Time waster…
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