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07 Jul 09

Education Innovation: New Classroom Rules

Great read - good for back to school

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01 Jul 09

Education Week's Digital Directions: Transforming Classrooms Into 21st-Century Work Spaces

classrooms with banks of wired and wireless computers, ceiling-mounted projectors, interactive whiteboards, and mobile tech-enabled work carts for teachers, all linked to allow for dynamic, multimedia presentations that inspire learning

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classrooms with banks of wired and wireless computers, ceiling-mounted projectors, interactive whiteboards, and mobile tech-enabled work carts for teachers, all linked to allow for dynamic, multimedia presentations that inspire learning
The modern “learning environments” would be expandable spaces that could accommodate everything from lectures to projects, one-on-one instruction to large-group interactive presentations.
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- “For the kind of learning they’re going to engage in, boxes aren’t going to do it,” Larick says of the traditional 30-by-30-foot classroom. “The spaces are going to have to facilitate students’ sharing information, working together in teams, small- and large-group instruction, and having access to multimedia tools.”
- A Web portal allows students at the school to forgo traditional textbooks and log in for lessons and instructional materials.
- They carry their work on USB flash drives, pocket-size data devices that plug into any computer.
- Classes meet for assemblies and presentations in a double-wide portable classroom designed for multiage groupings and team teaching.
- Teachers at Tracy stay connected with students, parents, and colleagues through the Web, and use laptops for meetings in shared work areas or to interact with colleagues through collaborative Web sites.
- Unused classrooms have been equipped as demonstration areas, where students can present the projects in the required multimedia format.
- So often, renovation and modernization of a school are looked at as finishes and lighting, leaving out the importance of the configuration of the learning environment

18 Jun 09

Rebooting Literacy in the 21st Century

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27 May 09

ZaidLearn: Your Top 10 Videos (That Inspire Us To Rethink The Way We Learn)?

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Top Ten Top Ten - The Top Ten Videos Inspiring Us To Rethink The Way we Learn

My current top 10 list of videos that inspire us to rethink the way we learn and educate. Also, this initiative encourages others to list and share their top 10 favorite videos that inspire us to rethink the way we learn and educate in the 21st century.

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21cschoollibrary - home

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27 Feb 09

Digital Tools

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08 Feb 09

21ideas / FrontPage

Great list of ideas and tools behind them

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20 Dec 08

School of the 21st Century: Responsive Schools Initiative

Welcome to the School of the 21st Century (21C) website. Based at Yale University, the 21C program develops, researches, networks, and supervises a revolutionary educational model that links communities, families, and schools. There are currently over 1300 21C schools across the United States.

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18 Dec 08

Top 10 Things Technology Leaders Do | 21st Century Connections

Teachers, as well as administrators, must accept their roles as leaders to properly integrate technology. Then and only then can long-term success be realized. In times of education bashing and dwindling resources, we must acknowledge that our most valuable assets are our human resources and allow our students to build our future in a positive direction in a technological, global society.
1. Raise the Bar
2. Set Goals
3. Never Ask Anyone to do Something You Wouldn't Do
4. Lead by Example
5. Create a Team
6. Think Outside the Box
7. Empower (those around you)
8. Have integrity (especially when it's hard)
9. Treat people BETTER than you want to be treated
10. Have fun

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Aim for excellence, and you will be surprised what you can accomplish through proper planning, experience, and your own professional development.
An important component of technology professional development and a technology plan is to develop a vision, mission, and goals.
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- Great leaders share the power through empowerment (that's a later point). Negative leaders always have to be the center of attention or designation.
- always demonstrate the behavior you want the people around you to emulate. Whether it's your colleagues, students, relatives, or children, be the person you want to see around you.

17 Dec 08

The Engaged Classroom » home

The challenge facing America's schools is to empower children to function effectively in the future, a future increasingly marked with change, information growth, and evolving technologies.

Technology is a powerful tool that has enormous potential for paving high-speed highways from outdated educational systems to systems capable of providing learning opportunities for all. Every teacher should identify skills and knowledge to address 21st Century skills in their curriculum in order for students to succeed in school, work, and in life.

The Engaged Classroom program addresses these requisite 21st Century skills. The program provides the necessary technology tools and training for teachers to use these tools effectively in their classroom.

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21 Nov 08

eSchoolNews-Seven skills students desperately need

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08 Aug 08

American Association of School Administrators - Publications - The School Administrator - 10 Attitudes for Effective 21st Century Leaders

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07 Aug 08

The Millennial Classroom

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12 May 08

YouTube - Learning to change

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28 Mar 08

21st Century Learning: 9 Principles for Implementation: The Big Shift

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Rather in an era that is not about precision or predetermined ways of doing things- we need to adopt a anticipative approach, not a prescriptive approach.The great thing about this shift is that even if we get some of it wrong-- (and we surely will) that those wrong approximations in and of themselves will help to create climate to support the needed shifts.
I am going to attempt to give you principles (not how to prescriptive steps) by which to guide your why approach to managing the needed changes in your schools and school systems.
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- Long-term transformational change has four primary aspects: scale (the change affects all or most of the school), magnitude (the degree to which it challenges the
  status quo), duration (the change is incremental at first and then moves to exponential), and
  strategic importance (how ready the culture is for adapting to change). Yet schools will only see significant change when the
  change occurs first at the level of the individual educational leader- be that principal, superintendent, or teacher. Real change, transformational change happens when there is personal ownership of the new technologies and concepts. Today's new economy is all about human capital, which starts with the educators in a school and then extends outward to all members of the school community.
- 1. People before Things (or test scores)
- Trust will be developed overtime within the local community under an effective community leader. Once that happens, the community will become self-directed in how they help others through the change, and the leadership in the learning community will become shared.
- 2. Start at the Top
- Which means- the
  leaders must do more than talk a good game. They themselves must embrace the new approaches first, both to
  challenge and to motivate the rest of the faculty. They develop their own online voice and model the desired behaviors.
- 3. Everyone is a Player in the Change Game
- At each layer of your school, create professional learning teams with leaders who have a shared vision and are motivated to make
  change happen and understand how the change relates to their area of influence and control.
- 4. Garner Buy-in
- Teachers and leaders who champion the change need to be able to articulate why and what they believe, as well as why it is in the best interest of children.
- 5. Can't Give Away What You Do Not Own
- Ownership is often best created by involving people in identifying potential problems and crafting solutions- which happens naturally in a community of practice.
- 6. Communicate and Often
- The best change programs reinforce
  core messages through regular, timely advice that is both inspirational
  and practical. Often this will
  require overcommunication through multiple, redundant channels.
- 7. Know Your Culture and Predict Possible Impact
- making it critically important that leaders understand and
  account for culture and behaviors at each level.
- 8. Expect the Unexpected
- Data driven decision-making will help inform your strategies somewhat, but realize along the way that much of this is so new- that we do not know what we do not know.
- 9. As the Individual Grows so Will the Collective Wisdom of the Community
- But the truth is- so much of this change is emergent that we simply do not know how to answer these important questions. To quote Peter Vaill,"... it as if we are all in constant whitewater."
  - Reminds me of my former principal - Tom LeCloux - on 2008-03-28
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- But in the 21st Century, bottom line is that relationships are all that matter.

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