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14 Dec 09

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

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04 Nov 09

Educational Leadership:Multiple Measures:Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards

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The study results indicated that, in general, using interactive whiteboards was associated with a 16 percentile point gain in student achievement. This means that we can expect a student at the 50th percentile in a classroom without the technology to increase to the 66th percentile in a classroom using whiteboards.
In addition, three features inherent in interactive whiteboards have a statistically significant relationship with student achievement.
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- learner-response device
- use of graphics and other visuals to represent information
- the interactive whiteboard
  reinforcer
- —applications that teachers can use to signal that an answer is correct or to present information in an unusual context.
- in 23 percent of the cases, teachers had better results without the interactive whiteboards
- some potential pitfalls
- Using the voting devices but doing little with the findings.
- Not organizing or pacing the content well.
- Using too many visuals.
- Paying too much attention to reinforcing features.
- Teachers should think through how they intend to organize information.
- They should group information into small, meaningful segments before they start developing the digital flipcharts.
- Digital flipcharts should contain visuals, but those visuals should clearly focus on the important information. Also, no single flipchart should contain too many visuals or too much written information.
- After asking a question and getting student responses using voting devices, the teacher should typically discuss the correct answer along with the incorrect answers, making sure to elicit opinions from as many students as possible.
- When using reinforcing features like virtual applause, teachers should make sure that students focus on why an answer is correct or incorrect. Although these features can produce high engagement and certainly enliven the atmosphere in a classroom, they can also be distracting if used without a clear focus on essential content.

02 Jul 09

Changing minds and persuasion -- How we change what others think, believe, feel and do

Welcome to ChangingMinds.org, the largest site in the world on all aspects of how we change what others think, believe, feel and do. There are already over 3500 pages here, with much more to come!

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01 Jul 09

Change techniques

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Boiling the frog: Incremental changes may
well not be noticed.
- Make the changes very quietly and slowly without telling anyone, so each small change is hardly noticeable. For example:
  
  * Make temporary changes that become long-term.
  * Slip things in whilst people are distracted elsewhere.
  * Bury changes in larger items.
  * Gradually isolate unwanted people and organizations. - on 2009-07-01
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Evidence for change: Cold, hard data to show
need for change.
- Find evidence that supports the need for change.
  Use surveys and similar data to show need for change. - on 2009-07-02
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- Evidence stream: Show them time and
  again that the change is happening.
  - This can be done on a small-scale for many users - show them how far they've come to encourage them to continue evolution. - on 2009-07-02
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- Education: Learn them to change.
  - Provide training to support the change. - on 2009-07-02
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- First steps: Make it easy to get going.
  - Step-sheets, cheat-sheets, easy instructions, hand-holding... - on 2009-07-02
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- Institutionalization: Building
  change into the formal systems and structures.
  - Make it part of how we do business. - on 2009-07-02
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- Involvement: Give them an important role.
  - Especially important with potential nay-sayers and those with more valued opinions. - on 2009-07-02
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08 Jun 09

12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives | bridges.org

12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives

The 12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives are a set of best practice guidelines for project management, which aim to ensure the internal health of initiatives harnessing ICT for development. Like the Real Access criteria, the 12 Habits can be used proscriptively for planning, or retrospectively for evaluation.

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02 Jan 09

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PLN Yourself

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29 Dec 08

Microsoft Education Competencies Home

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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.

08 Aug 08

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

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31 Jul 08

Welcome to the District Leader's Podcast site

The District Leader's Podcast provides a forum where district leaders can share their experiences and expertise in a flexible format that works with busy schedules. The podcast episodes showcase interviews with district leaders from around the country

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07 Apr 08

ASCD

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I'm happy to realize much of this is already in place in my school! - brasst on 2008-04-07

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In fact, one of the key purposes of school was to lead as many kids as possible out of the intellectual darkness into the intellectual light. That is what made being an educator a truly noble calling: We were the people who showed the kids the light.
There's one big problem with this noble thought today: Today's kids grow up in the light. They're deeply immersed in it long before educators ever see them.
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- Thanks to technology, kids in developed countries grow up knowing about, or being able to find out about, pretty much anything from the past or present that interests them.
- Long before they ever get to school, kids have seen a tremendous amount of the world.
- The world is no longer a dark, unknown place for today's school kids. Kids are not intellectually empty. Even though some of what they know may be incomplete, biased, or wrong, they arrive at school full of knowledge, thoughts, ideas, and opinions about their world and their universe.
- Whenever I go to school," says one student I know, "I have to power down." He's not just talking about his devices—he's talking about his brain. Schools, despite our best intentions, are leading kids away from the light.
- School instruction is still mostly cookie cutter and one size fits all, despite the fact that we live in an era of customization—students continually customize their buddy lists, photos, ring tones, cell phone skins, Web sites, blogs, and MySpace and Facebook accounts. Moreover, with large class sizes and hundreds of kids to a counselor, schools are unlikely to be able to discover kids' passions and address their education from that base.
- But many students find that schooling is almost entirely irrelevant to their present and future lives. For one thing, school is usually about the past—what we've learned up until this point (or some point a while ago) about math, science, language, and social studies—with, occasionally, a bit of current events thrown in.
- It's their after-school education, not their school education, that's preparing our kids for their 21st-century lives—and they know it. This after-school education doesn't bore them because, among other things, they help design it. It's different for every one of them. And there are no exams, only clear levels of competence that everyone knows and respects.
- How to Turn On the Lights
- Give students the opportunity to use technology in school.
- being willing to allow students to use these tools to find information and create products.
- Once we let students (particularly in groups) take the lead on technology projects, teachers tend to see more engagement and better results. As students share works in progress with the class for critical evaluation from both teacher and students, the teacher takes on the valuable roles of explainer, context provider, meaning maker, and evaluator/coach.
- Find out how students want to be taught.
- Connect students to the world.
- Understand where kids are going—that is, into the future—and help them get there.
- Annouce that henceforth students will have a meaningful voice in setting all school policy regarding technology use.
- Make it your business to eliminate boredom from your school—make 100 percent engagement the goal.
- Talk with 2–4 students each day for at least one-half hour about their learning.
- Work with both students and teachers to implement the new "kids teaching themselves with guidance" model.
- Promote technology use and move toward one-to-one computing.
- Orient your school toward the future.
- computerized exercise games
- Have students share your school's most effective practices and results with the world via YouTube.

03 Apr 08

TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership

TICAL's Resource Database contains over 500 carefully selected and annotated resources to help you find quality educational technology resources in a hurry. Enter keywords below to create your own search.

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15 Mar 08

5 Traits You Will Need on Your Way to Becoming a Leader

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07 Feb 08

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Wiki - CoSNWiki

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edtech leadership wiki 1:1

20 Apr 07

Guiding Questions for Technology Planning

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leadership tech_planning

23 Mar 07

School Data Tutorials - A Project of UCEA CASTLE - Home

he tutorials on this site highlight many of the Excel skills that are helpful when working with building- and district-level data. These tutorials are targeted at data managers, principals, guidance counselors, teachers, and other school personnel who hav

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13 Mar 07

Education Leadership Toolkit

A project of the National School Boards Foundation implemented by NSBA's Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education with a grant from the National Science Foundation.*

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25 Jun 06

School Technology Leadership Blog

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12 Jun 06

Digital Workshops

The U.S. Department of Education has brought together some of the nation's most effective teachers and practitioners to share the research-based practices and ways of using data they have used in their own schools to make a difference in student achieveme

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