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Lorri Carroll

CAIS Commission on Professional Development | CPD Blog for CAIS Colleagues to Share Pro... - 2 views

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shared by Lorri Carroll on 07 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • This post, written by Justine Fellows, is the first of a series of posts written by members of the CAIS Commission on Technology. 
  • Lorri Carroll on 07 Dec 11
     
    You are invited to join our new professional development blog; enter the conversation and write posts about important issues that focus your learning and help other CAIS colleagues. Think of our blog as a faculty lounge for all CAIS educators. It's our venue to share professional learning, ask questions, and give advice:  [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/ Just as an "unconference" moves forward with a participant driven spirit, the Commission of Professional Development created this blog to be a forum for CAIS educators to exchange thoughts, questions and insights about important issues in our learning communities. Email [ mailto:bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org ]bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org for a simple step to becoming a member of this blog. What do we hope this blog will become? An opportunity for CAIS educators to jettison inhibitions that they may have about "writing in the social media" world and break into the digital forum by sharing the wisdom we know exists among CAIS minds. Click on this Edutopia link for an example of a dynamic blog for educators:  [ http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar ]http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar Imagine that the above content of that post and comments were specific to CAIS educators-perhaps from a colleague! The content would be so useful. Moving forward, the CAIS blog will host interesting topics with comment threads that relate to the contexts of CAIS learning communities because CAIS educators know a great deal about teaching and learning. The blog will also be another lens to design professional development programs. The CPD wants to read your posts. Also sign up for updates by clicking on the "Follow Blog via Email" hyperlink so that you can follow your colleagues: [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/
Jim Tiffin Jr

K12 Online Conference - 1 views

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shared by Jim Tiffin Jr on 28 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 28 Nov 11
     
    This is a FREE, online conference open to ANYONE organized by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.
susan carter morgan

open thinking » Five Recommended Readings? - 0 views

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reading shirky institutions

shared by susan carter morgan on 07 Jun 09 - Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 07 Jun 09
     
    he Associate Dean of Faculty Development & Human Resources at my workplace has asked me to recommend five readings (e.g., books, articles, blogpost, etc.) that would help inform his understanding of current changes regarding social networks, knowledge, and technology in education. Rather than develop the list alone, I thought it appropriate to (at least attempt to) crowdsource responses from individuals in my network. So, what readings would you recommend to an educational leader in charge of faculty development in a teacher education program? Any responses are greatly appreciated.
Dolores Gende

Progressive Education - 0 views

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21stcentury alfiekohn teaching learning

shared by Dolores Gende on 31 Jul 08 - Cached
  • conventional practices, including homework, grades, and tests, prove difficult to justify for anyone who is serious about promoting long-term dispositions rather than just improving short-term skills.
  • Some of the features that I’ve listed here will seem objectionable, or at least unsettling, to educators at more traditional schools
  • A truly impressive collection of research has demonstrated that when students are able to spend more time thinking about ideas than memorizing facts and practicing skills — and when they are invited to help direct their own learning — they are not only more likely to enjoy what they’re doing but to do it better. Progressive education isn’t just more appealing; it’s also more productive.
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  • Is the education that the oldest students receive just as progressive as that offered to the youngest, or would a visitor conclude that those in the upper grades seem to attend a different school altogether?
  • Demetri Orlando on 31 Jul 08
     
    Spring 08 article from Independent School magazine does a nice job of getting to the point of progressive education
susan carter morgan

21st Century Education: Thinking Creatively at Students 2.0 - 0 views

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shared by susan carter morgan on 06 May 08 - Cached
  • Twenty-first century education won’t be defined by any new technology. It won’t be defined by 1:1 laptop programs or tech-intensive projects. Twenty-first century education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching—a shift towards learner-centered education and creating creative thinkers.
  • The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned the answer. Rather, the students of tomorrow need to be able to think creatively: they will need to learn on their own, adapt to new challenges and innovate on-the-fly
Demetri Orlando

Education - Change.org: Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions - 0 views

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21stcenturyskills

shared by Demetri Orlando on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Mobile phones, computers everywhere, hypertext, social networking, collaborative cognition (from Wikipedia on up), Google, text-messaging, Twitter, audiobooks, digital texts, text-to-speech, speech recognition, flexible formatting - these are not "add ons" to the world of education, they are the world of education. This is how humans in this century talk, read, communicate, learn. And learning to use these technologies effectively, efficiently, and intelligently must be at the heart of our educational strategies.
  • Maybe worse than irrelevant. Maybe dangerous. The belief that "your" experience is relevant leads to a nightmare loop. Students who behave, and learn, most like their teachers do the best in classrooms. Teachers see this reflection as proof of their own competence - "The best students are just like me." And thus all who are "different" in any way - race, class, ability, temperament, preferences - are left out of the success story.
Dolores Gende

What You (Really) Need to Know - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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21stcenturylearning

shared by Dolores Gende on 21 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Dolores Gende on 21 Jan 12
     
    Excellent article on trends for education
Lucy Gray

Yolink Education - 2 views

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  • Lucy Gray on 18 Jul 10
     
    Browser add-on for searching more efficiently. Works with Chrome, IE, Firefox. Export results to Evernote, Easybib, Google Docs, Diigo etc. 
Sarah Hanawald

Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle a... - 0 views

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education independent teaching

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.
  • In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts
  • Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.
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  • New York State, for instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European Economic Community nations combined.
  • rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children" in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as the vegetables.
  • Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the influence of mothers on their children.
  • Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce, alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of a poverty in education.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08
     
    Interesting. John Taylor Gotto on education and the value of less rather than more school. He mentions that the best programmers are self-taught.
Demetri Orlando

TEDxNYed: Jeff Jarvis: This is BS - 0 views

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tedxnyed

shared by Demetri Orlando on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Just as journalists must become more curator than creator, so must educators.
  • we need to move students up the education chain. They don’t always know what they need to know, but why don’t we start by finding out? Instead of giving tests to find out what they’ve learned, we should test to find out what they don’t know. Their wrong answers aren’t failures, they are needs and opportunities.
  • Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.
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  • “In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book,
  • We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers.
  • Why shouldn’t every university – every school – copy Google’s 20% rule, encouraging and enabling creation and experimentation, every student expected to make a book or an opera or an algorithm or a company
  • Rather than showing our diplomas, shouldn’t we show our portfolios of work as a far better expression of our thinking and capability?
  • education serves a unique role in society of preparing individuals for the “vital combat for lucidity”.
  • Demetri Orlando on 09 Mar 10
     
    Jeff Jarvis's notes for his presentation at TEDxNYed in which he critiques the TED style as perpetuating the sage on the stage.
Demetri Orlando

WikiEducator - 3 views

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elearning OER wiki

shared by Demetri Orlando on 01 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Demetri Orlando on 01 Mar 11
     
    A wiki for planning education projects with free content and open educational resources (OERs)
susan carter morgan

21st Century Education Requires Lifewide Learning - Christopher Dede - Innovations in E... - 0 views

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21stcenturylearning change

shared by susan carter morgan on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 25 Mar 11
     
    A solid argument for changing the way we "do school"
Dolores Gende

No Defending Illiterate Educators « My Island View - 5 views

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21stcenturylearning literacy PD teaching

shared by Dolores Gende on 27 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dolores Gende on 27 Sep 11
     
    On the importance of educators being media literate as role models of learning
Marti Weston

Barry Mills on Education's Technology Transformation « Bowdoin Daily Sun - 6 views

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shared by Marti Weston on 14 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Marti Weston on 14 Sep 11
     
    President of Bowdoin College on Educational technology
Dolores Gende

Hacking at Education: TED, Technology Entrepreneurship, Uncollege, and the Hole in the ... - 1 views

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  • Dolores Gende on 05 Mar 13
     
    Thought provoking post
Dolores Gende

Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education « User Generated Edu... - 2 views

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flippedclassroom

shared by Dolores Gende on 16 May 12 - No Cached
  • Dolores Gende on 16 May 12
     
    Outstanding posting
susan carter morgan

Ed Tech Co-Op - Where educators explore technology together - 2 views

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edtech podcasts

shared by susan carter morgan on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 19 Sep 12
     
    Ed Tech Co-Op Welcome to the Ed Tech Co-Op. This site is a collaborative effort between the College of William & Mary, Alexandria Country Day School, and other educators interested in exploring and developing their knowledge for effective curriculum-based technology integration in K-12 classrooms.
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