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Sue Morris

YouTube - Learning to Change-Changing to Learn - 0 views

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    Great view of how we 'immigrants' have to change to accommodate student learning
Rhys Daunic

The Economist: The third industrial revolution - 1 views

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    The digitisation of manufacturing will transform the way goods are made-and change the politics of jobs too
Corinne Carriero

How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smar... - 1 views

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    Teachers talk about the change in their teaching and in student learning by "flipping" instruction and becoming facilitators/coaches- spending more time working with individual students and groups as opposed to being the "sage on the stage"
anonymous

National Ed Tech Plan Puts Technology at the Heart of Education Reform -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    Important reading for all educators, especially those interested in preparing our students for life in today's ever-changing landscape.
Rene Hahn

Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences | Edutopia - 1 views

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    This is terrific. I wish he had been my professor. Howard Gardner talks about how ineffective one-size-fits-all education is, and suggests how education has to change. I love what he has to say about assessment.
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    I couldn't agree more. Gardner is one of my favorite thinkers in the field. How do we customize instruction to meet the needs of all our students? This is what we're all struggling to figure out.
Rhys Daunic

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms - 2 views

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    In case you missed it, this is a crowd pleaser: Sir Ken Robinson discusses through animation the need for Education Reform 
logan_

Looking at Student Work - 1 views

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    protocols for collaborative assessment.
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    A big resource from today's Whole School Change PD session by Liz Irwin, with videos and samples of student work that we can share with teachers.
Rene Hahn

Professor John Hattie's Table of Effect Sizes - 0 views

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    This was presented at a conference I recently attended. It demonstrates how vital feedback is in changing teacher practice.
anonymous

101 Tools and Resources for Authentic Learning Enviroments - 0 views

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    Excellent list of emerging tools that are changing the landscape of learning communities.
Rhys Daunic

The Way We'll Work - The Future of Work - TIME - 0 views

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    How the workforce is changing in the 21st Century. "Ten years ago, Facebook didn't exist. Ten years before that, we didn't have the Web. So who knows what jobs will be born a decade from now? Though unemployment is at a 25‑year high, work will eventually
anonymous

Can Technology Drive Change in Professional Development? -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Effective school and district leaders driving the innovations; Collaboration and participation in professional communities; Use of data to improve instructional approaches; Subject matter expertise; The sustainability of the programs; and Access to resources and tools.
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    Follow up article to the SETDA report released in Nov 08, documenting effective appraoch to ed. tech PD, with school model samples.
Rhys Daunic

What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • English classes today focus too much on self-expression. “It is rare in a working environment,
  • “narrative nonfiction
  • New Journalism could be applied to most student writing. It benefits from intense reporting, immersion in a subject, imaginative scene setting, dialogue and telling details. These are the very skills most English teachers want students to develop. What’s odd is how rarely such literary nonfiction appears on English — or other class — reading lists.
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  • Narrative nonfiction also provides a bridge between the personal narratives students typically write in elementary school and the essays on external subjects that are more appropriate assignments in high school and beyond.
  • Models of narrative nonfiction are everywhere, on programs like “This American Life” and “Radiolab,” in nonfiction books for young adults, like “Sugar Changed the World” (which is about slavery and science in the pursuit of the food additive), and even in graphic nonfiction works, like “Persepolis,”
  • Students are a natural (and the future) audience for serious, in-depth reporting.
  • literary nonfiction
Pablo Zatz

Ten facts about K-12 students' technology use | eSchool News - 0 views

  • Project Tomorrow will be issuing the full results of its Speak Up survey of students and parents in the next few weeks, but the organization released “Ten Things Everyone Should Know about K-12 Students’ Views on Digital Learning” earlier this month, in conjunction with Digital Learning Day. The findings come from Project Tomorrow’s survey of more than 364,000 students last fall.
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    If you are in a school this is good to know
Pablo Zatz

Games For Change | 10th Anniversary - 0 views

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    Should attend if you can
smondrone

6 ways Vine's six seconds may change Twitter - 0 views

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    The New Twitter?
Rhys Daunic

Students Evolve from Consumers to Critics and Creators | Edutopia - 1 views

    • Rhys Daunic
       
      Digital School Solutions should become an organizational member!  (full disclosure, I am a member and am on the board ;) 
    • Rene Hahn
       
      I agree!
  • Filmmaker and George Lucas Educational Foundation chairman George Lucas thinks it's time to change "English" class into "Communication" class, where students learn the grammatical rules of graphic arts, film, and music along with English grammar.
anonymous

Empowerment With Technology - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Don't waste money on hardware that will quickly become outdated or dubious learning software peddled by opportunistic vendors. Instead, build a 21st century information infrastructure that gives teachers real-time feedback on how students are progressing in and out of the classroom — not just on standardized tests, but also a whole range of health, social and developmental outcomes.
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      It would be nice if he could back this up with some tangible examples of what that looks that. Perhaps if we can figure out what this truly looks like we will be onto something big.
anonymous

Classrooms for the Future - 0 views

  • The vertical axis on the left is Complexity, with explicit reference to rigor or new Bloom’s taxonomy from basic on the bottom to higher order at the top.  The horizontal axis is Instruction from teacher centered or didactic instruction to student centered or constructivist instruction.  The diagonal axis ranges from more abstract, artificial activities to authentic, real world or relevant activities.
  • The goal of CFF is to create more learning opportunities that are where the three axes meet in the upper right hand corner of the chart.
  • To make these changes, teachers and school leaders participate in extensive professional development on how to best harness the power of technology to increase student achievement and ensure students are ready for college and the high-tech global job market. 
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    Interesting PA high school reform effort. The graphic details the "Range of Instructional Use" for using technology as a facilitator for transforming classrooms into 21st century T&L environments.
Sue Morris

New projectors make any wall an interactive whiteboard | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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    Is this as game-changing as they claim? It could be and RM Easitech is very good software... if that came with it...
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