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Sheila Tebbano

Next Vista for Learning - 2 views

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    Online video library with student produced videos that are all under 5 minutes. Students can produce and submit multimedia presentations to Next Vista and if they are accepted, they would be featured on the site. And it's free!
anonymous

Model Technology Schools - DIIT - New York City Department of Education - 1 views

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    Read these case studies to learn how several schools in the DOE are taking innovation to the next level.
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    What types of systems are these schools utilizing to take teaching and learning to the next level?
Corinne Carriero

PARCC: Is This the Next Big Thing? - 0 views

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    Resources for schools to use now to determine if they will be ready to administer PARCC assessment in 2014-2015
anonymous

Innovation Zone - Innovative School Case Studies - 2 views

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    Excellent examples of how schools in NYC are taking 21st century teaching and learning to the next level.
anonymous

Fresh Pencils, Books, and Free Computers - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    This is important reading for all DSS consultants as we have been named as an official partner in this grant. Our role will be to serve as Instructional Technology Coaches. This is a big opportunity for us to take our service offerings to the next level. What are your thoughts on our participation in this exciting grant?
Rhys Daunic

ARTSEDGE: The Kennedy Center's Arts Education Network: Multimedia Library - 0 views

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    Multimedia resources related to the Arts for educational purposes.  Also on Arts Edge are the National Standards for Arts Education, which include visual arts.  They will be adding Multimedia as a strand in the standards in their next update.  Another intersection we can emphasize in our work.  
Sue Morris

At the Core of the Apple Store: Images of Next Generation Learning - 1 views

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    Redefining 'schools'? Breaking down walls?
anonymous

Education World ® Technology Center: Managing Technology: Tips from the Experts - 0 views

  • Always run through a technology lesson before presenting it to the class -- and always have a back-up lesson prepared in case the technology fails.
  • Type directions for frequently used computer operations -- opening programs, inserting clip art, printing documents, and so on -- on index cards, laminate them, and connect them with a circle ring. Keep a set next to each computer.
  • If you're a language arts or foreign language teacher using Microsoft Word, teach your students how to use the Text to Table feature.
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  • Appoint classroom technology managers
  • When working on lengthy technology projects, print out step-by-step instructions. Include some that say "Save your work; do not go any further until you help your neighbors reach this point."
  • Turn your classroom into a museum. After a lesson using presentation software, allow students to walk around the room and view everyone else's work
  • Post a list of all your rules for technology use in a visible place
  • Attach plastic hooks to monitors to hang headphones on when they're not being used.
  • Have students turn off their monitors when you're giving directions.
  • Type PLEASE WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS on 8½ by 11 papers, laminate them, and tape one sheet to the top of every monitor
  • When working in a computer lab, assign each student a computer.
  • Have each student keep a Tech Folder for storing ongoing technology projects
  • When students are working on small group technology projects on classroom computers, divide the tasks so some students are working on the computers while others are working at their desks on another part of the project
  • Provide a sign-up sheet for the computers. When one group is finished using the computers, they must notify the next group that it's their turn.
  • Set up teams of computer helpers,
  • Never assume you know it all! Offer a free pencil to any student who teaches you something you didn't know.
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    effective tech management techniques
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
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Will We Need Teachers Or Algorithms? - 0 views

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    Vinod Khosla talks about the next wave of education reform... there's a lot of best practices that we currently use mentioned here. Good, quick read.
Sue Morris

6 Technologies That Will Shape Education -- THE Journal - 5 views

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    What is going to influence technology in the next 5 years? What are the critical issues? Read the K-12 edition of the annual Horizon Report
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    Thanks for sharing this, Sue. Everyone should take a few minutes to read this and also check out the Horizon report.
anonymous

Teacher Development: Fueling Teachers to Go High-Tech | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "Forest Lake principal Kappy Cannon didn't leave it up to teachers to decide whether they would join the digital revolution. As long as you provide adequate support, she reasons, you can demand that it be done. This mandate from the boss gave the school's tech-integration team a major boost. Also helpful: instructional-technology specialist Paulette Williams's sweet but insistent approach. When the school got interactive whiteboards, she gave teachers six months to relinquish their old overhead projectors. Then she said, "You can give me the projectors peacefully, or I'm going to take them." "
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    Tell, Don't Ask - love it! I strongly believe buy in from the leadership team AND mandating implementation is key to change in a school.
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    This article and video explores how one elementary school in Columbia, South Carolina transformed itself into a 21st century teaching and learning community.
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    I just added this as a Digi Discussion on the CCL for our next Digi Discussion:
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