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Pablo Zatz

Seven standards for effective professional development | eSchool News - 2 views

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    Effective Professional Development, PD standards, 21st-century student achievement
Rene Hahn

Integrating Technology into the Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

  • 4. Seek out Web-based professional development. I am finding that Web-based training is very appealing to classroom teachers simply because there is no time in a school day to learn how to use/integrate technology. In many districts today, planning time has been significantly reduced. This leaves teachers with either early morning, after school, weekend, or Web-based training as the only options for technolgoy professional development. Web-based training, if designed effectively and utilized rich multimedia, gives teachers convenient anytime, anwhere training. In fact, I created a Blackboard course about Blackbord that utilizes interactive streaming flash video. If a teacher wants to learn how to create and and suggestions for integrating a wiki in a Blackboard course, they simply watch a streaming video on how to accomplish this. This, then, allows teachers to apply skills and have complete control over their own learning/training pace. I think more teachers need to inquire/push for Web-based technology professional development to their I.T. departments and administrators; not just be provided with hyperlinks to online tutorials that merely show you how to use educational software.
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    Simply a comment from an educator, and their spelling is appalling! However he/she makes a good point about web-based PD.
Pablo Zatz

Going 1:1 with Google Chromebooks & establishing Professional Development resources | e... - 0 views

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    Two in this series. Great read good webinars
anonymous

App Inventor for Android - Beta - 1 views

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    From MIT: "To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior."
anonymous

Effective Professional Development - 2 views

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    Excellent resources and slide deck for facilitating effective professional development.
anonymous

Wiki44 - Host Your Own LAN - 0 views

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    LAN stands for "Learning at Night" and is an excellent model for breathing new life into professional development sessions.
anonymous

Executive Summary | National Education Technology Plan - 1 views

  • The NETP presents a model of 21st century learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. The plan also identifies far-reaching “grand challenge problems” that should be funded and coordinated at a national level.
  • Just as leveraging technology can help us improve learning and assessment, the model of 21st century learning calls for using technology to help build the capacity of educators by enabling a shift to a model of connected teaching. In such a teaching model, teams of connected educators replace solo practitioners and classrooms are fully connected to provide educators with 24/7 access to data and analytic tools as well as to resources that help them act on the insights the data provide.
  • In connected teaching, teaching is a team activity. Individual educators build online learning communities consisting of their students and their students’ peers; fellow educators in their schools, libraries, and afterschool programs; professional experts in various disciplines around the world; members of community organizations that serve students in the hours they are not in school; and parents who desire greater participation in their children’s education.
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  • Episodic and ineffective professional development is replaced by professional learning that is collaborative, coherent, and continuous and that blends more effective in-person courses and workshops with the expanded opportunities, immediacy, and convenience enabled by online environments full of resources and opportunities for collaboration.
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    From the summary: " The NETP presents a model of 21st century learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. The plan also identifies far-reaching "grand challenge problems" that should be funded and coordinated at a national level."
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    Outstanding stuff, Dan! Thanks for sharing this with us.
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.
Corinne Carriero

Want Increased Student Achievement Using iPads? | District Administration Magazine - 1 views

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    Article presents compelling arguments that 1. student achievement increases when students use mobile devices consistently (inside and outside of class) 50% - 75% of day 2. need for professional development when implementing a one-to-one iPad initiative.
Sheila Tebbano

A Guide to Designing Effective Professional Development: Essential Questions for the Su... - 5 views

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    Love the cartoon. Lots to consider here. Excellent questions to pose.
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    Thanks for sharing this--Peter Pappas always has such practical tips. And yes, the cartoon is perfect. :-)
smondrone

Blended Professional Development: The most important factors - 2 views

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    Blended Model Must Have: 1) Development of Cohesive Learning Communities - early & recurring face-to-face must occur - Initial meetings must emphasize "reflective dialogues" and "interactive activities" for bonding & buy-in. - participants must effective use early sessions for "curriculum planning" and "new pedagogical techniques." - Large Video Conferencing Does Not Work! (- but a webinar can engaged many people with buddy groups.) 2) Project Portal Must be Reliable and Simple - video conferencing is OK 3) Administrative Support is Crucial. 4) Facilitators are Essential. 5) Critical Component is the Ongoing Monitoring of Participant's Needs. - through surveys, evaluations, informal feedback, etc... 6) Successful Practices Structure Opportunities to Share and Discuss Teaching Practices. 7) Teacher "Risk-Taking" can be Increased - - for trying new technologies in the context of curriculum writing, 8) Effective Initiatives Build a A Critical Mass 9) True Transformation Requires Time
Ken Ellis

Teachers TV | Thousands of education programmes on TV and online - 0 views

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    Thousands of education videos on TV and online, an invaluable resource for any busy education professional.
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    This looks great, Ken. I have been looking for an alternative to Teacher Tube for awhile now.
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    Ones I've seen are Pommie, but worthwhile. Useful to use for individual teachers or for discussion at a school PD. Huge variety of topics covering Across-the-school situations to specific subject areas
Rhys Daunic

Teachers Domain - 0 views

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    Teachers' Domain, a free digital service produced by WGBH Boston, has embarked on a series of new efforts to bring award winning digital content to students and teachers involved in the design and production of user generated content using Open Educational Resources (OER).
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    Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You'll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.
Sue Morris

AllThingsPLC - Research, education tools and blog for building a professional learning ... - 1 views

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    Very interesting site devoted to supporting development of PLCs... serach for digital and find variety of articles available. Site maintained by Solution Tree - no advertising
smondrone

YouPD - 0 views

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    New Visions approach to Professional Development in an user-generated YOUTUBE format
smondrone

Mr. Needleman's Blog - 0 views

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    "Winkles Wakes Up" - a staple animation in our icebreaker activities was created by this innovative teacher who views technology integration as a means of fostering higher order thinking skills, collaborative communities and effective professional development
wiljennings419

Join us in the quest for what works - 0 views

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    On this site, you can see the ways fellow teachers are solving problems, leave a comment, recommend an idea, share inventive things you've done, and take on meaningful professional learning challenges.
Corinne Carriero

NYCLooking To Bring Networking, Technology, Social Media Into The Classroom - 1 views

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    New York City Looking To Bring Networking, Technology and Social Media Into The Classroom. Interview with Lisa Nielsen newly appointed Director of Digital Literacy and Citizenship at the New York City Department of Education
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    NYC DOE sees the light!! - They have created position of Director of Digital Literacy and Citizenship - primary role to help teachers understand possibilities of social media and how they might use various tools - Facebook, Twitter, wikis - effectively as part of their professional practice.
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