"Truly impactful PD should be personalized for the learner to ensure they are getting the most of the experience, according to a recent edWeb webinar."
we read, on a regular basis, that schools buy technology — desktops, laptops and now mobile devices — and experience virtually no impact on student achievement.
Adding technology to direct-instruction, paper-and-pencil-based pedagogy, will have little impact
inquiry-based, to support students engaging in conversations, to support students relating their concrete experiences outside the school to the abstract ideas introduced inside the school
To-Do Lists Are Evil. Schedule Everything.
Assume You’re Going Home at 5:30, Then Plan Your Day Backwards
Make A Plan For The Entire Week
Do Very Few Things, But Be Awesome At Them
Less Shallow Work, Focus On The Deep Stuff
question the entire premise of the education system, which is based on IQ as the single measure of intelligence and cognitive ability.
“People who scored really highly on our imaginative test show greater brain connectivity between these brain networks that are talked about a lot in the literature as being at odds
imaginative, creative people are good at disconnecting the attention network in order to enter a flow state when they generate ideas