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Bradford Saron

12 videos to spark educators' thinking | Dangerously Irrelevant - 1 views

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    Again, I love lists. 
Bradford Saron

Video - Did You Know? 4.0 | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views

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    Classic McLeod
Bradford Saron

The Leadership and Learning Center - 0 views

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    Doug Reeves has been on a bit of a writing binge on the topic of leadership, specifically writing for the American School Board Journal on district administrative issues. I especially like the one on assessment for superintendents. Scroll down to the "leadership" section, where you will find a number of articles written in 2010.
Bradford Saron

John West-Burnham's Seven Questions for Leaders of Learning - Ewan McIntosh | Digital M... - 0 views

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    Awesome.
Bradford Saron

Blog - kernkelley - 0 views

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    Google certified teacher who is showing off his google spreadsheet skills. 
Bradford Saron

Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Top 25 Sites of 2010 - 0 views

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    I love these lists!
Bradford Saron

Free PowerPoint Template & Simple Way to Share Files » The Rapid eLearning Blog - 0 views

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    Overview of file sharing websites. 
Bradford Saron

Anti-cyberbullying 101: soon required at your public school? - 1 views

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    Great overview of Cyber-bullying resources.
Bradford Saron

A 5 country brain dump - 0 views

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    A TED speaker posts a "what I've learned" mind dump. 
Bradford Saron

YouTube - "Take Me Out" by Atomic Tom LIVE on NYC subway - 0 views

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    Any preconceived limitations of the capacity and reaches of the Apple I-touch are now obliterated. Wow. 
Guy Leavitt

Group licenses for handheld apps - 0 views

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    Thought this may be of interest.
Bradford Saron

Race to the Top Assessments: Common Core Standards and Their Impact on Student Testing ... - 0 views

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    Center to Left, Think Tank just did a full study of Core Standards. The Downloads and the audio of the event are available on the webpage. 
Bradford Saron

How to Overhaul the U.S. Education System - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • to make all of the politically unpopular choices that had been put off for decades
  • year after year, our schools have been run for the benefit of the adults in the system, not for the benefit of the kids.
  • first time someone dared to question an entrenched practice that had only served the interests of adults.
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  • based on quality and performance instead of seniority.
  • Ineffective teachers are immediately dismissed from the system
  • higher level of accountability with some of the highest teacher pay
  • comprehensive system for evaluating teachers, including growth in student achievement as measured by standardized tests (so that teachers who take on the toughest students aren't unfairly penalized), observation of their classroom practices and assessment of their contributions to the school community.
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    Rhee's parting comments as she leaves the office of DC district administrator. 
Bradford Saron

Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie - 0 views

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    Microsoft's Chief Software Architect 's blog. This is his parting memo (as he his leaving MSFT), which could be named, The End of the PC World. 
Bradford Saron

The Happiness Project: Frustrated? Stuck? Put Yourself in Creativity Boot Camp. - 0 views

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    creativity innovation
Bradford Saron

The Digital Disruption | Foreign Affairs - 1 views

  • A similar phenomenon is occurring today in places such as Iran and Syria, where government officials seeking unvarnished news of the world beyond their borders use so-called proxy servers and circumvention technology to access their own Facebook or e-mail accounts -- platforms their governments regularly block.
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      This eerily sounds like what we do in schools, which is too bad. It sort of sounds like we are running a small communist nation.
  • comparing the uncertain dial tone of the fax machine with the speed of today's handheld devices is like comparing a ship's compass to the power of global positioning systems.
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      This paragraph could be an update to Clay Shirky's book, Cognitive Surplus. 
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      Like Google.
  • "partially connected"
  • breaking down traditional barriers of age, gender, and socioeconomic status
  • cell phones
  • cell-phone
  • cell phones
  • nature of civil society
  • more costs than benefits
  • connecting nations" -- places where technological development is still nascent and where both governments and citizens are testing out tools and their potential impact
  • "open by default"
  • the so-called failed states
  • Efforts by democratic governments to foster freedom and opportunity will be far stronger if they recognize the vital role technology can play in enabling their citizens to promote these values -- and that technology is overwhelmingly provided by the private sector.
  • interconnected estate
  • interconnected estate
  • to shape government and corporate behavior
  • by promoting freedom of expression and by protecting citizens from threatening governments.
  • join together in new alliances to multiply their impact.
  • offer a new way to exercise the duty to protect citizens around the world who are abused by their governments or barred from voicing their opinions
  • citizens' use of technology can be an effective vehicle to promote the values of freedom, equality, and human rights globally
  • shared power
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      Shared power. It's odd that the core problem of connection through technology may be shared power. Must our core thesis be (then) how to participate in an environment of shared power or of decentralization of information or of disaggregation of opportunity to participate? Hmmmm. 
Guy Leavitt

Cell Phones Increasingly a Class Act - 5 views

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    Here is another article like the one Louie shared
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    I love this quote: "Look, this is just a part of who we are now," Spoor said of the personal technology. "It's a tidal wave." Maybe that's what we should rename this social bookmark group: The Tidal Wave.
Bradford Saron

Top 10 Tips for Effective Strategic Planning « Excellence in Governance and S... - 2 views

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    There are not many blogs on school boards, much less governance. 
Bradford Saron

The Taxonomy of the Nerd - 1 views

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    Awesome. 
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