Connected Leadership

The National Writing Project's Elyse Eidman-Aadahl talks about how new digital tools are extending our ability to tell stories and to communicate across time and space.

The New Learning Institute delivers engaging, personalized, project-based digital media programs to young people and educators. We work in classrooms, after-school centers, museums, and cultural institutions, or wherever learning takes place. Using the latest mobile technologies and digital media practices and tools, we help young people explore their interests, direct their own learning, and better prepare themselves for living and working in the 21st century.

New and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman. Category: Science & Technology Tags: * Social Media * Social Media Video * Social Media Revolution * Socialnomics * Erik Qualman

This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist

Share with parents or students. Particularly useful for perceptions of older students

How Do We Address the Needs of Kids Without Mobile Access? April 4, 2011 | 3:00 PM | By Tina Barseghian * DIGITAL DIVIDE FILED UNDER: Tech Tools, achievement gap, digital-divide, mobile-learning * Leave a comment * * Share4 * Email Post * Link to this post Flickr:Shlala The $64,000 question in education: Does access to mobile technology actually help close the achievement gap? Bill Ferriter, a sixth-grade teacher in North Carolina, has been thinking about this issue, and writing about it on his blog, The Tempered Radical. In this recent post, he addresses a question from one of his readers, who sites Ferriter's source, about how to address the needs of the minority of kids who don't have mobile access? "75% of students are good to go, but do you just leave the other 25% to "fin for themselves", leave them out of the equation all together, or do you do something to supplement such as the school providing a temporary cell phone" the reader asks. Here's his response. One of the stumbling blocks to almost every reform initiative in schools is our stubborn refusal to move forward until the conditions are perfect for change. The result: Change never happens.

Leading with Web2.0: An Administrators Guide to Collaborative Tools in K-12 Education

Eric Sheninger, a Connected Principal and blogger explains best practices in social networking.

Welcome to the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) weekly report on news from the previous week and findings of interest related to mobile learning.

"Policies are principles or rules that are intended to shape decisions and actions. They provide the framework for the functioning of the organization. Procedures are the ways that organizations implement policies. Policies answer the "what" and "why" questions. Procedures answer the "how," "who," and "when" questions. Policies are expressed in broad terms; procedures in more specific behavioral or operational terms. Since procedures need to be more flexible to adapt to changing conditions in the organization, it is useful to differentiate policies from procedures so that procedural modifications can be made in a timely manner-often without board action. "

inspirational clarity regarding the 21st C Teacher. 4.34 min

Explains how to effectively manage a student's digital footprint without limiting their learning opportunities. Some useful ideas for policies.

The New Tech model provides an instructional approach centered on project-based learning, a culture that empowers students and teachers, and integrated technology in the classroom.

Specific suggestions for training required for a mobile environment

Because student's today are likely to be more "socially" oriented and technology-aware, it is a good idea to take advantage of this as you plan the introduction to your course. Your studentʼs have had access to a wide variety of technologies that allow them to instantaneously know what their "friends" are doing or thinking. This experience with connectivity will likely extend into your classroom environment.

Do you want to provide your classroom with a global challenge? Do you want to connect with other teachers and learners to investigate solutions to real 21st Century problems and in doing so engage with the curriculum in powerful authentic ways?