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Education Week: Researchers Evaluate Tech.-Oriented, Personalized Learning - 0 views

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    Why it is so hard to measure the value proposition of personalized learning through more technology.
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Hybrid Schools for the Next Generation - 2 views

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    New schools combine bricks and clicks. (haha) This is the model NYC is looking to move to over the next several years. iZone initiatives heading this way.
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What Did Watson the Computer Do? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • The computer I am writing this column on is a fool.
  • a “computer is not in a situation”
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    Why we don't need to worry all that much about Watson stealing our jobs. Stanley Fish does a very nice exposition of the limits of "artificial intelligence.
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The Ideal Technology Device for Students and Teachers - Leading From the Classroom - Ed... - 1 views

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    What is the ideal technology device for students and teachers. Natives and immigrants speak.
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Report Shows U.S. Schools Can't Meet Technology Demands of Teachers, Students -- THE Jo... - 2 views

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    US schools provide insufficient capacity to support teachers tech needs.
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Waiting For Superman: A Postmortem - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week - 0 views

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    Time for the postmortem, from the right wing no less.
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Education Speak: Defining Innovation | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Innovation means changing the goal not just the execution. Where are we seeing radically different approaches?
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Home-to-School Connections Guide: Tips, Tech Tools, and Strategies for Improving Family... - 1 views

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    Very well thought out guide to parent engagement and building the school-home connection. Recommend to all CL consultants taht you distribute this to your parent coordinators and principals.
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7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers - 1 views

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    Nice list of free web 2.0 tools designed for educators. Useful for connecting school to home and involving parents.
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Joho the Blog » Are we in for perpetual innovation? - 1 views

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    What if perpetual innovation is the new normal?
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Lauded Harlem Schools Have Their Own Difficulties - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    A slightly different take on the Harlem Children's Zone. Maybe most notable is the conflation of test data with general progress. "We don't care how the children live, as long as they are scoring well."
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Matching children's extracurricular activities to their strengths  | ajc.com - 1 views

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    Atlanta Journal Constitution article on attending to student strengths, featuring words of wisdom from Jenifer Fox, my wife.
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Technology Review: Anticensorship Tool Proves Too Good to Be True - 2 views

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    Is it even possible to minimize one's digital footprint anymore? The new whackamole.
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Teacher Collaboration Drops by Half? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher - 2 views

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    Teacher collaboration is on the decline. We are cutting against the grain as we try to work with 6th grade teams on the Connected Learning project. What does sustained "sticky" PD look like? How do we truly build capacity?
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Education Week: We Must Shift From Teacher Quality to Teaching Quality - 2 views

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    Balancing the what with the how of teaching. Meditation on the messiness of improving instruction teacher by teacher.
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A Class Project Inspired by Flotsam - 1 views

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    Nice tech blended learning example for 5th grade. Envision a home extension.
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T4T - Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning - 2 views

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    Here is Wes Fryer's outline for Technology 4 Teachers, part of his "Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning." Lots of great resources here which we can share with teachers.
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    As we go into CL schools, here's a great toolkit to help our work with 6th grade teams. Gotta love Wes Fryer. Check it out.
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CoSN Home Page - 1 views

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    The Consortium for School Networking is where district tech leaders turn for info. Lots of good resources.
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    See the current resources box down the page.
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Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Re-examine our notions about what constitutes good study habits.
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    This is a meaningful article for how we think about learning environments in the home.
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Education Week: Analysis Notes Virtual Ed. Priorities in RTT Winners - 0 views

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    All RTT winners had some provision in their applications for online learning. Will it be smartly done and integrated into classroom instruction or just money thrown at a perceived but unexplored opportunity? Which states have a chance of doing it right?
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