pretty interesting personal testimony about why teachers should join twitter

Online-learning expert Will Richardson criticizes the "Khanification of education" -the seemingly widely accepted process by which "anyone with a passion can make a video and be given 'teacher' status." But Richardson also thinks that the growing influence of Khan Academy and similar "flipped classroom" resources raises urgent questions for real teachers in terms of how they define and distinguish themselves in the current education environment.

My favorite quote from the article: "Our value lies in that which cannot be Khanified. We better figure out ways pretty quickly to articulate that value in spades to parents, boards, corporations, etc."

This is an informative list of ways to be connected with colleagues around the world, and there's even a "how to" video.

We'll use this topic to post conversation points during our meeting on October 3rd.

Our art teacher shared this with me, and it's so powerful! The mom in the video says to the art teacher, "I believe you have changed the trajectory of his life."

I'm looking for articles or videos or any other information about helping resource and other SPED students feel a part of the general ed classroom. I want some real world success stories that we can use for continued inspiration throughout the year. If you find something you'd like to share will you post it to Diigo?

Thanks!

A blog post from an elementary principal about BYOT

This TED talk is from 2006, and it's around 20 minutes. Ken Robinson is pretty entertaining, though! A few quotes from the talk: "Creativity is as important in education as literacy." "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." "The whole purpose of education as we know it is to create university professors." He also describes a "process of academic inflation" and what Shakespeare must have been like when he was 7 and in an English class.

This talk is about ten minutes, but it's a high school math teacher talking about how math instruction could be made over to intrigue students and teach them "patient problem solving," a much more real-world skill. I also really love the explanation of how traditional math questions can be tweaked to create better math instruction. He talks about the negatives of "sitcom sized problems" and how we train kids to have "impatience with irresolution."

This is an interesting article about the balance between teaching and providing feedback.

I'm currently sitting in the Safe and Civil schools training, and the presenter has talked about how feedback is the one of the best ways to teach behaviour. This article goes right along with that idea.

Tips on organizing a classroom environment to foster creativity and innovation. Could these same tips be applied to a staff and professional development?

A good summary of the 3 R's.

Yes, I love to watch the Kardashians, so this article really hit home. ;) I've been thinking of posting a bulletin board for teachers to post what they're currently reading, but I just haven't gotten around to doing it. I used to do this in my classroom, but this article reminds me it's just as important for an administrator to be a role model and cheerleader for reading. Does anyone have something like this up in their school already?

Maybe I'm late to this party, but the TED Ed site is lesson created by educators and animated by professional animators with students as an intended audience.

No problem! I figured I can't be the only one looking for some new icebreakers this time of year!

Great ideas for parent communication. Why aren't we live streaming our school events? How exciting!

cheat sheet of tech terms and acronyms for people who may feel uncomfortable because of jargon.