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Savouring the Ish: My Story of Change in Education: Student Voice and Physical Space - 4 views

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    "are we teaching students what to think or are we teaching them how to think?"
Dave Truss

Unleash the Learning Power of Blogs By Actually Using Them Consistently! | Learning Is ... - 8 views

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    Blogs are certainly writing spaces, but they lend themselves to not just publishing writing
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10 Facilitator Moves for Adult Learning - 17 views

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    capitalizing on the unique interests, affinities, and personalities of students to cultivate a rich learning environment isn't an accident. It requires a focus on the ecosystem of learning at the adult level as well as at the student level. Fortunately, nurturing vigorous learning at the adult level has a mutually beneficial impact on the student learners.
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Howard Gardner: 'Multiple intelligences' are not 'learning styles' - 21 views

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    As an educator, I draw three primary lessons for educators: 1. Individualize 2. Pluralize - 3. Drop the term "styles"
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Embedded Formative Assessment | It's All About Learning @TiaHenriksen - 12 views

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    "The greatest impact on learning is the daily lived experiences of students in classrooms, and that is determined much more by how teachers teach than by what they teach" (pg. 19).
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Makerspace | Makerspace Playbook - 11 views

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    Take a peek our current draft of the Makerspace Playbook, intended to offer some guidance to those who are hoping to start a Makerspace at their school or in their community. Besides this draft of the Makerspace Playbook, we've also made some progress on the companion document: High School Makerspace Tools & Materials,
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The first question @djakes - 2 views

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    This is my first question if I know every kid has a device: "What should the student learning experience be?" That's a question that can be addressed through design. And like any design provocation, you begin by deeply understanding the needs of humans first, in this case, the learner. And then you make sense of that, you find what you want to design around by developing a set of design drivers (such as skills, habits of the mind, the physical and digital learning spaces, etc.) and then you ideate, ideate and ideate. Ask a second, third, fourth question … Yes … and … what if … how might we? Ask those questions. Prototype an experience, put it out there, find out what works, what doesn't, and refine and adjust. Make it better. Place the student and the learning at the center of the first question that you ask. Make it about them and what they should experience in your school as a learner. Don't make it about whether or not the device supports Shockwave.
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Shift to the Future: Mobile Revolution @bkuhn - 5 views

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    I leverage the multi-windowed nature of my laptop to be working with spreadsheets, documents, presentations, email, calendar, Twitter, web content, pictures, videos, blog writer, etc. at the same time.  My productivity would be severely reduced if I did not have my laptop.
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Personalize Learning: Inquiry drives Learning @bbray27 @khmmc - 3 views

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    David Truss is the Vice Principal and Lead Administrator of the Inquiry Hub in Vancouver, British Columbia. We interviewed Dave about the design of the Inquiry Hub back in April, 2012. The Inquiry Hub opened this September so we interviewed Dave again to follow their journey.
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How to Make Advisory Work | Practical Theory @chrislehmann - 7 views

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    I love Carol Lieber's book "The Advisory Guide" (published by Educators for Social Responsibility) Make it matter by making it a core function of the school. We don't have traditional Parent-Teacher Conferences here. We have Parent-Student-Advisor conferences where teachers all write narrative report cards which are then processed / talked about / reviewed by the parent, student and advisor together. This makes the Advisor the primary link to the families, which goes a long way toward really making the power of Advisory tranparent to families (and teachers.) If a child gets in trouble, advisors are looped in immediately. Our college counselor works with the advisors so that they are the primary school-based adults to help students make decisions about their college process. Kids should never be the implied object of their own education.
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Can ANYONE be a great teacher? SmartBlogs - 4 views

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    The bottom line is that great teachers are some of the most dedicated and committed people you will ever meet. For them, going the extra mile is just a warm up for the marathon. Not surprisingly, great teachers are also some of the most humble people you will ever meet. They are the real difference-makers in education. Many of them do not even realize just how exceptional they really are.
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How Do You Teach Digital Literacy? | EdTech Magazine - 10 views

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    The developer of a digital literacy curriculum reveals how to bring substance to its instruction. By David Truss
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Changing- Shifting a School Culture- Train of Thought | Langwitches Blog - 9 views

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    Lately my thoughts and efforts are shifting from figuring out how to get educators familiar and comfortable enough to use technology, as just another teaching tool to how to change or facilitate a shift of a school's culture into a learning community.
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8 Things to Look For in Today's Classroom - 18 views

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    1 Voice 2 Choice 3 Time for Reflection 4 Opportunity for Innovation 5 Critical thinkers 6 Problem solvers/finders 7 Self assessment 8 Connected Learning
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The Use and Abuse of Technology in the Classroom - 27 views

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    Technology abuses and uses... Excellent post! ...not enough to USE technology. You must use it well.
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Personalize Learning: Stages of Personalized Learning Environments - 10 views

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    In attempting to transform teaching and learning to personalized learning, consider where you are currently and envision which stage you can see feasible for your school, district or community. Stage 1: Teacher Centred Stage 2: Learner-Centred & Co-Designed with Teachers Stage 3: Learner-Driven with Teacher Facilitation By Barbara Bray & Kathleen McClaskey
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Inquiry into learning… | What Ed Said - 12 views

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    Do you focus as much on the process of learning as the content? Do your students reflect as much on how they learn as on what they learn.
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10 Steps: Students Taking Responsibility for their Report Card Marks. - Educate My Mind... - 12 views

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    "We must constantly remind ourselves that the ultimate purpose of evaluation is to have students become self evaluating. If students graduate from our schools still dependent upon others to tell them when they are adequate, good, or excellent, then we've missed the whole point of what education is about."    - Costa and Kallick (1992)
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Finding a Mindful Balance with Technology | The Mindful Classroom - 12 views

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    To argue that technology has a place in mindfulness education may seem ironic, as the two often seem like opposing forces. With that said, technology can also play a very positive role in a child's education and in the development of a more mindful child. Below are just some of the "mindful" uses of technology in the classroom.
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Cyberbullying needs its own treatment strategies - 4 views

  • Traditional bullying, she says, is often associated with three main characteristics — a power differential between bully and victim, proactive targeting of a victim and ongoing aggression.Research is beginning to show that cyberbullying doesn’t necessarily involve those characteristics. In the case of a power differential between aggressor and victim — often based in the schoolyard on size and popularity — those qualities don’t apply
  • Another unique element of cyberbullying is that adolescents online often find themselves playing all the roles in what could be described as a traditional schoolyard bullying drama.
  • “We are looking at the impact of the child-parent relationship. If parents have an open relationship with their children and are able to discuss their online activities with them we find incidents of cyber-aggression are reduced and children are less likely to engage in cyberbullying or be the recipient of it,”
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    "We are looking at the impact of the child-parent relationship. If parents have an open relationship with their children and are able to discuss their online activities with them we find incidents of cyber-aggression are reduced and children are less likely to engage in cyberbullying or be the recipient of it,"
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