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Blair Peterson

Inspired, selfish, or both? | Connected Principals - 1 views

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  • Why are principals spending time blogging when that time could be better devoted to doing other things in their schools?  Are administrators blogging because they find true value in the practice, or because they’re trying to make a name for themselves? Where do administrators find the time to do this?
  • I enjoy blogging about educational issues. It helps me reflect on my practice. If I read a book, a blog post, or a tweet, writing about the ideas shared helps me make connections with my own work and that of our students and teachers.
  • I maintain the staff blog to provide updates about school happenings and share links/ideas I find in my online reading. I’m trying to connect my teachers with those ideas and model how I use social media to enhance my practice.
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  • A commitment to blogging or tweeting honestly requires you to take a really careful look at how you are spending your time, setting priorities for what you want to achieve for your school, deciding if blogging as a reflective practice will help enhance learning for your teachers, students, and self, and then make a plan to get it done.
  • I blog because it helps me reflect on my practice. I choose to share the benefits of social media with others because if they can find one effective use of the tools to help their own professional growth and/or that of their schools, then I have helped to make a difference.
  • If wanting to reflect so I can better my practice, and reading to learn more so I can strengthen my ability to serve students is self-indulgent, then add another scoop of ice cream to that dish. And don’t forget the cherry on top!
  • It is strange that it’s even a topic of conversation, as you explained. I have learned a great deal since I began tweeting and reading others blogs, and it’s free! The use of social media to grow professionally can revolutionize the craft of education as long as we are fnot ighting amongst ourselves about who should or shouldn’t blog, tweet, or otherwise.
Blair Peterson

Parents as Partners - Building Learning Networks | Connected Principals - 0 views

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  • Social Justice Teacher Preparation Technology Integration Networked Learning Twitter Parents as Partners – Building Learning Networks Posted by Shannon Smith on 2/20/12 • Categorized as Best Educational Practices,Distributed Leadership,Parental Involvement,Twitter 5 "fist bump" cc by Mark H. Anbinder on flickr Many schools are beginning to use social media to send out information to parents. Examples include twitter feeds and facebook pages. These initial forays into social media are a first step. They provide parents and the community with greater access to information regarding the school and the learning happening within its walls. A key facet of school leadership is developing relationships, both within staff and also with families and the community. This relationship building must include seeking feedback and listening. Most of this work is done face to face, through school events or outreach programs and even through informal conversations in the hallways or at drop off or pick up time. We live in a time w
  • top-down leadership and closed door meetings are no longer seen as the way to get things done. Stakeholders want to be involved in decision-making. They want to know what their school leader is thinking and what he or she values. They want, above all, to trust that their child is in the very best hands at school.
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Can We Use Cognitive Suplus to Improve Our Practice? | PCHSdirectorBLOG - 0 views

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  • jennifermaxpeterson on 28 Feb 11
     
    Ted Talk by Clay Shirky on using social media to share ideas and practices.
Blair Peterson

Penn Jillette | Magician | Big Think - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 04 Sep 11
     
    Want to know what Penn Jillette thinks the future of magic will be like? He says that David Blaine's street magic was a huge shift in practice. Don't have real breakthroughs because there just aren't that many magicians practicing. Magic is not conducive to new technology. No one is using cutting edge technology. 
Blair Peterson

The courage to change | Powerful Learning Practice - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 09 Mar 11
     
    I highly recommend this blog post from a teacher who describes her journey of creating a student centered classroom. It's a really good description of how she is having to change her past practices.
Blair Peterson

SCIL · Lead the change - 0 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 11 Mar 13
     
    Center at Norther Beaches Christian School in Sydney. Mark connected with someone from the school. The place looks like an excellent example of innovation in practice. Space, IT, personalized learning and project based learning.
smenegh Meneghini

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  • smenegh Meneghini on 08 Feb 13
     
    EduCon is both a conversation and a conference. It is an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas - from the very practical to the big dreams
smenegh Meneghini

InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices - 1 views

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  • smenegh Meneghini on 04 May 12
     
    Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual information.
Blair Peterson

When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Organize reminders of your resulting to-do lists — for the e-mails you need to send, the phone calls you need to make, the meetings you need to arrange, the at-home tasks you need to complete. Park the inventory of all your projects in a convenient place.
  • In other words, our attraction to a world of infinite possibility, information and complexity is here to stay. The challenge is how to participate productively in this new and turbulent world, and not be paralyzed by it.
  • Blair Peterson on 18 Mar 12
     
    Article from David Allen on productivity and the feeling that we're overwhelmed. Practical ideas for educators and students.
Blair Peterson

Research-Supported PBL Practices | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Students at Manor New Tech typically complete nearly 200 projects over the course of their high school experience, with each project lasting about two to four weeks.
  • "How can we use mathematics to design and use a Dobsonian telescope?"
  • he rubric often includes time lines and information on essential elements of successful final products (for example, if a report may be produced as a podcast rather than a paper, the rubric specifies minimum length for the podcast).
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  • Manor has six learning outcomes that are assessed in every project: written communication, oral communication, collaboration, critical thinking, work ethic, and technology literacy.
  • Two additional learning outcomes -- numeracy and global awareness/community engagement -- each must be assessed in at least one project per semester.
Blair Peterson

: Researching What for Why? - 1 views

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  • Researching What for Why? I enjoy research. I spend much of my time reading it. I also often find myself in sustained and vigorous conversations with colleagues from some of the leading research institutions from around the world...and it's time that I value very much. Indeed, the Foundation maintains a register of some of the leading research around 1-to-1 on our site....however, I am also sick and tried of the unrelenting practice of political leaders and educational policy makers who continually seek to justify inaction and limit the scope for innovation in the name of research. One only has to review the mountains of literature around the most effective ways to teach reading and the efficacy of small classes to conclude that too much educational research is based on loose assumptions, inappropriate methodologies, a blatant lack of rigor and ideological bias. Too often the funding base for educational research creates preconceptions about the outcomes, real or perceived, and the volume of research that swamps the education market seems to be more related to tenure or the attraction for doctoral topics, than a genuine need. It really is about time we took stock of the situation. For more than three decades we have seen an increasing stream of research that has targeted our use of technology in schools. What purpose has much of it served, other than to often significantly distract educators from continuing to develop innovative practice, and seek new ways to enga
  • How can we support innovative teachers taking risks, if every move is covered by a researcher measuring outcomes?
  • Why don't we start by working on the culture of our schools, and encourage those that are seeking to create a culture of innovation. Why don't we start thinking carefully about what it really means to support risk-taking in our schools; it seems the only risks people are interested in are about the evils of the net and beyond...how about we support our educational leaders who are creating new agendas for learning within their schools and seeking to genuinely leverage technology within an immersive environment to truly create worthwhile, authentic learning opportunities.
  • Blair Peterson on 11 Nov 11
     
    Bruce Dixon slams research and says that it stifles innovation. 
Blair Peterson

Practical PBL: The Ongoing Challenges of Assessment | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • To increase buy-in for both types of students, the most important thing a teacher needs to do is help build individual accountability -- and, by extension, trust -- in student teams.
  • cite team dynamics and seemingly unfair assessment as the biggest frustrations.
  • students are resentful in situations when they are given one grade for a project in which four students contributed very different amounts.
Blair Peterson

Should Coding be the "New Foreign Language" Requirement? | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Coding, likewise, involves understanding and working within structures.
  • Memorizing rules and vocabulary strengthens mental muscles and improves overall memory. That's why multilingual people are better at remembering lists or sequences. Coding similarly involves very specific rules and vocabulary.
  • Likewise, programming necessitates being able to focus on what works while eliminating bugs. Foreign language instruction today emphasizes practical communication -- what students can do with the language. Similarly, coding is practical, empowering and critical to the daily life of everyone living in the 21st century.
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  • Currently Code.org is launching a campaign to provide a one-hour introduction to computer science for 10 million people "ages 6 to 106" during Computer Science Education Week (6).
Blair Peterson

Technology Has Its Place: Behind a Caring Teacher - Commentary - The Chronicle of Highe... - 1 views

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  • Despite the considerable differences among all those institutions, one idea binds them together: the understanding that reflection and practice together are the best pedagogy. As Andrew Delbanco puts it in College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be: "Learning is a collaborative rather than a solitary process.
  • Computers will enhance learning, but they will never replace the profoundly personal dimension in deep learning.
  • We know that the best learning involves practices—lots of them. We know that effective learning is best achieved through the engagement of other deeply attentive human beings. The learning might occur in a traditional classroom, but it might happen in a different space: a lab, a mountain stream, an international campus, a cafeteria, a residence hall, a basketball court.
  • Blair Peterson on 04 Nov 13
     
    Some ideas that may put off those of us who think that deep learning can happen online and relationships can be developed.
smenegh Meneghini

The Knowledge Building Paradigm - 6 views

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  • Computers and the attendant technology can no longer be considered desirable adjuncts to education. Instead, they have to be regarded as essential—as thinking prosthetics (Johnson 2001) or mind tools (Jonassen 1996). But, like any other tool, thinking prosthetics must be used properly to be effective
  • The sociocultural perspective focuses on the manner in which human intelligence is augmented by artifacts designed to facilitate cognition. Our intelligence is distributed over the tools we use (diSessa 2000; Hutchins 1995). The old saying, "To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" is very true
    • smenegh Meneghini
      smenegh Meneghini on 03 Feb 11
       
      This is a quite interesting perspective.
    • Derrel Fincher
      Derrel Fincher on 03 Feb 11
       
      It's similar to activity theory, which arose from the idea that artifacts help mediate our interactions (activity) with our surroundings.
  • Pierre Lévy (1998) notes that one of the principal characteristics of the knowledge age, in which the Net Generation is growing up, is virtualization, a process in which "[an] event is detached from a specific time and place, becomes public, undergoes heterogenesis"
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  • many businesses are now finding that the pace of change demanded by the global economy and facilitated by various technologies is requiring them to rethink how they are organized. Many are restructuring themselves as learning organizations—organizations in which new learning and innovation are the engines that drive the company.
    • smenegh Meneghini
      smenegh Meneghini on 03 Feb 11
       
      How do you think that should impact formal education?
  • Knowledge Forum is, of course, not the only online learning environment available. Others of note include FirstClass, WebCT, and Blackboard. Palloff and Pratt (2001) note that, whatever online environment is used, "attention needs to be paid to developing a sense of community in the group of participants in order for the learning process to be successful"
    • smenegh Meneghini
      smenegh Meneghini on 03 Feb 11
       
      How can we develop a sense of community in those knowledge-building groups?
  • How does it work? In practice, the teacher presents students with a problem of understanding relevant to the real world. It could be a question such as What is the nature of light? or What makes a society a civilization? The focus here is to make student ideas, rather than predetermined activities or units of knowledge, the center of the classroom work. The next step is to get the students to generate ideas about the topic and write notes about their ideas in the Knowledge Forum (KF) database, an online environment with metacognitive enhancements to support the growth of the knowledge-building process. In generating these ideas, the students form work groups around similar interests and topics they wish to explore. These groups are  self-organized and dynamic; the teacher does not select the members, and members can join or leave as they choose. Idea generation can take place during these group sessions, during which all students are given the chance to express their ideas, or in individual notes posted directly to the KF database. While in a typical classroom setting ideas or comments generated in discussion are usually lost, the KF database preserves these ephemeral resources so that students can return to them for comment and reflection. Students are then encouraged to read the notes of other students and soon find that there are differing schools of opinion about the problem. The teacher's job is to ensure that students remain on task and work towards the solution of the problem under study by reading each other's notes and contributing new information or theories to the database
    • smenegh Meneghini
      smenegh Meneghini on 03 Feb 11
       
      What types of teacher moderation strategies this type of collaborative group work requires?
  • Derrel Fincher on 03 Feb 11
     
    A couple of key quotes: * The statement that the computer is "part of my brain" should resonate with everyone involved in education today. * How does it work? In practice, the teacher presents students with a problem of understanding relevant to the real world. It could be a question such as What is the nature of light? or What makes a society a civilization? The focus here is to make student ideas, rather than predetermined activities or units of knowledge, the center of the classroom work.
  • smenegh Meneghini on 03 Feb 11
     
    Thanks for your comments Derrel .. almost real time ...
Shabbi Luthra

Coaching Teachers: What You Need to Know - 1 views

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  • Shabbi Luthra on 10 Mar 11
     
    "Instructional coaches and teacher curriculum leaders -- It's all part of the new wave of teacher leadership. That's a very good thing - but quite often the new coach gets little clear direction about how to best accomplish this formidable professional challenge. In a recent (and very popular) Education Week Teacher article, Oakland CA middle grades coach Elena Aguilar shared advice from her own coaching practice. Call it the beginnings of "the manual that should have been in the box.""
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