2015 Prep-8 iPad App Lists | iPads 4 Learning @ MLP12C - 0 views
Rich schools become even richer | The Education Reformer - 0 views
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Contrast Scotch with Brookside College, a public P-9 school in Caroline Springs west of Melbourne. According to the MySchool web page, Brookside has an enrolment of 940 – half the number at Scotch but, unlike that elite school, it draws its students from a wide range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds with more than half from non-English speaking homes where 88% are in the lower and middle socioeconomic quartiles. Brookside has 68 teachers and 24 non-teaching staff while Scotch has 191 teachers and 106 assistants. Last year, Brookside had a net-recurrent income of $9 million – equivalent to nearly $10,000 per student and a total capital expenditure of $137,000. In contrast, Scotch’s recurrent income was $45.5 million – equal to $24,400 per student – and its capital spending came to nearly $4 million.
The Sky's the Limit: 16 Must-Read Quotes from Michael Fullan's Stratosphere - Vander Ar... - 0 views
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We should do less of spending money on assessment detached from designing learning and more of creating learning experiences that are irresistibly engaging."
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"The integration of technology and pedagogy to maximize learning must meet four criteria. It must be irresistibly engaging; elegantly efficient (challenging but easy to use); technologically ubiquitous; and steeped in real-life problem solving."
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"I hold out four criteria for integrating technology and pedagogy to produce exciting, innovative learning experiences for all students --something desperately needed to bring education into the 21st century. These new developments must be i) irresistibly engaging (for students and for teachers); ii) elegantly efficient and easy to use; iii) technologically ubiquitous 24/7; and iv) steeped in real-life problem solving."
The future of the book | The Economist - 0 views
Why We Need A "Why?" - YouTube - 0 views
10 Quick Ways to Give Students A Voice | Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension - 0 views
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1. Give them a blog.
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2. Give them time.
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3. Give them post-its.
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Student Portfolios in the Cloud | thepluggedinportable - 0 views
Safer Schools with Creative Commons | IPAD 4 SCHOOLS - 0 views
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Who owns the material and it’s components when it’s published?
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How can schools not only inform but encourage the school community to start using licensing and working safely to avoid being prosecuted?
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Understanding what is and isn;t ok is a crucial skill for all to learn and I hope this information helps schools get more confident with publishing material online.
50+Ways to Tell a Story - 0 views
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"It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and deep levels of technical expertise. We are at the point now where anyone can create and publish very compelling content with nothing more complex than a web browser. The point is not that these are professional level production tools, but that the barrier of entry to content creation can be drastically low. And you should find a new mode of creativity when the tool have some limits as to what they can do-- and find that the core of the story is much more important than a widget."
10 ways to make meetings (and lessons) meaningful… | What Ed Said - 0 views
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Does every meeting in your school relate to or result in learning?
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Does every lesson in your classroom contribute to meaningful learning, rather than completion of work?
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‘Have you ever had to sit through a whole hour when you felt like the substance of the meeting could have been handled in five minutes?’
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Questions to Ask Oneself While Designing Learning Activities | User Generated Education - 0 views
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Here are some questions I ask myself as I go through this process: Will the learning activities provide learners with opportunities to tap into their own personal interests and passions? Will the learning activities offer the learners the chance to put them “selves” into their work? Will the learning activities provide learners with opportunities to express themselves using their own authentic voices? Will the learners find the learning activities engaging? interesting? relevant? useful? What “cool” technologies can be used to help meet both the instructional and the learners’ goals? Will the learning activities provide learners with opportunities to have fun and to play? Will learners be able to do at least some of the work independently? Will the learning activities give all of the learners opportunities to shine? Will the learners get the chance to share their work with other learners, with a more global audience?