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Dolores Gende

The Innovative Educator: 19 bold (not old) ideas for change - 5 views

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willrichardson change 21stcenturylearning

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  • Dolores Gende on 04 Jan 13
     
    Excellent summary of Will's book
Demetri Orlando

Coming Together to Give Schools a Boost - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Above all, they say, partners must come together and agree not just on common goals, but shared ways to measure success towards those goals. They must communicate on a regular basis. And there must be a “backbone” organization that is focused full-time on managing the partnership.
  • war rooms” in each school. Teachers have meetings every two weeks, where they closely monitor students’ progress
  • the network can engage in continuous learning based on evidence.
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  • In education, data has traditionally been used for punitive purposes, not for improvement
  • “The key to making a partnership work is setting a common vision and finding a common language. You can’t let people get focused on ideological or political issues,” says Edmondson. “You need a common language to bring people together and that language is the data.”
  • Demetri Orlando on 08 Mar 11
     
    a lot of these ideas apply to any change management endeavor
susan carter morgan

21st Century Education Requires Lifewide Learning - Christopher Dede - Innovations in E... - 0 views

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21stcenturylearning change

shared by susan carter morgan on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • susan carter morgan on 25 Mar 11
     
    A solid argument for changing the way we "do school"
Demetri Orlando

The Key to Transforming Education - 0 views

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shared by Demetri Orlando on 01 Aug 09 - Cached
  • I believe that the secret to change lies in developing the social fabric, capacity and connectedness found in communities of practice and learning networks.
  • building a new future- one that focuses on the gifts each teacher, student, parent and leader
  • Demetri Orlando on 01 Aug 09
     
    SNBeach blogs about reforming vs. transforming. the secret to change lies in developing the social fabric, capacity and connectedness found in communities of practice and learning networks.
Jim Tiffin Jr

K12 Online Conference - 1 views

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conference web2.0 education technology e-learning k12 edtech conferences PLN professional development PD

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  • Jim Tiffin Jr on 28 Nov 11
     
    This is a FREE, online conference open to ANYONE organized by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.
Demetri Orlando

Here Are The 17 Radical Ideas From Google's Top Genius Conference That Could Change The... - 6 views

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open_testing

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  • Demetri Orlando on 13 Feb 12
     
    this might be another arrow in the quiver supporting open testing
  • Jack Hardcastle on 14 Feb 12
     
    If we have wireless everywhere, the ability to project onto the mind's eye, the ability to control a computer with our thoughts, and the ability to implant that computer in our body, how far away are we from having a bio-chip that gives us always-on access to the web? What will education do when children can recall facts they have never learned merely by thinking about the question? What skills do we teach then?
Demetri Orlando

Zoetrope Web Browser - 0 views

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historical web browser

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  • Demetri Orlando on 07 Dec 08
     
    slated for release in summer 2009, this web browser proposes to let you search "the historical web" and let users analyze data and info that has changed over time
Demetri Orlando

Texas administrators share vision to change schools - 0 views

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texas change

shared by Demetri Orlando on 29 Jan 09 - Cached
  • The school administrators want to return control to principals, teachers, parents, school board members and others at the local level —
  • School can be a very boring place for a student sitting at a desk all day
  • emphasizes sanctions rather than rewards
  • Demetri Orlando on 29 Jan 09
     
    I'm interested that they seem to be recommending moving towards more school-based decision making- one of the defining traits of independent schools
susan carter morgan

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - 0 views

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brainresearch habits

shared by susan carter morgan on 08 May 08 - Cached
  • Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try — the more we step outside our comfort zone — the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.
  • “The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
Demetri Orlando

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WillRichardson

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  • The web offers a whole new way of restoring this way of learning directly from an expert rather than from an institution.
  • my continued frustration with my kids’ education which is the system’s inability to help them find and nurture the areas they truly have passion for.
  • would be nice if the institution were the place that connected my kids to the experts they desired and needed to support their learning
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  • to really change what we do in schools we have to first change our understanding of what it means to teach in this moment
  • Demetri Orlando on 03 Jan 09
     
    Will's reflections on the Microsoft Schools of the Future Summit has some interesting points.
Jenni Swanson Voorhees

Using Twitter and QR Codes at Conferences - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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social media education pln twitter digital

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  • Jenni Swanson Voorhees on 13 May 11
     
    PLNs - conferences are changing with the use of tools like Twitter
susan carter morgan

The Power of Vision | Edu-Leaders - 4 views

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vision mission plpconnectu

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  • susan carter morgan on 06 Aug 11
     
    Visioning should result in change not word play
Demetri Orlando

Education - Change.org: Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions - 0 views

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21stcenturyskills

shared by Demetri Orlando on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Mobile phones, computers everywhere, hypertext, social networking, collaborative cognition (from Wikipedia on up), Google, text-messaging, Twitter, audiobooks, digital texts, text-to-speech, speech recognition, flexible formatting - these are not "add ons" to the world of education, they are the world of education. This is how humans in this century talk, read, communicate, learn. And learning to use these technologies effectively, efficiently, and intelligently must be at the heart of our educational strategies.
  • Maybe worse than irrelevant. Maybe dangerous. The belief that "your" experience is relevant leads to a nightmare loop. Students who behave, and learn, most like their teachers do the best in classrooms. Teachers see this reflection as proof of their own competence - "The best students are just like me." And thus all who are "different" in any way - race, class, ability, temperament, preferences - are left out of the success story.
susan carter morgan

open thinking » Five Recommended Readings? - 0 views

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reading shirky institutions

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  • susan carter morgan on 07 Jun 09
     
    he Associate Dean of Faculty Development & Human Resources at my workplace has asked me to recommend five readings (e.g., books, articles, blogpost, etc.) that would help inform his understanding of current changes regarding social networks, knowledge, and technology in education. Rather than develop the list alone, I thought it appropriate to (at least attempt to) crowdsource responses from individuals in my network. So, what readings would you recommend to an educational leader in charge of faculty development in a teacher education program? Any responses are greatly appreciated.
Bill Campbell

Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - 0 views

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vhsnotes1-5 vhs-bp-oet blendedlearning education onlinelearning

shared by Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project
  • Lesson #1: There is no standard approach to a hybrid course.
  • Lesson #2: Redesigning a traditional course into a hybrid takes time.
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  • he broke his content presentations into less than ten minute streaming video clips, and he interspersed his mini-lectures with student-centered problem-solving activities.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      As I was reviewing information from Brain Rules to confirm my recollection about the 10 minute rule, I found the following quote from Medina that also seems signficant with regard to a possible hybrid course advantage. He says the most common communication mistake is "relating too much information with not enough time devoted to connecdting the dots. Lots of force feeding, very little digestion." Might this be an advantage of presenting information online in a content-heavy course? Maybe the logistics of breaking up a 45 minute period that don't work well face-to-face might work better by presenting some content online. My gut says yet, but I'd like to see real examples of this.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      This is interesting because it is consistent with the research report in the book Brain Rules by John Medina. Brain Rules reported that students attention in a class drops a significant amount after 10 minutes and that you need to change gears to get another 10 minutes. So breaking up a video lecture into 10 minutes segments seperated by releveant problem sovling fits right in with that.
  • Hybrid instructors should allow six months lead time for course development.
  • Lesson #3: Start small and keep it simple.
  • "Integrate online with face-to-face, so there aren't two separate courses."
  • "The emphasis is on pedagogy, not technology. Ask yourself what isn't working in your course that can be done differently or better online."
  • Lesson #4: Redesign is the key to effective hybrid courses to integrate the face-to-face and online learning.
  • , instructors need to make certain that the time and resources required to create a hybrid course are available before they commit to the process.
  • Students need to have strong time management skills in hybrid courses, and many need assistance developing this skill.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      Participation in an online course might be an authentic way to provide high-school (and maybe older middle-school) students the opportunity to practice time management skills in an authentic way. However, this would need to be handled carfully so students who are not successful at first are not completey lost or so far behind that they can't be successful later after learning from their mistakes.
  • Contrary to many instructors' initial concerns, the hybrid approach invariably increases student engagement and interactivity in a course.
  • Lesson #6: Students don't grasp the hybrid concept readily.
  • Lesson #5: Hybrid courses facilitate interaction among students, and between students and their instructor.
  • Surprisingly, many of the students don't perceive time spent in lectures as "work", but they definitely see time spent online as work, even if it is time they would have spent in class in a traditional course.
  • Lesson #7: Time flexibility in hybrid courses is universally popular.
  • Lesson #8: Technology was not a significant obstacle.
  • Lesson #9: Developing a hybrid course is a collegial process.
  • Lesson #10: Both the instructors and the students liked the hybrid course model.
  • They stated that the hybrid model improved their courses because Student interactivity increased, Student performance improved, and They could accomplish course goals that hadn't been possible in their traditional course.
  • Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
     
    Teaching with Technology Today: Volume 8, Number 6: March 20, 2002
  • Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
     
    This article about the lessons learned during a higher-ed blended learning project is a decade old but still interesting and relevant.
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