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Educational Leadership:Data: Now What?:What Research Says About / Collaborative Inquiry - 0 views

  • What Research Says About / Collaborative Inquiry
  • systematic, collaborative work will increase student learning
  • In their study of nine high schools, Ingram, Louis, and Schroeder (2004) report that teachers are more likely to collect and use data systematically when working as a group. When working by themselves, teachers tend to rely on anecdotes and intuition.
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  • Student work products or individual teachers' formative assessments are more relevant to instructional practices than standardized test scores
  • leadership and norms that support collaboration and data use
  • sufficient chunks of time to meet, training in inquiry skills, protocols to guide data collection and discussion, and a skilled facilitator to keep the agenda focused
  • Collaborative inquiry is among the most promising strategies for strengthening teaching and learning. At the same time, it may be one of the most difficult to implement.
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    Teachers can make better use of data when they work together than when they go it alone. But creating the conditions for such collaboration is a tall order.
Tod Baker

VoiceThread - Digital Library - 0 views

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    This is a collaborative VT from three different classes across the United States (2nd graders from Utah, 9th grade English students from Colorado, and 5th-6th grade music composition students from Texas). This VT is an example of the power of collaboration using technology. This encompasses art through words, visuals, and music.
beth gourley

How to Save the World - 0 views

  • Achieve collective results that the participants would be incapable of accomplishing working alone
  • a team is an interdependent group, which suggests that collaborative groups are teams,
  • It all comes down to what you are trying to accomplish
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    Nice chart for the requirements of collaboration.
Tod Baker

IB Selects ePals To Host Online Learning Community -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • IB also announced that Herndon, VA-based ePals will serve as the community's host.
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      Our grade 2 students were introduced to ePals last year.
  • In addition to our content, which will be hosted on the site, this new IB hosted learning community will allow our educators and school leaders to connect to exchange, hone and develop best practices."
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      How can we integrate this with our content on our elearning platform? Could we integrate it easily if we were on ePals as well?
  • DLP brings together all of the tools necessary for effective remote collaboration, including forums, blogs, wikis, media sharing, and file storage. In addition, the technology provides online security and user protection via client-customizable monitoring and filtering.
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    The goal of the online community, said IB Director General Jeffrey Beard, is to "create the ideal community and technology platform for ensuring that students and educators at IB World Schools can safely communicate, collaborate and learn with their peers regardless of geographic, cultural or language differences.
Tod Baker

Welcome! | Teachers Connecting - 0 views

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    A place for K-12 teachers to find other teachers for cross-classroom collaboration.
Tod Baker

Panel Discussion on The Future of Books and Reading - The Future of Education - 0 views

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    There are dramatic changes taking place that seem likely to change our experiences with books and reading. They include: pre-publication "wikified" collaboration, electronic delivery, open licensing, increased author-reader and reader-reader conversation, shared annotations, and more. Join this amazing panel as we peer into the near and long-term future of the reading experience.
Tod Baker

Capstone Program : PBS TeacherLine - 0 views

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    PBS TeacherLine and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) have teamed up to create the PBS TeacherLine/ISTE Certificate of Proficiency Capstone Program. Enroll in this online professional development learning experience to: * Demonstrate your knowledge of the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards. * Collaborate with other educators who are leaders in technology integration. * Earn a certificate of proficiency in the ISTE NETS*T.
Tod Baker

Apple Learning Interchange - Home - 0 views

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    Join the Apple Learning Interchange Community to connect with your peers and start creating content of your own.
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