BYOD - 2 views
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"Why are we doing this? Applications accessed by a web browser, like Google Docs, eliminate the need to have specific software loaded onto every student computer. Cloud based computing allows students to access their information from any computer with a web browser. The current economic times require unique strategies to ensure every student has equitable access to online resources. 21 Century Learning We believe equitable access to technology will aid our students in becoming... information producers rather than information consumers. self-directed learners and collaborative team players."
Kindling a Passion for Literature - 0 views
AIMing for Digital Equity - 0 views
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"Ensure that your instructional materials are universally designed to be flexible, accessible, and usable for students with and without disabilities....If the hast to produce marketable digital materials results in little or no attention to broad usability, it is possible that the move to digital materials will create new barriers to access, participation and achievement."
ISTE | NETS for Students Essential Conditions - 1 views
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Shared Vision
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Implementation Planning
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Consistent and Adequate Funding
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All Principals Should Be Tech Savvy - 5 views
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It’s a challenge for any principal to find the ideal balance between leader and manager — let alone seize the opportunity to develop as a true instructional leader in a 21st century school.
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ook for students leading discussions, collaborating with one another, and taking control over their learning. They should recognize that this type of interaction has the potential to yield similar or better results than traditional direct instruction.
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Through sharing with others in my personal and professional learning networks, I am able to reflect and improve upon my practice.
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http://olms.cte.jhu.edu/olms/data/resource/3833/Stone%20Soup%20Budget.html - 0 views
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The danger of seriously reducing and limiting budget requests is that it courts the potential disaster that comes when children whose academic diet up to now has been adequate to support their growth and development but will not be nourished in the future
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--small classes, professional development, clean, safe and suitable facilities
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To feed only some while ignoring the needs of others is as pernicious a form of discrimination as any other. And the only way around such a situation is for educational and political leaders, starting at the local and state levels, to step forward and supply the very "stones" that encourage sharing and engender consolidation of resources.
Relationship- Driven Classroom Management and Resilience - 1 views
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A PDF format of chapter one from John M. Vitto's book Relationship-Driven Classroom Management: Strategies That Promote Student Motivation. Summary: Positive teacher-student relationships are an important factor in increasing student achievement and motivation as well as decreasing a student's risk of dropping out, substance abuse, bullying, and violence. Learn how to proactively and positively manage your classroom and students and build on their inherent strengths and talents. Relationship-Driven Classroom Management is the only book to combine resiliency, classroom management, and discipline into one user-friendly format suitable for all teachers. The chapter material covers both preventive strategies and reactive strategies, including: Attributes of relationship-driven teachers Strengthening relationships with students Teaching and modeling social-emotional skills Cultivating student responsibility Creating and implementing effective consequences Building relationships with difficult and resistant students.
Cheating Goes Digital | Edutopia - 0 views
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Why do students cheat? Because it's easy and fewer than 10 percent are caught
Crossing the Digital Divide: Bridges and Barriers to Digital Inclusion | Edutopia - 4 views
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Is there broadband installed at home or at a library close by? If there's a computer in the classroom, does it do more than collect dust? Has it been updated in the last five years? Blake-Plock calls this basic infrastructural inequality the digital divide.
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Blake-Plock refers to a final and crucial barrier to digital equality -- the connected divide. This refers to literacy, not only with hardware and software but also with the vast global conversation that the Internet enables.
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It's not just word processing, but blogging and tweeting; not just a class project, but an international student collaboration; not reinventing the wheel every time, but tapping into a professional-learning community that shares ideas and resources.
For minorities, new 'digital divide' seen - USATODAY.com - 2 views
Educating All Student Together and Learning Together - 3 views
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PPT of Leonard Burrello's thoughts on creating a learning environment for all. Quotes from the PTT: "Leadership has to be distributed across roles at every level in the system" (Slide 37). "Creating a transcendental moral purpose that ensures that each child has an endearing quality to be recognized, validate, and used to further their own learning" (Slide 31). "Our obligation as educators is to provide a curriculum that is relevant and challenging but teaching begins with authentic relationships founded on mutual respect and trust for children and their families" (Slide 31).