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Lee Ann Altman

Critical Issue: Technology Leadership - 0 views

  • School leaders at all levels must collaborate with staff members and school personnel to create a vision for the future and a process for change, ensuring that schools and school districts are viable and thriving learning communities for students, staff, and community members. The focus on the purpose and direction of the organization (as a strategy for change work) is to ensure the long-term stability and quality of the educational program. All leadership roles have some management and executive tasks, and the difference between superintendent, principals, and directors is a matter of degree. The scope of the work and the scale of the operation change at each level of leadership. But regardless of a leadership level, school leaders need to make every effort to understand people in lower positions and discuss with them different perspectives. They must go beyond managerial roles and a "facts-and-methods" view of management and focus on the executive challenges of leadership to survive and thrive.
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      School leaders must collaborate with staff members to create a vision for the future. This will ensure schools have a thriving learning community for students,staff, and community.
Lee Ann Altman

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Working with Tech-Savvy Kids - 0 views

  • However, schools can teach students the 21st-century skills they need by involving them in technology planning and implementation. By empowering students to work with adults to solve real-world problems, schools can engage students in meaningful dialogue about technology use, Internet safety, online learning, and filtering. In the process, they hone students' skills in problem solving, collaboration, civic awareness, ethics, leadership, and information and media literacy. Schools benefit from students' insights and experience; at the same time, they show students how their education is relevant for the world today. This kind of involvement captures students' enthusiasm, creates new communication pathways to parents and the community, promotes deeper understanding of the school technology policy, promotes student leadership, improves technology integration schoolwide, and builds respect and trust among all groups.
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      Schools can teach students the 21st - century skills they need by involving them in technology planning and implementation. This kind of involvement captures students' enthusiasm, creates new communication pathways to parents and community, promotes deeper understanding of the school technology policy, promotes student leadership, improves technology integration schoolwide, and builds respect and trust among all groups.
  • Five Time-Tested Models
  • Model 1: Students as Committee Members
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  • Model 2: Students as Trainers
  • Model 3: Students as Technical-Support Agents
  • Model 4: Students as Resource Developers and Communicators
  • Model 5: Students as Peer Mentors and Leaders
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    Most school or district technology plans call for the inclusion of all stakeholder groups as key to creating a sense of ownership and support that will lead to long-term success. However, these plans often ignore the largest stakeholder group of all-the students.
Karen Shean

How Can Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom? - 0 views

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    As technology advances, it can be difficult to keep up and adapt to the advancements in both our personal and professional lives. Teachers have an especially important role to play in technological advancements, as incorporating technology in the classroom can be both a learning tool for students and a teaching tool for the instructor. Kids seem to be adapting to the rapid advancements in technology better than many adults, and they actually embrace it. For this reason, incorporating technology in the classroom is a great way to increase a child's interest in learning.
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    Written By: J. Beam Edited By: Bronwyn Harris Copyright Protected: 2003-2011 Conjecture Corporation Please let us know if you have any comments or questions about this article or wiseGEEK in general: As technology advances, it can be difficult to keep up and adapt to the advancements in both our personal and professional lives.
Karen Shean

Educational Leadership:How Teachers Learn:Learning with Blogs and Wikis - 0 views

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    Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.
Dustin Schularick

eduify: virtual writing coach making writing easier - 0 views

  • As students write they have immediate access to tutorials and writing examples, the built in ability to discover and cite sources automatically, the ability to verify citations and safeguard against plagiarism, the ability to store, share and edit documents online, and the ability to get help from friends and experts
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      Individualizes student writing. Instead of looking at one teacher model, the students have examples that fit their topic.
  • Students don’t have to wait around for coaching, they can get help as they need it.  Students working on writing from home also have access to that support.
    • Dustin Schularick
       
      As a 5th grade teacher I think this will save a lot of time.
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    Great writing tool for all grades
Karen Shean

Developing Educational Administration - 1 views

  • 5 traits that I think are essential in being an educational leader in the 21st Century.
  • An Active Listener
  • A Connected Leader
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  • An Authentic Conversationalist
  • Inspirational and Empowering
  • A 21st Century Learning Specialist
  • The best educational leaders I know listen so deeply during conversations that you know every word is being absorbed and processed.  This is an essential trait in a leader, as it is through deep listening that we can get to the heart of concerns and attend to the real issues at hand.  Too often we find ourselves having superficial conversations day-to-day, saying ‘hi’ or ‘how’s it going?’ in the hallways.  This is not bad in itself, but if these conversations are the only ones you have with your peers for any length of time, you loose the personal connection that is so important to educators.
  • The best educational leaders I know listen so deeply during conversations that you know every word is being absorbed and processed.   This is an essential trait in a leader, as it is through deep listening that we can get to the heart of concerns and attend to the real issues at hand.   Too often we find ourselves having superficial conversations day-to-day, saying ‘hi’ or ‘how’s it going?’ in the hallways.   This is not bad in itself, but if these conversations are the only ones you have with your peers for any length of time, you loose the personal connection that is so important to educators.
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    5 Traits of 21st Century Educational Leadership
Kate McElvaney

Educational Leadership:Multiple Measures:Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards - 1 views

    • Kate McElvaney
       
      Technology in and of itself does not improve student learning, as seen with this 23%
  • how teachers might use interactive whiteboards more effectively
  • organize information
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  • stop the presentation so students can process and analyze the new information.
  • visuals should clearly focus on the important information
  • discuss the correct answer along with the incorrect answers, making sure to elicit opinions from as many students as possible
  • students focus on why an answer is correct or incorrect
  • in 23 percent of the cases, teachers had better results without the interactive whiteboards.
  • 16 percentile point gain in student achievement.
  • three features inherent in interactive whiteboards have a statistically significant relationship with student achievemen
  • the learner-response device
  • use of graphics and other visuals to represent information
  • interactive whiteboard reinforcer—applications that teachers can use to signal that an answer is correct or to present information in an unusual context.
  • a study that involved 85 teachers and 170 classrooms, the teachers used interactive whiteboards to teach a set of lessons, which they then taught to a different group of students without using the technology (see Marzano & Haystead, 2009).
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      Higher-order thinking skills in use: analyze and evaluate
Kate McElvaney

Expanding PD on a Shoestring Budget - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

    • Kate McElvaney
       
      This is real-world learning that benefits the teachers and the students!
    • Kate McElvaney
       
      The "garnering of support and interest" is an important leadership prerequisite to any PD technology roll out.
  • videoconferencing trainings to help teachers feel more comfortable with the technology
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  • created videos that were sent out through email to teachers to garner support and interest.
  • the team used students
  • The teacher leader delivered a curriculum about how to be responsible, respectful teachers of technology to help students learn soft skills like professionalism and leadership
Lee Ann Altman

Great Advantages of Technology in the Classroom | Smart Classrooms - 0 views

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    It is not surprising with technological advances we have in the world that we are seeing more and more technology in the classroom. This stretches from college level to the grammar and middle school levels. It is becoming more and more normal to see technology such as computers and Internet in the classroom.
Kate McElvaney

Amount Of Time Teens Spend Online Can Improve Digital Literacy - 0 views

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      Because what we have them doing in school might be "more intensive," but it's not real world use? 
  • Many of these students can locate basic pieces of information and browse web pages if given specific instructions. But they are performing at lower levels than will allow them to fully utilize the educational, employment and social opportunities available to them in a modern context.
    • Kate McElvaney
       
      Hear the call for higher-order thinking using technology?
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  • teenagers who spend time on the web are more digitally literate during a time when technological proficiency is increasingly important, a recent report suggests.
  • participating in certain activities like emailing and chatting online influence digital reading performance
  • In school, however, students perform more negatively with more intensive computer use, suggesting that students are developing digital reading literacy largely through computer use at home.
Kate McElvaney

ISTE | NETS for Students Essential Conditions - 0 views

    • Kate McElvaney
       
      Effective instructional USES of technology embedded in standards-based, student-centered learning. ISTE defined as use of information and communication technology to facilitate engaging approaches to learning.
  • Shared Vision
  • Implementation Planning 
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  • Equitable Access 
  • Skilled Personnel 
    • Kate McElvaney
       
      What staff know, do, and are able to do. Technology integration skills with embedded higher-order thinking skills.
  • Ongoing Professional Learning 
  • Technical Support
  • Curriculum Framework
    • Kate McElvaney
       
      Standards, outcomes, expectations, embedded, assessed. What is taught? What are the resources to teach it? Content-specific digital resources and technology standards
  • Student-Centered Learning
Lee Ann Altman

Need and Importance of Information Technology in Education - WikiEducator - 0 views

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    Information Technology in Education INTRODUCTION Information Technology in Education, effects of the continuing developments in information technology (IT) on education. The pace of change brought about by new technologies has had a significant effect on the way people live, work, and play worldwide.
Lee Ann Altman

The Disadvantages of Technology in Classroom - 0 views

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    While technology can be a great addition to the classroom, it also can be a source of frustration for both the teacher and the student. Unless the teacher is well trained in technology and can support the hardware in the classroom, a technology expert will be needed to troubleshoot problems. If schools cannot support the purchased technology, it essentially renders it useless in times of crisis or disrepair.
Angel Owens

Digital Divide: The Three Stages (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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    Eeven back in 2006, this was being written about. Learned a lot from the three stages and he even speaks about how to bridge the gap.
Angel Owens

What We Know about Successful School Leadership [e-Lead] - 0 views

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    I thought this was timely and a good article in addition to what we have been reading in Dr. Williamson's course.
Angel Owens

TeachersCount > Best of the Web: Technology in the Classroom - 0 views

    • Angel Owens
       
      It's everywhere!!!
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      Thought Jenny would enjoy this one.
  • Technology Solutions for Schools helps both primary and secondary schools implement technology in their curriculums. Programs include standards-based and creative projects for all ages.
    • Angel Owens
       
      This may be a helpful reference when we all get promoted one day!
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    I am in LOVE with this article. Lists some of the best technology that should be used the classroom.
Angel Owens

The Sky's the Limit: Kids' Top Tools for the Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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    An article that asked students: "What technology do you use outside the classroom that would be GOOD for the classroom?" Great responses and ideas!!
Lee Ann Altman

How to Become More Tech Savvy This Summer | Edutopia - 0 views

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    I think one of the big problems with making best use of technology in the classroom is the richness of the possibilities. Instead of looking at all the digital possibilities and trying to bring them into your classroom, think about you and see what you can do with some of these tools in your own life.
Kate McElvaney

The Future of Education - Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked W... - 0 views

    • Kate McElvaney
       
      Lots of great professional development opportunities.
  • August 30th, Tuesday (2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern, 9pm GMT):  Richard and Rebecca DuFour on Professional Learning Communities to Improve Schools
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      The experts speak live!
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      I bet Katherine could help them out!
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