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David Ellena

Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog: 8 Shifts Young Leaders Need to Make - 0 views

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leadership learning reform

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  • David Ellena on 02 Aug 14
     
    Some thought provoking shifts for every leader, not just young leaders 
Courtney Jablonski

Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom by Alan November - 1 views

Alan November hit the nail right on the head...there has to be a shift in paradigm and control if we want to help our students flourish and succeed in today's global society.

web 2.0 leadership paradigm shift 21st century skills

started by Courtney Jablonski on 03 Feb 11 1 follow-up, last by Courtney Jablonski on 03 Feb 11
Duane Sharrock

Bringing the world to innovation - MIT News Office - 0 views

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Time Magazine 100 most influential people innovation mit world global solutions TED founder Amy Smith Time influential people

shared by Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s
  • D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world’s least-affluent countries — and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions.
  • thanks to a major new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) grant to D-Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, D-Lab’s instructors and researchers will implement this strategy even more broadly — providing greater continuity to projects around the world, says D-Lab founder Amy Smith, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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  • Awareness of D-Lab has grown in recent years, thanks in part to some prominent mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s selection of her in 2010 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
  • The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT.
  • with the new USAID support, “we can harness the alumni of IDDS as a kind of an extremely diverse and dispersed design consultancy,”
  • While some students have already managed to turn class projects into ongoing organizations — building better water filters in Africa, bicycle-powered washing machines in Latin America, and wheelchairs in India, for instance — the new funding should enable more such activities, Smith says, by “incubating ventures and training entrepreneurs.”
  • The emphasis has shifted,” Grau Serrat says, “more from designing for poor people to designing with poor people, or even design by poor people.”
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    Another reason some students are applying to MIT. Undergrads are making a difference globally. "the innovative MIT classes and field trips known collectively as D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world's least-affluent countries - and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions." "The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT." "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
Courtney Jablonski

Teachers carry their views on evaluations from online to Albany | GothamSchools - 0 views

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paradigm shift teacher evaluations professional development

shared by Courtney Jablonski on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The teachers’ goal was to devise recommendations based on teachers’ own experience for what measures districts should consider when evaluating teachers, and how heavily each of those measures should be weighted.
  • focused on breaking down “the culture of ‘closed doors’”
  • Under the state’s teacher evaluation deal passed last May, teachers will be given a score on a new 100-point scale, with 40 of those points determined by student achievement data.
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  • The remaining 60 points will be determined through “local assessments,” which will take forms that must be negotiated by school districts and their local unions. The law leaves open what those assessments could look like. Newly-developed tests or portfolio demonstrations of student work are two ideas that state officials have mentioned as possibilities.
  • One aspect of the local assessments is clear: they all must meet new regulations that are currently being developed by a state task force led by Deputy Education Commissioner John King.
  • The group ended up recommending that the 60 points be spread across five different evaluation measures, giving the most weight to observations by school administrators and other teachers in the school. A sixth measure — student portfolio work — was considered but abandoned, because the increase in paperwork for teachers seemed too high for the value the portfolios would provide for the evaluations, Anderson said.
  • Courtney Jablonski on 11 Feb 11
     
    If you were to design the new teacher evaluation system, what would you include? What opportunities would you want this evaluation system to bring to light?
Courtney Jablonski

eLearning Update: Blended Learning Key for Growth - 0 views

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eLearning blended learning online learning paradigm shift

shared by Courtney Jablonski on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Blended learning is any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, path, and/or pace.
  • The definition implies simple remote correspondence—like online videoconferencing or web chatting in a real-time environment only—does not qualify as blended learning, and perhaps points to a theoretical division between the labels of "online" and "distance" learning.
  • The report then labels six types of blended learning approaches:• face-to-face driver programs where teachers deliver most instruction in a live classroom and use online activities to supplement or remediate what goes on in the brick-and-mortar school;• rotation models where students follow a schedule that alternates between face-to-face class sessions and in-person instruction;• flex formats where most of the curriculum originates online, but an on-site instructor provides instruction as needed in individual and small group sessions;• online lab sessions where students do work online, but in a computer lab at a brick-and-mortar school with aides who offer supervision but little subject guidance;• self-blend schools where students may take online courses a la carte to supplement their brick-and-mortar school's curriculum; and• online driver constructs where students receive most of the course online and independently, but participate in required or optional face-to-face meetings.
  • Courtney Jablonski on 03 Feb 11
     
    Our district is very focused on integrating 21st Century Learning Skills with our current Common Core Standards. What else can we be doing to prepare our students for this type of learning environment? At what age is it appropriate to begin this type of learning? What cost will this have on the emotional/personal relations between students and teachers?
Courtney Jablonski

Wanted: Ways to Assess the Majority of Teachers - 0 views

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assessment paradigm shift value added teacher evaluation

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  • Courtney Jablonski on 03 Feb 11
     
    Article addresses the question as to how to assess teachers who are not directly linked to standardized testing of students. A referenced study suggests that the majority of teachers will fall into the "not linked to state testing" category contrary to the attention that is being given to the evaluation standards set under Race to the Top requirements and other state legislation.
Courtney Jablonski

Education Week Teacher: Hybrid Teaching Roles Promote Student Success - 0 views

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paradigm shift data analysis leadership

shared by Courtney Jablonski on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • a hybrid teacher role as Data Strategist. I was charged with the task of organizing the various data points that, taken collectively, offer useful clues about student achievement, progress, and deficiency. The data lens could zoom out to a schoolwide perspective that might inform staff development planning, narrow to a classroom or grade-level view offering insight on skills requiring remediation, or focus on a single student being considered for referral to the school psychologist for a learning disability.
  • There is growing evidence that teacher empowerment as school leaders is linked strongly with teachers' tendency to engage in behaviors that accelerate student growth: soliciting parent involvement, communicating positive expectations, and being willing and able to innovate in the classroom.
  • In addition to measurable student impact, teachers that lead schools are better equipped to guide their own professional development, share their expertise, and develop explicit and implicit systems of accountability, while experiencing more respectful, trusting, and professional cultures.
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  • Title 1 funding that traditionally would have paid for an additional literacy specialist was allocated for the data strategist position.
  • The possibilities are endless when an individual's interests and skills are considered within the context of a school's needs. Such roles might also include community liaisons responsible for connecting families with various social services while plugging students into local job, volunteering, or community service opportunities. A keen interest in 21st-century skills might develop into a role that guides students to collaborate with others, synthesize information, and create something unique and useful for their peers.
  • The most prevalent barrier to hybrid teaching roles is the district-mandated staffing plan that leaves buildings with little opportunity to determine how personnel are allocated.
Courtney Jablonski

Electronic tablets break down educational barriers in R.I. schools | Rhode Island news ... - 0 views

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web 2.0 tools paradigm shift

shared by Courtney Jablonski on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • using iPads to write essays, edit videos, practice their multiplication tables and e-mail their homework to teachers
  • revolutionizing the way a handful of Rhode Island schools provide instruction, communicate with students and parents, and evaluate teacher performance.
  • using the iPad to evaluate what teachers are doing in the classroom.
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  • $500 from the school’s operating budget, the iPad is cheaper than a typical laptop, more portable, and, with its touch screen technology, easy to use.
  • Of course, with greater freedom comes greater responsibility. That’s why Trinity has developed a detailed policy, signed by student and parent, which explains how the iPad can be used. For example, the use of social networking sites is prohibited. Students may only access the Internet through a specific application that filters out inappropriate material. And the iPad must never be left unattended.
  • “Technology offers flexibility in scheduling and the ability to work anytime,”
  • Courtney Jablonski on 23 Feb 11
     
    Have any of your schools started to use the iPad? In what capacities?
Courtney Jablonski

Education Innovation: Your School's Secret Change Agents - 6 views

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Leaderhsip Paradigm Shift Professional Development

shared by Courtney Jablonski on 28 Feb 11 - Cached
  • “Somewhere in your organization, groups of people are already doing things differently and better. To create lasting change, find areas of positive deviance and fan their flames.”
  • school staff takes ownership of the quest for change
  • identifies preexisting solutions (what is working) and amplifies them across the school
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  • Flows From Solution Identification To Problem SolvingPossible source of solutions is expanded through discovery of new parameters
  • Identifies school stakeholders beyond those directly involved with the problem
  • Courtney Jablonski on 03 Mar 11
     
    Love the suggestions made in this article. Thinking and acting outside of the box often provides avenues to success.
Courtney Jablonski

On Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives, offered by Zur Institute, LLC for Psychologi... - 4 views

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eLearning Web 2.0 Tools 21st Century Learning Instructional Strategies Paradigm Shift

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  • not all digital immigrants and not all digital natives are created equal
  • Digital Immigrants fall into the following three major groups
  • Avoiders:
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  • Reluctant adopters
  • Enthusiastic adopters
  • Digital Natives fall into the following three major groups
  • Avoiders
  • Avoiders:
  • Minimalists
  • Enthusiastic participants
  • Avoiders:
  • this means changing the educational model to be more participatory and less passive.
  • Schools need to churn out students who are excited about learning and ready to thrive in the world as they meet it after high school. This means that students should be proficient in: Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, Powerpoint); they should know how to write a business-appropriate email (no texting abbreviations); when it is and is not appropriate to text; when to turn off their phones; how to handle security breaches online (in the forms of sexual pictures of self or friends, stolen identity, bad online reviews, etc.).
Don Lourcey

Cultivating Authenticity in Learning - 2 views

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authentic assessment authenticlearning 21st Century Assessment 21st Century Learning 21st century Literacy

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      Don Lourcey on 20 Apr 11
       
      This is a pivotal issue. How do we we move the thinking necessary to shift from a comfortable, stale approach to one that is defined by its learning, engagement, and interaction? 
  • Schools that confine themselves to a bland curriculum, textbooks, worksheets, or learning activities that do not go beyond the walls of the brick and mortar building are really doing a disservice to their learners.
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