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Don Lourcey

Administrators Texting for Success: Six Ideas - 1 views

  • Delta Opportunity School leaders use group texting with response to a Wiffiti board or a Poll Everywhere poll to gather ideas and encourage communication with students, staff, and parents. Improved input and better use of meeting time have been some helpful results.
Don Lourcey

21st Century Skills Assessment : Valid Data and ISTE-NETS-S Aligned - 0 views

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    21st Century Skills Assessments: Offers question types, sample texts, reporting strategies, portfolio assessment, etc.
Courtney Jablonski

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

  • 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.).
Derek McCoy

Free Technology for Teachers: Five Ways to Make Word Clouds from Text - 1 views

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    Different word cloud generators for the classroom
Jeff Mann

Is This Learning? | District Administration Magazine - 0 views

  • Is This Learning? Let’s discuss the definition of learning
  • For administrators, it comes to two questions. Do you believe the world has changed dramatically when it comes to learning? And if so, how can you begin to change the conversation around learning?
David Ellena

5 Habits of Innovative Educators | Courtney O'Connell - 0 views

  • Habits are unconscious patterns of behavior that are acquired with frequent repetition
  • 1. They are idea blenders.
  • they steal ideas and concepts from outside of their domain and find ways to infuse those ideas into their work.
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  • 2. They ask their biggest critics for feedback.
  • Change agents in education are surrounded by a supportive group of people that can and will give them honest feedback. No one feels scared or defensive in the exchange of feedback, because the educator has been intentional in creating a trusting environment where constructive criticism is welcome.
  • 3. They fail fast and fail forward.
  • They know that failure is an imperative part of the creative process. Innovative educators are brave enough to try new ideas in and outside of the classroom.
  • 4. They are passionately curious.
  • They are constantly learning. This is also why they are idea blenders, because their curiosity leads them into a new web-design class or a subscription to an entrepreneurship online magazine.
  • 5. They believe in their students.
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    Some ideas on being an innovative leader
David Ellena

Our Future Will Not Look Like Our Present | Evolving Educators - 0 views

  • we are in an educational transition that requires change.
  • Reading and Writing
  • students need to be technical readers. They need to learn how to comprehend complex text and be able to write it too.
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  • Technology Integration
  • Within this integration students and adults need to learn to be Digital Citizens.
  • What are lessons in education and the events of the world we live in? They are a series of problems requiring solutions.
  • Collaboration
  • This is how social media has become so popular and the way many companies now do business.
  • Problem Solving
  • Being able to collaborate with people is essential.
  • Self-Reflection
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    Some things to think about as education moves forward
David Ellena

Guest Post by Greg Richardson - Leadership and Ambiguity | elumn8 - 0 views

  • We like our leaders to be confident, clear, in control. We take comfort from leaders who have a vision, who are insightful, who know where they are going.
  • We are not nearly as comfortable with ambiguity. Ambiguity is uncertain. We do not know what is going to happen with ambiguity.
  • We are not reassured when leaders are ambiguous. We trust them less.
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  • The difficulty for leaders, and for us, is that many significant challenges are ambiguous.
  • Leadership is turning ambiguity into measurable action steps, translating what we fear into what we can do.
  • Leadership is turning ambiguity into measurable action steps, translating what we fear into what we can do.
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    Some great advice on handling ambiguity 
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