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Jackie Gerstein's page with breakdown of flipped classroom

great blog post by Scandinavian Posted by ingvihrannar | February 26, 2014 on obsolete practices including 13. One-Professional development-workshop-fits-all A school that just sends the entire staff to a workshop once a month where everyone get the same are obsolete. Professional development is usually top down instead of the ground up where everyone get what they want and need. This is because giving everyone (including students) what they need and want takes time & money. With things like Twitter, Pinterest, articles online, books, videos, co-operation & conversations employees can personalize their professional development. (Read about my article on Personalized Professional Development here)

Learning forward is a professional teachers organization dedicated to improving teaching that impacts student success. They have recently created standards that include professional development standards where learning communities are the focus of continuous improvement to engage in inquiry, action, research, data analysis, planning, implementation, reflection and evaluation.

Edutopia blog on web tools to help students collaborate. Some fun principles for collaboration including: shut up and listen; action beats inaction; there are no mistakes. Worth viewing the old Carol Burnett show YouTube with Tim Conway.

blog by Rachel Toor, February 2, 2015. Exactly how it is with blogging sometimes (which I should be writing even as I write this instead)

article by Jeffrey S. Solochek, Tampa Bay Times, 2/22/2015 flipped classrooms, using small videos, quizzes, engagement with ideas outside of group session for learners to try out, then reinforce, explore in face-to-face (or live synchronous online) sessions.

The Walk my world project is an "affinity space" for students and teachers to learn together. 

Tech-Enabled Learning by Whitehorne, Associations Now, January 2016, refers to recent survey on associations using technology to help their members/staff learn

How introversion affects teachers' ability to continue in the excessive "social collaborative" environment

Maria Popova's blog, brainpickings, on Carol Dweck's work on mindset. Even in children, open or growth mindset is a key factor in learning, while fixed mindset is too focused on being perfect or the best or knowing all the answers. Growth mindset leads to curiosity, learning, exploration, and creativity. Fixed mindsets lead to the status quo and adhering to what exists. Growth mindset sees problems and challenges as growth and learning opportunities, fixed mindset views challenges as failure and underperforming. Great graphic of the 2 mindsets from Dweck's book.

promotional page on Carol Dweck's Mindset with many good links

nice explanation of how professor uses email, scanner, Evernote, and Dropbox to build a fully searchable portfolio to organize and store bits of information that need to be compiled when being considered for tenure.

wonderful growth mindset facilitator list of beliefs, Jackie Gerstein, good visual

Focus at Will--a new music service that helps people focus on their writing, editing, researching, etc. by Natalie Houston, 12.3.2015

article by Abigail Walthausen on value of lectures such as Ted Talks that enable independent, deeper thought especially for introverted types than being thrust into a group discussion; The Atlantic, November 21, 2013 

good article, November 5, 2010, on group work to apply standards, concepts in case studies in class. Important to present significant problem, same problem, clear choice, and simultaneous reporting

Ron Barnett's quote in context on why lecturing creates a predictable environment that does not engage the students.

Ron Barnett's quote in context on why lecturing creates a predictable environment that does not engage the students.  

article by Daniel de Vise, Washington Post, February 15, 2015, on how colleges are eliminating or reducing or redesigning lectures in class to make them available online outside of class hours, mixing them with interactive questions and discussion, and making them shorter.

article by Daniel de Vise, Washington Post, February 15, 2015, on how colleges are eliminating or reducing or redesigning lectures in class to make them available online outside of class hours, mixing them with interactive questions and discussion, and making them shorter. 

riveting interview with Deirdre McCloskey, economist on two points: transition from man to woman, and writing.

great post on six characteristics of adult learning--Malcolm Knowles based