Wow--interesting perspective on standards, particularly common core. I'd like to see someone take on the author's logic in an article. I agree with many of the author's points, but wonder what someone who has the opposite viewpoint might say to the idea that standards encourage minimum proficiency, therefore minimum effort.
Remember this guy at WEMTA a few years ago? He was good, and I like his rethinking of technology's impact on good teaching. The idea of creating "wonder" as a critical element is important, and is one of those many good teacher skills that would be hard to measure on an evaluation.....
Perhaps a lesson that might be useful in the 6-8 classroom as so many of our students are starting to "facebook" and really have no idea what they are doing.
Resources from the summit workshop. All the presentations from the Summit are linked to the session schedule. Search strategies w/ Theile, and Google Docs w/Kafka were especially good.
Interesting blog entry on the challenges of technology adoption by staff. Towards the end the author points out successful adoption techiques. How many times do we forget to remember these things??
Liked this, and found that the prior blogs he linked to in the article gave good examples, particularly the one on SMARTboards back in 2010. I'm hoping the "action research team" example is something we can start to work on with the PLC concept.
Alternative to Wordle--Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text.
From Apps in Education Blog..15 Presentation Apps for the iPad that coupled with a VGA adaptor will allow you to present with ease and elegance. Whether in the classroom, the network meeting or even the Boardroom.
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