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Week 6 Recommended Reading "In a chapter from The Digital Classroom: How Technology is Changing the Way We Teach and Learn (Harvard Education Letter, 2000), Glenn Kleiman describes five myths that, as one of your MOOC-Ed leaders, he wishes were much more out of date now that we are more than a decade later" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 recommended resource reading "Mary Lippitt, Enterprise Management, Ltd. 1987. A one-page summary of the five major components required for successful change and the impact of insufficient attention to any one of the components" from MOOC-Ed

Week 2 Additional Reading: "Jenifer O. Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, March 2013 provides a brief summary of the relevant research" from MOOC-Ed

A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. This is free. "We live in a digitally connected world. The way information is generated, shared, processed and distributed is significantly impacting how we learn. If you have a passion for teaching and learning, and want to be an awesome educator now and in the coming decades, this course is for you! We will begin the journey of becoming a dynamic educator for the digital age. Intended Audience: Those who have a passion for teaching  Time to complete the course: 3-4 hours per week  Certificate or digital badge for completing the course: Certificate  Format: Instructor led  "

Week 6 recommended resources video "District and school leaders emphasize the importance of collaborative leadership, the role of the principals, and the challenges of educators keeping up with the students" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 - Recommended reading "The Frameworks Institute, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, provides a set of framing research reports and application tools to help education leaders increase public support for digital learning initiatives. Their main findings and recommendations are summarized in a Message Memo about Talking About Learning and Digital Media and a related video, and the site provides several additional resources" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 - Recommended Readings "In his blog, Kelly Walsh provides a good, succinct summary of common flaws in educational technology implementations." from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 Recommended Video "Video (2:37) District and school leaders share their strategies for leading their digital learning transition, with a focus on building collaboration. Also available is a recent Transformation Talk by Superintendent Mark Edwards at the Discovery Future@Now conference that provides a good example of communicating about changes in schools required to take advantage of the potential of digital learning" From MOOC-Ed

Week 6 recommended resources "Digital Learning Now Smart Series, Version 1.0. February 2013. A detailed guide to the steps of planning and implementing K-12 blended learning initiatives" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 recommended reading "Ken Kay, the former president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and now CEO of EdLeader21, provides a series of seven blogs describing a framework for leadership actions to implement the 4Cs (critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity) in schools" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 Recommended resources "A group of innovative district leaders share their thoughts about the leadership of digital learning transitions" from MOOC-Ed

Week 2 Additional reading: "Alliance for Excellent Education, May 2012. Pp. 1-16 on learner centered education and teaching in a learner-centered environment." from MOOC-Ed This is a very good document.

Week 1 additional video recommendation [Edutopia Big Thinker Series. Dr Gee argues that multiplayer, activity-based, problem solving games can be models of effective learning environments from MOOC-Ed]

Week 2 Additional Reading: "This infographic and the following text from the Alliance for Excellent Education provides an overview of the challenges and the elements that leaders must address in responding to the challenges" from MOOC-Ed

Week 1 Additional suggested video ["Edutopia Big Thinker Series. Dr. Barab discusses learning through games in which learners become central, important participants" from MOOC-Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested video resources: ["Edutopia Big Thinker Series. Dr. Gardner, the originator of the concept of multiple intelligences, discusses his thoughts about technology, education and ethics" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 - Additional suggested video: ["In his trademark style, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, walks viewers through the many ways digital technology can impact teaching and learning in a blended learning environment" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 - Additional suggested video: ["Two national leaders, who helped write the 2010 National Education Technology Plan (listed in the printed resources below), discuss the plan, personalization of learning, new curriculum standards and assessments, and their insights about directions for digital learning. Excerpted from an interview with Glenn Kleiman from EpicEd.org" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested video: ["Edutopia provides profiles of technologically sophisticated students, with both a video and a written interview for each. The 10 students range in age from nine to 18. They are engaged in a of variety productive, creative uses of technology, including: producing videos; forming groups engaged in social activism; creating animations; writing blogs; and creating educational and other types of web sites. The link takes you to a menu where you can choose the profile of one or more students" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 - Additional suggested video ["A video summary of the report is listed in the next section. Each year, NMC analyzes the potential of emerging technologies for K-12 education and predicts, for each type of technology (e.g., tablet computing, game-based learning, augmented reality), the time-to-adoption horizon, ranging from one to five years. These are very valuable reports for keeping up with emerging technologies" from MOOC Ed]