Group items tagged

Sign up to be chosen as one of 1000 schools across the globe to participate in the Oracle Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools with topics covering comping and weather - for ages 11 and up. Free!

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 1 Additional suggested reading ["NY Times, Nov 1, 2012. This article raises concerns about the impact of technology on students' attention spans and ability to persevere on challenging tasks, and approaches the question about how much schools need to adjust to students and how much students can be expected to adjust to schools" from MOOC Ed]

"Welcome to Super Second grade with Ms. Espinoza, at Tiburcio Vasquéz! Our school is in the heart of the Eastside of Salinas. We are a 1:1 iPad school. In this classroom we struggle in order to learn, we encourage each other via positive feedback, we are a family and as such we support each other. "

I have no experience with 3D printing. Someone pointed this out to me this morning. It is $685 assembled and $499 unassembled. I don't know what the discount would be. "A 3D Printer in every school. We're excited to announce our new Ambassador Program for schools. Our goal is to introduce 3D printing to students and teachers in the hope that you see the benefit and value of choosing Deltaprintr as your primary source for 3D printing technology."

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

This is the document from the Vatican website talking about Lay Catholics in Schools.

This is the website for information for the schools within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Curriculum Maps and Unit Plans for the schools in the Archdiocese of Newark.

Blog post with links to other resources

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 2 Core reading.

Week 1 - Additional suggested reading: ["8 pages), by the Alliance for Excellent Education in Nov. 2012, summarizes the challenges facing education leaders; the changes needing in teaching, technology and the use of time in schools; and the characteristics of digital learning" from MOOC Ed]

A presentation by a 21st Century Curriculum Coach at the start of the 2013 school year.

The Pope will be visiting the United States in September. Many schools are sharing photographs of themselves with Flat Francis. This is the website with the printable. Take a look at the #FlatFrancis hashtag on Twitter.

A Google Site to both catch up on 2014-2015 learning and prepare for the 2015-2016 school year.

This is normally a premium service by using this teacher registration link all students within a class can have a free fully-functional account within the school. Students can use assigned activities at home.

A friend shared: "When some Kindergarten teachers at [his school] asked [me] to find a web tool to help their students create simple drawings and write sentences below them, I searched but found nothing. So, I asked ABCYa's Alan Tortolani (a friend of mine) if he could come up with something. Here's the result. Kids love it! Printed output looks great. Perfect for early writers and artists!

I would join this in a heart beat. Maybe a couple of schools within the Archdiocese of Newark would like to try this. I could reach out to Arch Philly and NY too.