So if you’re ready to take your classroom or digital skills to the next level, read on. In fact, these skills are worth knowing for just about every teacher at any age.
We’ve refined the concept of flipped PD in response to this need for on-going, any time, any place, any pace professional learning
We now only have two staff meetings a year and those are far from traditional meetings. The remainder of our professional learning occurs within school based PLN teams, individually based PLNs, and grade level teams.
While their time isn’t monitored, their productivity is
ultimate result with this shift has been increases in engagement as well as a sense of relevancy and meaning amongst learners, all of which are foundations for improving achievement.
some of the reasons for not embracing technology have to do with several misconceptions revolving around fear.
time excuse seems to rear its ugly head more than any other reasoning to not move forward with technology
For technology to be not only integrated effectively but also embraced, a culture needs to be established where teachers and administrators are no longer fearful of giving up a certain amount of control to students
Many educators fear technology as they feel there is not or will not be the appropriate level of training to support implementation.
Teaching students good learning strategies would ensure that they know how to acquire new knowledge
Students who use appropriate strategies to understand and remember what they read, such as underlining important parts of the texts or discussing what they read with other people, perform at least 73 points higher in the PISA assessment—that is, one full proficiency level or nearly two full school years
Students can assess their own awareness by asking themselves which of the following learning strategies they regularly use (the response to each item is ideally “yes”):
Given the enormous impact that technology has had on nearly every other aspect of our society, how can that be?
Today our collective vision for education is broader, our nation is more complex and diverse, and our technical capabilities are more powerful. But we continue to assume the factory-model classroom and its rigid bell schedules, credit requirements, age-based grade levels, and physical specifications when we talk about school reform.
our focus should primarily be to design new classroom models that take advantage of what these tools can do.
understanding what it is we want students to be able to do, the measures of success, the resources we have to work with, and our own sense of possibility.
Different schools may take different approaches to combining these components
The Information Age has facilitated a reinvention of nearly every industry except for education. It's time to unhinge ourselves from many of the assumptions that undergird how we deliver instruction and begin to design new models that are better able to leverage talent, time, and technology to best meet the unique needs of each student
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The most common--and in fact, nearly universal--teacher-reported effect on students was an increase in motivation. Teachers and students are sometimes surprised at the level of technology-based accomplishment displayed by students who have shown much less initiative or facility with more conventional academic tasks:
this new era is accompanied with, and characterized by, a new information landscape. This new Internet landscape will challenge, disrupt, and overpower the print-oriented one that came before it. It will not completely obliterate that which preceded it, but it will render it to a subsidary, rather than primary, level of influence.
At the end of the day, the iPad offers a remarkable level of efficiency and integration for businesspeople who are particularly sensitive to workflow challenges or spend most of their time on the go. Heavy duty programs and major memory hogs have no place on a tablet, and you’re simply not going to find those on the iPad anytime soon.
starting in 1994, calculators were not only permitted, but were essentially required. The driving factors came from the level of mathematics taught and tested and the availability of graphing calculator technology. This change gave students the appropriate tool for accuracy and efficiency -- it was also the one used by most professionals who used mathematics beyond basic arithmetic
before prescribing medication, physicians often search the Medscape or Epocrates websites for the most current facts that might have significant impact on a patient's reactions to the medication. New information can be critical,
The problem is not primarily teachers or students who, in desperation, resort to cheating, but rather the conditions that drive them to such extremes
Desirable employees are those capable of making use of new information and technology to solve new problems and innovate ahead of the competition.
This is only the beginning of this conversation. What do you consider important implications of and perhaps preparation for Internet access for learning and testing?