It is an excellent manual for administrators too, who want to transform educational practice in their schools or districts to capitalizes on 21st century technologies.
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Deeper Learning: Highlighting Student Work | Edutopia - 0 views
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"It's not just the reading and math skills; it's also the planning, problem solving and working collaboratively. When do we believe students will develop the dispositions to persevere over time with a challenging project and hold themselves to high standards of quality? These skills and mindsets -- collectively known as Deeper Learning -- can only be built through long-term practice in classrooms where students work together on significant projects."
10 Reasons To Use Your Real Name As Your Twitter @Name - 1 views
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10 Reasons To Use Your Real Name on #Twitter ► http://t.co/f0yk63fT ◄ #Tip ll RT @DrJeffersnBoggs
The 21st Century Principal: How to Become a Connected Educator: Developing an Effective PLN - 2 views
Medical Clerk Resume, Sample Medical Clerk Resume - 0 views
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For an effective medical clerk resume, one should highlight your skills which are essential to perform the general clerical duties. You should also be aware that you would be handling sensitive information and therefore take efforts to maintain its confidentiality.
From teaching to learning… « What Ed Said - 2 views
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We’re working on shifting the focus from teaching to learning at my school. We try to ensure decisions are based on our learning principles, be they about teaching, classrooms, programs or personnel.
One way to grow a networked teacher, is to grow a networked learner #pln » Cat's Pyjamas - 0 views
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A networked professional has a Personal Learning Network
As Digital Tools Abound, Help Kids Self-Regulate | MindShift - 0 views
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Helping kids develop strategies like self-regulation will allow them to use their own initiative and to direct themselves — without adult supervision.
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it’s important to develop kids’ learning strategies so they stay on topic while they use these tools.
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Teach kids to set an attainable goal — not one that’s out of reach.
Kids on the Internet: danah boyd's controversial idea that kids should be allowed to roam free. - Slate Magazine - 2 views
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She is not, of course, arguing that kids should be exposed to pornography, but rather that their response to it depends on the kid. By way of analogy, she says that when a 40-year-old is an alcoholic, the issue is not that he was exposed to alcohol at 21.
No Facebook or Twitter in Class? Try These Teaching Work-Arounds | EdTech Magazine - 1 views
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Perhaps more important than the content we teach are the life skills we model by embracing these concepts. Using social media in the classroom allows teachers to remind students of the power their words can have online. This understanding will be crucial as they head to college, start a career and become adults in a digital world.
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Anyone can look up Benjamin Franklin on Wikipedia and create a PowerPoint presentation of the information found there. Creating a fake Facebook wall for Benjamin Franklin that delivers the same information, but from the perceived perspective of Benjamin Franklin himself, adds a level of higher-order thinking to the activity that students will long remember.
Turn on "OK Google" in Chrome OS to start talking to your Chromebook - 0 views
Mind Over Mass Media| The Committed Sardine - 1 views
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NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
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Experience does not revamp the basic information-processing capacities of the brain. Speed-reading programs have long claimed to do just that, but the verdict was rendered by Woody Allen after he read “War and Peace” in one sitting: “It was about Russia.” Genuine multitasking, too, has been exposed as a myth, not just by laboratory studies but by the familiar sight of an S.U.V. undulating between lanes as the driver cuts deals on his cellphone.
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And to encourage intellectual depth, don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google. It’s not as if habits of deep reflection, thorough research and rigorous reasoning ever came naturally to people. They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call analysis, criticism and debate.
The Social You vs The Professional You - 0 views
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But that blurry part…that’s the tough part. That’s where decisions have to be made. Where students at the age of 13 need to start making decisions that we never had to make. We never had a professional side at 13….we didn’t need one. But if you are going to have a social side on the Internet then you better also start building your professional side.
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination | Harvard Magazine - 0 views
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You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
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I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
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And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.
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Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff - TechLearning.com - 0 views
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You and every other so-called multitasker are actually serial tasking. Rather than engaging in simultaneous tasks, you are in fact shifting from one task to another to another in rapid succession. For example, you switch from your phone conversation to a document on your computer screen to an email and back again in the belief that you are doing them simultaneously. But you’re not.
How the smartphone is killing the PC | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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The change that smartphones bring is computing power in the palm of our hands or in our pockets. It is internet connectivity almost anywhere on earth. That's going to have profound effects
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dominant share belongs to Google, which gives Android away in return for providing its services – search, maps, access to apps in its "Market" (equivalent to Apple's App Store).
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