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Sarah Blattner

Quadblogging - Sign up - 0 views

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    This is a cool way to get kids interacting with classrooms around the globe and it gives them an authentic audience. Check it out!
Sarah Blattner

ISTE | Chart students' growth with digital badges - 0 views

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    A nice overview of the purposes of badges in the classroom and a few links to resources to help you get started
Sarah Blattner

The Next Experiment in Education | TIME - 0 views

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    Time Magazine article features digital badges as a new credential and way to combat the "sit and get," "drive by," "spray and pray" methods of teacher PD
Sarah Blattner

Do We Know How to Help Teachers Get Better? | TNTP - 0 views

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    TNTP study just released on "effective" teacher PD -- I can't help but think a badge approach can help make things better for teachers
Sarah Blattner

Digital Literacy on Pinterest - 0 views

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    Great collection of images that help us get our heads around what digital literacy is all about!
Jill Norton

Could the Same Genes Shape Math Skills As Reading Ability? | MindShift - 0 views

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    "Here, teachers are a bit like farmers, Detterman says. And children are a bit like corn. "You have corn plants that do well in certain environments, and don't in others. And the farmer's job is to get the corn plants into the right soil.""
Sarah Blattner

4 stages of teacher confidence in the use of technology - 0 views

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    Love this infographic -- really rings true! How can we get our teachers to move along the spectrum and reach the "innovator" level?
Sarah Blattner

Maker Party - Home - 0 views

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    Get making! Lots of resources for hosting your own maker event!
Sarah Blattner

A Fair(y) Use Tale - YouTube [Video] - 0 views

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    Shared by our colleague in the TAMRITZ Badge Learning Network -- fun Disney style take on copyright, fair use and public domain. Very clever and gets the point across.
Kelly Platzke

My experience in getting started with Genius Hour | ReconfigurEd. - 1 views

  • We provided a proposal template in the form of a Google Doc and asked that each student submit their idea and plan to their teacher. As the proposals star rolling in, we are giving students feedback by leaving a comment on their document and suggesting changes or tweaks where necessary.
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      These are science-based ideas, but students could make LA connections as well. (i.e. Is it true that the only theme in all of literature is "Who am I?"; Yahweh means "I AM" - how does that impact our understanding of human identity?). Any topic will be applicable to LA and technology skills: research, writing, collaborating, sharing, presenting, etc. 
  • Google’s 80/20 time, where engineers are encouraged to take 20% of their weekly load to work towards personal projects of their choice.
  • The question we both had was, what if students were offered the same opportunity?
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  • twitter,
  • following media and blog articles
  • They would be given roughly 1 hour during the week to work towards their projects. I also made this sweet banner as our Genius Hour poster, and explained that photoshop was something that no-body taught me, because I was never given the opportunity to learn it. But I decided to find out if I could teach myself. The result is that I now have a basic knowledge of photoshop! This was the idea that we communicated to them about Genius Hour, that they were to be the ones to decide what to learn, how to do it, and then what to do with it.
  • 10 Principles of Genius Hour
  • firming up their essential question to set up their projects.
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Sarah Blattner

Blended Learning Implementation Guide - 0 views

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    Wonderful resource that helps you launch blended learning in your school
Sarah Blattner

The Future: What 32 Ed Leaders Are Excited About - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education... - 0 views

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    Innovation, personalized learning, blended learning, agency and choice, competency-based learning ... wow!
Sarah Blattner

▶ The challenges of raising a digital native | Devorah Heitner, Ph.D. | TEDxN... - 0 views

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    Devorah Heitner's TedX talk -- definitely worth your time! She was a guest webinar speaker for TAMRITZ, Summer of 2013.
Sarah Blattner

Digital badging Part 3: Could earning digital badges help young people get a job? | MSU... - 0 views

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    Badges help youth identify career opportunities
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