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Edith Fogarty

Leadership 360 - Education Week - 0 views

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  • Edith Fogarty on 02 Jul 13
     
    Education Week Technology section
anonymous

Lack of Home Internet a Challenge for Students - Education Week - 0 views

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  • Nationally, the Federal Communications Commission notes that 7 out of 10 teachers assign homework that requires high-speed Internet access, yet in some communities, only 1 in 3 students can access the Web at home.
  • anonymous on 22 Mar 17
     
    edweek.org has a ton of articles about internet access and students. This particular article talked about a girl in high school who lived in a home without internet and how she struggled with doing online homework until the free Kajeet program gave her family free internet.
llisai

Apps for Global Collaboration: Questions and Tools to Inspire a Worldview - 1 views

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  • llisai on 13 Feb 17
     
    Today, Jennifer Williams, co-founder of Calliope Global and adjunct professor for Saint Leo University, introduces apps for global collaboration and purposeful connection.
  • llisai on 13 Feb 17
     
    Organized by Essential Questions and then a pedagogical basis, Williams outlines eight apps with the potential for global collaboration. She outlines the tool and then offers suggestions for how it can be used to reach out to other classrooms around the world.
forbes1977

3 Fundamental Qualities of a Successful School Leader - Leadership 360 - Education Week - 0 views

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  • A successful leader, according the 2008 ISLLC Standards, is one who promotes the success of every student by: facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment. collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources. acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner.  understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.
  • forbes1977 on 10 Mar 19
     
    A number of good characteristics of a school leader that can connect to some of the work done as a tech coordinator.
jessvanorman

6 Qualities Every Teacher Leader Should Have - Leadership 360 - Education Week - 1 views

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  • A learning facilitator offers professional development opportunities to colleagues, keeping learning relevant and focused on what is important in their classrooms.
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 14 Mar 19
       
      I want to do this more- recently in our leadership's weekly memo I offered up a "Instagram How To" we'll see if anyone bites and actually wants to do it...
  • A catalyst for change have a strong commitment to continual improvement, holds the vision for improvement, and tend to ask questions that generate thought and movement forward.
  • A catalyst for change have a strong commitment to continual improvement, holds the vision for improvement, and tend to ask questions that generate thought and movement forward.
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 14 Mar 19
       
      I feel I am a catalyst, but I often spin wheels when trying to make change. I will be more deliberate in my change project.
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  • Find and Develop Those Teacher Leaders
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 14 Mar 19
       
      This seems to be where we are right now, our district is starting to embrace teacher leaders. They are finding and developing them.
hannahluce95

5 Math Technology Tools to Engage Students - Global Learning - Education Week - 0 views

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  • hannahluce95 on 01 Mar 20
     
    Technology in the Math Classroom - this blog post outlines 5 tech tools that can be used to engage students and promote deep learning in the classroom. After reading the article, I am going to sign up for Google Classroom and explore the tool as a way to provide students increased access to videos of math concept videos that we are learning.
Eric Telfer

Spotlight on Ed-Tech Strategies for K-12 Leaders - 0 views

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  • Eric Telfer on 07 Jul 13
     
    Teachers and students are already driving change, and it's up to technology leaders to harness it for improved student learning and assessment. In this Spotlight, learn how ed-tech leaders are balancing the benefits and drawbacks of a "flipped" model of instruction, handling school innovation and social media communications, and ensuring districts are tech-ready for the common core's online assessments.
lstormvt

Common-Core Testing Drives 'Tech Prep' Priorities - Education Week - 0 views

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  • some feel "tech prep" is a waste of time, but far more view it as a crucial set of skills that does double duty.
  • SETDA advocates blending computer skills seamlessly into instruction, rather than teaching them in isolation.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      Yes, but some skill lesson has to happen or poor habits will develop and their skills will bottom out way to soon.
  • asked her students to practice typing by using a free online program at home for 20 minutes, twice a week,
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  • Of course, some computer skills are valuable, like keyboarding, creating multimedia projects, manipulating programs they'd use in life and school,
  • "They can run an iPhone like a champ, or the iPads we have here at school. But they're not that exposed to keyboarding skills or using the mouse to move something up and down on a screen."
  • said her students have been honing their keyboarding skills while using an online curriculum for computer coding.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      Love this!
  • Using an online math program, they learn to move and click a mouse, and cut and paste text. As they move through the grades, they add more skills, integrated into their core-content study, Ms. Warr said.
  • "If we were trying to teach the tech skills in isolation, there would be a huge pushback [from teachers], but we integrate them into other subjects," Ms. Warr said.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      But this has to start young so it builds. Teachers need help in how to make this happen seamlessly.
  • But because the Smarter Balanced assessment expects more "writing in one shot" online, he's encouraging teachers to shift their "quick writes" to the computer, he said.
    • lstormvt
      lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
       
      A balance between the writing process (paper, revision) as we know it and quick writes on the computer
  • 1st graders are starting with a free online game called Dance Mat, where they pick out letters one at a time, and work up to typing their names, Mr. Decker said. In 2nd grade, students begin using an online program called Type To Learn three times a week. Third and 4th graders continue it twice a week, and by 5th grade, it's down to weekly.
  • lstormvt on 12 Feb 17
     
    In this article, teachers and administrators share their desire to differentiate between computer skills that are test-based only and those that are actually life skills, too, and then figure out how to work those into the school day in a constructive way.
mjheald

Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills - 1 views

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  • mjheald on 12 Feb 17
     
    Sara Shaw, an elementary school teacher in Avon, Mass., realized she needed to teach online research skills several years ago when her students kept turning in projects riddled with misinformation. The flawed material often came from websites the students used. They took the information as fact, when it often was just someone's personal opinion.
anonymous

Equal Internet Access Is a K-12 Must-Have - Education Week - 1 views

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  • This lack of access particularly affects minorities. Only 55 percent of African-American and 57 percent of Hispanic households are able to access the Internet at home, and only 50 percent of residents in rural areas have high-speed Internet, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
  • Torey Olson on 31 Jul 14
     
    Making sure that all students have Internet access, at home and in school, is crucial, writes Helen Brunner.
  • anonymous on 22 Mar 17
     
    I found this website from a few years ago in our Diigo group. It explains that the lack of internet access in America is bad and that access is crucial to students because of the fact that we are becoming more dependent on internet access.
stephanie karabaic

Award-Winning Educator Taps Technology to Layer Instruction - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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awesome tools and ideas of setting up the reading class for student learning

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  • stephanie karabaic on 15 Jul 14
     
    English teacher Diana Neebe helped create her school's 1-to-1 iPad curriculum. Along the way, she reconceptualized English class.
  • stephanie karabaic on 15 Jul 14
     
    English teacher Diana Neebe helped create her school's 1-to-1 iPad curriculum. Along the way, she reconceptualized English class.
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