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stephanie karabaic

10 ways to create a literacy rich environment | teachmama.com - 0 views

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    10 ways to create a literacy rich environment guest post by kategribble on teachmama.com
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    10 ways to create a literacy rich environment guest post by kategribble on teachmama.com
teachpoint0

How to Transform Negative Environments - 2 views

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    Good tips on building a positive environment discovered via twitter!
Nathan Gingras

6 Recommendations for Learning in the Digital Age - 0 views

  • 1. Redesign learning environments so that students can learn anywhere, any time, at any place and at any pace.
  • 2. Enhance the ability of educators to support and guide learners in a networked learning environment.
  • 3. Build an infrastructure that will connect students no matter where they learn
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  • 4. Ensure that digital resources can work together.
  • 5. Adopt policies that rank digital, media and social-emotional literacies as basic skills in the Digital Age.
  • 6. Create trusted learning environments.
  • The shift to competency-based education will also take a lot of work because it requires a change in thinking and policy.
Leah Starr

Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity (Big Thinkers Series) | Edutopia - 0 views

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    How to use the flipped classroom model to allow for a more hands-on, inquiry based learning environment.
Nathan Gingras

Five Steps for Implementing a Successful 1:1 Environment | Edutopia - 1 views

  • Step 1: Define the Goals of your 1:1 Program
  • Step 2: Define the Role of the Device in Your Classroom
  • Step 3: Model How to Harness the Device's Power
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  • Step 4: Put It Away When Appropriate
  • Step 5: Teach, Model and Support Information Literacy
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    This article highlights five important steps for a successful 1:1 implementation.
stephanie karabaic

Cloud-Based Content Creation and Sharing | Haiku Learning - 0 views

  • Quickly create hosted pages, add blocks of interactive content, and publish for your students and their parents to access.
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      Love that it is more user friendly
  • from TED talks to Google Maps
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      Things that teachers are already using
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      Wow this page really gives you an intense snapshot of what Haiku does.  It sounds like an amazing resource for teachers!
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    This is my GOTO choice of collaborative learning environments-I use it every day.
stephanie karabaic

cooltoolsforschools - Collaborative Tools - 0 views

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    Collaborative learning environment tools to try
stephanie karabaic

The Voice of the Active Learner - Education From a Digital Native's Perspective - YouTube - 0 views

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    video clip-shares what the digital native uses to learn..and how we should be meeting them in their learning environments
pjspurlock

Students Should be Taught to be Digital Leaders Instead of Digital Citizens - The Tech ... - 0 views

  • Digital leaders do more than consume information. They synthesize learning and use it in collaborative environments. Digital leaders are dynamic change agents who transform the status quo, facilitate better communication and understanding, and integrate a variety of technology tools in their lives.
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      Great way to connect this to PBL and collaboration.
  • Digital leaders do more than consume information. They synthesize learning and use it in collaborative environments. Digital leaders are dynamic change agents who transform the status quo, facilitate better communication and understanding, and integrate a variety of technology tools in their lives.
mjheald

Educational Leadership:Teachers as Leaders:The Many Faces of Leadership - 4 views

  • School districts that want to improve make a wise investment when they cultivate and encourage teacher leaders, because they are in a position to take the long view and carry out long-range projects.
  • emerge spontaneously and organically from the teacher ranks. Instead of being selected, they take the initiative to address a problem or institute a new program
  • effective teacher leaders exhibit important skills, values, and dispositions.
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  • Teacher leaders must enlist colleagues to support their vision, build consensus among diverse groups of educators, and convince others of the importance of what they are proposing and the feasibility of their general plan for improvement
  • On the other hand, they are flexible and willing to try a different approach if the first effort runs into roadblocks
  • Ensuring that students have full access to such opportunities involves a collective effort, requiring discussion and consideration of alternatives.
  • Teachers must be confident that administrators and other teachers will not criticize them for expressing ideas that might seem unusual at first. Some of the most effective approaches to solving difficult issues in schools may not be intuitively obvious but may require that educators think creatively, which can only happen in a safe environment.
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    This article discusses the importance of leadership among teachers and how effective teacher leaders influence the improvement of schools.
mjheald

Universal Design Learning Visually Explained for Teachers - 3 views

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    April 14, 2014 Universal Design Learning is a framework for learning that includes all students. Being grounded in socio-cultural theory, UDL views learning environments and social interactions as being key elements in development and learning. In UDL students are allowed to express their learning in a variety of ways.
Eric Telfer

7 Inspiring TED Talks on the 21st Century Curriculum ~ Educational Technology and Mobil... - 1 views

  • This dynamic shift in students learning styles requires a specific kind of curriculum, one that responds to their different emerging needs and help them make the best of their learning experiences and most important of all, prepares them for jobs that are not yet created
  • In this talk from TEDGlobal 2012, computer science professor Shimon Schocken shares the idea that educators don’t necessarily need to actively teach, but instead can provide an environment for self-learning
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      Very provocative claim, and I don't think that this would necessarily fly with high school students at some levels.
  • What kind of school would have teenagers fighting to get in, not fighting to stay out?
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      Perhaps use this quote to work on the Vision assignment this week. 
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  • Bir Sethi shares the story of children who were taught the importance of literacy and who were inspired to hold a campaign to educate their illiterate parents
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      Likely comparable to the narratives the Heaths use in Switch (malnutrition in Vietnam, Dr. Esserman, saving 100,000 lives)
Jill Dawson

generator | art + technology = generator - 0 views

  • Generator—Burlington’s New Maker Space—is a combination of artist studio, classroom, and business incubator at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Generator creates a community of collaboration between artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and artisans. Generator’s objective is to foster a hybrid hive of activity that creates a fertile environment for innovation, creativity and idea fulfillment.
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    Generator is a new Maker Space located in the same building as the Burlington Arts Center.  This is a great place to bring students and build upon your PLN.  It's a nonprofit maker space that trains people and offers access to tool sets!
Nathan Gingras

4 Characteristics Of Learning Leaders - 1 views

  • 1. Ability to deal with ambiguity Low need for control Openness to Experience (one of the Big 5 personality traits) Moderate perfectionism High Stability (low anxiety) Project management skills Ability to use social media Optimism
  • 2. The capacity to foster engagement An understanding of how to motivate others Ability to foster a shared purpose and vision An understanding of human needs Interpersonal effectiveness Ability to self-regulate Empathy
  • 3. The capacity to learn Ability to research and learn Being thoroughly on top of one’s subject area Wide and accessible networks Able to share with others Knowledge management skills The ability to foster collaborative learning
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  • 4. The ability to use open systems thinking The capacity to scan the external environment Able to foster participative democracy/collaboration decision-making and process Able to actively diffuse power Capacity to work in a team Ongoing internal and external analysis of effectiveness (continuous improvement)
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    Possessing and developing these traits will benefit us as leaders in education.
Jen Reeve

Equitable Access of Digital Tools and Resources for all Students. - 0 views

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    Our country, state, district, and individual schools have one simple goal in mind: student learning. Students should be educated in a safe and fair instructional environment where they are given the opportunity to succeed. All students should have access to a variety of resources to help them guide their learning.
Kelly Wilson

Technology-Enhanced Education - 0 views

  • questions that the group should address
  • provide support to faculty
  • create a more dynamic and effective environment
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  • enrich learning communities
  • engage new constituencies
  • flow of revenue;
  • access to higher education
  • assess best practices in teaching and learning?
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    How does a committee instill change?
Melissa Greenwood

Impact of Technology in Elementary Classrooms - EdTechReview™ (ETR) - 0 views

  • With these technological devices, students can learn from anywhere.
  • provide students with the personalized learning environment
  • helps them learn interactively through many games and apps.
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  • Technology develops students’ social skills, research skills and communication skills.
  • The only task of parents and educators is to make children aware of digital citizenship.
stephanie karabaic

Reading behavior in the digital environment - 0 views

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    Technology and learning-student learning with digital tools
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    Technology and learning-student learning with digital tools
Nathan Gingras

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 1 views

  • A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways.
  • Teachers can powerfully activate students' need to know content by launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning. An entry event can be almost anything: a video, a lively discussion, a guest speaker, a field trip, or a piece of mock correspondence that sets up a scenario.
  • A good driving question captures the heart of the project in clear, compelling language, which gives students a sense of purpose and challenge.
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  • In terms of making a project feel meaningful to students, the more voice and choice, the better.
  • A project should give students opportunities to build such 21st century skills as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and the use of technology, which will serve them well in the workplace and life. This exposure to authentic skills meets the second criterion for meaningful work—an important purpose. A teacher in a project-based learning environment explicitly teaches and assesses these skills and provides frequent opportunities for students to assess themselves.
  • Formalizing a process for feedback and revision during a project makes learning meaningful because it emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances is an important purpose of the endeavor. Students need to learn that most people's first attempts don't result in high quality and that revision is a frequent feature of real-world work.
  • In addition to providing direct feedback, the teacher should coach students in using rubrics or other sets of criteria to critique one another's work. Teachers can arrange for experts or adult mentors to provide feedback, which is especially meaningful to students because of the source.
  • When students present their work to a real audience, they care more about its quality. Once again, it's "the more, the better" when it comes to authenticity. Students might replicate the kinds of tasks done by professionals—but even better, they might create real products that people outside school use.
stephanie karabaic

Creating Collaborative Learning Environments with Google Apps for Education - K-12 Tech... - 0 views

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    Google Apps for Ed one of the best collaboration tools
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