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Cally Flickinger

Invention Convention | Every possibility exists in a child's mind. - 0 views

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    This is a national organization that provides a great deal of information and training for educators, families and students for the importance of creativity and imagination and also how to logistically set up Invention Convention in your area. 
njcaswell

How To Use ScanBot - YouTube - 0 views

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    "This video will show you how to set up and use ScanBot to scan your work and upload it to Canvas."
nphill85

Nic Phillips: Peer Review Portfolio - 0 views

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    This is my professional portfolio that I set up as part of the Vermont peer review process for licensure as an educator. I plan to add to it in the future so that it can serve as a true portfolio to enhance an ever-growing professional resume.
kelseynudd

Schools Start In Four Weeks. The State Is Scrambling To Set Up Broadband For Students |... - 0 views

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    Another article from 2020 about the struggle to role out high speed intervened for families
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.
jessvanorman

Technology Infused Professional Development: A Framework for Development and Analysis -... - 0 views

  • learning is both an active and a social process
  • learning is both an active and a social process
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      Learning is active, requires doing, could learn a lot in a PD session where teachers just CREATE or DO things with tech they could actually do in their classroom.
  • Second, professional development must be developmentally appropriate. No two teachers are the same in their knowledge of content, instruction, and students, or in their experience in applying that knowledge to the classroom. Teachers must be supported at their current position on the journey from novice to expert. Professional development must start with the teacher and build on her/his current concept of teaching and learning and his/her goals and needs.
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      Knowing this- how could we differentiate professional learning for teachers? How could we create tech PD that'd be meaningful to all- google surveys?
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  • Finally, professional development must allow teachers to take charge of their own professional growth. Teachers are professionals, not skilled laborers. Like all learners, teachers will only be impacted by those ideas in which they deliberately chooseto engage. Teachers must be afforded the respect to set their own course of development and be encouraged to actively monitor their own progress.
    • jessvanorman
       
      Give choice- a menu of tools so people can choose what they are learning? A menu of skill levels to choose from too?
  • Of particular importance is the role of collaboration in professional development. In nearly all studies of professional growth and change in classroom teaching, the presence of other colleagues who are attempting to do the same is the most consistent predictor of success
    • jessvanorman
       
      People learn together and grow together, but also learn from each other. This needs to be implemented in our tech PD.
  • Third, professional development takes time. The advantage of thinking of teaching as a skill is that training can happen quickly, often in the matter of weeks.
    • jessvanorman
       
      It'd be great to have sessions that we can learn something... go try it... then come back and practice/reflect to keep learning with the tech/new tools.
  • Perhaps the best way to take advantage of the opportunities available through technology-mediated professional learning is to integrate e-learning into a balanced professional development program that combines formal face-to-face learning experiences optimally followed by online and one-on-one support, “just in time” training and development, and collaborative work on those tasks that most directly influence the quality of teaching and learning
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      In face learning, with tech tools- could possible set up a Google Classroom "Forum" for teachers to ask questions and get further help when they are using the tools after PD. A please to drop questions and get support from "expert teachers."
lstormvt

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

  • 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.
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      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
       
      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
       
      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.
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      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.
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    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.
Eric Telfer

High school tries going paperless in pilot program : Sj - 0 views

  • "We spend approximately $330 per pupil per year on textbooks," he said. "Over four years, that's over $1,500. With the Android tablet, we'll issue it to a student when he's in the ninth grade. He will have that four years. So, that's under $150 compared to $1,500."
    • Eric Telfer
       
      This point should help to "make the pitch" as district leaders love the prospect of saving money. Going paperless saves not only on textbooks, though. Reams of paper won't need to be consumed, saving on toner cartridges, service repairs to copiers, less frequent need to replace copiers. One investment for the ninth grade student lasts four years. insurance policy costs? 
  • "The kids will have Internet access wherever they are in the building,"
    • Eric Telfer
       
      Okay, but will there be an equity issue for some students when they are at home? You can't flip a classroom if some kids have sketchy dial-up access from home, or no internet access.
  • the Androids are set up to contain graphing and science calculators, both of which can cost $75 to $100 if purchased as separate items in stores
    • Eric Telfer
       
      Buying in bulk saves the district cash.
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  • "If they lose it, they bought it, just like a textbook,"
    • Eric Telfer
       
      Get a contract out to parents over the summer. Fine kids too if they misplace their device (school bus, gym, at another school, athletic complex). 
  • "We're getting our students ready for college and the world of work
    • Eric Telfer
       
      Crux of this whole pitch/proposal.
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    Part of the pitch to go paperless, to some degree within the district, or just BFA. Good budgetary motivation for the Elephant. 
Chelsea Turley

Edmodo Challenger #1 - Edu 2.0 | Technology in the Classroom - 0 views

  • Another nice feature is that you can make as many assignments as you want and your students won’t see them. They won’t see them until you “Give” the assignment
  • I agree that Edmodo might be a little simpler to set up a single class, but of course that’s not scalable in a school with more than one class since the goal is to have a single account per student that allows them to access all their classes, not one account per class
stephanie karabaic

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

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    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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    English teacher Diana Neebe helped create her school's 1-to-1 iPad curriculum. Along the way, she reconceptualized English class.
Joy Ray

Kidblog - 0 views

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    Kidblog | Safe and simple blogs for your students. Great resource for helping teachers set up classrooms blogs.
Jill Dawson

Teacher's Guide: Classroom to Classroom interaction Using Skype and ePals - E... - 1 views

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      Script the critical moves! This is a great find for helping a teacher new to cross cultural collaboration set up a chat using Skype & ePals!
Nathan Gingras

The Role of PBL in Making the Shift to Common Core | Edutopia - 1 views

  • Big Idea #1: I am a designer.
  • Big Idea #2: I facilitate inquiry.
  • Big Idea #3: I set students up to dig deep, search for meaning, and craft reasoned arguments.
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  • Big Idea #4: I create conditions in which students can learn how to persevere.
  • Big Idea #5: I integrate content and create relevance.
  • Big Idea #6: I facilitate meaningful conversations.
njgordon33

11 Powerful Traits Of Successful Leaders - 9 views

  • most leadership traits can be learned and sharpened with time and practice.
  • 11 must-have traits
  • Self-managing means being able to prioritize your goals and being responsible for accomplishing those objectives.
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  • handling stress and balancing their personal and professional lives
  • importance of compassion
  • espond to people and events in an appropriate way.
  • self-control and discipline in your actions
  • cultivate strategic thinking
  • curious and genuinely interested
  • flexible in your mindset
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      "growth mindset"
  • Focusing on the future
  • positive outlook
  • able to clearly and succinctly explain to their employees everything from organizational goals to specific tasks.
  • one on one, to the department and to the entire staff, as well as via phone, email and social media.
  • being approachable and involving people from different levels.
    • pwarmack
       
      YES! Expanded circle of influence and influencers
  • hold themselves accountable and take responsibility for their own mistakes—and they expect others to do the same.
  • et clear goals and be determined and purposeful in achieving them
  • unshakable self-confidence
  • radiate enthusiasm
  • If you give up, so will everyone around you. To be a successful leader, you must be willing to keep going when others are tempted to throw in the towel.
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    An eleven-item "action list" of traits to develop for effective/powerful/successful leadership. Identifies each trait and why it is a "must-have"
Lisa Young

Metaverse for Augmented Reality: Program Breakouts and More - 1 views

  • to add to something,” so we are adding another layer to reality. We are adding the digital world to our real, physical world.
  • scavenger hunts with Metaverse
    • Lisa Young
       
      Students love scavenger hunts to begin with. A scavenger hunt using AR would greatly increase engagement as long as it runs smoothly.
  • Metaverse Mathematics Video Tutorial – Jonathan Bigsby (9:31)
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      Video Tutorial to learn how to set up Metaverse
ellamccarthy14

The 8 Types of Leadership Styles Explained - With Examples - 0 views

  • Leadership Styles
  • inspire employees and motivate them towards achieving their collective goal. 
    • ellamccarthy14
       
      This reminds me of Switch- (Elephant & Rider)
  • Constant motivation is required to see teams through tough times, and even then, a transformational leader could unintentionally cause too much competitiveness among their team. 
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  • Think of Churchill’s “we shall fight on the beaches” speech. Churchill is a great example of a transformational leader that inspired an entire nation of people to work towards a common goal. 
    • ellamccarthy14
       
      RIDER
  • An autocratic or authoritarian leadership style imposes policies and procedures, sets expectations and defines outcomes. 
    • ellamccarthy14
       
      Expects those below to adhere to change after change without giving anything up themselves, or not being able to see the viewpoint of someone else.
  • Also known as democratic leadership, participative leadership allows everyone on the team to get involved and work together to make important decisions.
    • ellamccarthy14
       
      This feels like the mixture of elephant and rider.
  • we all know the saying about too many cooks.
  • He’s noted as a delegative leader because of his method of empowering his employees to make their own decisions and solve their own problems. 
    • ellamccarthy14
       
      Delegative leader in my opinion would not work within a school system.
  • Servant leaders do everything they can to serve their team and ensure that everyone is happy and fulfilled.
    • ellamccarthy14
       
      Burnout
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    I liked the simplicity of this webpage. I was able to really see the breakdown and understand why each styles had the given name. I also was able to consider where I would place myself and why.
kelseynudd

Leadership Styles in Education - Graduate Programs for Educators - 2 views

  • There are any varying styles that are appropriate in different situations or with diverse groups of people. There are also many different positions in education that require leadership.
  • a school leader helps teachers and students achieve and perform to the best of their abilities.
  • Leadership has a significant impact on the school because the style sets the tone for the entire building
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  • Collaboration is crucial in the education realm.
  • . School leaders serve the students, parents, and teachers of their school community by constantly seeking ways to improve the educational experience for all.
  • ffective school leaders resist any barriers to success by having high expectations for every student.
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      applys to teachers
  • great school leaders are constantly searching for ways to improve
    • kelseynudd
       
      applys to everyone in the building
  • They use this data to seek news ways to help students achieve constantly.
  • When educators collaborate, research shows us that great things happen
    • kelseynudd
       
      I wish schools allowed teachers to collaborate more in orderto solve problems.imagine how well the school would run (if everyone would get along)
  • Educational leadership cannot be lumped into the same molds as leadership styles appropriate for businesses and governments.
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    Not sure why you can see all my highlights, but enjoy! Here is my description ( I wrote it in the description section but it is not showing up here…) This article explain the leadership styles and how they seen under an educational lease. When reading other articles, I had a hard time trying to connect them because they were written from a business aspect. This article gives some good thought into our our system in run and how us as school leaders can influence change for the better.
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    I like how the article acknowledges that educators are unique and that even each situation is different. That is real and powerful knowledge that leadership styles and approach needs to be strategic and flexible while being sensitive to situation and time.
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