techleadership

This website talks about how most if not all schools have internet access, but they need to be stronger and low income families and communities should have the same access in their homes.

I had the privilege of attending several workshops by Eric at the Model Schools Conference.  Was a catalyst in my tech journey.  

Initially I clicked on his blog because he's from Texas and so am I. I discovered Miguel Guhlin was blogging about digital safety and revamping professional development, and he is interesting and easy to read.

Tom Barrett's blog. I selected this blog from the list posted in our homework materials. I want to follow him because his posts were about the things we have been talking about (design thinking, twitter chats, etc.), he seems to have a community commenting on his blog posts and I wanted to follow someone who was outside of the Vermont education world (he's from England).

To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues! We have some fun announcements this week. The plans for ISTEunplugged.com are getting underway, and in addition to our all-day Saturday "Hack Education" unconference/party and our Sunday Global Education day, we're going to do "Maker Day" on the Friday before ISTE. I chose to follow Steve Hargadon because of his vision of a "Learning Revolution." He speaks about reinventing education.

Of the 25 leaders to follow, I only chose a handful. This one looks particularly promising given all the links to resources and helpful readings. I recommend you check him out!

Emerging Technologies Chair for ISTE regular co-host of the annual Edublog Awards author of "Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE)

Highlights Alex Corbitt's projects for educational technology and gamification.

"#newschool" Building a new school her blog for #immooc had me wanting to follow her journey

Whitney is a colleague, friend, and inspiration, and I love her writing. She is accessible, crazy, and a fellow cannonballer teaching in the DR for the next two years.

I chose to follow this blog due to his focus on PBL and his roll as a resource for others. Many of the transitions that he writes on such such as changing curriculum, and developing new pathways, are topics that have been raised at my school.

This is one of an occasional blog post from BIE's partner schools and districts. There was a time when I felt it was a challenge to change the habits of my students. Then I attempted to change adults. Adult secondary teachers, no less.

Innovation in the teaching of mathematics. I find that a large percentage of students seem disengaged with mathematics. It looks like this group is working successfully on changing that.

When George Couros linked Brad Gustafson to the phrase "innovate inside the box", I knew I'd need to find and follow him. I think we all need to strive to be more innovative with what we have; taxpayers can't always be asked for more. And then I discovered he also highlights World Book Talking Championships on his blog. Yes! Both the librarian and the tech integrationist in me are intrigued!

In reading about some of the negative sides of using technology, I related to this guys blog about scams, hackers, and catfishers. I've had many experiences like this. He was also able to give fair warnings to educators about some common things they might face when teaching their kids technological tools.

Step-by-step process educators in this district follow to integrate technology

a couple of good outlines of the process for individualized PD

Ties right into our discussion about PLNS and connectivism even though it's 3 years old!