techleadership

How Harvey Mudd College is changing their teaching to prepare students for the world outside of school. This relates to the Newsweek article because their example is of how Harvey Mudd College went about encouraging woman participants in Computer Science degrees. Clearly, harvey Mudd College is doing something right since their students earn a lot of money.

Website dedicated to internet safety provides resources for parents, educators, and students of all ages. I am following the site on Twitter.

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.

It is important for you to understand the basis and the context of UDL, but what is most relevant, of course, is how you can use UDL in your classroom. In this part of the site, we use a case study to look at ways you can apply UDL in four main areas of a ...

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.

Making sure that all students have Internet access, at home and in school, is crucial, writes Helen Brunner.

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.

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.