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Mathieu Plourde

7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    The conventional wisdom in education is that any school reform--be it curriculum, instruction, assessment, or teacher professionalism--is most likely to take hold in schools that have strong leadership. The same holds true for technology. Any educator will tell you the most successful implementation of technology programs takes place in schools where the principal sees him or herself as a technology leader.
Mathieu Plourde

What does it mean to be an online learning leader? - 0 views

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    "If online learning is to succeed as not only as a legitimate option for learning but as a respected platform within an institution, leadership has to build that respect through calculated risks and building multi-departmental relationships."
Mathieu Plourde

Web Literacy 2.0 - 0 views

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    "This paper captures the evolution of the Mozilla Web Literacy Map to reach and meet the growing number of diverse audiences using the web. The paper represents the thinking, research findings, and next iteration of the Web Literacy Map that embraces 21st Century Skills (21C Skills) as key to leadership development."
Mathieu Plourde

Social Media Tactical Plan - Marketo - 0 views

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    Social media plays an important role in the B2B decision-making process. Use this Social Media Tactical Plan to help you create tactical objectives in order to accomplish the following social media goals: Increase inbound leads at a low cost Expand reach of thought leadership content Engage and excite influencers Better understand, identify, and engage potential buyers Improve customer service and satisfaction Enhance outbound campaign program effectiveness
Mathieu Plourde

'Where Should I Go to College?' - 1 views

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    Where should a young person now go to college? It depends. Does she want more of the good American high school with its hustle and bustle, its strivings for excellence, its fixation on leadership, it's partnering and incentivizing and getting proactive, and succeeding, succeeding, succeeding? Or does she want something else?
Mathieu Plourde

Realigning Higher Education for the 21st-Century Learner through Multi-Access Learning - 0 views

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    Twenty-first-century learners have expectations that are not met within the current model of higher education. With the introduction of online learning, the anytime/anywhere mantra taken up by many postsecondary institutions was a first step to meeting learner needs for flexibility; however, the choice and determination of delivery mode still resides with the institution and course instructors. Recently, the massive open online course (MOOC) movement has been introduced as an undeniable force in higher education, and the authors argue that it is distracting leadership from focusing on alternative options for supporting the needs of learners who demand both personalization and real access to learning opportunities. The key element to the MOOC movement is its openness that enables student access to education. In this article, the authors present the multi-access learning framework that envelops the MOOC phenomenon and merges course access modes enabling student choice and agency. The authors report results from a pilot study on one type of multi-access course, where students were able to choose their mode of access. In this case, remote students accessed the course via webcam and joined their on-campus classmates and instructor who were together face-to-face. Implications for multi-access learning in relation to the MOOC movement are discussed.
Mathieu Plourde

CEO Elon Musk opens up Tesla's patents to all - 0 views

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    "Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers," he wrote. "We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla's position in this regard."
Mathieu Plourde

Faculty and Staff Engagement: A Core Component of Student Success - 0 views

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    Referenced by @tealia "Higher education institutions that want to significantly increase their student success outcomes must design their policies, practices, and organizational culture to promote the engagement and leadership of their faculty and staff. Colleges that invest in designing engagement and empowerment strategies that leverage the talent and dedication of faculty and staff are likely to produce more meaningful and sustainable results."
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Technical ignorance is not leadership - 0 views

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    "Decisions are only as good as the implementation that results. Marketing isn't a plan, it's a system of feedback loops from the market that need to be adjusted in real-time. It's one thing for politicians to sign a bill into law, but another to ensure that the bill's intentions are actually encoded into the software that powers government."
Mathieu Plourde

Google's 80/20 Principle Adopted at New Jersey School - 0 views

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    "During her search for videos, Chellani discovered that many of them didn't cover foundational concepts. So she started creating her own using the digital content creation software Adobe Captivate. She also started evaluating the concepts she teaches and decided to move away from teaching "to the textbook." Without this built-in time every week, Chellani said she wouldn't be able to work on these projects. Through end-of-year conferences, Sheninger found out that other teaches had students blog in their English classes and create YouTube videos instead of traditional lab reports. "I don't know if that stuff would have happened if this time wasn't made available," Sheninger said."
Mathieu Plourde

Building the Culture of an Empowered Mindset Towards Technology Innovation - 0 views

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    "Often times, as the principal goes, so does the culture of the school.  This is not to say that individual teachers can not be leading the way within the school themselves, but this goes back to the notion of "pockets of innovation" as opposed to a "culture of innovation".  It is unlikely for an entire school to be "pushing the edge" if the principal or administrative team is not helping to pave the way for their community as they learn alongside of them."
Mathieu Plourde

Defending Tech Literacy/Use for Elementary School Children - 0 views

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    "We live in a tech world, and tech is not going away.  Tech is an amazing resource that can make learning far more engaging and accessible to children of all income levels, academic profiles and interests.  It is essential that we integrate technology into the education of young children with enthusiasm, knowledge and care."
Mathieu Plourde

21st-Century PLNs for School Leaders - 0 views

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    "With all of the new technologies that are surrounding us, and to the many school administrators that are not feeling comfortable with Twitter, Facebook, etc., I would like to suggest three ways (as opposed to the typical round number of 10) that you can focus on your own professional development over the summer. Less is oftentimes more in the digital world as we move from simply being "literate" to "fluent" in this language. "
Mathieu Plourde

Former governor not pulling any punches in his Purdue University presidency - 0 views

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    "The ambitious agenda set by Daniels - including a tuition freeze that broke 36 years of price increases - has captured the kind of national attention he once earned as the state's outspoken conservative governor. Daniels now enters his second year at the helm of Purdue with an expanded set of priorities but a continued commitment to cost cutting."
Mathieu Plourde

In Shadow Of MOOCs, Open Education Makes Progress - 1 views

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    Students could use some financial relief. According to an American Enterprise Institute analysis, the cost of textbooks has risen 812% since 1978, compared with a 250% increase in the consumer price index. As a point of reference, medical costs (often described as "spiraling out of control") are up 575% in the same period, according to AEI. The burden is significant enough that 7 in 10 students say they have skipped buying a textbook for a course, trying to make do without it because of the cost. OpenStax adopted a conventional editorial process because that was required to win acceptance in academia, Baraniuk said, but the books are still published in the same modular fashion. That means instructors have the option of creating their own versions, perhaps introducing their own edits or swapping in content from a different source, and assigning that remix. At last count, there were 41 altered versions of OpenStax Physics available in the Connexions repository.
Mathieu Plourde

Recruiting in the Social Media Age - 0 views

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    ""Our employees are already posting online anyways - we should use it," says Celinda. According to Nielsen, 84% of people will act on recommendations from people they know. Also, high quality candidates tend to know other high quality candidates. If your employees are satisfied at work and posting their recommendations on social networks, you're more likely to recruit other talented people."
Mathieu Plourde

Zappos says goodbye to bosses - 1 views

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    "The unusual approach is called a "holacracy." Developed by a former software entrepreneur, the idea is to replace the traditional corporate chain of command with a series of overlapping, self-governing "circles." In theory, this gives employees more of a voice in the way the company is run."
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