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Jackie O'Brien

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 6 views

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      Read through this article and highlight or comment on things that you think would resonate with your students or colleagues.
  • He is a big thinker, always chasing new ideas, and a conversation with him can feel like a one-man TED conference, dotted with references to the latest work by behavioral psychologists and management gurus and design theorists.
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      Obviously a school leader who dosn't mind being different! Nice to see.
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      You don't make progress by doing the same thing as everyone else!
  • in America that if you worked hard and you showed real grit, that you could be successful,” he said. “Strangely, we’ve now forgotten that. People who have an easy time of things, who get 800s on their SAT’s, I worry that those people get feedback that everything they’re doing is great. And I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure.
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      I know that we are actively working with parents to realise that their child does not have to be 'happy' al of the time. Making mistakes, experiencing failure and learning what 'not' to do are valuable aspects of education.
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    Fantastic article highlighting great pedagogy, true leadership and richer measures
Tom March

School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Making Thinking Visible - 2 views

  • imagine learning to dance when the dancers around you are all invisible. Imagine learning a sport when the players who already know the game can't be seen. Bizarre as this may sound, something close to it happens all the time in one very important area of learning: learning to think.
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      Agree or not & say why?
Tom March

Future iPhones Could Pair The Touchscreen With The Palm of Your Hand | Cult of Mac - 2 views

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    Getting closer to Sixth Sense!
Tom March

25 More Tech Tips and Tricks - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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    Handy things you may know, but may also find one you didn't - good for beginners as well.
Sarah Hallows

Top Rated Edutopia Resources: Week Ending May 13, 2011 | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Here are Edutopia's most highly rated resources this week. Note that our resources can be rated along three parameters: PRACTICAL Practical materials are ones that you can use to improve your classroom or school right now. These include lesson ideas, tips and strategies for implemeting a new practice, or anything else that is useful RIGHT NOW (as opposed to something that may take 10 months and several committee meetings to implement.) INNOVATIVE These are materials that inspire you with their cutting-edge ideas. Not necessarily something you can implement right away, but if they're Practical too, then you can certainly choose both. PERSUASIVE Persuasive resources are those that make the case for a particular practice or idea. Maybe they helped to change your mind. Or maybe they could change someone else's mind. You could use these materials to persuade your school board, for instance, or your principal to adopt a new approach.
Sarah Hallows

Classroom Blogs - 0 views

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    List of classroom blogs from all over the world. From gcouros.
Tom March

Virtues Based Decision Making - Wisdom from the past for today's students | Choicez Media - 2 views

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    an excellent article by David Williams - truly one of our "Cutting Edge-ucators."
Tom March

Beautiful web-based timeline software - 5 views

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    might be competition for Dipity
Tom March

Free online OCR - 5 views

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    Useful when clipping text in graphics from Web pages.
Tom March

Who'sGot the Pranks on the Internet? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    David Pogue does a round-up of April Fool's prank sites that could be used to catch students off-guard and create Ah-Ha's about info on the Web.
Tom March

Dropbox Forms: Receive files from your web site to your dropbox! - 2 views

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    Great way to use two fantastic tools. Now you can use Dropbox for students to upload their files to you.
Tom March

Visible Thinking - 11 views

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    "Developing thinking dispositions-whether it is a disposition to strive for understanding, to figure out the complexities of fairness, to seek truth, or hunt for creative solutions-occurs within a cultural context. It is within cultural contexts that we develop our patterns of behavior and thinking that become our habits. Therefore, Visible Thinking uses an enculturative approach to develop students' thinking, immersing students in a rich culture of thinking in schools and classrooms."
Tom March

Teacher-Replacing Tech: Friend or Foe? | Fast Company - 0 views

  • cybernetic takeover might mean a redefinition of "teacher" as a research assistant or intellectual coach,
  • Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swelling class sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education.
  • “Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.”
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  • Unlike one-size-fits-all lectures, the report finds that computers can custom tailor the pace of learning to each individual student.
  • Department of Education found that online learners spend more time learning and on task.
  • The lure of video games and other mindless online activity quickly eclipse the fleeting intrigue of scientific exploration.
  • Professors Barbour and Reeves find that they still favor students with “independent orientations towards learning, [who are] highly motivated by intrinsic sources, and [who] have strong time management, literacy, and technology skills.”
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    "Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swellingbclass sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education."
Tom March

Minus - Share simply. - 3 views

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    Very cool way to quickly share files. I look forward to the upcoming iPad app.
Tom March

Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Classroom iPod touches & iPads: Dos ... - 3 views

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    Great list for managing iPads in schools - syncing, etc.
Van Weringh

Challenge Based Learning - 4 views

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    Inspirational, lots of good ideas
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