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Introduction to Google ClassroomWith the recent announcement of Google Classroom, school districts and educators across the country that are currently integrating Google Apps for Education into their classrooms are awaiting the opportunity to gain access to Google’s workflow solution. Click on the image below to learn more about Google Classroom including a great video demonstrating its use:
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There’s no homework in Finland – so why are their schools so special?Anyone who works in education for even a short length of time will get the Finnish education system paraded in front of them as a paragon of virtue and an exemplar of how education should be done. Despite our best efforts to explain, people don’t always understand why. So here’s another go... Click on the image to read the full article:
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Global CompetenceVeronica Boix Mansilla is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Veronica and Anthony Jackson co-authored Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World.
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Teach teachers how to create magicWhat do rap shows, barbershop banter and Sunday services have in common? As Christopher Emdin says, they all hold the secret magic to enthrall and teach at the same time — and it's a skill we often don't teach to educators. The science advocate (and cofounder of Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. with the GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan) offers a vision to make the classrooms come alive.
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15 technologies that were supposed to change the world forever
Every generation has its shiny new technology that's supposed to change education forever. In the 1920s it was radio books. In the 1930s it was television lectures. Here in the second decade of the 21st century, it seems the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) is the education tech of tomorrow. Let's hope it pans out better than previous attempts.
Today we take a look back at 15 technologies that were supposed to radically change the way that people are educated around the world. Some innovations were mostly hype. Others had an undeniably meaningful impact. It's important to remember, though, that throughout the 20th century it was often hard to tell the difference between the two. Click here to read the article. |
Preparing Our Students for Web 3.0
The rate of change is moving in such a speedy pace and sooner or later we will be dealing with totally new paradigms in education; ones that are deeply grounded in information economy and collective "wisdom of the mobs". These new changes are mainly driven by the digital culture we and our students have come to embrace, a culture that is predicated on participation, collaboration , distribution of knowledge sources, and co-creation of new resources and opportunities. But are we really doing what it takes to prepare our students for this paradigmatic change or what some scholars prefer to dub " Web 3.0 Learning " ? Click here to see the presentation.
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Grace In Disagreement: Brené Brown's Ten Guidelines For Engaged Feedback:How can we learn to offer feedback with grace and compassion at work and at home? Brené Brown offers a rubric for offering guidance and sitting on the same side of the table. Click here to read the article.
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Sir Ken Robinson talks at ASCD 14 Los Angeles
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Computational Thinking: A Digital Age Skill for Everyone
Preparing students for their future in a rapidly changing world. A video from ISTE, CSTA, and NSF.
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Inspirational Teacher Quotes
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10 Go To Blogs To Make You Think
As an educator, I am constantly looking for new ideas to shape my educational philosophy and pedagogy. While I don’t always have the time to read a book on current trends in education, I can always find a few moments each day to peruse the blogs that I follow and read a few posts to get my mental wheels spinning. Here are 10 of my favorite sources for inspiration...
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30+ YouTube Channels For Teachers
Here is a resource of some great education YouTube channels Saga has recently compiled. The list is organized according to different content areas and has over 190 YouTube channels making it one of the most comprehensive list I have ever come across online. I am sharing with you some of the channels from this list and invite you to check the full list HERE. Click here for the full article.
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A Vision of 21st Century Teachers
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Ken Robinson: The Element
Sir Ken Robinson returns to the RSA to share new thinking on 'The Element' - the point at which natural talent meets personal passion.
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Edutopia: Big Thinkers on Education Video Series
Some of the most compelling visionaries in the world -- from Sir Ken Robinson to Jane Goodall to Martin Scorsese -- are focusing their attention on how to improve education. From innovative classroom concepts to suggestions on how to foster creativity and collaboration, they share their valuable insights for teaching and learning and illuminate new solutions to old problems. Get inspired by their big ideas. Click below to see what they are saying:
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013: Best of Awards
Here is a list of top 100 tools for learning from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies. Click here for the full article.
25 Things Successful Educators Do Differently
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Save us Creativity!
Last year the World Economic Forum came out with their Annual Report of Global Competiveness. Apparently, Switzerland and Singapore are now officially the valedictorian and salutatorian of the global class, while the U.S. is the kid with a lot of potential if only he would apply himself. It would be easy enough to dismiss such news if we knew that things were going to improve sometime soon, but the reality is even more distressing. 2012 international tests for math and science have put the capabilities of our American youth somewhere behind Iceland and Slovakia. Oh sure, our culture and can-do attitude count for – just not calculus or inorganic chemistry. So recently, our politicians, executives and educators have discovered creativity and its magical abilities to transform all that is ordinary and boring into the extraordinary and innovative. Yes, creativity will save us... or will it? Click here to read the full article.
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Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age
Randy Nelson, the former Dean of Pixar University explains what schools must do to prepare students (and themselves) for new models in the workplace. He talks about four key success traits: depth, breadth, communications, and collaboration, importance of making your partner look good, rebounding from failure, and he provides an excellent description of the difference between cooperation and collaboration.
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The Happy Secret to Better Work
We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity.
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4 Ways to Ensure Students Learn While Creating
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WSJ: Why Tough Teachers Get Good Results
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Computational Thinking: A Digital Skill for Everyone video
Preparing students for their future in a rapidly changing world. A video from ISTE, CSTA, and NSF. Click here to watch the video.
Adam Bellow: You're Invited to Change the World
Author and educational technologist Adam Bellow delivers the closing keynote of ISTE 2013 with a high-energy presentation reveling in the joys of being a connected educator in these amazing times. Showcasing stories of inspiration from classrooms around the world and anecdotes from Bellow's career, and highlight inspiration from classrooms around the world. Bellow invites you to challenge yourself to make a difference in your school with creativity and kindness. NOTE: his presentation starts at around 23m into this video.
How to escape the education death valley
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
5 Places Offering Free, Or Nearly Free, Computers for Students
Changing Education ParadigmsIn this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.
Did You Know 4.0Things are changing so fast, it's even difficult to keep up with the newest version of the "Did You Know" video. The big question is "What does this all mean for our kids and how we prepare them for the future?"
Top 10 Posts of 2012: Deep, Meaningful and Creative LearningTen Takeaway Tips for Teaching Critical ThinkingSuggestions from educators at KIPP King Collegiate High School on how to help develop and assess critical thinking skills in your students.
BY MARIKO NOBORI Ideally, teaching kids how to think critically becomes an integral part of your approach, no matter what subject you teach. But if you're just getting started, here are some concrete ways you can begin leveraging your students' critical-thinking skills in the classroom and beyond. Click here to read the full article. Envisioning the future of education technologyA look at « Journeys to school », around the world
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The Power of Belief: Mindset and Success
The way we understand our intelligence and abilities deeply impacts our success. Based on social science research and real life examples, Eduardo Briceño articulates how mindset, or the understanding of intelligence and abilities, is key. When students or adults see their abilities as fixed, whether they think they're naturals or just not built for a certain domain, they avoid challenge and lose interest when things get hard. Conversely, when they understand that abilities are developed, they more readily adopt learning-oriented behaviors such as deliberate practice and grit that enable them to achieve their goals. But this belief is itself malleable, and there are clear actions we can all take to establish a growth mindset and enable success for our children, our peers and ourselves.
Click here to read more about fostering a Growth Mindset.
The myth of average
High school dropout turned Harvard faculty talks about how a simple new way of thinking helps nurture individual potential.
Eight ways kindergarten holds the key to 21st century learning
I was recently giving a workshop at a local elementary school. While walking around and speaking to teachers and children, it suddenly dawned on me that several of the “revolutionary” educational changes we’ve been calling for have actually been around for quite a while—just talk a stroll down to the kindergarten classes.
Click here to read the article 8 things kids should be able to do with technology
Every Student and Parent Should See These Charts on Earnings by Major
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (aka STEM) majors still have the best overall job prospects, according to a recent report from Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce.
Engineering majors in particular have the highest median earnings out of college, while arts, humanities and liberal arts, psychology and social work, and life/physical science majors tie for the lowest earnings. Graduate degrees and experience can lead to significant gains for all majors. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/best-and-worst-majors-for-earning-money-2013-6#ixzz2XK0StK2j Exactly What the Common Core Standards Say About Technology
The Common Core Standards, the national academic standards for K-12 schools in the United States, have now been adopted by 47 of the 50 states in the U.S. This makes them the pre-eminent source of what is being taught in the vast majority of public schools in America...
Edudemic’s focus is on the intersection of education and technology, and the Common Core certainly takes aim at in-depth student technology use. Four sample standards from elementary, middle, and high school English-Language Arts appear below. Common Core Standards Note: The first letter represents the strand (or “area”—reading, writing, etc.), the following number the grade level, and the last number the standard number. Bold text added for emphasis. W= Writing RI= Reading: Informational SL= Speaking and Listening W.4.6. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting. RI.8.7. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. SL.11-12.2. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data. SL.11-12.5. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. Please click here to read the entire article. The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically "teenage" behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain.
Seth Godin on the Art of Noticing, and Then Creating
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Seth Godin says in this podcast:
"the things that you used to make us feel safe are in fact now risky." "So the Industrial Revolution paid this magical dividend, which is by being part of organization and by doing what we were told, which is inherently safe, we could get rich....And suddenly, really suddenly, we replaced this with a new order, a new way of doing business, where we're saying to people, guess what those ideas we used to play with are more important than ever. And that coglike obedience that we taught you in second grade and fifth grade and 10th grade, that stuff we don't think is valuable anymore. And society is being really slow to realize that that shift is going on." Click here to hear the podcast or click here to read the transcript. Use data to build better schoolsHow can we measure what makes a school system work? Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another -- then uses that same data to help schools improve. Watch to find out where your country stacks up, and learn the single factor that makes some systems outperform others.
What Most Schools Don't TeachLearn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in in 90% of US schools.
Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi. Directed by Lesley Chilcott. |