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Yesterday, I blogged about schools in Finland and how they seem to be able to engage their students so much better than we do in the U.S. The students appear to enjoy the learning process, often do work with little or no adult supervision, and sco...
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Want to be a better leader? Try improving your vocabulary. No, I’m not talking adding the latest management and leadership buzzwords or jargon to your repertoire. If that’s what you’re looking for, try the Wall Street Journal’s Business Buzzwords ...
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The more I work and consult with schools regarding technology integration, the more I begin to focus on the transfer of current systems. By "systems," I mean the classroom procedures or workflows that educators currently have in place.
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With a new generation of teachers coming into the work force, there’s a discrepancy between what principals expect of teachers-in-training and what they’re actually learning in school.
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For over a decade Carol Dweck and her team studied the effects of praise on students. This study involved a series of experiments on over 400 5th graders from all over the country. The results will blow your mind. For more like this visit: ...
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Although high school students are regularly warned to avoid plagiarism and are often punished when they slip, a steady stream of high school administrators have come under fire lately for engaging in that very practice. In the same weeks that Sen....
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In today's high-speed digital world it is not unusual for business and project managers to have multiple email, social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook) and text messaging accounts -- for work and for personal use.
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We’re always looking for ways we can do a better job, well here are 10 tips for leaders that will improve your leadership today! Be Confiident When you’re confident it inspires confidence in others.
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This year’s “The Learning Curve” report from Pearson takes a look at education across the globe. One of the main things the report does is rank the world’s educational systems (which we’ll talk about in a different post).
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Why do some kids arrive at secondary school already motivated to work hard, while some arrive demotivated to exert much effort at all in lessons? Picture two students you’ve taught: one who works incredibly hard, and one who seems incredibly lackl...
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Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. While Alan was a computer science teacher in Lexington, MA, h...
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Keeping the web safe for everyone is a shared responsibility. Learn what you can do to protect yourself and your family online. Learn about Google safety tools designed to help you manage the security and privacy of your personal data.
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A lot of kids are using social media these days, and even if that isn’t surprising to you, it may be surprising to you just how many of them are using it and just how much.
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Short interview with John Hattie. John discusses "What works most effectively in schools".
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Groove – moving in your zone, time passing by pleasantly, creativity in abundance, feel like you are not “working” or “doing” just being, momentum is smooth!
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Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized t...
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We have a romantic attachment to skills from the past which are no longer relevant on a curriculum for today's children Would a person with good handwriting, spelling and grammar and instant recall of multiplication tables be considered a better c...
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It’s a simple question: what will high school look like in 2030? The reality is that we don’t know. There isn’t a plan. Up until now there has been a tacit belief that education systems will evolve to meet the needs of the future.
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Teachers give homework. Mentors change lives. If schools replaced teachers with mentors, classrooms would be revolutionized forever. I learned this watching startups (scrappy young ventures usually starting in basements or garages).
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This is part 1 of the series “Responsive Teaching For A Changing World,” a 3-part series is sponsored by Adobe Presenter 9. They had nothing to do with the content–only asked that we include a link back to their platform, which you can see above.
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What does it mean to find your voice? Having the courage to speak up? Expressing your opinions more often? Having opinions in the first place? Or is it more than that? “We each have our own fingerprint; we each have our own voice,” says Kylie Mino...
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Upper elementary and middle school students in Olympia, Washington, help veteran and prospective educators include technology in their lessons to enhance learning as part of the national Generation YES program. Find... http://www.youtube.com/edutopia
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There’s a certain class of mistakes that all educators can eliminate with conscious effort, and in this post we outline 11 of them. They range from habits of practice to habits of thought, but all of them have one important thing in common: they m...
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This video is from Chris Lehmann and the Science Leadership Academy. I reposted it here form Google Video because of filtering situations and the ability to ...
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A while back, I was asked, "What engages students?" Sure, I could respond, sharing anecdotes about what I believed to be engaging, but I thought it would be so much better to lob that question to my own eighth graders.
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I recently wrote that Understanding by Design is agnostic about any specific method or pedagogy.
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This paper responds to a hypothetical scenario of a very old, well-renowned private school working to integrate technology. What is the role of an administrator in this scenario? The scenario is a compilation of my experiences at different schools...
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Gardner writes in his book ‘Five Minds for the Future’ that he is often asked about how to nurture creativity. He quotes corporate visionary John Seely Brown who quipped that in the world of tomorrow people will say “I create therefore I am”.
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A brilliant advertisement which promotes the "travelling" in groups idea! Great cartoon production!
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Rapid advances in technology and the liberalization of public policy have shaped a world in which large companies face increasing performance pressure amidst sinking return on assets, intense competition, and changing workforce dynamics.
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Mr. Young Leader gave his first update on an overseas project to the organization. It was OK. He’ll do better next time. There are two types of leaders, those who hold back and perfect before they go, and those who press forward and learn as they ...
Sunday, 3 August 2014
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