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Jim Lerman
December 6, 2011 1:46 PM
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Download a free eBook focused on improving one's virtual effectiveness (the ability to lead effectively in increasingly virtual settings). The book (actually more of a pamphlet) is distributed by Citrix and focuses on business settings. However, the trends it identifies and strategies offered for leaders are quite germane to many educational settings, particularly (but not only) for communication with stakeholders who exist outside the school building. The message is well thought out and well communicated. I think this is a very good piece of work. -JL Free registration with Citrix is required in order to download the book.
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Jim Lerman
from Learning & Technology News
December 6, 2011 12:05 AM
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Arguably, if you have the skills to do it, you could literally build your own education by creating your own curriculum, your own classroom, and your own assessments. It’s a shift to a highly personalized, do-it-yourself education, a process that will continue to grow as we get better at pulling information and people from the Web to ourselves.
Via Nik Peachey
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from :: The 4th Era ::
December 5, 2011 7:22 PM
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Increasingly, we are a country in which only the urban and suburban well-off have truly high-speed Internet access, while the rest — the poor and the working class — either cannot afford access or use restricted wireless access as their only connection to the Internet. As our jobs, entertainment, politics and even health care move online, millions are at risk of being left behind.
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from :: The 4th Era ::
December 5, 2011 5:03 PM
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A school board member takes versions of his state’s standardized tests in math and reading, and realizes something is really wrong with these high-stakes exams.
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Jim Lerman
December 5, 2011 3:04 PM
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Craig Kapp's wiki page with resources on Augmented Reality. Very nice collection. -JL
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Jim Lerman
December 5, 2011 2:48 PM
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Free Webinar December 8, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. ET Presented by Dick Flanary, NASSP Senior Director of Leadership Programs and Services, and Pete Reed, NASSP Director of Professional Development. NASSP has identified 10 skills that effective school leaders continually use and refine as they build personal capacity, keep up with changes in education, and help students learn and grow. This webinar will help you examine those 10 specific skills and learn effective practices to develop and hone them yourself. The foundation for this webinar is the Breaking Ranks book, 10 Skills for Successful School Leaders.
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Jim Lerman
December 5, 2011 10:23 AM
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This is Gimme Bar, the 5th greatest invention of all time. Description from Netted by the Webbys: Finally, Gimme Bar is here to offer stability in an instable cyber world, archiving any piece of content from the Web – forever. Click the Gimme Bar bookmarklet and a thin bar pops up at the bottom of the page showing your public and private folders. Drag and drop photos and links, and poof: They’re saved. Highlight a portion of text or scroll over a video and you are offered the option to stash that away, too. Collections are archived back at your Gimme Bar account, all easily accessible with the help of handy thumbnails and a search feature. The service even lets you back up accounts you already have (including Delicious and Twitter).
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 7:02 PM
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TwitLonger is a simple service that lets you post those tricky messages that really do need more than 140 characters and send them to Twitter...
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 6:41 PM
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Yale Professor Brandy X. Lee asserts that engaging people creativity leads to a reduction in violent behavior. This is important thinking. -JL
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 4:09 AM
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Canadian teacher Erin Ochoa alluded to fears over kids misusing technology, tweeting, "I refuse to use pencils in my classroom until manufacturers figure out a way to limit what students can write with them." And Steve Wheeler, an associate professor of learning technology at Plymouth University in England, cleverly referenced the debate over whether online instruction and flipped classrooms can replace teachers by tweeting, "Any teacher who can be replaced by a pencil... should be. - Arthur C. Chalk".
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Jim Lerman
from Corridor of learning
December 4, 2011 3:13 AM
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Clayton R. Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. Past years eLearning Conferences 2011, eLearning Conferences 2010, eLearning Conferences 2009. You can contact him at: crwr77 [@] gmail.com. It covers events from four continents. The list focuses primarily on the use of eLearning, technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration.
Via Alastair Creelman
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 3:06 AM
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Today’s student population is much different than a decade ago. They are armed with an extensive knowledge of the Internet, smartphones equipped with the latest apps, and a thoroughly networked database of personal information via social networks. If a PE teacher today uses the same strategies, methods, and lesson plans as mine did, students would automatically dismiss them as outdated and obsolete. Here are ten advances in technology that can help students learn about health, nutrition, and exercise, while keeping them engaged with technology:
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 2:56 AM
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The Palm Beach School System has an incredible wiki where members of the community share their favorite apps for specific disciplines. Below I’ve embedded their list for the top high school apps but they also have a curated list of apps for middle school and elementary school.
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
December 6, 2011 9:46 AM
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A coherent vision for federal education policy starts not by micromanaging schools, but by focusing on the four functions Washington alone can perform.
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Jim Lerman
from Learning & Technology News
December 6, 2011 12:03 AM
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If you’re considering mobile learning in any shape or form, I’d suggest you give these a browse. One of the travails of my paper writing (still continues) was that good web resources were quite hard to find, so be spared the ordeal, this is a good place to start.
Via Nik Peachey
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
December 5, 2011 5:12 PM
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Enough with “academic rigor.” No more projects on the Chesapeake Bay (or whatever body of water you happen to live near.) Stop testing them into submission. How about teaching nutrition and health through cooking classes? Nobody can argue that kid don’t need to learn more, not with the obesity epidemic among young people in this country. An added bonus: cooking can be a great way to teach chemical reactions and other scientific principles. Give kids things to take apart and to rebuild. Yes, bring back shop class. This sparks a curiosity that will drive them to want to learn the math and science necessary to take their tinkering to the next level. Let them learn about financial literacy by running small businesses. Knowing how to solve a geometric proof doesn’t help them balance a checkbook. Let them learn the kind of music they like, with the instruments they want to play. Let kids spend more class time reading and talking about books--books that they select themselves (some schools are doing this now). Give kids who need basic skills the time and support they need--and let kids who want to memorize “Hamlet” have at it. With more than 40 percent of American adults practically illiterate, our current approach seems rather flawed. Let’s turn community service into a real lesson that includes real, daily responsibility.
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
December 5, 2011 4:43 PM
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“There is no future of the digital book — not the way we envision it today,” said Matt MacInnis, the founder and CEO of Inkling, the San Francisco startup that’s re-conceptualizing books for the digital realm. While tablets and e-readers duke it out for the market share, Inkling is working on blowing out the digital book as we know it. Though the company started by digitally rendering existing print textbooks only for the iPad — currently, there are about 100 book titles — it’s poised to become a major player in the publishing industry. But rather than creating content, the tech company will provide the platform that can transcend any device, whether that’s an iPad, a Kindle — or even a laptop.
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Jim Lerman
December 5, 2011 3:01 PM
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Like social media, augmented reality is a fairly new technology that is still being developed into tools that add some use or productivity to our lives. At this early stage, it is often found in games, but businesses are slowly adopting the technology and experimenting with it. (This instructive post for beginners leans toward AR in a business environment. -JL)
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Jim Lerman
December 5, 2011 2:25 PM
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A cozy alliance between processed food makers and companies that serve school lunches is making students fat and sick.
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 7:36 PM
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"Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."
It's hard to believe it's been almost two months since Steve Jobs passed away.
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 6:46 PM
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For those seeking a practical paradigm for development of strategies that foster 21st century skills, Design Thinking offers an attractive option. This toolkit has been developed specifically for educators and focuses on the elements of: Discovery, Interpretation, Ideation, Experimentation, and Evolution. The site's producers offer this statement of introduction: Design Thinking is a mindset. Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when faced with a difficult challenge. That kind of optimism is well needed in education.
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 4:35 AM
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The United Nations Cyberschoolbus is a website about global issues and the UN, for students ages 5-18 and their teachers. Outstanding resources include video archives of several conferences; curricula regarding Peace Education, Poverty, Land Mines, Human Rights, Cities of the World, Hunger, Indigenous People, Rights at Work, Ethnic Discrimination, and Racial Discrimination; and the InfoNation individual country database that enables comparisons of country-by-country data in basic and advanced formats.
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from :: The 4th Era ::
December 4, 2011 3:26 AM
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A trained teacher, Rachel Lynette no longer spends her days in a classroom. Even so, she's hard at work on lesson plans.
Those work sheets, it turns out, are valuable commodities. "I earn about two-thirds of my living this way," the Bothell woman said. "My goal is $100 a day, every day -- seven days a week, not five." In October, Lynette said, she earned $3,350 selling her original lesson plans at the TeachersPayTeachers website. She isn't getting rich, but the site's founder, and at least one top seller, make serious money.
Via Jim Lerman
This is the last of three posts on 13 Resources , 13 Tools , and 13 Mobile Apps for Blended Learning. Thanks to the variety of apps available, there are numerous ways to engage students by leveraging this technology. This article by Kody Stimpson are only 13 of the many apps out there. A few I never knew about so thanks Kody!
Via Barbara Bray
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Jim Lerman
December 4, 2011 3:00 AM
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U.S. teachers work hard. They clock a ton of hours every week but how do they stack up against the rest of the world? What about how much they’re paid? According to a new set of statistics by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, it’s easier than ever before to compare and contrast the U.S. education system on a global scale. While the charts are mainly from 2007, they provide a holistic perspective that has been missing.
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