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From Mind/Shift at KQED Continuing our monthly Educational Apps series, here are some of the new iOS, Android, and Web-based educational apps that caught our eye this month
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"The purpose of the Personalized Learning Project was to capture and disseminate procedural knowledge about how schools can become student-centered, and to articulate the process required to create and sustain personalized learning as the guiding norm of high schools." Publications related to this project can be located on this site. Via Kathleen McClaskey
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In the new presentations, we’ve added many of your most requested features, including: Via Baiba Svenca
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There are a lot of myths about the value of standardized testing that many people believe and that help drive policy. A new book busts many of these myths.
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Mike Daisey delves into the lives of the workers in China, and the grim conditions there, as he raises questions about our support of products made in such conditions.
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Everyone's doing it -- or nearly everyone. According to a recent report, a whopping 91 percent of kids and teens between the ages of two and 17 play video games.
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Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS that combines standard course-management tools with advanced social networking and community-building, and an open architecture that allows instructors to import whatever material they want, from e-books to YouTube videos.
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How do you make the case for technology integration? Is it because kids are incessantly using technology, including many multifunctional mobile devices and they ‘demand’ that our pedagogical choices match their ‘digital learning style’ ‘in the 21st Century’? Are they really wired differently? Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge 
lelapin's comment October 4, 2011 11:52 PM
"In an education setting, tech use should rarely be about itself but about the subject matter at hand and increasing engagement and learning objectives through it's use." - so right.
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Surprisingly, they were not more visionary (they did not stand out for their ability to "see" the future), and they were generally not more charismatic (yes, a few were, like Herb Kelleher, but not all, and so were some industry peers). Instead, we found three other characteristics. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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Research shows that the most-trusted companies have higher revenues, profitability and shareholder returns. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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Mid-term exams loom ahead and again I enquire into the learning process.
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Prompster turns your iPad into a portable teleprompter, eliminating the need for written notes or flash cards. You can write and edit speeches from within the app and change both the font size and font type. Prompster will scroll your words through the screen at user adjustable speeds... Via Baiba Svenca |
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Michael Fullan has been working to identify the right drivers for whole system education reform. His paper, "Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform," has stimulated considerable interest from educators around the world.
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Today, I (Lisa Thumann) had the pleasure of presenting at Edscape 2011. The title of my session was Spontaneous Professional Development. You most likely have heard this term before as it is used pretty frequently these days.
13 sources for archived webinars and conference presentations.
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The Big Picture Learning design is a dynamic approach to learning, doing, and thinking that has been changing the lives of students, educators, and entire... Via Kathleen McClaskey
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In this handbook we aim to summarise not only the key theories around why they are considered to have potential, but how they have been used in the past, how they are used for learning in a family context, what attributes lead to learning, and considerations for using them with young people. Via Nik Peachey
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How much do you think the former D.C. schools superintendent, who now runs an organization called StudentsFirst, charged a campus in the Kent State University system to speak about school reform?
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Tablet computers are being used by Canadian teachers to help students with autism communicate, with great success, CBC's Ron Charles reports
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One of the most buzzed-aboutexperiments in higher education lately is StraighterLine, a company that offers online versions of introductory courses and works in partnership with universities that award credit to students for completing them.That idea is spreading. With less fanfare, a similar deal was recently signed between James Madison University and the language-learning company Rosetta Stone.
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Erly is a new social platform for organizing and sharing your personal content. The owners of the site are billing it as an easy way to create multi-media albums commemorating events. While this is definitely accurate, I see that as having great value for education too. Another content aggregator for group and individual projects, as well as class trips and events.
Easy import photos, links, and videos and write notes. Very attractive layout. -JL
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Leadership lessons when leading change include 5 requirements enabling the leader to effectively lead change: will, vision, communication, passion, & execution. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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Transformational Leadership has recently gone from being just a nice idea an organizational imperative for any individual or company to thrive in today's world Deepening our understanding of what it m... ... Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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A transformational leader, using approaches that focus on helping followers develop into leaders themselves, acts as a role model to inspire, challenge and motivate team members. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge |
