Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation
I found an article this morning from Lisa Nielsen and Lisa Cooley, Newsflash: Social media is real life. Take a few minutes to go read it and then share it with a parent or educator. I think it is an excellent argument for why we as educators need to … [Continue reading]
Catching up on some RSS feeds, I ran across this on the Personalized Learning blog, the post "Who controls the Learning?" I really like this list. Two questions: (1) Are we providing our learners with the opportunity to develop these qualities? (2) … [Continue reading]
I enjoy videos such as this one because they underscore the importance of vision in designing a better education system. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYMd-7Ng9Y8] … [Continue reading]
Several weeks ago I witnessed an interesting exchange with high school students. A group of students was asked what course they would most like to see offered that isn't currently on the high school roster of offerings. Here were some of the … [Continue reading]
From the article "How to make your classroom a thinking space"... Think back to your mental image of a creative workplace. Was the place you imagined a school? If the answer was "no," why not? School is a work place for 55 million people in the … [Continue reading]
Isn't this the kind of learner we want students to become? Isn't this what will transfer to the real world? If so, why don't we do more of this? What are the barriers that exist? How would students in your school respond to this kind of school … [Continue reading]
As I'm catching up on some interesting finds on the internet this weekend, I stumbled onto a few posts that seemed to connect around this idea of advocating for the use of the Internet and social media. In the first post, Mimi Ito shares What Teens … [Continue reading]
This past week I had an encounter with the concept of servant leadership. In a PIL course, ironically, delivered through the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the presenters shared the 10 characteristics of a servant leader for us to ponder. … [Continue reading]
This was one of my most memorable takeaways from the 2013 PETE & C conference held several weeks ago in Hershey, PA. It came from Rob Mancabelli's presentation, "Learning in a networked world." In the presentation, Rob referenced the National … [Continue reading]
This post has been cross-posted to SalisburySD.US. A week ago, I shared a post asking parents and teachers how they manage digital distraction in the classroom and at home. We've had several replies in the comments section. Be sure to check them out … [Continue reading]