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• The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a 2015 report that heavy users of computers in the classroom “do a lot worse in most learning outcomes” and that: “In the end, technology can amplify great teaching, but great technology cannot replace poor teaching.”

Leadership for Teacher Learning webinar recording with Dr. Dylan Wiliam.

• View the recording of the webinar at http://www.dylanwiliamcenter.com/webinars/
• Download a PDF of the presentation slides: http://ow.ly/4mUhIr

Two of Dr. Wiliam’s books are available at the Learning Sciences bookstore:

• Leadership for Teacher Learning: http://ow.ly/UqUwW
• Embedding Formative Assessment: http://ow.ly/UqUBP

The Learning Sciences Dylan Wiliam Center @ http://DylanWiliamCenter.com

Michael Wolf's Slide Deck -- Yahoo board member lays out the future of Tech and Media

• Education psychologist and author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds Jane Healy spent years doing research into computer use in schools and, while she expected to find that computers in the classroom would be beneficial, now feels that “time on the computer might interfere with development of everything from the young child’s motor skills to his or her ability to think logically and distinguish between reality and fantasy.”

The $8,000 Mistake That All Bloggers Should Beware

Q: What’s lamer than a crappy photo of Nebraska?

A: Having to pay $8,000 in copyright infringement penalties for it. This is a lesson we recently learned the hard way...

3 Google Apps Tools You Didn’t Know You Could Use Offline: Email, Docs & Maps

PEDAGODGY

In Nashville, Tennessee, in 1996, speaking at the 52nd annual ABCA convention John Scolinos gave his famous "17 inches!" speech.

Coach Scolinos was 78 years old at the time, and after speaking for twenty-five minutes, not once mentioning the 17" rubber home plate hanging around his neck, Coach Scolinos appeared to notice the snickering among some of the coaches in the audience...

8 Skills for Future-Proofed Teachers

By Joe Barnhart - 03/30/16

Determining what kind of technology teachers should be familiar with matters less than ensuring they have skills to adapt to whatever gadgets come along.

Why Teachers Need To Know The Wrong Answers

by Anya Kamenetz - April 16, 2016

Genius Hour / 20% Time / PBL

Kevin Brookhouser's Book 20Time Project: How Educators Can Launch Google's Formula for Future-Ready Innovation

Don Wettrick's Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level is excellent, as well.

The Five Tenets of Personalized Learning

By Pernille Ripp / June 8, 2015

I did not know what I was doing when I decided to change the way I taught. I did not know that somewhere out in the education world there was already a term floating around for some of the ideas I had...

BAM Radio --"Why PBL Is Red-Hot and Getting Hotter"

Key benefits

• It’s a way to teach students 21st century skills or what they call “success skills.” (I like this term.)
• It’s more engaging for students, and it makes school more meaningful.
• Research shows that kids retain more and do better on traditional tests.

How does PBL create opportunities to think critically?

• There’s no one right answer in PBL.
• Students actively investigate, make presentations to public audiences, and can create/build (using design thinking).

A Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals (Part 1)

Peter Pappas » 04 January 2010 - My approach to staff development (and teaching) borrows from the thinking of Donald Finkel who believed that teaching should be thought of as “providing experience, provoking reflection.”

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The Office of Educational Technology's Personalized Professional Learning for Future Ready Leaders. This new set of personalized learning tools supports Educators as they develop plans to implement research-based digital learning strategies AND provide equitable access to learning for all students.

STEM & PBL

• Quotes / 4 Essential Concepts

A Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals

Evaluating the Privacy and Security of Ed Tech

When working with educational technology, responsible decision makers in schools recognize the need for solid security and privacy practice in software applications.

Report: Digital Citizenship Should be a Key Component of Classroom Technology Initiatives

Effective classroom technology initiatives should include instruction on digital citizenship, according to a new white paper from NetRef, a provider of Internet management tools.

Survey Shows Schools Hitting Digital Hard

A recent survey found that half of school districts believe they've completed their 1-to-1 initiatives and the infrastructure required; More districts also have digital content and curriculum strategies in place this year compared to last year - up from 49 percent to 62 percent. More than half of those incorporate the use of open educational resources.

Orange County Completes 100 Gbps Network Connection

The Orange County Department of Education has established a 100 gigabit-per-second dark fiber network connection, which will provide its 27 school districts with high speed Internet connectivity to support digital learning initiatives.

Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant - "Irresponsible Fearmongering."

"If we wish to facilitate digitally-rich learning spaces so that our students can use learning technologies in interesting and instructionally powerful ways, we can’t keep weighing down the fearful side of the balance scale…"