I had a great time at the Teacherscape.com Leadership Institute. One of the quick think abouts that was shared was in hiring new teachers. The speaker reminded us that few if any new teachers are really great teachers their first year or two. There is too much to learn that even the best of intern [...]
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TED2009, Oxford, will explore and make visible the Substance of Things Not Seen …
These are some of the questions that they plan to tackle as they delve into the world of the unseen:
What is an accomplished life?
Which universe do we live in?
Is life a mathematical equation?
Where does motivation come from?
Who’s defining the new geopolitical map?
How [...]
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Working on book/article themes and continuing conversations from NECC2009 conference. & thinking on COSN 2010 and ISTE 2010 submissions
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Key principles (resources)
NSCD: http://www.nsdc.org/standards
Reviewing the Evidence On How Teacher Professional Development Affects Student Achievement http://ies.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=REL2007033
Goals 2000: www.ed.gov/G2K/bridge.html
Summary points:
High-quality professional development leads teachers to gain and refine knowledge of both content and pedagogy.
High-quality professional development reflects best practices in teaching and learning, helping adults with varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness learn to work together and [...]
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Watching the news cover the SC girl’s return to her school and point out less than desireable conditions makes me think he should champion a day where business and legislators visit every school building in they gather workers from or that they represent. Wonder if that would begin a revolution against 19th and early 20th [...]
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January 24th and I was not able to swing a f2f trip to Educon. I am pretty bummed out, so I will catch what I can via the streams and posts. It appears to be a small cozy conference. I think Chris thought about 4-500 for their facility, the Science Leadership Academy [...]
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From the Oregon Computing Teacher, to The Computing Teacher, to International Society for Technology in Education, ISTE, Dr. David Morsund has been not only a contributer and collaborator, he has also been a founding father. His writings can give later generations to educational technology an ability to look through the rabbit hole of the past. [...]
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http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23180
I had written to listservs just last month wondering if anyone had an open-source solution to breaking the tie of auto response systems way from the hardware and software. In this article, while not open-source, it is software/web solution that allows any web enabled device to participate in these instant response type of instructional activity. [...]
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Wondering outloud how easy it is to get distracted as a technology director (CIO/CTO/whatever). Distracted from the educational mission of the district which it the pillar or roots of any technology plan. I’ve seen over the last 20 months important and sad events which cause leaders to veer to react or act. Sarbanes-Oxley, so loosely [...]
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I’ve accepted an invitiation to the School of the Future World Summit in December. At the registration one is asked about what one expects to get from the summit or what ideas one has for consideration. On the spot, I reflected two ideas. 1.a borderless education system for the U.S. where certifications for educators are [...]
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