What Students Will Learn In The Future What Students Will Learn In The Future by Terry Heick This is part 1 of the series “Responsive Teaching For A Changing World,” a 3-part series is sponsored by Adobe Presenter 9. They had nothing to do with the content–only asked that we include a link back to their platform, which you can see above. Recollection: Free Tool for Digital Collections The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at the Library of Congress, in partnership with Zepheira LLC, is developing a free software platform called Recollection that allows users to upload their data and easily create interactive maps, charts, timelines, tag clouds and more. It’s elegantly simple, allowing users to take something like a standard spreadsheet and through a few simple clicks transform it into something else, like an interactive map. Try it While Recollection is still in beta, those interested in trying it out can request a free account to access it. Online Workshop Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 1 p.m., the Library of Congress will be hosting a free online workshop where you can learn how to use this tool.
Nicole Hennig's Blog What’s your tech personality? When it comes to new technologies, are you mainly a visionary or an implementer? Find out by taking this quiz. Tell us your results in the comments! How Instructional Coaches Can Help Transform Schools Traditionally, instructional coaches have played a rather narrow role in schools, usually working primarily one-on-one with another teacher. This work is important and coaches can be instrumental in developing the skills of teachers. But, if the conditions are right, coaches can work in several additional ways to support the transformation of a site. Coaches can bring teams together in healthy ways, they can support teachers to increase their emotional resiliency, and they can facilitate systems change.
Trillion-Dollar Footprint (6-8) Warm-up (10 minutes) ASK:How many of you have … sent a message or posted a comment online?created a profile on a social network site?used some sort of photo-sharing app?Googled your own name? Dr. Booker’s Simple Rules of History Dr. Matthew Booker is the first presenter in our Century of Progress summer session. He’s sharing today about how the US was able to sustain its Revolution. We always assume that once we won the war against England and signed the Treaty of Paris, that the process of nationhood was a given. But it wasn’t. (An interesting tidbit he just shared.
A Letter to Educators Teaching Online for the First Time Dear Teachers, Last week, the two of us had a conversation about school leaders who would be leading and making decisions related to the spread of COVID-19. That conversation turned into a set of guidelines that we published first with Global Online Academy and later with EdSurge. Google must respect 'right to be forgotten' Internet companies can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive personal information from search engine results, Europe's top court ruled on Tuesday in a case pitting privacy campaigners against Google. The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) upheld the complaint of a Spanish man who objected to the fact that Google searches on his name threw up links to a 1998 newspaper article about the repossession of his home. The case highlighted the struggle in cyberspace between free speech advocates and supporters of privacy rights who say people should have the "right to be forgotten" — meaning that they should be able to remove their digital traces from the internet. It creates both technical challenges and potential extra costs for companies like Google, the world's no.1 search engine, and Facebook.
About Cognitive Coaching Seminars® The mission of Cognitive CoachingSM is to produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for excellence both independently and as members of a community. Research indicates that teaching is a complex intellectual activity and that teachers who think at higher levels produce students who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem solvers. It is the invisible skills of teaching, the thinking processes that underlie instructional decisions, which produce superior instruction. Cognitive CoachingSM is a research-based model that capitalizes upon and enhances teachers’ cognitive processes. Nine Elements Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 1. Digital Access: full electronic participation in society.
How to Plan for Coaching Conversations - Bright Morning Some of you may already know that I’m a loud, staunch, passionate advocate for planning–in this case, for coaches to plan their coaching sessions with teachers. I feel just as strongly that teachers must plan their lessons (plan on paper, not just in their heads). However, the majority of coaches rarely plan–and before I knew how or realized how essential it was, I didn’t plan either. When I train coaches, I always bring this up. I remind them that just as we know how much better a lesson is when we’ve planned it, coaching is the same–if you plan for a coaching conversation it’s almost guaranteed to be smoother, go deeper, be more strategic, and result in transformational learning than had you just showed up and jumped in.
edsurge If I had written this article two years ago, it would have been very different. Back then, I would have made (or felt like I had to make) a compelling case for why we should even consider the idea of incorporating video games into classroom instruction. Back then, I would have expected most readers to incredulously click to the next article. But today, Game-Based Learning (GBL) and Gamification are gaining some real traction in the teaching community. At the recent OETC conference, the organizers dedicated an entire wing of the convention center to the subject, and educators weren’t shy about their interest.
Active Listening: The Key To Transforming Your Coaching - Bright Morning I’m just about ready to declare that active listening is the highest priority skill for a coach to master and that it must be mastered prior to success using any other strategy. This is because I have seen and experienced innumerable instances where a coaching conversation either results in deep insight and big changes as a result of the coach’s skill in using active listening or because a conversation has struggled because a coach didn’t use active listening.Active Listening Defined Active listening is a deceptively simple skill. It’s a communication technique which requires that the listener feed back what the other person has said and reflect that hearing the complete message that was expressed. Here’s the biggest challenge: You can only do this if you’re paying really close attention. Your mind can’t wander, you can’t drift into your own memories, you can’t start generating solutions for the issue at hand, and you can’t start mentally arguing with the speaker.
A nerdy teacher’s guide to ISTE 2014 Nicholas Provenzano receives an Outstanding Teacher award at ISTE 2013. If this is your first time attending ISTE’s big conference, there are a few things you need to know. Having attended four previous events, I’ve figured out how to get the most out of the experience.