New Padagogy Wheel Helps You Integrate Technology Using SAMR Model
Sometimes a visual guide comes along and it just makes total sense. That’s how I felt about Allan Carrington’s clever ‘Padagogy Wheel‘ which we featured on Edudemic last week. Check out the previous version then view the one below to see the differences. But I was quite amazed this morning when I saw that the Padagogy Wheel had been updated. This new Padagogy Wheel (which honestly is less about iPads and more about technology integration now) should encourage you to focus on redefining your current standards, the current role tech plays in your classroom, and just about everything else. Want to print out the poster? The Padagogy Wheel by Allan Carrington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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What is ConnectEd?
Ed. note: To highlight the importance of connected classrooms, the White House held a virtual "show and tell" with three schools that are embracing technology and digital learning. Watch the full hangout at wh.gov/show-and-tell. President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, right, talk with students while visiting a classroom at the Yeadon Regional Head Start Center in Yeadon, Pa., Nov. 8, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Preparing America’s students with the skills they need to get good jobs and compete with countries around the world relies increasingly on interactive, individualized learning experiences driven by new technology. But today, millions of students lack access to the high-speed broadband internet that supports this sort of learning technology. The fact is, schools without internet access put our students at a disadvantage. Here’s how ConnectED works: Upgrading connectivity Training teachers
Gaston county among unhealthiest counties in NC
GASTON COUNTY, N.C. -- New rankings show Gaston County is among the unhealthiest counties in the state. According to the rankings from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Gaston County slipped five spots in a statewide ranking of county health outcomes, from seventy-sixth to eighty-first out of 100 counties. Health outcomes are the quantification of illness and early death in a community. However, in a ranking of health factors, which measures the infrastructure and resources necessary for communities to be healthy, Gaston climbed four spots, from sixty-fifth to sixty-first. The health department is leading a team of agencies trying to come up with new ways to fight obesity in the county; Girls on the Run is a character building program that tries to teach kids about fitness early in life. Kathleen Boyce, the director of the program for Gaston County says she was not surprised by the county health rankings.
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Skilled, LIterate & Fluent in the Digital World
I have been intrigued with the relationship of being skilled, literate and fluent in the Digital World for a while. We are focusing at school to look through the lens of fluency using technology as tools (e.g. using the iPad as the device and apps as the tool to achieve fluency), not as the end. I am wondering if the word “fluency” in the digital world, sparks the same thoughts or activates the background definition in other educators? I have heard others in the edubloggersphere use the word “workflow” instead of “fluency”. Workflow is defined by Wikipedia as: The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion. The word “workflow” c-o-u-l-d work, but still does not sound right. fluency- workflow? Looking back at my train of thought, I started by looking at the flow between the skills needed to become literate in order to move on to become fluent. Like this: Like Loading...
Assessing Tech Readiness for Common Core: What IT Pros Say
A year from now, districts around the country will make final preparations for the start of the 2014–2015 school year. For most of them, those preparations will include ensuring that their networks are equipped to handle the new online student assessments that align with the Common Core State Standards. Training staff to administer those tests, as well as amassing enough computers for students to complete them, also are high priorities. Achieve and the U.S. Education Delivery Institute, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving education at both the school and state levels, have developed a comprehensive workbook that maps out clear action steps for state and district leaders to adapt as they implement the standards in their schools. Meanwhile, the two consortia designing online student assessments that align with Common Core have developed guidance of their own on the minimum technology requirements that states must achieve to effectively support online testing:
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Tempers flare at 1st Common Core hearing as legislators clash with Flanagan, each other
LANSING — Rep. Tim Kelly had to play traffic cop at times Tuesday as legislators from both sides of the aisle peppered State Superintendent Mike Flanagan and Michigan Department of Education officials with questions about the Common Core State Standards. The fireworks came during a subcommittee hearing on whether or not the legislators should give their seal of approval to continuing implementation of Common Core, one of four such hearings scheduled for the summer. The hearings came about after legislators inserted a provision in the new state budget, set to take effect Oct. 1, that blocks the education department from spending state funds to implement the standards. RELATED: What is Common Core? Flanagan began his testimony before the panel by asking legislators to take action as soon as possible, so teachers working on lesson plans and other preparation for the fall have certainty about curriculum standards. Rep. “They did not have public hearings,” McMillin said.
