Category: Articles
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It’s Not About the Tools. It’s About the Skills | Langwitches Blog
Many times, I see eyes glazing over, when I excitedly speak with parents or administrators about blogging, skyping or podcasting with students. Many of them, unfamiliar with the tools, will immediately feel uncomfortable. Some will automatically and immediately steer the conversation back to what they know: What about learning the…
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Education Week: Students Sound Off on School Tech Use
Discussions of technology in education typically center on what policymakers, academic experts, and educators would like to see happen in the classroom. Rarely heard are the voices of those who are actively test-driving new forms of technology: the students. via Education Week: Students Sound Off on School Tech Use.
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Education Week: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning
Teachers have always known that a typical class of two dozen or more students can include vastly different skill levels and learning styles. But meeting those varied academic needs with a defined curriculum, time limitations, and traditional instructional tools can be daunting for even the most skilled instructor. via Education…
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Israel’s Time To Know Aims To Revolutionize The Classroom | TechCrunch
This is the story of Time To Know, an enigmatic Israeli startup that has somehow managed to remain under the radar of Israel’s tightly knit startup scene. What makes this feat wondrous is not only because of the daunting challenge the company has chosen to meet, but that it has…
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Outliers and developing exceptional abilities
“The natural trajectory of giftedness in childhood is not a six-figure salary, perfect happiness, and a guaranteed place in Who’s Who. It is the deepening of the personality, the strengthening of one’s value system, the creation of greater and greater challenges for oneself… becoming a better person and helping make…
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The parallels between big business and schools « School Board News
The parallels between big business and schools Consider an institution that was guilty of “a pattern of lurching from one strategy to another, always looking for a single-stroke solution to its problems. It held pep rallies, launched programs, grabbed fads, fired CEOs, hired CEOs, and fired them again.” Sound like…
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Closing the achievement gap is a principle responsibility of principals « School Board News
With the introduction of S 2896, the “Principal Recruitment and Retention Act,” Senators Al Franken (D-MN) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) hope to close the achievement gap by assuring that high need schools have highly qualified principals who can improve instruction, assessments and the use of data, and can recruit and…
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The Evolution of Technology
To economist W. Brian Arthur, the value of innovation depends on harnessing the natural progression of shared knowledge. via The Evolution of Technology.
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