Just finished a presentation on Web 2.0 tools for Educators. The target audience was those without much experience or even familiarity with the term “Web 2.0″. Still, I think there are many resources that may come in handy for even “advanced” Techie Teachers.
The presentation can be found here.
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In our rush to reform education, we have forgotten a simple truth:
reform will never be achieved by appropriations, restructuring schools, rewriting curricula, and revising texts …if we continue to demean and dishearten the human resource called the teacher on whom so much depends. -P. Palmer
You can’t mandate what matters. -Fullen
Although we try, transformation cannot be [...]
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Does School Represent “real life” for students? This question has vexed me for more than a decade. It became the topic for a thesis completed in the ’90’s. In it, I interviewed students about the topic. Paraphrasing and generalizing greatly, their responses ranged from “Of course it’s real, it’s made of bricks” [...]
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Beginnings seem easy. Beginnings feel authentic. Then something happens on the way to the ending: The Middle. The Middle is where we need to keep things fresh, new and alive amidst successive school days which roll in like waves, one after the other with hardly a breath for us to renew and refresh.
When we plan [...]
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The accounting firm Accenture has a neat little phrase: “Expectation Gap”. They use the term to explain the phenomenon of returned consumer electronics for one. It has been discovered that only 20% of returned products are actually defective or broken, though the costumer said they were.
Accenture explains that there was an apparent expectation [...]
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What I most want to do is create. And innovate. It’s part of who I am. Part of how I am wired. I seek what’s new. I try to learn what I don’t know. Repeatedly.
This puts me at a disadvantage as a teacher. I have learned through experience and through [...]
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Beginning teachers have it tough. Despite the growth of mentoring programs, it is a time when many find themselves “out on a limb” where they struggle to deliver curriculum, maintain good classroom management as well as a healthy rapport with students. Many fear for their jobs if their classes are not “under control”. Others fear [...]
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You’ve been working without a contract for a year. Morale is low. Money is tight. And yet, it is your job to contribute to the education of the children before you (in positive ways) period after period, day after day.
During these trying times, here’s what has kept me optimistic:
Pretending that my [...]
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I love the term “Changelog” because of what it implies:
“Something was changed to make things better”.
“This is a work in progress”.
“We’ll evolve to make the experience better”.
“We’ll be completely transparent about this process-in fact we’ll publicly post our changes so the evolution of our product/program/system is widely known-faults included.
What would your changelog look like? Is [...]
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Many entrepreneurs, activists, and marketers are leveraging the social web for positive change. In the process and by its very nature, they are giving each of us the tools to change the world and make it a better place. There are thousands of examples, which is precisely why Max Gladwell exists. Here are 10 worth [...]
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