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Here is a great blog challenge…take one “life lesson” from this article and blog about it: https://t.co/gWYLvNqydF Working on mine now.
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The results show that race-based bias already exists around the second half of a child’s first year. This challenges the popular view that race-based bias first emerges only during the preschool years.”
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There are a lot of ways to measure the quality of a high school. The way that U.S. News does it is as follows: 75% of the score is the percent of 12th graders who get at least a 3 on at least one AP test. 25% of the score is the percent of 12th graders who took at least one AP test. They call this weighted average the ‘College Ready Index.’ By including the participation rate, a school can’t inflate their scores by only allowing students to take the AP who are most likely to pass.
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From David Wiley
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The connection between addiction and isolation
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A well-executed newsletter is a powerful email tool with multiple benefits, which is why it’s crucial to ensure your newsletter design is visually appealing. If it looks good, readers are more likely to click.
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From Meriden CT – “A multipronged approach to improving services for students with special needs.”
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Let’s bring the faculty book club discussion group back to Wilmington! And btw – this book is next up on my readin… https://t.co/eOOaPYJaDj
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Good thoughts from George Couros on moving from tech leads to innovative teaching and learning leads.
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My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (April 30, 2017)
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Learning In Burlington: Is Your School Like United Airlines? https://t.co/nNpdYqgU2n a must read via @patrickmlarkin #ita17
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Three strategies to practice reflective urgency: https://t.co/NeRhBxBKuc
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Thanks for your help, Patrick. I had a lot of fun with all my friends at Fox Hill! https://t.co/iGJzrZ6SSM
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Enjoyed many of these – 50 Top Motivational Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals https://t.co/70yqQQsOoE
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To improve, we must know our biggest failings. In the training and development field, our five biggest failures are as follows: We forget to minimize forgetting and improve remembering. We don’t provide training follow-through. We don’t fully utilize the power of prompting mechanisms. We don’t fully leverage on-the-job learning. We measure so poorly that we don’t get good feedback to enable improvement.
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High school Ts! Lesson plan to teach Ss how websites collect personal info + what to do about it… https://t.co/FClR9kwdCs
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Creaturizer from PBS Kids is a free iOS and Android app that lets students create fun cartoon creatures then place them into outdoor settings through the use of augmented reality.
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If we leapfrog ahead ten years and take notice of the radically different lives we will be living, we will notice how a few key technologies paved the way for massive new industries. Here is a glimpse of a stunningly different future that will come into view over the next decade.
Monday Must-Reads – April 24, 2017
As a means to try to get myself writing in this space a bit more, I am starting each week by sharing three posts that I came across during the previous week that struck a chord with me. While my intentions are mainly self-serving, I am also hoping that a few folks might catch a post that they missed.
Let’s see how many weeks I can keep this up…Four weeks and counting…
1. 72 stunning things in the future that will be common ten years from now that don’t exist today – Thomas Frey
In this post from his site, Futurist Speaker, Thomas Frey reminds us of all of the innovations that we have seen in the last 10 years (i.e. FitBit, Netflix, Facetime, Uber, etc.). With this in mind, he looks at some of the things we can expect to see in the near future.
“If we leapfrog ahead ten years and take notice of the radically different lives we will be living, we will notice how a few key technologies paved the way for massive new industries.Here is a glimpse of a stunningly different future that will come into view over the next decade…
3D printed makeup for women…
For education and training, we will see a growing number of modules done in both virtual and augmented reality…
Crash-proof cars. Volvo already says their cars will be crash-proof before 2020…
Smart chairs, smart beds, and smart pillows that will self-adjust to minimize pressure points and optimize comfort…
Facetime-like checkups without needing a doctor’s appointment…“
2. How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together – Christine Porath
Christine Porath discusses a recent study from medical settings and how incivility among team members can result in poor medical outcomes for patients. There is little doubt that similar behavior by team members in and professional setting can lead to poorer outcomes. Sometimes individuals impacted are not even aware of their detachment.
“People who lack a sense of psychological safety — the feeling that the team environment is a trusting, respectful, and safe place to take risks — shut down, often without realizing it. They are less likely to seek or accept feedback and less likely to experiment, discuss errors, and speak up about potential or actual problems. Even without an intimidator in the room, they work in a cloud of negativity and are unable to do their best.”
For more on this topic, check out Porath’s new book Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
3. Plum’s Creaturizer – A Neat AR App to Get Kids Exploring Outdoors – Richard Byrne
Just in time for the warmer weather, Richard Byrne provides an overview of a great Augmented Reality app that allows them to place fictional creatures in real-world settings. The app is designed by PBS Kids and it is free on Android and iOS
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (April 23, 2017)
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How rudeness and incivility stop people from working together and stop good work from getting done. https://t.co/y7WBFmtx2H @HarvardBiz
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Extending beyond school or classroom walls to build a community of readers means engaging adults within the community, through their work or volunteer connections, then forging partnerships based on common values and goals for children’s literacy.
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Teenagers who routinely snuggle up in bed at night with their computer or mobile phone are more than twice as likely to be sleep deprived than other adolescents, research shows.
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good overview of agile planning
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From Dan Rockwell – Structure trumps talent. Badly designed organizations sabotage the best performers.
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From Tom Vander Ark and Justin Reich – “eadership development is typically part of organizational development. Less apparent is the opportunity to structure the change agenda as a leadership development agenda.”
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From Getting Smart – “Self-Organizing Learning Environments (SOLEs), which draw on children’s natural curiosity to create a dynamic space for students to learn, interact and develop critical problem-solving skills.”
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‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ author says a 3-step process he learned from Tony Robbins drastically improved his life https://t.co/ygmy4P6ptK
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According to Kim Cameron at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, positive leaders and organizations promote outcomes such as “thriving at work, interpersonal flourishing, virtuous behaviors, positive emotions, and energizing networks.” He points out four behaviors of positive leaders…
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The focus on this piece is on ecredentials and higher ed., but I also wonder about how school districts can expand what they offer to staff for Professional Learning.
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Google and Pinterest have each created new ways to search using images. Both companies have recognized that people who search images online may not want to simply find out what something looks like.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (April 16, 2017)
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8 Things I Learned My First Year Of Teaching With Project Based Learning https://t.co/SJoCl0VSL6 #EdChat #PBLchat… https://t.co/1ve0p3Z3oC
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If you would like to view book recs & talking points, here’s my #TheEdCollabGathering #5 preso w/ @teachermantrav. https://t.co/yEhH2ncJ0r
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Turn your classroom into a powerhouse of learning. Explore our comprehensive library of middle school science curriculum-aligned edgames.
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For knowledge management in a complex world, the best curators are the story tellers.
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For knowledge management in a complex world, the best curators are the story tellers.
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There’s a common cultural assumption that “kids these days” can’t focus due to screen time. They simply lack the attention span needed to engage in deep work. But what if that’s not entirely true? What if this generation is capable of reaching a state of creative flow?
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There’s a common cultural assumption that “kids these days” can’t focus due to screen time. They simply lack the attention span needed to engage in deep work. But what if that’s not entirely true? What if this generation is capable of reaching a state of creative flow?
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¨Real change over a five-year window represents light speed for many schools. Schools that have started to adopt some of this language and thinking, if not formal metrics like these, are pulling away from schools for which this thinking continues to be alien or absent.
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Real change over a five-year window represents light speed for many schools. Schools that have started to adopt some of this language and thinking, if not formal metrics like these, are pulling away from schools for which this thinking continues to be alien or absent. Standing pat, or even slow movement, is the same as moving backward.
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My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (April 9, 2017)
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Really interesting read and ties to changing work culture – 10 Company Rules That Destroy Trust And Teamwork https://t.co/jd0HJR2wYb
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From The Atlantic – “Increased focus on kids’ psychological health may seem like the education world’s flavor of the day, but it’s achieving results.”
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If we want to use the most effective approaches with kids—and draw on new research about the brain—special education needs to change its approach.
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From Edutopia – Tips on giving your students a choice about where and on what to sit—including ideas about seating charts and classroom management.
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George Couros asks the question we all should be asking ourselves – Are schools adequately preparing students for their future?
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Great satire on textbooks from Cracked…
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Very excited to be joining the amazing team at ISTE! https://t.co/LlkUZpSi0j @isteconnects
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.@BostonHeraldHS: Overbearing parents were too much for ex-Braintree girls basketball coach Kristen McDonell… https://t.co/nHfMBw6pN7
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From Jimmy Casas – “Ineffective leadership in my opinion is the biggest issue facing not only public education, but small business and larger companies alike. “
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From George Couros – “We can’t continue to ask for creativity, innovation, and collaborative cultures with deep, independent thinking, while not acknowledging that compliance driven environments prevent these from happening.”
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Good post on integrating the ISTE standards to better engage students
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Love the GIFT Acromym here in regards to feedback
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From Richard Byrne – You can now insert your Google Keep notes and bookmarks into your Google Documents. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to insert Google Keep notes into Google Documents.
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Great Design Thinking reading list from Stanford
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (April 2, 2017)
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#OER Curation for #PersonalizedLearning https://t.co/IAIw4QELHC via @Getting_Smart @knovation
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@patrickmlarkin @pernilleripp Here is what it looks like in action https://t.co/gZex9xN5me
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Great example of a branding guide from CCSD in Illinois
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“We are shifting from a focus on professional development to professional learning.”
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I love this idea, starting persuasive writing and public speaking early! “I liked this book because…” works even… https://t.co/o0ppSzMT25
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From AJ Juliani – “I had to change up my practice, because it was directly in my face: it didn’t work. The tests didn’t work. The challenging traditional assignments did not work. There was no retention.”
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From Common Sense Media – “To be true digital citizens, our students need teachers who model pro-social, creative, and responsible social media use.”
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Good site for ELL resources
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From Tom Vander Ark on Getting Smart – “The goal is to build consensus around a lexicon, metrics and strategies that more fully embrace the integration of academic goals and SEL. We believe that one of the most effective strategies for marrying SEL and core subjects is to embed SEL into the formal curricula. Outlined below are numerous examples.”
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Good List from Getting Smart
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 26, 2017)
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@patrickmlarkin I fail everyday! But I pick myself back up and learn from the mistakes. Would take me 100 Tweets or… https://t.co/dNY7nMnhFf
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Example of a newsletter to send to staff rather than a stream of endless emails.
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From Changing the Game Project – “We can correct course and help our children find their own paths.”
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 19, 2017)
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Good resources from Shaelynn Farnsworth
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Journal Writing in Grade 1 With Google Docs https://t.co/yj8vKlU8Jr via @patrickmlarkin #edchat #earlyed #ece #edtech #gafe #GoogleEDU
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Great ideas on Professional Learning for staff.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 12, 2017)
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This is the #1 carb rule Hilary Duff followed to lose 30 pounds: https://t.co/lcC11ERSrC https://t.co/KQxTV6pT57
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May be of use for you @NormandLCSW @cpsdauna_coffin Great post @patrickmlarkin Thanks for sharing! https://t.co/rPecO3ppcx
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Via Patrick Lenz – “The debate over homework often falls into two categories: “Yes, I’m for it” or “No, I’m against it.” I am of the mind that homework can be a powerful tool that fosters a love of learning, creates strong partnerships with families, and pushes students to reach learning targets.”
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From Cult of Pedagogy – “In my own elementary physical education classes, it is my students who consistently remind me that the content (skills, patterns, understandings) is not what they are there for, per se. Rather, they are there to have fun, be with their friends, and learn to do some things in the process. Understanding this helps me see my students more fully and also tap into their rich capacities for insight and discovery. One way I do this is with a trouble huddle.”
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From Richard Byrne – “The Writer’s Workshop is a playlist of twenty-two TED-Ed lessons. The The Writer’s Workshop contains lessons on basic topics like how to use punctuation and videos on more complex topics like how to make your writing humorous.”
My Un-Learning Journey 