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Great site from Graham Fletcher
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From Graphite – Now, when you find cool resources on Graphite — from reviews to blog posts to Top Picks lists and beyond — you can click “Bookmark.” This will store that resource in your profile. You can later curate that into a Collection — think a Pinterest board but for Graphite resources — or you can click “Organize” right after saving and add the resource to an existing Collection or create a new one.
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Great point on standardized testing from Seth Godin
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Great math resource site from Dan Meyer
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The “testing culture” in American schools is a major problem for math learners, Boaler said, noting that exams and tests are far more pervasive in math than other subjects.
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Great research from Jo Boaler and math assessments
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Great site from Stanford and Jo Boaler
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Life on Mars: How @CJC9BOSS carved his own unique lane with the @celtics. Our feature story: https://t.co/LpNy91YvHV https://t.co/mkZen1Ccay
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#MESPAChat If you are looking for MA principals to follow check out the people on this list from @patrickmlarkin https://t.co/NOM7vZAZ49
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My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (April 3, 2016)
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From Gallup – The report suggests that engagement drops as students age because older students feel less cared for by adults and see less value in their own work.
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Our NGSS Explorer highlights hundreds of apps, games, and websites evaluated by our expert reviewers and tagged for relevant performance expectations (PEs). Finding the right tool for your NGSS-aligned lessons is as easy as selecting a grade, topic, and PE, which generates a list of suggested tools ready for classroom integration.
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@patrickmlarkin Thought you might like this!! https://t.co/WreNbSuNgf
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@jeffpearlman this sums up the relationship between Trump and his supporters pretty well: https://t.co/zHOrX9QN7f
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What’s The Hold Up With Ditching Homework? https://t.co/EAxJZOHy6P via @patrickmlarkin #greatread
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Pew Research Center set out to explore these big trends by looking at how Americans learn things for both personal and work-related reasons, why they want to learn things and how they think about the role of learning in their lives.
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A new working paper by researchers Matthew Kraft and Allison Gilmour presents a useful summary of teacher evaluation results in 19 states, all of which designed and implemented new evaluation systems at some point over the past five years.
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It’s important to note that free and open are two very different things. You might think to yourself, “I was able to find it digitally, online, without paying; it must be open.” Truly, that is one of the most common misconceptions associated with OERs.
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Great explanation of the electoral college from Christina Greer
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 27, 2016)
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A look at Harris Cooper’s metanalysis of studies done on the impact of homework from 1987-2003
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The New Tech Network Classroom Walkthrough Tool is connected to their School Success Rubric, a key tool for defining school progress and outcomes. COO Tim Presiado said the rubric “reflects both our organization’s values and research supported educational priorities to insure that all students graduate prepared for college, careers, and civic life.”
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When you create a Facebook fan page for your school or classroom there are some default settings that you will want to change in order to keep the page as school-friendly as possible.
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If you think it’s too hard to return schools to healthier hours, here’s a sampling of schools in 44 states that have done it already or are doing it in the next school year. While some of these schedules aren’t ideal, they all give students a chance for healthier sleep than the typical American middle or high school.
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CNN recently reported on research that looked at young children who underwent brain scans while listening to a story. The research found that when parents read to their children, the difference not only shows in children’s behavior and academic performance, but it also shows in their brain activity.
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Good resource to help people understand different undercurrents that exist among staff.
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Let’s replace homework with simply nightly reading! https://t.co/kPCLv0ayjZ
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we recognized that just grading the final product did not provide enough insight into the work that these students were doing as digital writers. We needed a more robust language for talking about student work and, in turn, what we could learn from it as teachers.
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We’re currently enmeshed in a high-pressure approach to learning that starts with homework being assigned in kindergarten and even preschool. Homework dominates after-school time in many households and has been dubbed the 21st century’s “new family dinner.” Overtired children complain and collapse. Exasperated parents cajole and nag. These family fights often ends in tears, threats, and parents secretly finishing their kid’s homework.
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Anyone who closely follows the debate about the value of homework at different grades knows about a famous meta-analysis of previous research on the subject, published in 2006 by researcher Harris Cooper and colleagues, which found that homework in elementary school does not contribute to academic achievement. You might think that educators would have taken that to heart, but because research rarely informs educational policy, it didn’t.
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“There is no evidence that any amount of homework improves the academic performance of elementary students.”
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Good article from the Atlantic.
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To create meaningful blended learning content an informed understanding of the range of tools available and their pedagogical applications is essential.
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Observations are hard work, but we know that when done right they are worth the effort. There is nothing better than seeing student engagement in a creative space with a focus on learning. I have walked into some observations drained from the noise of the day and walked out of those observations inspired to learn from another one.
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One of the ways to have observations with more impact is for administrators to take on the instructional coaching philosophy in their school. In order for school leaders to provide RTI to their teachers, they need to work in partnership (Knight) with their teachers on a co-constructed goal.
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SAMR features four levels that help trainers incorporate digital learning tools and platforms into their lesson plans, thereby bringing the benefits of modern technology into the corporate training environment.
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From Michael Horn – Innovating within existing schools is critical. Society created our current system of age-graded classrooms to serve a large number of students in the most economically efficient way possible by standardizing the way we teach and test. We must change this—in both old and new schools.
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From Alice Keeler – This is an updated writing journal from my previous blog post. Taking advantage of the new outline tool in Google Docs by including headers within the document. This makes it easy to jump to the current journal entry of a student. Unlike the table of contents, the outline in the left margin of the screen updates automatically.
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Not true. https://t.co/4m3Bt3qsD3
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 20, 2016)
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Studies done in several countries including Iceland, Canada, Israel, Sweden and Taiwan show children who are at the young end of their grade cohort are more likely to get an ADHD diagnosis than their older classmates.
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Instagram is about to change in a massive way. The photo and video sharing app is taking a page from Facebook and testing an algorithm based timeline.
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Computer Science Teacher: Interesting Links 14 March 2016 https://t.co/c2QizmxA1t Plus a quote from @patrickmlarkin as bonus
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From Simon Armitage – “Now that we have such open, free online resources it is time to reconsider how we, as teachers, present them to students and how we manage to get the best out of both digital and traditional opportunities.”
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From Alfie Kohn “I’m not allied with the Waldorfians, who ban computers from elementary and middle schools, but neither do I have much in common with teachers whose excitement over the latest export from Silicon Valley often seems downright orgasmic.”
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A look at the message coming from those pushing PARCC and similar tests that are alleged to help us accomplish positive school reform.
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Another example of why we have a lot of work to do in regards to cultural awareness/sensitivity
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 13, 2016)
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Great idea courtesy of @patrickmlarkin #LFL16 https://t.co/GEK7COLmP1
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We Need to Prepare Teachers for New Digital Roles with Open Education #GoOpen #OER https://t.co/OSD3pwYczw
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From NPR – A new study confirms what many Americans already knew deep in their hearts: We’re not good at math. Not only that, but when it comes to technology skills, we’re dead last compared with other developed countries.
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Americans rank last in problem-solving with technology…Yikes
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Good article from the Atlantic
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Nice post on the Why of OER by U.S. Director of Ed Tech. Joseph South
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Love this https://t.co/jsXYnx9lWP
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Good stuff from Richard Wells. H/T to Beth Holland
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From Richard Byrne: “Where Wikipedia stood-out was in getting students started on their searches for primary source documents.” Thinking this also may be a good way to start to build resources to replace textbooks
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From Richard Byrne: “the problem is that students don’t know enough strategies to help them dive deeper in their Internet research. In the slides embedded below I share my favorite search tips. The slides include some videos that demonstrate how to use the methods I’ve mentioned.”
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 6, 2016)
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Cool school in Cambridge – Open environment with no grades
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Incredible! We are so proud of our students! Thanks for sharing, Patrick. Please retweet! https://t.co/pV58PYczPy
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (February 29, 2016)
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student-success metrics related to whether students can get timely access to required course materials is the most important question
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student-success metrics related to whether students can get timely access to required course materials
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A look at some modern AUP’s
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“Some kids say, I hate science or I hate math, but what they are really saying is: I hate science class or I hate math class.” What if we changed our pedagogy and insured that our students really learn?
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (February 21, 2016)
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EdReports.org, the group that bills itself as the Consumer Reports of common-core instructional materials, released analyses of four more textbook series this week—and again the results indicated publishers failed to meet the mark.
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Apple vs. FBI: everything you need to know about the controversy in one place https://t.co/Hd82Jowqdx
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5 Myths About English Language Learners https://t.co/FSlmGlVDEQ via @markbarnes19
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Privacy Project is focused on data privacy literacy, tools, guides, and network building with tech experts to support libraries’ increasing role in empowering their communities in a digital world.
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District Building a Balance Between Open Resources and Purchased Content https://t.co/YnV1CVTHVS https://t.co/KwHe1ArKqwitUK
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From Peter Greene – That flexibility has been invaluable. If a teacher asked me about having their school go one-to-one, I’d say absolutely go for it, and do it with lots of resources and no plan. Expect it to be hard. But also expect to find new and interesting mountains to climb.
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From Audrey Watters – ” It remains to be seen if Amazon Inspire will support these activities or if the “problem” that Amazon really seeks to solve here is a stronger foothold in the education market.”
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From Alice Keeler – “I have created an Add-On script that allows you to create a Google Form with the list of agenda items for a meeting and then merge the responses of participants to an editable Google Doc.”
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From Terry Heick – “this isn’t meant to be a scientific prediction, but rather a kind of story that hopefully gives us something to think about–a way to consider our roles in the lives of students.”
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Engaging in a thoughtful cycle of alignment can yield powerful growth for districts and school AND reward teachers by meaningfully including them in that dialogue and empowering them to make PD work for them instead of a pointless endeavor.
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From Tom Vander Ark – We don’t know what learning will look like in 2035 but we can predict a wider variety of approaches and options; instead of school choice, it will be experience choice; instead of a focus on coherent school models, we’ll focus on coherent learning pathways. Education 2035 won’t cost more (in real terms) and will work better for more learners. But progress over the next two decades will be uneven improving rapidly where innovators collaborate.
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Good post on the push and pull between opposing points of view in regards to what we need in schools.
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Good ideas to consider to connect with stakeholders and share what is happening in schools
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Great tool for writing research papers
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From Katie Dunn – What does “effective online research” even mean? Type in a search term and get going, right? While on one hand, it literally is that easy, if you want to find good quality, highly relevant materials, you need to move far beyond a quick Google search and visiting your old pal Wikipedia. We have some great, easy tips for how to make the most of online research coming your way.
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Good overview of the Electoral College
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Good overview of Snaphat by AJ Juliani
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Phenomenal idea! Love the #growthmindset approach & positive attitude environment. Cannot wait to share at school. https://t.co/w2fxS9dC2q
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Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching.
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From Jennifer Gonzalez – “What is social justice, and how does it fit into the curriculum?”
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (February 14, 2016)
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Great look at a modern elementary library
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Shared album – Theresa Bergeron – Google Photos
8B Students are making a statement today. Can you? #TP3RnoI https://t.co/tZ5YmJHlT3
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How to Mix Privacy Settings on Google Calendar – And a Handful of Other Google Calendar Tutorials
Good overview of the ins and outs of Google Calendar
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Study Finds Late School Start Improves Teen Behavior — THE Journal
A new study in the journal Sleep has confirmed the idea that there could be positive outcomes if high schoolers were able to start school later in the morning.
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It All Adds Up! 25+ Math Resources, Apps, & Tools |
Good list of math resources from Shelly Terrell
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Using Fluency Tutor for Google with NewsELA |
From Alice Keeler – Fluency Tutor for Google by Texthelp allows you to hear your students read. Newsela allows students to read current news articles at different Lexile levels. Using them together allows students to record and share their reading of news articles with you.
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Hire the Best People, and Let Them Work from Wherever They Are
Interesting read from Harvard Business Review – Author cites mindset as the biggest impediment. Sounds like education. Some interesting connections here.
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77Leading Future Learning 2016
Apply to be a Social Media Ambassador for @masscue @EdTechTeacher21 https://t.co/O70mkJapY0 conf 3/11 https://t.co/ON54tf0KpP #edchatMA
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (February 7, 2016)
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Blizzard Bag Day today @Pinkerton_NH. Check Aspen 4 BB Day work. Visit https://t.co/TGsI0m44O5 4 athletic activity updates.
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News from The Associated Press
Department of Education gives states ways to cut standardized testing https://t.co/3BSREpeREV
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Musings about Technology in Work and Life | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Important point from Larry Cuban – The point is that technology has surely given us expanded choice, even creativity, in our daily lives but when it comes to a helping profession such as teaching where interactions between students and teachers are crucial to sustained learning, it is well to note that many of the software applications used in school then and now were add-ons that came from the business sector originally designed to get more work from less money spent.
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SearchReSearch: Teaching beginners how to search–lessons for teachers
Good overview of simple search skills from Dan Russell
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Apple Distinguished…Once Again
@jlscheffer @allegretto29 @patrickmlarkin @dvillanojr @ericconti Congrats&be proud to lead a tech distinguished schl https://t.co/d3wl1oaMEN
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Michael Podraza EGHSPrincipalRI’s Blog: Inspired by ISTE- Entering the Blogging World
1st post in 2012 Inspired by @patrickmlarkin @gregkulowiec @ajjuliani Entering the Blogging World https://t.co/20UTd1n4eQ #iaedchat
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Drone Ascending Orbit Cam – YouTube
Drone Ascending Orbit Cam @patrickmlarkin @BurlMASchools @3DRobotics @GoPro @bpsedtech https://t.co/mvBuQCTYEj
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Solution Saturday: Teammates Hate Each Other!
Good ideas for working through dysfunction on a leadership team.
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Parenting 2.0: Teach Tech and Empathy, Fight for Equity
Good discussion of the many questions parents have about when and if they should be employing technology with their children.
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Makes me smile. https://t.co/MlSbC1NDbZ
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A dean from MIT is starting a radical new university with no majors, lectures, or classrooms https://t.co/ep7OKpkqOs
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