With the school year having just ended, I am excited to veer off into a few personal learning endeavors that I hope will help me grow as a learner and as a school leader. My first undertaking this summer is the start of a six-week online experience called #PTcamp which centers around Beyond the Bake Sale, the Essential Guide to Family/school Partnerships.  This free and open course involves 100 educators from around the world and will include Anne Henderson and Karen Mapp for discussions about different topics from the book.

• A Smart Way to Skip College in Pursuit of a Job –

  From Eduardo Porter in the New York Times 

  tags: college pursuit

• Is Coding the New Literacy?

  from Mother Jones 

  tags: coding literacy

• Future of Assessment Special Report

  tags: assessment report

• How to Create Augmented Reality Layers of Information on Aurasma

  tags: augmentedreality aurasma howto

• How to Combine Tellagami Clips in iMovie

  From Richard Byrne

  tags: tellagami imovie ipad apps

• Awesome Timeline Chronicling The Use of Educational Technology in Schools

  tags: timeline educationaltechnology mobilelearning

• Kaizena Adds Support for Giving Audio Feedback on Google Presentations

  tags: presentations feedback audio

• A Handy Google Image Tip for Teachers and Students

  tags: google image search workshop

• Will California’s Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Change Schools? – Dana Goldstein – The Atlantic

  tags: tenure teacher vergara atlantic

• California Ruling on Teacher Tenure Is Not Whole Picture

  tags: tenure teacher vergara nytimes

• Greatist Lists Midstate Trail As Hidden Hike to Try This Summer | BostInno

  tags: trail hike summer

• Un-Fathom-able: The Hidden History of Ed-Tech

  From Audrey Watters

  tags: edtech history

• Technology and Primary Sources

  tags: primarysources howto

• Common Core Videos, Games and Assessments

  tags: CommonCore oer edtech resource standards

• New Wonderful Twitter Guide for Teachers and Educators

  tags: educators guide twitter howto

• Suspensions, Expulsions, Arrests Don’t Work: On School Discipline, We Can Do Better

  From Real Clear Education

  tags: discipline school

• Poetica

  Looks like a great tool for giving feedback on writing https://t.co/M4Jv8Nlc27 #edtech #edchat #dcmooc

  tags: edtech edchat dcmooc

• Jonathan D. Becker, J.D., Ph.D. – Digital Investigations (and inquiry projects): The Gold Standard(s)?

  “Digital Investigations (and inquiry projects): The Gold Standard(s)?” http://t.co/npigMPFNth #thoughtvectors

  tags: thoughtvectors

• Aspen Report Validates and Accelerates Shift to Connected Learning – Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark

  tags: connectedlearnig report aspeninstitute

• Sarcasm, Scarlett Johannson and why machines should never grade student writing – The Washington Post

  tags: commoncore writing

• American schools need better teachers, so let’s make it harder to become one.

  Article in Slate by Amanda Ripley

  tags: teachers edreform teachertraining

• Classroom Culture: It’s Your Decision | ASCD Inservice

  From Sean Slade  at ASCD – What kind of culture do you want to take hold in your classroom? The decision is primarily yours. Because what you do and how you do it affects how your students interact, inquire, respond, cooperate, collaborate, discover, and it develops the dominant culture of learning for your classroom.

• How many bad teachers are there?

  tags: teacherevaluation hechinger

• The A-List Collection by Michelle Luhtala

  Great list of apps from Michelle Luhtala 

  tags: apps collection bestapps

• Do Our Kids Get Off Too Easy?

  From Alfie Kohn 

  tags: alfiekohn children childdevelopment

• Two Good Links About Curation

  tags: curation workshop

• Thinking About The R in SAMR – Edudemic

  #Work that matters! Check out @patrickmlarkin’s post Thinking About The R in SAMR http://t.co/rO8BJtNiFA #vsblearns #edtech

  tags: Work vsblearns edtech

• Innovative Education: Make Room for “What Ifs”

  From Suzie Boss on Edutopia

  tags: innovation education pbl projectbasedlearning

• Project-Based Learning Made Easy

  tags: pbl projectbasedlearning

• Schlechty’s Levels of Engagement

  tags: engagement

• Upgrading Blogs Through Lens of SAMR

  From Silvia Tolisano – My ultimate goal for using a classroom blog or student blogfolios though, is that of creating transformative teaching and learning opportunities, not to have a platform that substitutes a composition book or paper journal. 

  tags: SAMR blogging

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• Google Classroom 101

  A further look at Google Classroom which is due out in the fall=

  tags: classroom google lms

• How to Flip Your Classroom With eduClipper and PixiClip

  From Richard Byrne – Teachers interested in trying the flipped classroom model often ask me for recommendations for video creation tools. They also often ask me for ideas on sharing videos without using YouTube. One answer to both of these questions is to use eduClipper.

  tags: flippedclassroom educlipper pixiclip

• Three Good Places to Find Historical Images – And an Idea for Using Them to Spark Discussion

  From Richard Byrne – One of my favorite ways to spark students’ interest in a history lesson is to have them look for interesting historical images. I’ve found that interesting images can prompt good conversations which in turn lead to good questions for my students to research the answers to. 

  tags: images discussion richardbyrne history

• Three Great Text to Speech Tools for Teachers

  tags: texttotspeech chromeextensions

• Why Storytelling Is The Ultimate Weapon

  Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal, says science backs up the long-held belief that story is the most powerful means of communicating a message.

  tags: storytelling marketing stories narrative #edstories

• Worldview and stories

  tags: stories storytelling narratives

• Two Good Resources To Help Understand Education Research

  tags: research edresearch larryferlazzo

• The Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers)

  Good resources from Larry Ferlazzo regarding students evaluating their teachers.

  tags: evaluation studentsurvey students

• WatchKnowLearn – Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students

  tags: resources education K-12 videos

• UDL Toolkit Wiki

  tags: udl tools web2.0 resources technology

• 12 Awesome Marketing Tools You’ve Never Heard Of

  From moblized

  tags: marketing tools socialmedia

• September 21st, 1967 – You’re Getting Old!

  Cool Graphic for people to put their age in perspective. 

  tags: age visualization graphic

• Create Your Own Personalized Podcast Using Voxer

  From Joe Mazza regarding how to use Voxer to create a Podcast or to network with your PLN. 

  tags: voxer howto

• GooglePlus, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn – Complete Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet – infographic

  tags: infographic cheatsheet socialmedia

• The 74 school shootings since …

  Map via @Everytown

  tags: schoolshootings schoolviolence

• Google Hangouts 101 and Sharing Lessons with Google Tools

  From Wes Fryer 

  tags: google googletools sharing lessons

• A 1:1 iPad Menu For Guided Reading

  tags: ipad guidedreading ela

• Finnish Lessons: What MA. Can Learn from Finland’s Educational Reforms, CPS Presents Pasi Sahlberg – YouTube

  This event on May 14, 2014 in Cambridge Massachusetts was sponsored by CPS, Citizens for Public Schools

  tags: finnish lessons

• Getting more from Book Creator

  Inspiration, ideas and resources for getting the most out of Book Creator for iPad

  tags: bookcreator ebooks creation workshop

• Strategy or Culture: Which Is More Important?

  tags: culture change mindset

• How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution –

  tags: commoncore billgates

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• 21 Good iPad Apps for Middle School Teachers to Try This Summer

  From Richard Byrne

  tags: ipad apps middleschool

• A Core Curriculum To Create Engaged Entrepreneurs | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

  From Cathy Davidson in Fast Company

• Google Apps Status Dashboard

  This page offers performance information for Google Apps services. Unless otherwise noted, this status information applies to consumer services as well as services for organizations using Google Apps.

  tags: google status google apps

• Analyzing iPad Myths in Education

  Many obstacles that iPad cynics attempt to put in place when discussing a roll-out are based on untruths, poorly research and/or out-of-date information. I was delighted when my Canadian Twitter friend and fellow iPad blogger, Steve Lai decided to join forces, as we’ve done before, to combat this dis-information that floats around the education profession worldwide.

  tags: ipad myths education

• Is Google Making Us Stupid? – Nicholas Carr – The Atlantic

  Is Google Making us Stupid? http://t.co/uriuIX3j5E

• Embed a Google DocList in a Google Site or WordPress Site

  tags: googledoc embed

• What’s New in Apps – Recap of May 2014 – Google Docs

  tags: apps google

• 21 Great Apps for Pre-K through 2nd Grade Teachers to Try This Summer

  From Richard Byrne – The summer is a great time to explore new-to-you iPad apps that you might want to add to the iPads that you have in your classroom. Each day this week I’m going to share a selection of apps appropriate for four ranges of pre-K-12 grades. 

  tags: apps professionaldevelopment

• In Kentucky, Students Succeed Without Tests

  From NPR

  tags: tests assessment edreform

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality – YouTube

  Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they’re doing it so boringly that most news outlets aren’t covering it.  John Oliver explains the controversy and lets viewers know how they can voice their displeasure to the FCC.

  tags: netneutrality FCC

• Grammar Bytes is a Great Site for Developing and Testing Grammar Skills

  tags: grammar skills

• 3 Good iPad Apps for Creating Citations and Bibliographies

  tags: apps citations bibliographies

• Moving at the Speed of Creativity | Why Edward Snowden’s Disclosures Are Terrifying

  PBS Frontline special, “United States of Secrets.”

  tags: snowden nationalsecurityletter

• A Short Example of the Benefits of Classroom Blogs

  From Richard Byrne – a new slideshow about the benefits of having a classroom blog

  tags: blogs classroomblogs onlinepresence

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photo via Joe Mazza

It was an honor to be involved in the first #edcampusa today held at the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C.  Despite the relatively small size of the #edcamp, with only 75 in attendance, I believe that this was a big deal.  It showed the willingness of the staff at our nation’s department of education to go outside of their comfort zone and welcome a large group of visitors to their space for the day. I think it’s awesome that our Secretary of Education and his staff were intrigued and wanted a first hand view of what this whole #edcamp movement is about.

As is usually the case with #edcamps, those in attendance created an amazing agenda and left all of those in attendance with plenty of meaningful ideas to share with all of the learners they connect with.

• Grading Systems vs. Feedback Systems vs. Incentive Systems

  tags: grading feedback

• What Is Creative Commons and Why Does It Matter?

  From Graphite

  tags: creativecommons

• Ideas for Using Augmented Reality in Elementary School Lessons

  tags: augmentedreality AR elementaryschool

• Burlington Public Schools News

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• Six Animations of Stories and Poems by Shel Silverstein

  tags: animations poems

• Report highlights impact of more time for teacher collaboration | EdSource Today

  More hours in the school day for teachers as well as students can lead to improved academic achievement, according to a new report that studies 17 schools across the nation that give teachers more time for collaboration and professional development.

  tags: collaboration professionaldevelopment

• The towns and cities with the best-paid teachers in Massachusetts in 2013 (BBJ DataCenter)

• A different way to implement Common Core

  From the Washington Post – Co-written by Randi Weingarten and Linda Darling-Hammond

  tags: commoncore implementation

• Free and easy ways to connect with your staff & parents!

  From Amber Teamann

  tags: parentcommunication socialmedia workshop publicrelations

• Write your way into the day, lesson, meeting, keynote

  From Zac Chase – The benefits of having an audience journal before the lesson, presentation, staff meeting, etc. 

  tags: journaling workshop keynote

• Cultivating a Culture for Peer Observations

  via ASCDInservice

  tags: peerobservations walkthroughs

• Turn your favorite photos and videos into Google+ Stories and Movies

  From Google Gooru 

  tags: googleplus photos videos stories movies

• Using Social Media as a Teaching Tool

  Via Kristen Wideen – Great examples of the value in utilizing social media in the classroom

  tags: socialmedia workshop

• Guided Reading in Google Apps for Education

  tags: guidedreading googleapps

• High School Gym Classes Get a 21st-Century Makeover

  From US News 

  tags: highschool gym physicaleducation

• Why I Find Standards-Based Grading Fascinating

  From Michael Pershan 

  tags: standardsbased grading

• Choose Your Own Adventure With Google Drive

  a three-level, “Choose Your Own Adventure With Google Drive,” learning experience for educators. – See more at: http://www.shakeuplearning.com/blog#sthash.toUir8Nv.dpuf

  tags: googledrive howto

• The Beginner’s Guide To Response to Intervention (RTI)

  From Edudemic – Response to Intervention or RTI is an essential approach that brings science and the art of teaching together. Response to Intervention practice promotes education through innovation and creativity. The foundation of the entire approach is firmly grounded on taking decisions based on data analysis of student’s learning capability.

  tags: rti

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• Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights around the world
  Informative Infographic or LGBT Rights around the world
  tags: rights lgbt lesbian transgender
• Four Ways for Students to Create Multimedia Magazines
  From Richard Byrne
  tags: magazines multimedia workshop
• Math 42 – A Calculator and Math Tutorial In One App
  From Richard Byrne – The app is one part calculator and one part mathematics tutorial. When students enter an equation into Math 42 they not only receive the answer they also receive a break-down of the steps needed in order to solve the equation.
  tags: math app tutorial calculator
• iBooks Author Training Video and Free Guide
  From Peter Pappas
  tags: training iBooks
• 4 Alarming Findings About Kids’ and Teens’ Reading
  From Common Sense Media – Common Sense Media’s research report shows kids are reading less than ever. Discover the startling statistics — and what you can do to get your kids back into books.
  tags: findings reading teens kids
• Providing Feedback on Student Writing and Video
  tags: feedback writing video
• Dale Russakoff: A Test for School Reform in Newark : The New Yorker
  Important article for T’s and P’s to read. http://t.co/hO7I9cZxWQ #edchat #edpolicy
  tags: edchat edpolicy
• Building Parent Engagement: Tell Your School’s Story
  some helpful resources emerging for administrators and edleaders who want to do this and do it right.
  tags: parentengagement socialmedia branding
• “: ComPassion Based Learning:
  “@schink10: ComPassion Based Learning: The Coolest Thing I Have Ever Seen. http://t.co/HWuWiKJalW… you should join this
• The Mysterious Death of Entrepreneurship in America –
   By Derek Thompson – The Atlantic
  tags: entrepreneurship
• For Some Social-Media Users, an Anxiety From Approval Seeking
  From the New York Times – For Some Social-Media Users, an Anxiety From Approval Seeking
  tags: approval seeking nytimes socialmedia
• #DCMOOC – A MOOC About Digital Citizenship
  tags: digitalcitizenship mooc
• Locate & Distribute CCSS-Aligned Practice Quizzes With CK-12 Edmodo Apps
  From Richard Byrne
  tags: quizzes edmodo commoncore assessments
• Going Beyond View Obsession
  Interesting post on the fact that people need to look beyond views regarding the effectiveness of YouTube Channels as a marketing tool.
  tags: youtube analytics
• Use Your Voice to Give Students Feedback on Google Drive – Cool Kaizena Updates
  Kaizena is an outstanding web based tool that allows teachers to provide audio feedback on student work that has been created and shared through as Google Docs. Kaizena is not a native tool in a Google Drive account, but can be added through the Google Drive apps store. 
  tags: googledrive voicefeedback feedback writing assessment
• Mom’s Memo To Schools: Please, Make These Random Half-Days Stop | CommonHealth
  tags: half-days family
• Project Search | Project Based Learning | BIE
  Check out these projects from our friends @EnvisionSchools! – http://t.co/2FeeMvc5ov #DeeperLearning #PBLChat #PBL
  tags: DeeperLearning PBLChat PBL
• UDL Principles to Reach Every Child with Karen Janowski
  From Vicki Davis – UDL advocate Karen Janowski shares a power-packed 10 minutes of ideas for designing online learning experiences to reach every child.  
  tags: udl
• Four Powerful Formative Assessment Tools for the Chromebook Classroom
  From Holly Clark
  tags: formative assessment tools
• 101 Great Sites for Social Studies Class
  “@PearsonSStudies: A list of over 100 great sites for #socialstudies! http://t.co/33u2MbDHGN #sschat #history #resources” #phspln
  tags: socialstudies sschat history resources phspln

• Shifting Our Focus To Local Assessment

  From Grant Wiggins

  tags: assessment localassessment grantwiggins commoncore

• Computerized Grading: Purloining the Analysis, the Most Fundamental Exposition of Humanity

  From Anthony Cody in Edweek

  tags: grading computer-based analysis

• OpenStax

  Tech resources that can be used in lieu of textbooks from Rice University

  tags: textbooks textless beyondthetextbook

• 4 Powerful Formative Assessment Tools For The Chromebook Classroom

  tags: formative assessment chromebooks

• Competency-based Teacher Infographic | e-Learning Infographics

  How the role of teachers is changing amid broader shifts to personalized, blended and Deeper Learning. http://t.co/t6uin2PaRv #k12 #educhat

  tags: k12 educhat

• The Challenge of “Calibrating” Teacher Observations

  The Challenge of Calibrating Teacher Observations http://t.co/QT9s3fNyZ4

• This is not a John Lennon quote and I lose my mind

  This is not a John Lennon quote and I lose my mind every time I see it. RT @HUMANBElNGS http://t.co/1zhf1RvzU3

• Canvas by Instructure: The Perfect LMS? Quite Possibly – Getting Smart by John Hardison – #blendchat, blended, edchat, EdTech, LMS | Getting Smart

  A good overview of the Canvas LMS

  tags: canvas

• Early Reports Suggest Few Field-Testing Snags

  From EdWeek

  tags: fieldtest commoncore

• Rewordify.com: Understand what you read

  Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. Just paste in difficult English (or enter a web page URL) and click the yellow button.

  tags: Reading literacy tools Vocabulary ESL ell

• You should know what “net neutrality” is. If you don’t, here’s a quick, fun way to catch up…

  From 22 words 

  tags: netneutrality

• The Best Digital Citizenship Curriculum @coolcatteacher

  tags: digitalcitizenship curriculum

• 16 Websites and Apps for Making Videos and Animation

  tags: videos animation apps making websites

• Is Raging Against the Machine Our Only Option?

  From Cathy Davidson 

  tags: testing grading assessments

• Project Based Learning – An Explanation and Model Rubrics

  From Richard Byrne 

  tags: projectbasedlearning

• The Best Google Docs Features You’re Probably Not Using

  tags: googledocs

• Rethinking Classroom Observation

  From ASCD’s Ed. Leadership – Flipped peer observation leads to job-embedded teacher learning.

  tags: teacherobservation observations leadership

• Reimagined:Your 1:1 Program: Can You Answer These 10 Questions?

  tags: 1:1 goals

• Social media advice for career-minded students. 10 things to consider.

  tags: socialmedia digitalfootprint resume online students

• Are You Checking Work Email in Bed? At the Dinner Table? On Vacation?

  From Clive Thompson in Mother Jones: New research suggests that asking too much of workers during off hours can seriously backfire.

  tags: balance unplugged email

• YES Technology

  ISTE based learning experiences available from @cathywo https://t.co/ime324ct7x #edcampbos

  tags: edcampbos

• Games Are Good for You! What Games Teach Us About STEM & Learning

  For more coding ideas after @katewilson13 session, check out her webinar from last week http://t.co/0axGAqesUV #HLBC14

  tags: HLBC14

• Free Technology for Teachers: AnswerGarden – Embed an Open Response Feedback Tool Into Your Blog

  AnswerGarden – Embed an Open Response Feedback Tool Into Your Blog via Free Technology for … http://t.co/olHaHxZFK3

• Pearson Wins Major Contract From Common-Core Testing Consortium – Marketplace K-12 – Education Week

  Pearson gets the PARCC contract. And was the only ultimate bidder: http://t.co/1YlMCSTmUu

• Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference

  The Call for Presenters for CMTC 2014 is now open! http://t.co/PbZJug9TAs #nhcmtc #edcampBos

  tags: nhcmtc edcampBos

• Great Tech for Online Writing and Blogging

  Writing clearly is an essential skill for all students. Take their abilities to another level: http://t.co/jEoiYgHv0J http://t.co/yRIXs8mXre

• Summer of Learning 2014 | Evolving Educators

  RT @ScottRRocco: Summer of Learning 2014 http://t.co/ob2hb6zmCq #satchat #njed

  tags: satchat njed

• Response: ‘The Grading System We Need to Have’ – Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo – Education Week Teacher

  Response:’The Grading System We Need to Have’ is my new Ed Week post w/ @RickWormeli & others http://t.co/Fd6ojsqNQh http://t.co/ZmSmN19mza Wow, @RickWormeli on “Grading System We Need 2 Have” may end up being most popular post ever in my Ed Wk advice blog http://t.co/0vsRrQXsxO

• NY State Assessment Blues – YouTube

  NY State Assessment Blues: http://t.co/dkCidOENOT @carolburris @dianeravitch @leoniehaimson @scfeeney @donald_gately @posroff @dgamberg

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• Free Mathematics Books

  tags: math ebooks mathematics e-books

• Stop Worrying About Your Child Getting Into College. Worry About What Happens Next.

  From The New York Times Parenting Blog

  tags: college collegeadmissions

• An Introduction to the New Google Drive iPad Apps That Offer Better Offline Support

  Great overview by Sam Morra

  tags: googledrive apps update

• A Simple Way to Create A Search Engine of Educational Videos for Your Class

  Here is how you can build your video search engine

  tags: videos search youtube

• 6 reasons to reject Common Core K-3 standards — and 6 rules to guide policy

  From Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post

  tags: commoncore standards

• Louis C.K. Against the Common Core

  tags: commoncore

• Not all scientific studies are created equal – YouTube

  A good quick look at research studies and how to judge their reliability.

  tags: youtube data research

• Long, But Good, Infographic: “Secrets of a Killer Blog Post: Images” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  tags: infographic images blog

• Science Books Online

  Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats.

  tags: science ebook reference textbook ebooks resources

• 12 Ways To Share Almost Any File With Your Students

  tags: filesharing paperless

• Easily Link to Translated Versions of your Website | Google Gooru

  tags: translation howto website google

• OER Commons

  tags: resources opensource curriculum lessonplans opencontent

• Getting Staff On Board With iPad Deployment | The GEDB Online Learning Platform

  Getting Staff On Board With iPad Deployment http://t.co/00wfvhbsyu

• Website Domains Help Students Learn How to Shape Their Digital Identities

  tags: resume

• Top 10 Tips for Close Reading Activities [Guest Post]

  tags: closereading commoncore tips reading

• Does it pay to obsess on where your kid goes to school?

  tags: college

• A Simple Visual Guide to Create Google Custom Search Engine for Your Class Blog or Website ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  tags: customsearchengine search howto

• A Twitter Abbreviation Guide To Make Sense Of All That Crazy Talk

  tags: Twitter abbreviation guide howto

• Why PKM?

  Here is a short video introduction on why personal knowledge mastery (PKM) is becoming a required skill and mindset for professionals today. 

  tags: PKM haroldjarche

• What have we learned so far?

  From Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) Workshop

  tags: PKM haroldjarche

• I’ll Be Happy to Tell You What I Don’t Like — Common Core Annoyances

  tags: commoncore ela medium

• iPad Whiteboard Apps

  Google Doc of Whiteboard Apps

  tags: apps whiteboard

• Mercedes Schneider: Who Are the 24 People Who Wrote the Common Core Standards? | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  From Diane Ravitch – Altogether, 24 people wrote the Common Core standards. None identified himself or herself as a classroom teacher, although a few had taught in the past (not the recent past). The largest contingent on the work groups were representatives of the testing industry.

  tags: commonccore

• Common Core propaganda fails: Well-financed education “reformers” fight common sense – Salon.com

  Big business and corporate media keep pushing the Core and charters schools. The pushback is heartening and real

  tags: commoncore propaganda education

• Future of Technology | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

  Non-internet users broken down by demographic: (http://t.co/4aEgaB9Lgl) http://t.co/stfnZDdIkW

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• Coleman has it wrong: Children are the core of our schools |CommonCored.us

  David Coleman, chief architect of the Common Core learning standards, notably quipped in a 2011 speech at the state Department of Education, “As you grow up in this world, you realize people really don’t give a (expletive) about what you feel or what you think.”

  tags: davidcoleman commoncore

• This is the future of technology — how will it impact teaching & learning?

  from Sam Chaltain – Educators and school reformers — ignore at (y)our peril. (And crazy to think that this talk was from 2005!)

  tags: technology future raykurzweil edreform

• Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell on his “School in the Cloud” documentary | TED Blog

  a forward-thinking elementary school in the U.K., Rothwell has watched Mitra, a Newcastle University professor, plant the seeds of his global education experiment that lets children learn on their own, and from each other, by tapping into online resources and their inner sense of wonder.

  tags: sugatamitra learnercentered

• Fountain of Youth – Training As You Age | Kap Lifestyle

  This is why it’s immeasurably important to keep training into your 30s, 40s and beyond. http://t.co/KVlsAbe0ii … #StayStrong

  tags: StayStrong

• “Many Ways To Help Our Students Grieve”

  Good list from Larry Ferlazzo

  tags: loss death studentgrief

• Child Protection: Five golden rules for staying safe online | British Council

  Infographic

  tags: rules staying online digitalcitizenship

• Students Prefer Smartphones and Laptops to Tablets, Study Finds – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: smartphones laptops tablets study

• Photograph Math – #mathphotoaday

  From Richard Byrne – hanks to a recent Instragram from Andy McKiel  I learned about a neat mathematics and photography project started by a grade 3 class in Thompson, Manitoba. The project asks students to take photographs of things representing various topics and concepts in elementary school level mathematics. 

  tags: math teachers

• 20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools | Ditch That Textbook

  Some great easy classroom activities for teachers

  tags: collaborative googleapps

• Biz Stone’s No-Homework Policy And The Rules Of Rule-Breaking | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

  TWITTER COFOUNDER BIZ STONE IMPLEMENTED A “NO HOMEWORK POLICY” FOR HIMSELF IN HIGH SCHOOL AND GOT AWAY WITH IT IN SPECTACULAR FASHION. HERE’S WHAT IT TAUGHT HIM ABOUT WHEN AND HOW TO BREAK THE RULES.

  tags: homework

• Shifting the Classroom, One Step at a Time

  Great advice on moving to an inquiry-based classroom from Shelley Wright

  tags: inquirybasedlearning inquiry shelleywright

• Options for Uploading Videos to YouTube with School Filtering

  From Wes Fryer

  tags: school filtering youtube options

• Go Social Studies Go

  Site that can be utilized as an access to textboooks 

  tags: ebooks geography history resources textless

• How, after 60 years, Brown v. Board of Education succeeded — and didn’t

  tags: brown segregation equity schools education

• Lesson Plan Map – Search Education – Google

   Google has designed a set of 15 wonderful lesson plans

  tags: search lessonplans informationliteracy

• 8 Responses to Late Work To Use Right Now –

  From ASCD Edge 

  tags: latework zeros homework

• Michelle Ardizzoni – New England 1:1 Summit

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     Google Forms in a 1:1 Environment for Student Assessment and Student Self-Reflection D203 

• The Myth Of Digital Citizenship And Why We Need To Teach It Anyway

  From Sam Stecher on EdReach

  tags: digitalcitizenship

• Those Terms of Service on Popular Websites DO Matter! | Powerful Learning Practice

  From  Jen Carey – “If you want to advocate for an effective Digital Citizenship program, you must first take the position that behaving responsibly and appropriately online is paramount. As such, this means not violating a company’s age or usage policy (even if someone in the company might suggest it’s okay).”

  tags: termsofservice websites jencarey

• A Great Student Rubric for Reviewing Apps

  To help her students understand and be able to analyze the apps they come across online, Mutt Susan from Digital Divide and Conquer has created this wonderful rubric. The Student App Review Rubric,  features five sections ( or criteria) that students can grade when assessing an app. Each of these criteria can be graded with a numerical number from 0 to 4 with 4 as the top grade.

  tags: rubric apps review

• School Spotlight: The Notre Dame School of Dallas Facebook Page

  A good look at how one school successfully uses Facebook to connect and spread its message.

  tags: facebook page socialmedia

• Who Wrote the Common Core Standards? Here is a List

  From Diane Ravitch

  tags: commoncore authors

  • Here is a press release that lists the names of the writing teams for each subject as well as “feedback” groups.

• UN study: Cellphones can improve literacy – The Washington Post

  tags: cellphones literacy study

• What does the SAT measure? Aptitude? Achievement? Anything?

  Moreover the nature of these standardized exams — fast-paced, multiple-choice “games” that put a premium on strategic guessing — means that they advantage students with strong test-taking skills, not necessarily those with other talents that may be more valuable in the classroom or in life. Finally, the concept of “aptitude” assumes that it is innate and unchangeable. In fact, humans can develop the knowledge, skills and experiences that improve performance, if given the opportunity.

  tags: sat Standardizedtesting

• The New Doctopus & Add-ons Gallery – YouTube

  The New Doctopus & Add-ons Gallery: http://t.co/rbCnSOGWeW via @YouTube #edtech @dimll

  tags: edtech

• Math is Harder When Using an iPad ~ Mrs. Wideen’s Blog

  RT @mrswideen: Math is Harder When Using an iPad http://t.co/62VvPIOrxc #ettipad #1stchat #ipaded #mathchat

  tags: ettipad 1stchat ipaded mathchat

• PD Conferences vs. Unconferences

  This is the challenge that must be met, “How do we make something that is mandatory for all, excellent enough that we begin to change the brains of 1000 teachers.  PD can be a good thing, and you will learn something if you come willing to learn.

  tags: conferences edtech unconference PD professionaldevelopment

• Technical glitch causes FCAT testing problems in Collier

  Computer-based testing issues in Florida

  tags: onlinetesting pearson testnav

• Fairfax teens could get extra hour of sleep on school days – The Washington Post

  “To do nothing in this situation is to do harm,” Owens said. “You’re perpetuating a situation where not only academic achievement is compromised but their health and safety is compromised.”

  tags: teens sleep latestart

• Confronting the Myth of the ‘Digital Native’

  From the Chronicle of Higher Education – This is also a problem at the college level

  tags: digitalcitizenship cybersafety onlineidentity

• danah boyd | apophenia » Whether it’s bikes or bytes, teens are teens

  The irony of our increasing cultural desire to protect kids is that our efforts may be harming them. In an effort to limit the dangers they encounter, we’re not allowing them to develop skills to navigate risk. In our attempts to protect them from harmful people, we’re not allowing them to learn to understand, let alone negotiate, public life. It is not possible to produce an informed citizenry if we do not first let people engage in public.

  tags: danahboyd teenagers onlinebehavior

• 5 Tips For Researching Internships – Chelsea Krost

  5 Great Tips For Researching #Internships http://t.co/QG0LA77l22 via @amritsays #Millennials #students #SummerBreak

  tags: Internships Millennials students SummerBreak

• 5 Tools That Help Students Organize Research and Create Bibliographies

  From Richard Byrne – Organizing and writing a bibliography can feel like the most tedious part of writing a research paper. The following five tools can help students organize and create their bibliographies. 

  tags: research bibliographies

• iPad As Teacher’s Pet (infographic)

  from Tony Vincent

• Multilingual Lessons for Pre-K through Second Grade Students

  via Richard Byrne

  tags: multilingual lessons ELL

• EverySlide – Share Your Slides and Run Polls At the Same Time

  From Richard Byrne – EverySlide is a free (for educators and students) service that allows you to share your slides directly to the iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, and Android devices used by members of your audience.

  tags: share slides presentations

• The Fischbowl: Burden of Proof: A Textbook Example

  I think that for all “materials selections” from here on out, the default should be to not purchase a new textbook.

  tags: textbook textless beyondthetextbook

• Why You Have to Generate Your Own Data – Scott Anthony – Harvard Business Review

  f you really want to make the case for an innovative idea, then you need to go one step further. Don’t just gather data. Generate your own. Strengthen your case and bolster your own confidence –

  tags: data

• Actually, online skimming probably hasn’t affected serious reading after all

  A more plausible possibility is that we’re not less capable of reading complex prose, but less willing to put in the work. Our criterion for concluding, “this is boring, this is not paying off,” has been lowered because the Web makes it so easy to find something else to read, watch, or listen to.

  tags: online reading

• Being a student of your own school

  Good overview of the constructive use of Learning Walks and Instructional Rounds

  tags: walkthroughs instructionalrounds

• Why Playful Learning Is The Key To Prosperity

   Learning through play with “hands-on, minds-on” approaches (not workbooks) is a powerful way forward. Play gives children space to dream, discover, improvise, and challenge convention. It’s crucial to social, emotional, cognitive and even physical development, helping them grow up “better adjusted, smarter and less stressed.” We know this.

  tags: learning prosperity play sociallearning

• Students Raise Alarms Over Later Start Times

  tags: sleep latestart

• Ten Years, Ten Thoughts

  Good list from Harold Jarche about living in the network area

  tags: networkedlearning PLNs

• Common Core’s power grab -Editorial

  Editorial by Peabody School Committee Member Dave McGeney

  tags: commonccore

• Blended Learning Infographic

  tags: blendedlearning infographic

• Harvard Measures Its MOOCs – Harvard Magazine |… – Linkis.com

  How Harvard Measures Its MOOCs – Harvard Magazine http://t.co/WUJyETEsiX

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