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Well, it’s 11pm, I just got back from the beach, there are bags surrounding me, dishes to do, lunches to make, but tomorrow I head back to school after a three week vacation. So it’s time to think about the big picture, get ready to use our new web portal, the 18 new smartboards, [...]

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On a post on EductionBridges.net, Jo McLeay asks, “What does it mean to be a teacher in the 21st Century?” This morning, I listened to our first few webcast’s from www.webcastademy.net to try to pick one for podcasting on Friday — as we’re on vacation — and the concept of a 21st Century [...]

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Love this post by Marcie Hull (Correction — Sorry about that Marcie!), a Science Leadership Academy faculty member. Looks like an exciting and eventful planning session. I’m so excited for them!

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This summer, my department and I are working on a professional development project to map out a K-12 Information Literacy curriculum for our school, plus write some research based stories on how to implement it… Here’s the outline. What are your thoughts? Do you have other readings that have formed your Information [...]

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Arvind Grover and I are moving over the EdTechTalk for our first post-graduation webcast this Friday, June 16, 2006 at 12:00pm EST (16:00 GMT). We’re very excited to be speaking with Chris Lehmann who is the Principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA — Opening this September. We’ll be discussing what [...]

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From The Learning Leader page 91 under the heading Challenging Educational Mythology:
In a profession that prides itself on rationality, education is strongly awash in mythology. Often the mythology has a tinge of truth or whisper of research, lending suficient credibility for a sound bite, but not enough evidence to sustain scrutiny.
The stories we need [...]

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The following podcast is a recording of a professional development day that I led on Thursday, April 13, 2006. The topic was Blogging, Wikis and Podcasting in the classroom. As Alan November would say, I hope its good enough to criticize.
Download Podcast Here - This is a 20 meg file, so you will [...]

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I’ve been quiet over the past week or so.  The reason is that last Thursday (4/13) I ran a professional development day at my school.  The topic was blogging, wikis, and podcasting — sorry to steal your book name Will:-).  It was the culmination of much of what I have learned by blogging over the [...]

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In order to really move our schools along into the 21st Century, we have to tell amazingly compelling stories of why the change from faculty to student centered education is so critical.  There have been some amazing posts and podcasts on this subject recently.  Here are some links:
Speed of Creativity - Wesley Fryer
2 Cents - [...]

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So I am part of our scheduling committee. We have so many courses and conflicts and we try to do it all for everyone. We do good job creating a high quality educating for students, but there is so much pressure on kids to perform in multiple classes. Maybe too much pressure [...]

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