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In my last post I discussed the curriculum design on 21st Century Schools. Recently, Patrick Bassett, President of NAIS has pre-published a paper entitled, “So What’s it Gonna be, Huh?” that defines 21st Century education as:
In my work with schools in the US and around the world, I frequently address groups of leaders, not [...]

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Thanks, Nancy and David for stretching my thinking about this professional development day.

I’m struggling with appropriate administrative pressure and my department’s buy in to provide basics training to faculty. I have been re-tooling our sessions to allow for better technological solutions for everyday problems. For example, “Appropriate Presentations” would include a discussion [...]

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I have been thinking a lot about what basic technology skills faculty should know. We’ve surveyed our faculty on basic tech skills, and have a good idea of what people know and don’t know, but what Technology skills should they know?
The reason I ask this question is that we have half of [...]

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I’m working on a technology self-assessment for our faculty. We’ve collected a number of surveys from the Independent School community and are using them as a base to create our own. I’ll publish that on the School Computing Wiki when it is done — hopefully by the end of the month.
Our assessment is [...]

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Over the summer, I wrote about collaboration and its power to help us learn.  One of the things I have noticed about our faculty laptop program is that the place where real innovation happens is when we have a group of fellows who have similar interests (department, grade level, etc.) have a clear goal and [...]

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It’s been a while. I’ve been reading, and writing, and listening, but not here. I’ve been watching the EducationBridges.net Elgg, working on a web site for a friend’s charter school, and Arvind and I have begun webcasting again at EdTechTalk.com.
But what I’ve been working hardest on is the day job. Rolling out [...]

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We now have a logo and a favicon (Thanks to Mark Penny) and a great conversation happening about using mapping mashups within 6-12 classes.
Check this all out at the Education Bridges Elgg.

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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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