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Digital Literacy: A Call to Action by Bruce Oliver



June 2013 Volume X Issue VI

Just for the ASKing! is a monthly e-newsletter that addresses the needs of all those who strive to be instructional leaders. This month’s issue is the third in a periodic series focused on the role and use of technology as a teaching and learning tool. It focuses on building our own digital literacy so that we can provide our students learning experiences that are aligned with…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 20, 2013 at 2:01pm — No Comments

How to Build Support for Education Technology by ANNE OBRIEN



How to Build Support for Education Technology

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Baseball Sabermetrics and the 'Effective Teacher' By Liana Heitin

Baseball Sabermetrics and the 'Effective Teacher'

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Added by Michael Keany on June 20, 2013 at 9:20am — No Comments

B L O G = Business Lessons & Opportunity Generated

I attended an event last week at Smithtown West High School in Smithtown, Long Island. It was the 17th year, that’s rightthe 17th year for the Smithtown School of Business Annual Business Olympics. Over 200 high school students from both Smithtown High School East and Smithtown High School West participated in teams. The students presented their concept for a new business in the field of “Apps”. If you don’t know what an App is, it’s something…

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Added by Bob Wolf on June 20, 2013 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

On Teaching (Elliot Eisner)

On Teaching (Elliot Eisner)

From Larry Cuban's Blog

Too few policymakers have ever taught in public schools. Even fewer can articulate what it is about teaching young children, youth, and adults that binds teachers and students together…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 19, 2013 at 8:36pm — No Comments

If I Were a Black Kid ...by TA-NEHISI COATES

If I Were a Black Kid ...

Advice for students in Baltimore County and Cambridge, Massachusetts
Here's …
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Added by Michael Keany on June 19, 2013 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Business Leaders Asked to Sell the Common Core to the Public By Peter DeWitt

Business Leaders Asked to Sell the Common Core to the Public

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Five Future Trends That Will Impact the Learning Ecosystem



Five Future Trends That Will Impact the Learning Ecosystem

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How to Have a Healthy, Brainy and Fun Summer by RAMONA PERSAUD

 

How to Have a Healthy, Brainy and Fun Summer

This post by RAMONA PERSAUD originally appeared in Edutopia's …
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Added by Michael Keany on June 19, 2013 at 8:14pm — No Comments

What Makes Boys Form Good “Working Alliances” with Teachers?

What Makes Boys Form Good “Working Alliances” with Teachers?

In this intriguing Kappan article, Michael Reichert (Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives) and Richard Hawley (headmaster emeritus of University School in Cleveland) describe their study of thousands of secondary-school teachers and male students in six countries. Their conclusion: relationships are the key to adolescent boys’ success in school: “[R]elationship does not…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 19, 2013 at 11:21am — No Comments

Gates's altered stance

Gates's altered stance

Though widely viewed as a critic of teachers and their unions, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has begun reaching out to both in new ways, writes Linda Shaw in The Seattle Times. It is putting less emphasis on test-score metrics, and it strongly supports the notion that a fair evaluation of teachers requires multiple measures. About five years ago, Gates thought the best way to improve teachers was to "get rid of 10-20-30 percent of…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 18, 2013 at 1:38pm — No Comments

The Core of the matter

The Core of the matter

Speaking on the NPR show On Point, Catherine Gewerz of Education Week said that what lies between the Common Core State Standards and assessments based on them is curriculum, "and that's where some of the heat is being generated... In other words, how do you turn standards into day-to-day instruction? That's going to vary a lot." One strain of criticism, she said, is that teachers and schools have had too little time with these very…
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Added by Michael Keany on June 18, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Penny Kittle, New Goals, and a Summer-Reading Revolution

I redesigned the English Department's summer reading assignment based on come lessons I learned at the NCTE Conference in Las Vegas.

We stopped mandating and started listening .... The great experiment begins this summer!!

Click here to read my new blog all about it -- lots of pictures and mind maps!!…

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Added by Daniel Weinstein on June 17, 2013 at 10:43pm — No Comments

Selling our value as teachers By Tony Baldasaro

Ideas that Work

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Selling our value as teachers

By Tony Baldasaro on June 14th, 2013 …

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Added by Michael Keany on June 17, 2013 at 3:12pm — No Comments

What Does Digital Leadership Mean? By Peter DeWitt

What Does Digital Leadership Mean?

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Rules for thinking with tech: Is technology making us stupid—or smarter than we’ve ever been? by Annie Murphy Paul

Rules for thinking with techIs technology making us stupid—or smarter than we’ve ever…
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Added by Michael Keany on June 17, 2013 at 10:23am — No Comments

Our Schools, Cut Off From the Web By LUIS A. UBIÑAS, President of the Ford Foundation

The New York Times


June 16, 2013

Our Schools, Cut Off From the Web

ON June 6, at a middle school in Mooresville, N.C., President Obama …

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Added by Michael Keany on June 17, 2013 at 8:43am — No Comments

Finding America's Missing AP and IB Students By Fabienne Antoine and Pamela Tatz

Finding America's Missing AP and IB Students

By Fabienne Antoine and Pamela Tatz

Thomas Fordham Institute - The Education Gadfly

In the midst of a blooming field of research on how to serve high-achieving minority and lower-income youngsters,…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 15, 2013 at 8:32am — No Comments

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