Category: schoolreform
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Montana Voices: Digital Vision for Schools 2011 Challenge #mtvision
A couple weeks ago in Missoula, Montana, Karen Montgomery and I led a 1.5 day workshop for educational leaders focused on “Technology Leadership: PLNs, Vision & PD.” During the workshop, participants attending face-to-face in Missoula as well as remotely via H.323 videoconferencing links responded to the “Digital Vision for Schools 2011 Challenge” by recording 30…
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Podcast 369: Debriefing the Learning 2.010 Conferece in Shanghai, China
This podcast is a recording of the final debriefing among organizers and cohort facilitators at the conclusion of the Learning 2.010 Conference at Concordia International School in Shanghai, China, on September 17, 2010. In 2010 more than ever, organizers of the conference worked hard to (in the words of Chris Betcher during our debrief) upset…
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Audio Podcasts Online for Technology Leadership: PLNs, Vision & PD
This week’s 1.5 day workshop with educational administrators and teachers in Montana, “Technology Leadership: PLNs, Vision & PD,” was a great learning experience at multiple levels. Whenever educators get together and create media projects which are shared online and celebrated, good things usually happen. That’s been a key part of the formula for our Storychasers’…
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Highlights from Today’s Technology Leadership Workshop in Missoula, MT #mtvision
As I’d hoped, today proved to be a wonderful day of learning in Missoula, Montana, with educational leaders from around the state. In addition to the crowd we had face-to-face at the University of Montana in Missoula, we had remote attendees connecting via H.323 video from Billings, Kalispell, Helena, and Poplar. Here are a few…
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Mountains, Gandalf, Mountains! #mtvision
It’s wonderful to be here in Missoula, Montana, to spend a couple days with area school administrators discussing the need for educational leaders to create professional learning communities, to lead with “digitally informed” vision for blended learning, and support transformative models of professional development in our schools. I’ll be presenting and facilitating sessions here in…
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Podcast 368: Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves by Will Richardson
This is a podcast recording of Will Richardson’s keynote, “Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves” on January 17, 2011, in Amarillo, Texas. Will was presenting at the “Teaching The 21st Century Student” conference hosted by Education Service Center Region 16 in the Amarillo Civic Center. Refer to the podcast shownotes…
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Vision for Educational Leadership in 30 Seconds: A Challenge #digitalvision2011
What does it mean to have vision as an educational leader in 2011? That is the question I challenge YOU to answer personally, and post your answer in video form to YouTube with the tag “digitalvision2011.” Please share your answer in 30 seconds or less. As these videos are recorded and posted to YouTube, they…
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“Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves #teach21esc16
These are my notes from Will Richardson‘s presentation, “Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves” at the Teaching The 21st Century Student conference in Amarillo, Texas, on January 17, 2011. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THIS WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION. Addition 1/24/2011: An audio podcast recording of this…
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Retrain, Retire or Resign: Options for Adult Paradigm Paralysis
Lifelong learning, continuing education, and CHANGE in the classroom should not be optional for in-service teachers. This past fall, Karen Montgomery shared a story with me she heard from a school administrator in Ohio. That principal tells her staff they have three options when it comes to learning new ways to help students learn, both…