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Mountain Brook Schools, Mountain Brook, Alabama Technology Conference http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/cms/Technology+Conference+2011+Highlights/15496.html
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Common Core
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9/13/2011 - 1800CET, 12PM - How do the designs of classroom/learning spaces impact student learning? (Solo) 9/13/2011 - 7PM - Is a school policy requiring homework in the best interest of the students? What is appropriate for a homework assignment?
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9/20/2011 - 1800CET, 12PM - Can educators in the 21st Century be content experts, but media illiterate & still be relevant? 9/20/2011 - 7PM - What are the positives & negatives of one-to-one laptops in any educational setting?
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Topic: Technology Integration in Social Studies
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9/27/2011 - 1800CET, 12PM - What specific things can teachers do to promote creation of content by students? 9/27/2011 - 7PM - Many educators are calling for emphasis on teaching 21st Century skills. What are they and why should we teach them?
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10/4/2011 - 1800CET, 12PM - How can Educators deal with the poverty and culture gaps that have such a devastating effect on standardized test scores? 10/4/2011 - 7PM - If educators were to direct the focus of education reform, what should a realistic, doable, and immediate focus be?
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10/11/2011 - 1800CET, 12PM - How does giving students more control of their education affect the quality of the education? 10/11/2011 7PM - With its success in the area of Math, is the “flipped classroom” really a good option for all teaching and learning?
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10/18/2011 - 1800CET, 12PM - What forms of formative assessment do you use, and do you grade them for the overall average? (with assist from my wife Gail) 10/18/2011 - 7PM - What are the specific ways that students can create content for student centered learning?
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10/25/2011 - 1800CET, 12PM - What are specific things we can do to involve parents in the education of their children 10/25/2011 - 7PM - BYOD is bring your own device, referring to mobile devices.What are the positives and negatives of this as a strategy for tech in education?
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11/1/2011 - Noon - Is the rift often found between IT people and classroom teachers a real issue? How do we address this issue? 11/1/2011 - 7PM - How important are school administrators? Is it possible to have good schools without administrators? What part does leadership play in student learning?
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11/8/2011 - Noon - What are the advantages/disadvantages of edcamps/TeachMeets vs traditional PD? 11/8/2011 - 7PM - How much should educators be allowed to determine their own professional development?
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11/22/2011 - Noon - Will the idea of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) help or hinder education? 11/22/2011 - 7PM - What is it that educators are supposed to be preparing kids for?
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TeachCast podcast with Jeff Bradbury, Chris Hoovler, Nick Provenxano (nerdyteacher) and me
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NCSS - National Council for the Social Studies in Washington, DC
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12/6/2011 -Noon - What changes could be made to the present management structure of ed to make it more effective for educators? 12/6/2011 - 7PM - What are the current trends that may last, compared to the fads that will fade in honest Ed Reform today?
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What are the positives and negatives of having limited technology in schools? What is the purpose of education now and going forward?
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Connected educators are benefiting from being connected to others every day. How do we involve others in the importance of connecting? How are "Best Practices" defined, and how do we use them to improve the effect of teachers?
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Which should we support first for the best result? A reform in student learning (teaching methods), or a reform in teacher learning (PD). What are the best methods for changing students from content consumers to content creators?
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Enjoyed the writing presentation with @Grade1 and her class in Ancaster, Canada
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How do we consider time differently to rebuild school schedules and calendars to maximize learning? How do educators collaborate within a bldg to better their prof. practice? What would make such collaboration easier/better?
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Had a nice discussion with the developers of this amazing new chat
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Skyped into several first grade classes who were wonderful. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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What should a report card look like to provide information to parents? (Solo moderator) What can educators expect in regard to education reform with the introduction of interactive digital textbooks?
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Depending on whose research we read, class size does or doesn't matter. Why does class size matter to you? How necessary is homework for student learning?
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What does your District/School do to provide relevant professional development for you & your colleagues? Do the positives outweigh the negatives of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)?
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Skyped into 3/4th grade class in New Jersey
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What would be a better alternative to present leadership hierarchy in public ed? Supt-Prin-Dept Chair etc. How could we change our education programs and student teaching to better serve our profession?
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Via Skype had a wonderful session with 9th & 10th graders in Honduras
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Common Core
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How can we encourage critical thinking about technology use in schools? How do teachers know when students are engaged in learning?
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What specific changes have you made as an educator that are a direct result of SM involvement/being connected. What can educators do to ensure that their students are media literate?
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With need to leave comfort zones for relevant Professional Development to take effect, should teachers continue to control their own learning for PD? Are we beginning to see decline of textbook with development of ebooks & open sources? Is this a positive/negative for EDU?
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PLNs: Personal Learning & Sharing Networks, INFOhio webinar http://www.infohio.org/educator/webinars2011-2012.html#PLN
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What would the result be if more districts made a serious attempt to give classroom teachers access to mainstream Education Conferences? (Solo) Does banning of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter or any sites or apps, help or hinder learning in schools?
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Skyped with teachers at Knapp Elementary School in Lansdale, Pa. about Twitter.
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Skyped with 4th grade class Linda Yollis
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As an educator, what are the best Twitter strategies you have discovered that help you use Twitter as a professional tool? What should the Education Software industry produce in terms of innovations to meet your needs as a teacher?
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What are the possibilities that open to us if we change observation model for teachers to a coaching model? What specifics should be included in a new model for professional development for teachers?
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Since the introduction of social media into our culture, contact between teachers & students has been controversial. Your thoughts? What are the important skills that we are to be preparing students with for the future. Are our methods effectively working?
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If collaboration is high on everyone's list as a needed skill; how do we work it into every aspect of our education system? If it is the poverty gap that is the major force stalling improvement in the education system, how do we address that issue?
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Skyped into InnovatEducation conference in Tennessee and talked about my website.
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What are better alternatives to connecting teacher-assessment to student performance on standardized tests? Is directing Public Education down a path of online learning in order to reduce costs a well-considered reform?
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Twitter 101 - PLN
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Skyped into edcampNYC to help give a Skype in the classroom session
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Skyped into St. Joseph's College in Connecticut to help do a session on Mystery Skype
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Most professional development in education is self-directed by teachers. Is that the most effective form of PD or is there a better way? Are we rushing into the Common Core w/o considering the sacrifice of creativity & appreciation of literature to benefit argumentation?
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The Flipped Classroom is very evident in math. How can it specifically be applied to other subject areas? Social Media is here to stay. What uses of SM can we employ to strengthen or reform educ either as a teacher or professional?
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Helped do a session on Skype in the Classroom
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If tomorrow your school was told to go all digital by September, what would need to be done to make that happen? If you were to restructure and hire the leadership of a district, what would the leadership specifically look like in action & thought?
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4th Grade Class in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Skyped into class in Colorado to do my writing presentation.
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What specifically turns off students today to the most common methods of teaching? Topic: What is it that makes a school culture favor or disfavor technology as a tool for learning?
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Skyped into TeachMeet Nashville May 31st One session on Building a PLN and other on Twitter Chats
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What is a connected educator? How much time should an educator spend to be connected? If you were to prioritize things, what is the most significant challenge facing your district/school?
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Linwood Middle School, New Jersey – “Empowering Digital Creativity through Project Based Learning” mystery skype - Twitter - PLN
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Is there any truth to the theory of Digital Natives or do we really need to teach kids about digital learning? If so, what? Let's talk about what makes a bad presentation and how it hurts learning. Is it the fault of tech or teacher?
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With Test-Making now being a $Billion industry, what can reformers do to change the status of standardized tests? How do we make Dept & Faculty meetings less about info dispensing & more about meaningful education practice?
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Participated in this podcast on ISTE12 with newbies and veterans.
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Gave Media session with Susan Bearden along with Angela Maiers participating at SocialEdCon Using Social Media to build school/community relationships along with Social Media and Student Bullying
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Newbie Lounge with Kyle Calderwood
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Session with Kyle Calderwood on Twitter near Blogger's Cafe in Sail's Pavilion
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With Kyle Calderwood near Blogger's Cafe in Sails Pavilion
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What does tech enable educators to do better. Does Tech affect pedagogy? ISTE12
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What do we mean by the personalization of education & is it desirable & achievable today? As we enter connected ed month, what advantages are there to being a connected educator?
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Are digital portfolios a realistic alternative to grades for kids? What are the advantages & disadvantages? How do we teach Collection of information, Collaboration, Communication, and Creation in the setting of today's education system?
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Nikhil is an outstanding young man and I totally enjoyed our conversation http://nikhilgoyal.me/
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PLN Course in Plymouth, Massachusetts
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How do we identify and deal with a toxic school culture? There has been a great deal of talk about personalizing education for all kids. What does that mean & what does it look like?
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Has the idea of a Personal Learning Network made a significant difference for you, or is it a fad that will fade away? What specific things can Professional Education Organizations do to meet your needs as an educator?
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With tech advancement & econ considerations what are the adv/disadv of doing away w/classroom in the future? What are your top 2 priorities for change in ed system that would have the most impact for moving forward & why?
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Is homework helpful and practical or just a carry over from a bygone culture of 19th & 20th century education? What effect, if any, do blog posts, by either creating one or consuming them have on you as an educator, or as a learner?
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Putting idea of empty vessel to be filled aside What role, if any, should students play in their own education? How are the professional development programs now in place working effectively? How can they specifically be improved?
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Nice conversation with Lisa Dabbs, edubros and others.
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Kim Powell organized this training
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As a connected educator how have you changed in regard to methods and pedagogy as a result of your connections? How much say should we give our students in what and how they learn? How do we accomplish giving them any say in their learning?
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Toby Brown had me talk and answer questions with his class on incorporating tech into classes and PLNs.
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Marialice BFX Curran had me skype with her class about Science and Social Studies teaching and Twitter at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, CT
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What are specific changes that you have made in your teaching methods as a result of being a connected educator? How has you attitude about your profession been affected by recent events and public perceptions?
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Mount Scopus Primary in Melbourne
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How do we involve parents in the struggle for real & positive reform in their children's education? If it the poverty gap that is the major force stalling improvement in the American education system, how do we address that issue?
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What organization or individual should lead in education reform?
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How much of our lessons in education are Direct Instruction or lecture and is that the best use of the methods at hand to produce thinkers?
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Third Grade Classes
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Bill, Dan, Jessica, Kim, Paula, Jeff Missing: Nancy
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What are the specific changes in education that have been driven by the advent & progression of social media in our culture? Since kids may now learn anywhere at anytime, how does this affect the way we teach in classrooms?
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What is the role that students should have in determining the education they should get? What is the best way for technology people to approach professional development of academic subject teachers?
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Twitter training session at Brock's Gap Intermediate School, Hoover, Alabama @jrichardson30
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Common Core–Tech–Writing My co-moderator @shannonmmiller bitly.com/TKu5x1
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What is the role that students should have in determining the education they should get? How do the technological tools for learning support Bloom's highest form of learning, creation?
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Cleveland Court Elementary School - Grades 4 & 5
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Global Collaboration Project
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Harsh Patel Google Hangout
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What should a report card look like as we move forward in time? How is social media used professionally by you & how do we convey that to educators who see SM as a useless gimmick?
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Bacon Elementary School - Millville, NJ
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What can administrators do to make faculty meetings a positive experience & a useful contribution to education in a school? How are teachers prepared for teaching with differentiated instruction & is this preparation adequate?
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New Jersey Bill Krakower
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With Brad Currie discussed Newtown, CT tragedy and then the wonders of Twitter
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Business people & politicians insist on comparing schools to business. Are business strategies applicable in learning environments? Once, the classroom was considered the place for learning. How do we define learning environment today, and how do we best utilize it?
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Stillwater, Minnesota 5th grade Ms. Mueller
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Skype with teacher-librarians in Auburn, Georgia SusanNoland
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Should we build time into a busy school schedule for the purpose to allow innovative thinking or pursuit of passion-based learning? Teacher morale & self esteem is viewed by many to be at an all-time low. What are specific ways that we can build them back up?
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Welcoming Podcast for my four presentations
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Orlando Friday's Steve Anderson, Tom Whitby, Kathy Shrock...
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As the paddle gave way to detention is it time for detention to give way to an alternative form of discipline? What would that look like? What are the specific ways educators use to collaborate to advance their professional development?
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If innovation drives us forward, how do we address innovation in our current system of teaching and learning? (Solo from Palm Beach School District Tech Conference) Is creativity the next necessary literacy?
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The Evolving Role of Women in the 21st Century. Women's History
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Do we need to continue to house students in grades according to the age of the student? What should a well-designed mentoring program for new teachers look like?
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Mentoring New Teachers: What's The Best ApproachMentoring New Teachers with Nancy Blair and Lisa Dabbs
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Bill Krakower and Scott Rocco
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Krissy Venosdale @ktvee Hillsboro, MO
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What are the real decisions left to educators about technology in education?
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With Ms. Sirotiak's class for Postive side of HW Debate prep
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The Power of Twitter Chats @thomascmurray @Sirotiak02 @bcurrie5 @wkrakower @ScottRRocco @cybraryman1 @Joe_Mazza
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HowardWinn Iowa edcamp
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If formative assessment is designed to gauge the effectiveness of the lesson & the teacher, should we use it in a student's grade? The Flipped Classroom, a trend or a lasting solution? What are specific positives & negatives of Flipped Model?
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How do we define good Digital Citizenship, & what are specific things teachers can do to support that outcome for students? What are specific creative things administrators can do to make faculty meetings more meaningful to teachers?
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with Nancy Blair and Tom Murray http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1027:jackstreet54&catid=86:jackstreet54&Itemid=249 Can Smackdowns, Food Fests or Flipping Produce Faculty Meetings Teachers Love?
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HOST: Rae Pica
TOPIC: Sleepy Students: What Is a Teacher to Do?
GUESTS:
Dr. James Maas, author of Sleep for Success and latest book, Sleep to Win!
Leading authority and international consultant on sleep and performance and past Professor and Chairman of Psychology at Cornell University. Dr. Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D, Director of Parentchildhelp.com
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Do we as educators have a responsibility to share with other educators? Are we collectively better off then we are separately? Is there a growing gap between Connected and Unconnected educators that should concern us as a system of educators?
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What is BIG Shift in education that everyone is looking for? Is there one big idea that can positively affect education? If not why? Children are anxious learners in early grades. What are the factors that turn kids off to learning as they get older?
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Enjoyed my practice session with great educators at St. Paul Elementary/HS in Arkansas @AudraKimball @sabrapro
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Parents play a huge role in a child's education. What are the most effective ways to educate and involve parents in the process? Are Social Media and the use of technology in general gaining more acceptance in your district or education in general?
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Carlton Palmore Elementary School 2 sessions for 4th grade classes
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Skyped into @AudraKimball 5th grade class. Enjoyed this session with the students in St. Paul, Arkansas Elementary School
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4thchat I was late 9pm but still had great time chatting with Paula and Bill.
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Has the time come to reassess the value of worksheets and homework in a 21st Century learning environment? How would allowing 20% of your week to be used for student directed learning (pursuing their interest) affect your goal in teaching?
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Helped close out #ntchat
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Skyped in along with Shannon Miller to #SOMSlibrary for a parent-student tech night
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What is an Edcamp and what are the differences that it can make in my professional development? How important is it to teach Critical Thinking and how do we do it?
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@aldtucker 7th grade students
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Nancy Carroll's wonderful fourth grade class
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What percentage of instruction should be delivered through the methods of Direct Instruction & lecture? What should be included in a summer PD program? Anything goes!
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Lansdale, PA 4th grade classes
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What is the result of educators not fully understanding the differences between summative & formative assessments? Differentiation; are teachers in your school trained, supported, and equipped to practice it adequately?
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BAM Radio _ R-E-S-P-E-C-T: How Do Teachers Get It?
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PBL and Authentic Learning
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What are the specific ways that Blogs play a role in education in any capacity? What could tell your colleagues who claim Twitter to be a frivolous sideshow for mindless interaction & little social impact?
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Is the idea of integrating curriculum an idea that still has a place in education today? Have you explored or used games for learning? What do you see as the potential benefits or pitfalls of using games for learning?
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Is it possible for innovation and differentiation to fit into a curriculum stressing standardization? What would a successful model of professional development for educators look like?
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How well are we preparing our students for what they will need to know after high school? Based on what you now know of Common Core, do you believe it will promote innovation and creative thinking, or stifle them?
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If connectedness is so important to education, why haven't a majority of educators connected? How do we connect them? With Common Core ready to go into place, should we now push for Standards Based Grading. Is SBG the way to go for everyone?
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If teachers are hesitant to leave their comfort zones to learn, how effective is Professional Development in a school system if it is determined by teachers? Are programs like 1:1 Laptops, iPads, Chromebooks & BYOD having a positive effect on education?
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If we could support ONE idea that would have the most positive effect on education. what would that be? With the new school year about to begin, what are the specific things that you will be doing differently this year?
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If teachers controlled what their PD looked like, what are specifics of how it would be different from what is offered now? If we all benefit from collaborative learning, what can we do specifically to promote collaboration in/outside of school buildings
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Kids know how they best respond to their learning. How do we involve their voice in education conversation? How should today's classroom look & what changes can we make in our classrooms to make them better for learning?
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How do teachers deal with administrators whose Education philosophy calls for a 20th Century model of teaching & compliance? What changes could be made to the school calendar & daily schedule that would significantly improve learning?
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Guest Moderator - Assessing Your Leadership Style
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Guest Moderator - Assessing Your Leadership Style
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Guest Moderator - Assessing Your Leadership Style
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Joined teachercast TV
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School culture has a great effect on the approach to learning in a school and/or district. What specifically can we do to promote a positive culture? October is Connected Educator Month, #CEM. What are some specific suggestions to get more of our colleagues to connect?
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Worked on ISTE14 proposal with Paula and Bill
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What lists of things could we devise that would be helpful in getting more educators connected & connected educators better? With so much research now pointing to the lack of a positive effect of homework on learning, why do so many educators still give it?
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BAM Radio #ptchat Balancing Academics & Leisure in the Lives of our Kids
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Twitter 101 with Jerry Swand Ed Tech Tools
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Twitter 101 with Jerry Swiatek
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Fun is a very big positive in learning. What should we do as Teachers to promote it in lessons and as Administrators to promote it school wide? Acknowledging that computers will not replace teachers, what are the influences and effects that technology has (or will have) on teaching?
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Google Hangout with Superintendent Jay Eitner and his staff
Superintendent of the Lower Alloways Creek School District, New Jersey -
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What part should reflection play in the life of an educator and in what ways could it manifest itself? What are some positive changes that can be made to department and faculty meetings to give them a more positive influence on the school culture?
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When it comes to observations of teachers, what should be acceptable and what should be off limits? Edcamps have been growing in popularity over the last few years. Why are they receiving support over traditional Professional Development?
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With @dankrutka Showing teachers Google Hangout and Google Docs.
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South Orange Middle School Ms. Butler's class.
Answered questions on homework
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Global Project
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What changes can we expect in education as blended learning begins to be adopted more by institutions of learning? As a teacher, if the choice was yours, would you take your school 1:1 laptops, BYOD or little or no districtwide Tech?
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BAM Radio Show: Acknowledging that computers will not replace teachers, what are the influences & effects that tech will have on teaching? @blairteach Moderator and @edguy199 and me Ed Chat Radio Our Tech, Your Tech, No Tech: What Teachers Want in Classrooms
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Georgia Educational Technology Conference - Atlanta
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All Hands on DECK (Detecting, Evaulating, Curating Knowledge) and Literacy from Every Angle
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Eureka: Research Skills and Connected Educators Rule the World
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Your Lifeline to Learning – Building a Great (Professional) Learning Network
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What are your specific strategies for developing a Personalized Learning Network of Sources for your personal and professional learning? What explanation/reasons would you offer for half of all new teachers dropping out of the profession in the first five years of service?
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Mr. Nidey 3rd grade class Iowa @mrnidey
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Does the prevailing Professional Development in the education system meet the needs for educators to be Digitally Literate & Relevant? Is there still a fear of technology among educators that prevents them from collaboration through technological connectedness?
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Interviewed me
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Graduate Student
Instructional Technology Ph.D. Program
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What is Authentic Learning and what role should it play in today's education? What are the possibilities open to education if we used mastery instead of age to advance students in the system?
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How can educators use less seat time for students as a result of blended learning to their advantage? If Admins are lead educators, where and when do they get to display their skills as an educator. Should they be required to do so? #edchat
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THE CONNECTED EDUCATOR : WHITBY & BLUMGARTEN at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/edutalk/2013/12/05/the-connected-educator-with-tom-whitby #eduTalkRadio
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Bill and I
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If all educators will be required to teach digital literacy, what do all educators need to know in order to be digitally literate? As a connected educator, what are the specific differences you have noted between the connected and unconnected educators?
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Moderated Maryland Elementary School Chat
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Connecting Your Students to Collaborate With the World
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Billy and Paula
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McKeel Academy of Technology - Lakeland, FL
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If students are to have a greater voice in deciding their learning,how do we work that into a system that has not yet accepted that idea? How do we assess whether Inclusion programs have been successful, or just ongoing placeholders?
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Billy and Jessica B
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What are the specific changes in your education philosophy that have taken place since you have become a teacher? How has the use of Technology been accepted and used by your colleagues? What are the differences between adopters and laggards?
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http://www.eduallstars.com/edu-all-stars-episode-30-jerry-blumengarten-cybraryman/ Edu-All-Stars – Episode 30: Jerry Blumengarten (CybraryMan) | Edu All-Stars
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Does being a parent make a difference in being an educator? What are those differences? In what ways do you find thought leadership for your profession? Where do you turn for the influential education ideas?
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Billy and Paula
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What are the pluses and minuses of Powerpoint presentations? What are the alternatives? What are specific ways in which we can make education more student centric?
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With less than a third of our population completing college with degrees, should college continue to be main goal of Education? What is Authentic Learning and what role should it play in today's education? #edchat
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Keys to Authentic Learning In a Climate of Standardized Tests
http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&%3Bview=article&%3Bid=1798%3Akeys-to-authentic-learning-in-a-climate-of-standardized-testing-&%3Bcatid=86%3Aedchat-radio-&%3BItemid=249#.UvztL2SZFq4.twitter -
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What would be the effect of building collaboration and reflection time into your work schedule?
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Addressed Library SIG
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Accompanied McKeel Academy of Technology (Mr. Dennis Dill) to see Tuskegee Airmen presentation at Fantasy of Flight
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If Innovation is a goal of education, and that is promoted through higher order thinking skills, why do we focus so much on worksheets? How do we change a teacher's view of Tech as a distraction from learning, to that of an attraction to be a gateway to learning?
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Helped Kyle Caldewood test his skype connection
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Sochi Olympic quiz with classes of @wkrakower (NJ) @ncarroll24 (MA) @JennRegruth (IN) @plnaugle classes (La)
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Has the flipped model been tried by you or a colleague. What has the result been? If kids learn at different rates, why do we house them by age? What are better alternatives?
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Santaluces HS
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If grades are an indication of potential wouldn't portfolios be a proof of potential? Should we not adopt portfolios over grades? Are the ideas & contributions of connected educators making a difference in education or is it an echo chamber of a like-minded minority?
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What purpose should blogs have in the life of an educator? What are the most effective changes in education that educators should file behind to affect a paradigm shift in education?
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Google Hangout Read Aloud @plnaugle (New Orleans, LA) @JennRegruth (Indiana)@ncarroll24 (Massachusetts) @wkrakower (New Jersey) with gust reader @cybraryman1 #4thchat I read The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
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North Penn School District. Introduction to Twitter session.
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With the C.E.O. of Success Academy, Eva Moskowitz earning $475,000 a year are the interests of her Charters focused on kids or profit? Will Project based, and problem based learning, gameification, or authentic learning ever make gains on Lecture and Direct Instruction?
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Will Project based, and problem based learning, gameification, or authentic learning ever make gains on Lecture and Direct Instruction?
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Kim Powell session on Google Hangouts at 2014 Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning Conference in Grand Rapids, MI.
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Are Educational Conferences effective? How can they be more effective? If collaboration is such an important component to learning,what can districts do to promote and support collaboration amongst educators?.
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Why are not teachers the primary reason for low test score performance as politicians and edu reformers would have the public believe? If a poll was to be taken about the effects of technology integration in education, would all teachers be the best candidates to take it?
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Google Hangout into Billy Krakower's Mystery Location Call session at Connected Educator Long Island conference in Farmingdale, LI Paula Naugle also came into GHO
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In what specific ways, if any, does your school exhibit a need for the education reform we hear so much about? If Professional Development is such an important part of educators being relevant and effective, how are schools doing their best in delivering it?
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Stakeholders
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How have writing or reading blogs affected your teaching & how has it affected your students’ learning? Where are thoughtful discussions of pedagogy & methodology to change the educational system taking place? How do educators effectively participate?
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1st anniversary I was invited to join the moderators
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With all of the collaboration through connectedness leading to ideas for educational change, how do we implement action plans through connectedness? What are the main reasons educators resist connected collaboration and how do we overcome & break down the resistance?
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Practice for my webinar
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In what specific ways have you grown as an educator as a result of your being connected through social media? How do we change the idea of compliance and control being a significant part of learning as we continue through the 21st Century
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How is technology causing classroom management to evolve? What does critical thinking really mean? What does it look like? How is is fostered in the classroom?
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If it's necessary for schools to have systemic plans to integrate tech into education, how best can teachers be brought into the plan? What must districts do to meet the professional development needs of Teachers & Administrators?
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How has technology specifically affected your teaching either positively or negatively? What are the advantages for administrators to participate in professional development workshops with their staff?
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Stephanie Echeveste about #edchat Twitter chats
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6/3/2014 - 7PM - What can we do as teachers to foster parent engagement?
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