Archive: 2013
Personalized Learning
Building School Culture: JiJi Thrives at Palomino
From the outside looking in, Palomino Intermediate School is a very unassuming building located in central Phoenix. Truth is, there are amazing things happening inside the walls of Palomino, and we were lucky enough to experience them first hand last month.
Leadership
Closing the Motivation Gap
The fact that the best professors in the world are making their courses freely available is an important milestone in learning opportunity, but MOOCs are largely serving the college educated seeking additional education.
EdTech
Everything is Coming Up Robots
Now I find myself learning and teaching with robots. Where once I was reading through Chaim Potok’s The Chosen asking myself which learning objectives I could met through this text, now I am searching through Youtube videos of robot challenges to find a match for my objectives for the students.
Personalized Learning
Online Occupational Therapy Explained in PresenceLearning Ebook
Online occupational therapy helps schools address therapist shortages, allow for flexibility, decreases travel time for both the therapists and students and reduces student distractions while lessening missed classroom time.
Personalized Learning
Quality Matters in K12 Online and Blended Learning
The Quality Matters Program demonstrates that the close correspondence between the iNACOL course standards and the QM Grades 6-12 Rubric, shows K-12 teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders that the QM Rubric can be an effective tool to achieve the iNACOL goals in addition to implementing the more detailed and explicit QM design elements.
Personalized Learning
Worlds of Making @ NMHS
At the heart of the vision for my Makerspace is to develop the space and to provide resources and opportunities that will aid in promoting web literacy.
Ed Policy
Reynoldsburg City Schools’ Internet Journey
Known for its inventiveness and commitment to personalized learning, Reynoldsburg City Schools’ (RCS) latest transformation is fueled by blending the best of teacher-led instruction with game-changing technology that is revolutionizing the pace, depth and velocity of learning for its 6,500 demographically diverse students across 14 Ohio schools.
Personalized Learning
The Hour of Code – Join the Movement
We live in a computer powered world. Coding is the language our computers speak. As an educator or a parent, have you ever introduced students to coding?
EdTech
Learn What Most Schools Don’t Teach
Code.org and all the partners behind Computer Science Education Week encourage students, parents, and educators worldwide to engage in computer science. Take a 1 hour course online. Or host it in your classroom. Or ask your school to offer computer science to your children.
EdTech
Infographic: The Use of Social Media in School
eLearning Infographics shared this helpful visual along with the 11 facts copied below. The site also provides a full list of helpful teacher guides for all the different social media outlets, outlining best practices for using them with students.