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EdTech 10: From #iNACOL14, With Love
This week's EdTech 10 highlights news and developments from the 2014 iNACOL conference in Palm Springs, CA and beyond.
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Developing an Innovation Mindset
The most important aspect of career readiness may be developing an innovation mindset. Read, write, visit and think to create yours.
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13 Barriers to Education Innovation
Changes in leadership, varied stakeholders and low sharing are just a handful of 13 barriers to education innovation.
EdTech
The Literary Revolver: An Interactive Structure from Studio 113
Frankly speaking, interactive learning structures work. By merging standards-based prompts, random selectiveness, a backchannel, improvisational acting, and overall creativity, Studio 113’s fairly new “Literary Revolver” places students on an engaging, challenging, and fun path to lesson mastery.
EdTech
So You’re Already a Connected Educator… Now What?
You can completely transform learning for your students by sharing ideas or connecting with other classrooms around the world. Check out these 5 things to focus on once you have taken the plunge to becoming a connected educator.
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6 Steps to Becoming a Highly Effective Leader: Your Personal “SWOT” Analysis
Getting Smart Team Member, Jennifer Aalgaard, reflects and shares her leadership development tactics she learned through Western Governors University.
Personalized Learning
3 Organizations Selected by The Learning Accelerator for Grants in Blended Learning Human Capital
The Learning Accelerator announced the selection of three finalists who will receive nearly $1 million for principal trainings, teacher professional development platforms, and further implementation of a previously funded teacher fellowship program.
Personalized Learning
6 Tips for Student Motivation
Daniel Pink (@DanielPink), author of Drive about the science behind motivation, is out with a new book called To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth of Moving Others. Here are 6 powerful tips gleaned from his recent webinar on motivation and persuasion.
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What’s the Uber for Education?
An Uber-like education would be student-centered: personalized, competency-based, with high student ownership, and would happen anywhere anytime.
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65 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time
In the spirit of the 10 best books challenge that is ricocheting around on social media, here are my top 65 non-fiction page turners.