EdTech
EdTech
iAnnotate 3.0 on Sale in the App Store
Annotators are people who get nervous and antsy when they’re reading any kind of text, and they don’t have a pen in their hands to mark it up with. Annotators don’t just consume, they devour. This is what we want from our students.
EdTech
Relax. It is You . . . And Them
Yes, it all happened. Everything we feared would come true did to some degree. We had students that got off task in class and missed the assignments or the lecture or the project. We had students download music in the hallways between classes so they could listen to it in the next period. We had students at home not doing the work they didn't due in class because they were playing games, or on Facebook, or tweeting, or listening. Yes, it all happened.
EdTech
50 Hashtags For Connected Educators
Last year at this time, Terry Heick at TeachThought inspired us to sort through and post our favorite hashtags. In just a year, we've grown from 36 to 50 favorite hashtags. We think that's #awesome.
EdTech
10 Strategies & Apps to Manage the iPad Classroom
A couple weeks ago some of you asked about managing the iPad classroom. We did some homework. With a little help from some great teacher bloggers, here are 10 strategies and apps to manage the iPad classroom.
Ed Policy
EdTech 10: Getting #EdSocial in Orlando
Stay tuned to Getting Smart as we spend next week digging into online and blended learning at the iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium. Hoping you will be there too! We will be very busy working in a bunch of great sessions with many of our talented partners. Check out our schedule for the week.
Personalized Learning
Give Math a Chance
When we make it socially acceptable to be bad at math, are we setting our kids up to fail? Rather than just avoid it because it’s difficult, we need to encourage our students to embrace it because of its difficulty.
EdTech
Collaboration for Innovation
Technology can do even more for students and teachers. Now students’ reading notes can be recorded online rather that in notebooks or on Post-its and shared instantly with the teacher. Students’ writing can be compiled in a digital portfolio accessible with a single tap by the teacher or the student.
EdTech
Featured EduPreneur: Jason Lange, Bloomboard
Jason Lange is our featured edupreneur this week. Jason is CEO of Bloomboard, a leading educator development system that supports the development of individual learning plans for teachers and school leaders.
Personalized Learning
The Tao of Blended Learning
I knew I had two choices: 1. Follow Mr. Lee up the ladder, through the ceiling, and into the unknown or 2. Get my butt kicked by a Kung Fu master before I could even blink.
Leadership
Another Study Validates Replacement of Big Bad Schools With New Small Schools
Another study demonstrating the effectiveness of the new small high schools in New York City was released last week. Like prior studies, this one dramatically understate the real benefit of the new schools in favor of gold standard research methods. The new schools have grad rates double many of the closed high schools.