K-12 Digital Citizenship Hangout on Air
Here’s the Hangout on Air I did Monday night with Elizabeth Calhoon, the Academic Technology Specialist in Santa Clara County (California), and Tanya Avrith, the Lead Digital Citizenship Teacher for...
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Personalized Learning for Teachers Too: Professional Development Should...
“… so, in conclusion, you can provide personalized learning opportunities for your students right now! You can build a blended learning environment to support anytime-everywhere learning! You can track...
View ArticleThe Ed Tech Challenge: A Professional Development Framework and Resource Website
I have been working on a technology integration framework and MOOC (massive open online course) for my teachers for the last year with some of the most passionate and intelligent educators I know. The...
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Push My Thinking: TPACK or SAMR or ?
**Update 4/26/14: I LOVE the responses to this post; they made me consider a lot of different ways of looking at TPACK and SAMR, and really stretched my thinking. If you read this post, also read the...
View ArticleLibrary Media in the 21st Century: How we Shifted Perceptions
In my role as a Director of Learning, Instructional Technology & Library Media at the Kettle Moraine School District, I’m lucky enough to work directly with a team of six library media specialists....
View ArticleTechnology Integration: A Vision, Framework, & Strategy for Districts
I very recently was given the opportunity to present the technology integration work I was a part of in the Kettle Moraine School District. The video below shows the presentation I gave at both the...
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My Limited Perspectives of Education Reform: Life as a Student, Teacher, and...
In the last decade, I’ve seen the education world through four different lenses: as a student, a teacher, an administrator, and (now) from a policy world. When I was a student, I thought the world...
View ArticleValuing Non-Traditional Pathways in #ProfDev
I’ve spent the last few months working as a project manager on a “digital badges” initiative. It’s been a ton of fun, and I’m learning a lot! Here’s a selection from a post I just wrote on Edutopia…...
View ArticleWords Matter: Are You Talking About Technology, or are You Talking About...
This blog post was originally posted on the Connected Educator Month blog. I still remember the first time I held a voluntary workshop on Google Docs for a staff of 100 teachers. I called it “10 Ways...
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Learning to be a Learner: Why My Next Step is a Coding Bootcamp
PART 1: I AM OUT OF MY LEAGUE How did I end up here? About a year ago, I was on a speaker panel I shouldn’t have been on. Don’t get me wrong – I was grateful to be there – but I realized very quickly...
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