Tuesday, June 26 - 5 Reasons Why Every Student Needs to Think Like a Designer Presenter: Michael Cohen (The Tech Rabbi) Session resources: https://thetechrabbi.com/ This session focuses on how to address ISTE standard 4 (Innovative Designer). How can we design instructional experiences that tap into the different kinds of design? Graphic, interior, product, instructional, user experience, … Continue reading #ISTE Session: 5 Reasons Why Every Student Needs To Think Like A Designer
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#ISTE18 Session: Promoting Inventiveness in the Classroom
Tuesday, June 26 - Promoting Inventiveness in the Classroom Presenter: Kathy Schrock Session resources: Link 1; Link 2 (http://www.schrockguide.net/inventiveness.html by Kathy Schrock) Defining Iventiveness Invention: the creation of a product or introduction of a process for the first time Innovation: occurs if someone improves on an existing product or process Inventiveness: the form of creativity … Continue reading #ISTE18 Session: Promoting Inventiveness in the Classroom
#ISTE18 Session: 4 Edtech Ways to Differentiate in a Student-Centered Classroom
Monday, June 25 - 4 Edtech Ways to Differentiate in a Student-Centered Classroom Presented by Shaelynn Farnsworth and Steven Anderson Session resources Resources part 2 **Note: I don’t proofread live blogs due to the intensity of these conferences. So, apologies in advance for typos or ramblings!! Just trying to capture the learning here, people! Differentiating assessment … Continue reading #ISTE18 Session: 4 Edtech Ways to Differentiate in a Student-Centered Classroom
#ISTE18 session: Much Better Staff and Team Meetings
Monday, June 25 - Much Better Staff and Team Meetings Presented by Rushton Hurley Session resources **Note: I don’t proofread live blogs due to the intensity of these conferences. So, apologies in advance for typos or ramblings!! Just trying to capture the learning here, people! How can we use time better with staff meetings? Every … Continue reading #ISTE18 session: Much Better Staff and Team Meetings
#ISTE18 Session: Coaching Trumps PD
Monday, June 15 - Coaching Trumps PD Presented by Katherine Goyette and Adam Juarez Session Slides (all citations from info below are in the slides) **Note: I don't proofread live blogs due to the intensity of these conferences. So, apologies in advance for typos or ramblings!! Just trying to capture the learning here, people! The … Continue reading #ISTE18 Session: Coaching Trumps PD
#TriConf17 Day 5: Creating a Professional Development Hub (Silvia Tolisano)
Session Description here. Note: many of my sentences in this blog come directly from Silvia's mouth...so let's just give a blanket citation to her! Links: Silvia's page AASSA blog (it's crowdsourced from schools/teachers all over the world) Graded T&L blog Cool site to use to make infographics Notes: Unigogy: the study of self-directed and self-determined … Continue reading #TriConf17 Day 5: Creating a Professional Development Hub (Silvia Tolisano)
#TriConf17: Day 5 Keynote
Link to the archive of social media learning by Tri-Association Keynote: Douglas Fisher Study skills that work First, don't make study skills a separate class! repeated reading When students read the material more than once, learning improves. They won't do it automatically on a test like the SAT unless they are practicing it all year … Continue reading #TriConf17: Day 5 Keynote
#TLConf2015: Empowering Teachers to Build a Positive, Innovative School Culture
This past weekend, I was in Washington, DC for the annual Teaching & Learning Conference hosted by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. I have been a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) since 2009, and I love being surrounded by hundreds of other NBCTs (we only have 275 here in NJ). Throughout the conference, … Continue reading #TLConf2015: Empowering Teachers to Build a Positive, Innovative School Culture
Tech Dreams…Part 2
Thanks for coming back to read my second post about my visit to Randolph Township High School. If you're interested in learning more about their virtual learning summit, you can read the press release on their web site. I'm using my blog as a place to hold all the notes I took when I visited … Continue reading Tech Dreams…Part 2
Tech dreams…part 1
Today, a colleague and I visited Randolph High School in Randolph, NJ. Humanities supervisor Jonathan Olsen was kind enough to give us a tour and plan an awesome day of learning about the way Randolph has implemented BYOD and other technology initiatives. I had planned on writing a blog post summarizing all I had learned, … Continue reading Tech dreams…part 1
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