A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

They had an incredible opportunity to learn how they utilize this former synagogue as an education center. Our students were engaged in an innovative approach to Holocaust education by viewing these boxes, which included documentation of survivors from Lostice and the surrounding towns.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2014

This all changed dramatically when students were afforded a hands-on, authentic learning experience in the Makerspace that allowed them to create artifacts of learning to demonstrate conceptual mastery. educational technology Laura Fleming Makerspace New Milford High School physics'

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Note: This post is directly related to my work at the International Center for Leadership in Education Efficacy has been on my mind a great deal as of late, and as a result, it has been reflected in my writing. Copyright © by International Center for Leadership in Education, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2013

The digital divide in schools becomes smaller when bold districts, schools, and educators work to effectively integrate the technology that has been available for years outside their walls. The should most certainly be able to use it to replace more archaic forms of technology (i.e. pencil and paper) if they wish.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 11, 2015

The potential is there for schools and educators to empower students to take more ownership of their learning. It is important that the resulting artifacts are not too overbearing and afford students the opportunity to be trusted and empowered to take ownership of their learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

The IPA establishes the framework for educators and administrators, facilitating an innovative lens to underpin individualized professional growth. Rubrics are then leveraged to observe leadership and instructional practices while collecting artifacts to provide evidence of efficacy-based innovative practices.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2012

Pevny as well as the schools'' investment in the latest educational technology (iMacs, Adobe tools, digital cameras, etc.). Every year our school holds an educational trip to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, in which a select group of students are taken to get a first hand education on the Holocaust.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 3, 2013

This educational tool includes over 1,200 video testimonies of Holocaust and genocide survivors. The students were able to learn particular aspects of a survivor’s story, record reflections, and actually create a video utilizing testimony clips and artifacts to tell their impression of a particular survivor’s story.

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Artifacts World History Digital Resources Critical Thinking 213

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

School districts across the country are tackling the toughest challenges in education, including kindergarten readiness, family engagement, and school redesign. Based on what we learned from challenge sessions, artifact reviews, and in-depth interviews with district leaders, we created the Challenge Map. Teaching with Technology.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Both technologies have made their way into classrooms, leaving educational researchers wondering about their differences and implications for learning. For example, an AR app can create interactive 3D models of historical artifacts or scientific specimens that students can learn from and explore.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The author of Ed Tech Essentials and founder of Class Tech Tips encourages educators to use tech tools for their own professional learning. In this PLtogether Lounge Talk, Monica Burns talked with Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about the advantages of integrating educational technology into adult learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Invite parents to collaborate with faculty on the appropriate use of technology in the classroom and at home. And be deliberate about showcasing students’ digital artifacts—a great hook for getting parents in the classroom. Give parents the tools and skills they need to model digital literacy for their children.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s just one example of the growth of digital credential systems that leaders say will help build a better bridge between industry and academia—and may also change some of the ways higher education works. Universities are facing a need to communicate the return students get on their education, especially as student debt rises.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings. That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities. What’s an example?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Others have expressed a lack of confidence about troubleshooting and their ability to support their students while using technology in the classroom. The early childhood educators I work with have also shared about pandemic struggles that have made it more difficult to embrace change. Model how technology can foster independence.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2023

Personalized learning has been a buzzword in education since the turn of the century. This past fall, I met with several education leaders to discuss this very topic and codify what it looks like in the classroom. Defining personalized learning Technology is associated with personalized learning for a variety of reasons.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Between school closures, learning loss, intensified educator burnout, widespread staff shortages and increased stressors at home, it’s been hard not to focus on the negatives in education this year.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

But in the process of communicating the values and aspirations of the district and wider community, these Portraits also function to align the work of schools and educators. It wasn’t one more thing for teachers to do. It was another means to enact the Portrait itself.” Does your district have such a Portrait of a Graduate?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For those who have been educators for any length of time, I’m sure this is a familiar scenario. We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I share this story not to encourage people to adopt African names, but because learners and educators should not have to attend graduate school to learn truths about pre-colonial Africa and American history. A lot of her work is, and this is the latest demonstration of her contributions to education. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr.,

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. And I had a really entrepreneurial colleague named Tom Daccord, and we started this company called EdTechTeacher that did consulting for schools that were making big technology purchases.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2022

This is undoubtedly an artifact of traditional grading systems: They encourage a one-and-done approach that penalizes taking time to learn. By the time students reach my geometry class, they’re third- or fourth-year pre-service teachers who have been through many, many other math and math education classes.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work. Manly co-authored the “ Agile Educator Guide ” and trains others on using the system. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

I love using primary sources and personal narratives to make history more relevant for my students, but that takes second place to tangible pieces of history like my family artifacts, such as my great-grandfather's World War I uniform. I also invite students to bring in their own artifacts for a show and tell.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

And this leaves, Wang says, a “statistical artifact” that you can test for. And the company says it’ll be able to help educators catch some of the cheats using algorithmic tools like ChatGPT sometime next year. Put simply, essays written by chatbots are incredibly predictable. Who’re You Calling Unoriginal?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Reflecting on these moments, it is clear that the conversations around the deaths of these young Black men have had a profound impact on me, both as an educator and a human being. To some degree, our education system still perpetuates this flat and one-dimensional idea about the fragility of Black life. I am tired of Black death.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Very few educators and students spending their days in America’s public schools have affordable access and protected time to eat good, healthy food.

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Edthena

MAY 20, 2022

He started his career in education as a science teacher in St. Adam has written on education technology topics for various publications, including Education Week, Forbes and EdSurge, and he has been an invited speaker about education technology and teacher training for conferences at home and abroad.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 15, 2018

Billions of dollars are spent across the world on technology with the hopes that it will lead to better results. Tom Murray and I shared this thought in Learning Transformed : Educational technology is not a silver bullet. There was a specific reason that this was a focus near the end of our book and not in the beginning.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

They recently interviewed Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about video coaching and how best to incorporate using video in schools to support educators improving and deepening their practice. How did you get started in education and how did it get to where you are now with using video? I started my career in education as a teacher.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 10, 2024

These features focus on elevating the user experience for all educators.   Elevating the video coaching experience for educators At the heart of VC3 lies our commitment to continuous improvement, driven by valuable feedback from our user community. We’ve built VC3 with those educators in mind.

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