Australian education leader Greg Whitby reflects on the many professional benefits of engaging with others on Twitter. If you are interested in exploring Twitter as a professional development tool, please check out our list of suggested education leaders to follow on Twitter.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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April 5, 2013Check out TICAL’s School Leadership Summit event recordings! On March 28, 2013, more than 50 educators presented their thoughts on various leadership topics related to themes such as Vision, Teaching and Learning, Professional Learning, Data-driven Reform and Ethics and Responsible Use. Keynotes included Michael Fullan, Yong Zhao, and Bill Brennan. All recordings are free and will remain available on this web site.
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GETIdeas Education Hangout on Air – Cultivation of Leadership: Contemporary Professional DevelopmentApril 3, 2013Effective leaders recognize the importance of professional development in transforming education systems. Leadership teams need to design engaging and relevant experiences for their colleagues in order to build capacity for educational improvement. In this Hangout on Air with Cisco’s GETideas.org, Executive Director Mary Anne Petrillo led a panel of thought leaders in discussion on how to modernizing professional development efforts. Panelists included: Alice Barr is the Instructional Technology Integrator for…
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April 3, 2013Common Sense Media issued today a new tool for helping school districts that are implement mobile learning programs where students have their own devices. When planning for 1:1 implementations, school leaders need to address how digital citizenship will be cultivated in their school communities. This resource leads us through three phases for implementation: Envision, Communicate, and Implement and provides with many valuable planning documents including checklists, educational posters, family media…
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April 3, 2013Effective leaders recognize the importance of professional development in transforming education systems. Leadership teams need to design engaging and relevant experiences for their colleagues in order to build capacity for educational improvement. In the next Hangout on Air with Cisco’s GETideas.org, Executive Director Mary Anne Petrillo will lead a panel of thought leaders in discussion as they share their ideas for modernizing professional development efforts. Please join us on April 3rd to…
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February 8, 2013Project Tomorrow, a non-profit known for its Speak Up National Research Project, and Blackboard have collaborated on a new report related to pre-service teacher education. Entitled “Learning in the 21st Century: Digital Experiences and Expectations of Tomorrow’s Teachers, this document offers key findings that should guide teacher preparation programs. As noted on the Project Tomorrow web site, “Tomorrow’s teachers may have the keys to finally unlock the potential of technology…
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January 17, 2013Edudemic explains how the following activities can be enhanced by mind mapping–techniques that can be integrated easily into class to improve teaching efficiency and student comprehension: Brainstorming Teamwork Presentations Assignments
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January 9, 2013Creative Educational Leadership by Jacquie Turnbull helps educational leaders to identify the tensions within education systems that hinder the development of creative capacity and may influence decision making towards pragmatic rather than creative solutions. In order to develop creative capacity, leadership itself needs to be a creative action to resolve limitations, and to develop original solutions to the challenge of educating for work and life in the 21st century. Recognizing the vital…
