Effective 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…
GETideas.org Education Hangout on Air – A Conversation with Innovative Education Leaders
April 25, 2013GETideas.org is the incubator where education leaders can develop their professional learning networks. This community provides tools, research, and inspiration to help transform learning institutions. The primary goal of GETideas.org is to bring people together to exchange ideas towards solving...
School District Uses Project Based Learning Over Testing
April 23, 2013In this report for the PBS News Hour, correspondent John Merrow of Learning Matters showcases a school district in Kentucky that has committed to a project-based learning approach in its effort to improve educational outcomes for their students. ...
Designing a New Learning Environment (DNLE)
April 23, 2013This is a video introduction to an online course (commonly known as a MOOC) taught by Stanford’s Paul Kim. Roz Hussin will be co-teaching a follow up course with Paul Kim and will be one of our panelists during our special Hangout...
National Louis University Forum: Reimagining Schools
April 17, 2013Reknown education experts Stephanie Pace Marshall and James Paul Gee recently engaged in a conversation on the future of schools at National Louis University. Stephanie will be joining us live during a Google Hangout on Air for GETideas.org on...
Great School Leadership in Action – The Wallace Foundation
April 11, 2013The Wallace Foundation has produced a series of short, practical videos highlighting stories of effective school leaders. These stories relate to established principles of school leadership: Shaping a vision of academic success for all students Creating a climate hospitable to...
GETIdeas Education Hangout on Air – Cultivation of Leadership: Contemporary Professional Development
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 this Hangout on Air with Cisco’s GETideas.org,...
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April 2, 2013Here’s a new video capturing the thoughts of noted edublogger and school leadership expert, Dr. Scott McLeod. Produced by Iowa Area Education Agency 267, this is a compilation of Scott’s thoughts on teaching and learning in new ways. Scott has been instrumental in pushing for educational state internationally and also in his home state of Iowa. Make sure to check out his blog Dangerously Irrelevant.
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March 25, 2013GETideas.org hosted another Google Hangout on Air focused on one of our four Learning Trends: Technology-Driven Innovation on March 20, 2013 GETideas.org’s Executive Director, Mary Anne Petrillo and distinguished thought leaders pondered current trends in educational technology and computer science education. Show notes can be found here: http://goo.gl/Ld2Kh Our panelists included: Anna Hu is the Director of Information and Learning Technologies (ILT) at both Presbyterian Ladies’ College and…
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March 3, 2013Check out this playlist of talks from the 2012 Big Ideas Fest and among these videos, you will find one from Karen Cator, former head of the US Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. Have we reached “education’s Internet moment”? Cator elaborates on four themes that are driving education right now: Mobility, Social Interactions for Learning, Digital Content and Big Data. These trends will help us make many more…
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March 2, 2013GETideas.org seeks to help education leaders understand the impact of environment on learning and to leverage design when attempting to transform education systems. This Google Hangout on Air will dig further into the theme of Designing Modern Learning Environments by exploring Design Thinking with noted education experts. According to IDEO, “It’s a structured approach to generating and developing ideas.” Learn more about this approach can be applied in your classroom and…
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February 18, 2013In this TEDxBeaconstreet video, award-winning educator Esther Wojcicki tells a compelling story of her evolution as a teacher and how she created a classroom that engaged her high school students. Thanks to EdSurge for pointing out this video which raises many questions about where the United States is going with its current education reform efforts.
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February 5, 2013Empowering Educators to Innovate In this GETideas.org Learning Trends Google+ Hangout on Air, we engaged in conversation with noted education leaders on how to help educators to innovate. The discussion included dialogue on how innovation in education is defined and on how education leaders can stay on top of current trends. Panelists included: Mary Anne Petrillo, Executive Director of GETideas.org Marie Bjerede Founder, e-Mergents Suzie Boss, Education Consultant and…
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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 learning, Creative Commons.
