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The Passion-Driven Classroom: Webinar with Angela Maiers

As a part of our Leading Innovation-Driving Change Conversation, MassCUE and METAA are co-hosting, with EdTechTeacher, a special webinar series prior to the spring conference annual event. We are so excited to have Angela Maiers, co-author of The Passion-Driven Classroom joining us for a conversation in this FREE webinar, January 26, at 4 pm (ET).   [...]

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BYOT iPad Partnership

Cult of mac, the all-Apple-news all the time web site, forecasts that the announcement about iBooks 2 and iBooks author will be followed by a sub-$299 iPad. I’m not sure if that’s going to happen any time soon, but I suggest there are ways to get this technology into the hands of students. In Massachusetts, [...]

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iBooks2 and iBooks Author

In this video teachers talk about textbooks and then Apple shows what is now possible.     iBooks 2 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8 iBooks Author Incredible new publishing tool – works on your computer to create books for the ipad and it is FREE. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?ls=1&mt=12 Apple in Education

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Apple Education Event

Apple hits it out of the park with iBooks2 and iBooks author. Apple just keeps on innovating. They are reinventing the textbook. They released 2 new tools that will help schools move to electronic, educator-created, texts. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/01/apple-announcement-ibooks-2-ibooks-author-for-digital-textbooks/ excerpt: “Schiller and his Apple colleagues showed off two new applications to take the information in textbooks and [...]

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Recipe or Creative Cooking?

Remember those standardized test questions of the type – A is to B as C is to blank, and the test taker has to select the missing element? They tend to be written like this – DUNCE : GENIUS :: ______ : CONSERVE, with choices like: ENVIRONMENT, PROTECT, WASTE   Well here’s one to think [...]

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Wall Quote #7

The 7th in my series of posting the quotes that I have used to decorate the walls of my office.   Previous: One Two Three Four Five Six

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Discretionary Effort

Thanks to Miguel Guhlin for his post about discretionary effort. He says he learned about this concept from Crucial Conversations (coincidentally, I also listened to this – it was recent listening-while-driving book). I have a poster in my office (my own creation) that looks like this: It is my reminder to work in all areas [...]

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Activator

I used this activity as an activator at a retreat for district administrators, and I think it would be just as successful to launch a professional development day for teachers. The activity requires people to work in teams. I set up teams of 4 to 5 people because I decided to focus the debrief and [...]

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Wall Quote 6

The sixth in my series of posting the quotes that I have used to decorate the walls of my office.   Previous: One Two Three Four Five    

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Advocacy and Inquiry

We’ve all sat in meetings where one person keeps advocating for their position ceaselessly. They appear not even to listen to others, but instead are busy preparing their next comments while others speak. Allowing others (or yourself) to get stuck in advocacy mode does not help reach consensus, and even hinders collegial debate. It also [...]

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