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• Blending Education and Design

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Allow me to dream and muse for a moment. Allow me to dream of a blending, a fusion of education and design. Allow me to imagine, just for a moment, a new design all together different from what we know. A Design that enhances learning. A Design that creates a learning environment. An environment that makes learning ...
  22 hours ago

• Education Innovation: Nominated For The 2009 Edublog Awards

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  There are thousands of excellent blogs about education and I enjoyreading many of them. That is why it is so humbling for me to have thisblog, Education Innovation nominated for the 2009 Edublog Awards in the   Best Individual Edublog category . It is an honor to be included amongthe other nominees, many of ...
  2 days ago

• Do Your Educational Assumptions Provide Educational Alternatives?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Do your assumptions about what education should be leave you with a lack of alternatives? One of the reasons why many people, including myself, love books like Freakonomics , Super Freakonomics , Predictably Irrational , or The Economic Naturalist is that is takes our assumptions about the world around us and ...
  6 days ago

• Using real world

  
  Human — Authority: 472
  I can’t claim some sort of exclusive on this line, I think it belongs to Michael Wesch , collected through Twitter (where else!). But I just had to put it in a strip comic this afternoon. The tall person in the comic is meant to be a teacher, the small one a student. On the ground, where it matters most, ...
  1 week ago

• Getting to Common Formative Assessments

  
  Adult Education Matters — Authority: 120
  On Day 3 of the CALPRO PLC Institute , Martha and Mandi will present “ NMUSD Adult School ~ Getting to Common Formative Assessments .”  The purpose of the presentation is to show one agency’s step-by-step progression towards creating common formative assessments: Selecting and unwrapping essential ...
  1 week ago

• 9 Signs of a Losing School

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  From the I dea Management Systems blog comes this post The 9 Signs of a Losing Organisation Fuzzy Vision Lack of Leadership Skills Discouraging Culture High Bureaucracy Lack of Initiative Poor Vertical Communication Poor Cross-functional Collaboration Poor Teamwork Idea and Knowledge ...
  1 week ago

• Where to Find Professional Development Resources Online

  
  Dynamite Lesson Plan — Authority: 114
  The web can be an excellent place for teachers to find professional development resources. There are many different sites that provide information on education, job listings, networking opportunities, and other resources that career-minded teachers can use. Here are 10 sites to explore in your spare time: Teacher ...
  1 week ago

• Calculus or Stats as the goal?

  
  Greg's Blog - principal (le?) learning — Authority: 112
  Arthur Benjamin argues in just over 2 minutes that we need to aim for statistics as the ‘pinnacle’ of mathematics education not calculus. As he says it IS important that people know about probability and chance, that they know the significance of two standard deviations from the mean. This knowledge would ...
  1 week ago

• Bits flying through

  
  Greg's Blog - principal (le?) learning — Authority: 112
  School is nuts at the moment.  Two weeks to go in the school year and bout 4 weeks work to do!  The GReader doesn’t slow down though and here are some posts that have caught my attention in the last week while: Doug Johnson discussing the things we have to simply catch up with and come to terms with the fact ...
  1 week ago

• Dynamic Teacher Collaboration- Harness The Power of "Q"

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Research has proven that Professional Learning Communities are one of the most powerful educational paradigms. The Professional Learning Community takes the individual teacher and hooks them into a network of their grade level or department level peers. This network in turn makes it possible for teacher to leverage ...
  1 week ago

• Essential Education: “Awesomely Simple” by John Spence

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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• UK Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum and Conference 2009

  
  OllieBray.com — Authority: 124
  Yesterday along with Con Morris (National CPD Team) and Joe Wilson   (SQA) I traveled down to Birmingham for the Microsoft UK Innovative Teachers Forum and Conference . This is the first time that Partners in Learning have run a conference like this as part of the UK forum and it was a really good event. It ...
  2 weeks ago

• Turning Your School Into A "Skunk Works" of Lateral Innovation

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Innovation should not be linear. Most of us are familiar with examples of the great innovation teams from the business and engineering world. Examples such as Xerox- PARC’ s group, to Apple’s Macintosh group, to Lockheed Martin’s famous “ Skunk Works ” have lead many of us to believe that innovative ideas ...
  2 weeks ago

• Essential Education: Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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• Action Research Sharing

  
  Greg's Blog - principal (le?) learning — Authority: 112
  This week we have begun sharing back the Action Research Projects which teachers have been engaged in this year focused on our ICT PD Cluster goals.  Staff meeting on Tuesday was almost completely devoted to people sharing the things they have been the focus of their learning  this year.  The thing that struck me ...
  2 weeks ago

• Essential Education: Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  
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• Be More Than A School Administrator...Be An Innovation Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  I have an idea… "It will never work." "We don’t have the budget to do it." "It will take to much time and we just don’t have any to waste." "The district won’t like it." "Teachers won’t want to do that." "That isn’t the way we do things at this school." "What does that have to do with test scores?" ...
  4 weeks ago

• What Would Peter Drucker Say About Education Leadership?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  What follows is a quote from Peter Drucker ,but with an Education Innovation twist. I have removed words likebusiness, company, executive, and economics; and replaced them withschool(s), education, and principal. “Schools prefer not toabandon the old, the obsolescent, the no-longer-productive; they’drather hang ...
  4 weeks ago

• Essential Education: "Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom" by Alan November

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
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  4 weeks ago

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