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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY

Every other Wednesday, I post ideas about how to improve the learning going on in the classroom. There are so many buzzwords and great ideas floating around about what could make education better: blended learning, 1 to 1 education, media labs. It would take 30 hours a day to get schools to be perfect and for…

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY

Thinking about video and media literacy tonight. I just returned from accompanying my children to a school board meeting where they were part of group of students invited…

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ED TECH MONDAY

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IPAD FRIDAY

Inevitably, we need to assess our students to make sure that they are reaching our learning objectives and improving achievement! Teachers are spending more time than ever before testing students, but testing alone does nothing to improve teaching or learning. It's the use of analyzed test data that improves teaching and enhances student…

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY

            I shamelessly admit that I have learned a lot from Dummies books. Before the proliferation of YouTube videos, if I wanted to learn about anything and everything I would check out the Dummies book from the library.  I have learned much from Pregnancy for Dummies, Photoshop CS6 for Dummies, and Moodle for Dummies.  I have borrowed Guitar for Dummies for…

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ED TECH MONDAY

While watching a comedy show last night, I was amused and amazed by how well Louis C. K. described the interaction of education and technology from a parent’s perspective. His story was about how parents let their digital devices – cameras, phones, and even IPads – get in the way of actually watching their children. It was…

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY

The Common Core

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY    

         When Jean Piaget (1896-1980) theorized on Social Constructivism, the world was much simpler and smaller. Piaget's theory of constructivism argues that we produce knowledge and form meaning based upon our experiences. As a psychologist,…

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY

Have you ever found yourself with the following dilemma?

You are an OK teacher, but sometimes the kids drift off in your class. Or you explain a concept for five minutes and the…

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IPAD FRIDAY

So your school came into a large donation or grant and handed a 12 year old a $400 toy with the hope that this academic year will be one of great achievement, enhanced learning and collaboration with their peers. Uh oh. What did we do? Middle school students lose things all the time, they are not the most careful of age…

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY        

In college, after declaring myself a computer science major, I spent way too many hours in the computer lab drawing and re-drawing the flow charts for the complex algorithms. I learned the hard way the importance of planning ahead. As my blended course…

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IPAD FRIDAY - CHAI PAD

So you finally convinced someone at your school that a sure fire way to move forward and take your school into the 21st century is to get iPads (or any mobile device for that matter) into your classrooms. Now what? With over 300,000 iPad apps alone, where do you start?



Well, we started with the…

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY - CHINUCH ENERGY

All success begins with some failure . . . 

I have written about my fun few years in the web industry during the dot-com boom. I had a grand time and enjoyed feeling like my stock options were worth something before the market…

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BLEND, FLIP AND INNOVATE - 21ST CENTURY JEWISH LEARNING

          It seems like every newspaper I read, all of the blogs I follow, and emails I receive are all on the extraordinary concept of blended learning.  At an Asset educational…

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ED TECH MONDAY

One of the many issues swirling around in my head lately has been how to balance what I call “the cool toy factor” with the issue of creating the best learning environments for students. And that “s” on environments is intentional. Each group of students – maybe each student – needs a special learning environment. The “one…

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IPAD FRIDAY: CHAIPAD

The 1:1 iPad pilot program...oooohhh..sounds very serious. It sounds like a bunch of people sitting in a think tank type of room and testing out iPads in every which way. Testing every app, how every app runs, what it does, how it works with other apps.…

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY: CHINUCH ENERGY

Last time: …

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ED Tech Monday: Blog for Hebrew Teachers

,כמעט תמיד אני נוהגת לפתוח את דברי בציטוט נבחר שעולה בקנה אחד עם הדברים שאני מתעתדת לכתב

הפעם אפתח בדבריו מלאי ההשראה של אלברט אינשטיין שכתב " חשיבה לוגית תוביל אותך מ א- לְ ב . הדימיון יוביל אותך 

לכל מקום  "

במסגרת שיעורי העברית אנו נתקלים…

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Two thoughts have been keeping me up the past few nights. First and foremost on my mind is how will I ever get my house and kitchen ready for Passover? The second theme playing over and over is how should I include assessment in my blended navi class?  What type of activities should I include, and how will the sixth grade students respond to the assessments that are…