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How Do Digital Portfolios Help Students Learn?
Post adapted from Digital Student Portfolios: A Whole School Approach to Connected Learning and Continuous Assessment by Matt Renwick (Powerful Learning Press, 2014) How do digital portfolios help...
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Online Professional Learning Quality Checklist
Future Ready Schools: A Toolkit for Empowering Educators through Professional Learning In 2013, as part of the Connected Educators project led by Darren Cambridge, a group of us developed a...
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The key to making the shift to active learning (and why technology is not...
Some public schools (by design) foster passive learners, discourage productivity, and fail to teach self-discipline. The culture of “school” works against what research shows to be in the best interest...
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8 steps for growing as a connected learner
Last year, while on tour with the #futureready leaders work I was helping to lead, I was scheduled to co-present at a conference with two young teacher leaders in Maryland. However, I got stuck in...
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Unselfish Self Promotion
Beware: what follows is a hardcore defense of self promotion. You may be wondering who in their right mind would defend self-promotion, twice (I wrote on this topic in 2012)? But this morning, I...
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Confessions of the Cognitive Heart
I have a confession to make. I have been struggling lately, well actually for a few years. Struggling with making the time for original thought. You know, true creative genius. The type of thinking...
View ArticleSucceeding as a Connected Learner
Unlike learning in face-to-face and traditional school settings, connected learners develop a more generic set of values that help them negotiate learning in blended environments. A primary shift for...
View ArticleDo you believe all teachers can lead?
Leaders usually fall in one of two categories. Either you are a transactional or a transformational leader. Are you a transactional or transformational leader? Times like these require the ability to...
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The Connected Educator Superpower
Connected Educator have a Super Power! Want to use your connected educator superpower? Then be a connected learner. Use this disposition to create learning spaces in your classrooms without walls....
View ArticleWhat’s missing? Let’s back up, we skipped a few steps!
Sometimes profound thinking comes out of the most innocent of discussions. This morning I was asked, “How did you crack the nut when you were creating online learning for teachers- the kind that truly...
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