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Passion-Based Learning Week 4: How to Do One Thing Really Well
Principal Matt Renwick is sharing weekly reflections about an afternoon computer club he and a teacher are sponsoring as an enrichment activity. (Here are the links to this eight-part series: Part 1,...
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Passion-Based Learning Week 5: Can Minecraft Foster a Growth Mindset?
Principal Matt Renwick is sharing weekly reflections about an afternoon computer club he and a teacher are sponsoring as an enrichment activity. (Here are the links to this eight-part series: Part 1,...
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Passion-Based Learning, Week 6: Minecraft, Lego & Makerspaces
Principal Matt Renwick is sharing weekly reflections about an afternoon computer club he and a teacher are sponsoring as an enrichment activity. (Here are the links to this eight-part series: Part 1,...
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Passion-Based Learning, Week 7: Audience Is Everything
Principal Matt Renwick is sharing weekly reflections about an afternoon computer club he and a teacher are sponsoring as an enrichment activity. (Here are the links to this eight-part series: Part 1,...
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Those Terms of Service on Popular Websites DO Matter!
I recently attended a prominent and popular educational technology conference. As I always do, I made sure to visit the vendors’ floor. I like to be able to chat with company representatives, see what...
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Passion-Based Learning, Week 8: The End of the Beginning
Editor’s note: Principal Matt Renwick has been sharing weekly reflections about an afternoon computer club he and a teacher are sponsoring as an enrichment activity. This is his summative entry. Also...
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Should We Unconnect from Our PLNs Over Summer Break?
I just finished participating in an #educoach chat. Topic for the evening: How to work with reluctant teachers from an instructional coach perspective. A large number of educators participated,...
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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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Being a future ready leader: 2016 Wisconsin Superintendent of the Year Dr....
Connected Leadership Academy is led by six superintendents and top district leaders who have walked the walk of digital transformations in their own school districts. They’ll share stories about how...
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Being a future ready leader: Dr. C.J. Huff, former Superintendent Joplin Schools
Connected Leadership Academy is led by six superintendents and top district leaders who have walked the walk of digital transformations in their own school districts. They’ll share stories about how...
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Being a future ready leader: Dr. Bridget O’Connell, Superintendent, Palisades...
Connected Leadership Academy is led by six superintendents and top district leaders who have walked the walk of digital transformations in their own school districts. They’ll share stories about how...
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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...
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Passion-Based Learning, Week 6: Minecraft, Lego & Makerspaces
Principal Matt Renwick is sharing weekly reflections about an afternoon computer club he and a teacher are sponsoring as an enrichment activity. (Here are the links to this eight-part series: Part 1,...
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Those Terms of Service on Popular Websites DO Matter!
I recently attended a prominent and popular educational technology conference. As I always do, I made sure to visit the vendors’ floor. I like to be able to chat with company representatives, see what...
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Passion-Based Learning, Week 8: The End of the Beginning
Editor’s note: Principal Matt Renwick has been sharing weekly reflections about an afternoon computer club he and a teacher are sponsoring as an enrichment activity. This is his summative entry. Also...
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...
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