Lead by Example » Education Insights http://leadbyexample.edublogs.org In order to change the culture of schools, we must lead by example. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:27:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Give me relationship http://leadbyexample.edublogs.org/2009/06/25/give-me-relationship/ http://leadbyexample.edublogs.org/2009/06/25/give-me-relationship/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:31:15 +0000 Caldwell http://leadbyexample.edublogs.org/?p=86 I found this fascinating quote today:

It is so hard for research studies to isolate the effect of technology because it is so unbelievably hard to isolate for the effect of the teacher. Often, technology may actually improve a classroom due to the research study because of the feeling of the classroom and teacher because they have been paid attention to — they are important.  Attitude, emotion, relationship — these are things that are important in teaching.Cool Cat Teacher Online, Cool Cat Teacher Blog: PreK Secret to Success: Give me relationship, Jun 2009

You should read the whole article.

I think it is so relevant not only to the buzzwords of RIGOR, RELEVANCE, AND RELATIONSHIP; but it also resonates to the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of technology in the classroom.  Some teachers turn on a Powerpoint full of notes or pop in a video and think “Boy am I using technology!”.  In reality they are creating a virtual babysitter.  The relationship is severed and the student feels disengaged.  Technology and the teaching that should be enhanced by it is no good.  I challenge all of us to find ways to be good teachers that care.  Once we seek to know our students then make our curriculum and methodology decisions based on that, we will finally reach the kids and be effective.

]]> http://leadbyexample.edublogs.org/2009/06/25/give-me-relationship/feed/ 0 You can’t teach an old dog… http://leadbyexample.edublogs.org/2009/05/08/you-cant-teach-an-old-dog/ http://leadbyexample.edublogs.org/2009/05/08/you-cant-teach-an-old-dog/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 16:55:25 +0000 Caldwell http://leadbyexample.edublogs.org/?p=84 After reading a great blog entry from one of my favorite sites, The Principals Page, I have to say I agree with his creative take on professional development.  The post talks about his new dog that seems to own the place.  Buddy, the dog, use to be a show dog and now has to be “untrained” so he does some new tricks– like go to the bathroom when his owner takes him for a walk.  Just read the entry- it is great.  The main point is this.  We as teachers really struggle with untraining our minds to new and innovative practices. Change is hard and we are resistant to it!

I tell folks that often a room of high school teachers and administrators are a worse and less receptive audience than kindergarten kids after cupcakes. I can speak from experience.  For 12 years I have been a part of that audience!! First, many teachers don’t want to be there because they have “so many other better things to do with their time”. Second, many feel that their methods are good enough, so why fix it (especially in high school where we love our content!). Speaking as a high school English teacher who is leaving the classroom to do Professional Development full time. I have been in worthless PD workshops. My goal is to make the “Buddy’s” of the school world see two things- Change is good (and inevitable) AND The new classroom/student involves learning together and not teachers being the only keepers of information. Heck if the kids can Google the answer on their Smartphone, what do we have to offer.

Most professions require training and recertification procedures.  Teachers only have to recertify every 10 years.  Should we really wait that long to do meaningful restructuring of our practice?  Considering how different today’s student is from even 5 years ago, shouldn’t we be a little different too?

Retrain, untrain, be flexible… it will save you lots of head ache with the digital learners!

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If my students can do the majority of their work with writing and reading online…
If my students can receive all of their assignments online…
If my students can maintain constant contact with their friends, classmates, and teachers online…
If my students can create spaces to come together or work alone online…

What should we do in the classroom?

I have to agree with many points in this blog and the comments that follow.  Several thoughts come to mind.  First, in the ideal world technology access would make our students more efficient and more connected in the virtual way… but what about so many of my rural students that don’t have computers at home or have little time to go to the lab at school?  Second, I would argue that so many of my students have a limited knowledge of how to do academic work, research, or collaboration because their online time is spent in a strictly social sense.

Digital Natives, as we call them, may be twitching along with all their might, but what I am seeing so often with teens is that they only know how to forge shallow anonymous relationships and resent being asked to anything with technology that might require thought and depth.  It really becomes the true test of a teacher to not only be willing to learn him/herself about social networking, 21st century literacy, online collaboration, and other academic technological endeavors; but to truly model those behaviors and show the students the way.  I think many times we resent our own children and our students because they live in a generation that has found more “efficient” ways of getting information and answers.  Our task now becomes acknowledging that we are no longer the keepers of the information but the “Gandalf” or the sage/guide of the wisdom itself.

So many students lack worth ethic, value systems, and the ability to differentiate between truth and fiction.  It is not always that they are just sorry kids and don’t want to do those things… so many times it is that nobody actually modeled this behavior and explained its significance in life, education, and the work place.  Yes, and even after we do this as teachers… many will still go about with their shallow online life and snuff at your “nerdy” use of the computer; but at least they will know HOW to do it when they finally realize the significance of this wisdom.

I remember programming the VCR for my mother when I was younger.  She was amazed at the technology and how the TV knew what to do.  Now kids just program the TIVO with a push of a button.  Darn them skirting around the hard work of dealing with the blinking numbers on the VCR and dealing with all those tapes!  Bunch of cheaters!!

Don’t resent the quick way of doing things, but teach them that the kinds of activities they do and the information they seek needs to matter (the social part and the fun that can be a by product of using technology to do such things is a bonus- not the whole task).

So what should should we do in the classroom?  Model and guide… if we don’t they are SURFING THE WEB WEARING A BLINDFOLD.

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National Boards is a difficult process and not for everyone.  These ladies had stressful moments and successful moments.  They agree with me that it is a growing process and meaningful professional development.  To me, this is what PD should be.  It should be embedded into what teachers do, it should be relevant to his/her content area, it should involve critical friends, it should involve reflection and change.

I am proud to be an NBCT and hope to help rally around those that are brave enough to enter the process!

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  • Home | Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English

    Organizations of all types purchase our videos for training and education

    Tags: videos, explication, ressource, education

  • A Fair(y) Use Tale | Stanford Center for Internet and Society

    Excellent mash-up covering fair use and copyright laws

    Tags: copyright, fairuse

  • elearnr

    Tags: elearning, tips, ressource, education

  • 100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals | Best Online Colleges

    Tags: Twitter, twitter, tools

  • Backchanneling in Middle School Social Studies

    One 8th grade class’s experience with backchanneling while watching a video. Great ideas here!

    Tags: social_studies, back_channeling, web 2.0, best_practice

  • College of Education and Human Services – Western Illinois University

    professional development program for faculty. Our mission is to create a cadre of technology “champions” who will mentor their fellow faculty members and raise the standard for technology integration in teaching and learning.

    Tags: technology, professionaldevelopment, bestpractices

    • professional development program for faculty. Our mission is to create a cadre of technology “champions” who will mentor their fellow faculty members and raise the standard for technology integration in teaching and learning. – By Newman Lanier

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of educators group favorite links are here.

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  • National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education

    The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

    Tags: education, statistics, research, reference, government, data, schools, demographics

  • Why Do Project-Based Learning

    Tags: pbl, projectbasedlearning, Education, projectbased, curriculum, bestpractices

  • ISTE | Project-Based Learning

    Tags: projectbased, iste, bestpractices, digitalcitizenship, curriculum

  • index

    Tags: consumer, education

    • consumer education created by teens… – By Ruth Howard

  • Classroom 2.0 LIVE!

    Keep up with Classroom 2.0 LIve conversations. I actually have this as part of my Google Calendar so I can keep up with it.

    This week:

    “This Saturday, Mar. 21st, Peggy George, Kim Caise, and Lorna Costantini will be hosting another Classroom 2.0 LIVE web meeting. Classroom 2.0 “LIVE” meetings are an opportunity to gather with other members of the community in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video. (Special thanks to our sponsor, Elluminate, for providing the service that allows us to do this!) A Google Calendar of shows is available at http://live.classroom20.com/calendar.html.

    The topic this Saturday is: “Podcasting”. Our special guest will be Kevin Honeycutt, founder of the “Podstock” Ning. Our Newbie Question of the Week will be: “What is a podcast and how can I use it to support my teaching?” We hope you’ll join us to share your ideas and questions. Links for more information can be found at http://live.classroom20.com. We strive to make our shows beginner-friendly and if you’ve never participated in a live web meeting don’t be afraid to come and take a peek at the show’s format. We love newbies to join us and ‘dip their toes in’ the conversations until you feel comfortable enough to “jump in the conversations with both feet”! We want to encourage “experienced Web 2.0 users” to join us by contributing and extending the conversation by sharing real-life examples and tips/suggestions.

    Date: Sat., Mar. 21, 2009
    Time: 9:00am PST/10:00am MST/11:00am CST/12:00pm EST
    Other time zones link and a link to the actual meeting room can be found at http://live.classroom20.com/.
    Location: Elluminate https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.97A21EB084879D9442B4EDF2437E3D”

    Tags: education, learning, webinars, technology

    • Great resources and free PD. This calendar lists all types of activities and webinars for you in one place. – By Vicki Davis

  • Ideas to Inspire

    ‘Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of Google Docs presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas.The presentations are a collaboration between lots of fantastic teachers around the world.Choose a presentation to begin, or find out more here.

    Tags: education, science, iwb, writing, web2.0, curriculum

  • YouTube – Korkunç Yılanlar, snake,anakonda

    İnsanları ve büyük hayvanları yiyen,anakondalar.. ve hiçbir yerde göremeyeceğiniz tehlikeli ilginç yılanlar..

    Tags: no_tag

  • Phil’s Cooking Academy

    Tags: phil, cooking, lessons, casses, food, technology, studies, recipes, how, to, education

    • interactive cooking classes for schools – By Ruth Howard

  • Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

    Tags: stephanie, Alexander, kitchen, garden, school, food, technology, cooking, educational

  • Craftzine.com blog : How-To: Baked Brie

    Tags: craftzine, craftzine.com, cooking, food, technology

    • quick appetizer baked brie,honey, almonds – By Ruth Howard

  • Feds To Shut Down Google Apps? — InformationWeek

    AN important case to watch

    Tags: informationweek

    • The FTC is going to rule on whether “cloud computing” is secure enough. This could be HUGE!!! Shutting down Google Docs, for example? – By James Gates

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of educators group favorite links are here.

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  • Guitar Tabs, Guitar Chords and Lyrics – Chordie

    lyrics and chords. will also transpose songs and revise for various strings

    Tags: music, education, chords, guitar, mandolin

  • Earth Science World Image Bank image bank This is a cached version of http://www.earthscienceworld.org/images/. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x Untitled Document

    Images of the Earth

    Tags: Education, earth Science, science, images, photos, geography

  • Free online web polls generator

    Tags: blog, blogs, collaboration, poll, polls, survey, surveys, tools, web, web2.0, widget, widgets, generator

    • With your free account from 99polls you can now create customized surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles. Using 99polls is a powerful and effective way to get instant feedback and increase your site’s popularity among Interne – By Fred Delventhal

  • VizThink Blog » Blog Archive » Webinar: Creating Powerful Presentations with Nancy Duarte

    Tags: powerpoint, presentations, presentation, design, communication, learning

  • KOCE

    The global film on the fly challenge. There was a challenge on March 14th – it is a mobile phone filmmaking contest.

    Tags: education, learning, edu_trends, hz09

  • KOCE’s Film on the Fly! – Film on the Fly! is for people who love to make movies on mobile phones.

    For people who love to make movies on their cell phones. A lot of educators are participating in this network created by Janet English. They send you a prompt and you upload a video from your cell phone.

    Tags: education, digitalstorytelling, news, film, technology

  • Comparisons of Inaugural Addresses

    In these visualizations, a given text—the “specimen”—is compared to some larger group of texts—the “normative” text—using the Dunning log likelihood statistical analysis, which gives weight to words in a text according to how their frequency of use in the specimen text differs from the norm.

    All visualizations feature a cloud that varies from gray to blue. In this cloud, the size of the word corresponds to the number of times the word was used in a given address. The word’s color depends on how statistically unlikely the word is in the normative text; in other words, a blue word was used more in the given speech than in the others it is compared to.

    Tags: inaugural, wordle, social studies, curriculum, history, literature, language

  • Flight Across the Atlantic – RU27 – RU17

    a small autonomous underwater vehicle to cross the atlantic from NJ to spain. Classes can follow along. Right now you can send a message to be carried by the robot

    Tags: education, oceanography, robots

  • DocMazy – The Future of Document Search

    DocMazy was created so users could search the internet for documentation files such as word files or powerpoint presentations. Many users will find this useful so that they can uncover more information on a subject, that might otherwise be hidden deep in search engines. DocMazy makes use of several public API’s and usful tools to allow you to preview all documents within your browser.

    Tags: education, search

  • #HackEdu Twitter Conversations

    Tags: hackedu

  • Scratch Resources | Home

    Tags: scratch, resources, tutorials, sprites, sounds, latest

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of educators group favorite links are here.

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  • Math Playground

    math activities k-8

    Tags: math, interactive, education, resources, elementary, educational

  • A People’s History of the United States

    on line history textbook by Howard Zinn

    Tags: socialstudies, education, textbook, 6-12

  • Why Is it free?

    Free stat counter for bloggers.

    Tags: free, stats, count, blogger_tool

  • Practical Money Skills for Life – At School – Curriculum

    Basic life money skills

    Tags: math, lifeskills, education, k-12, curriculum

  • Project Draw 0.7.9 release (with API, Supporting IE 6+,Firefox 1.5+)

    online auto cad software. Good for geometry and other projects

    Tags: web2.0, tools, design, math, software, education

  • Welcome | Social Actions

    A site that helps you find the ‘action’ that matches your interests, so that you can help by volunteering, donating, signing, loaning, and more.

    Tags: social, social_change

    • This site aggregates those social action sites into one searchable site. Are your students looking for a cause to support? Maybe it’s Darfu, or animal shelters, or homelessness, or climate change. One stop shop to find them. – By James Gates

  • Harvest of History | The Farmers’ Museum

    Website to teach you about how the food got to you! This is a really neat website for elementary teachers who discuss food production. There is a resource for teachers as well. As a farm girl, it is great to see a site that discusses the importance of farming. This is so important for kids to understand.

    We garden at our school and it is great!

    Tags: education, history, farming, elementary, curriculum

    • Great website for those who want to teach about food production and farming. – By Vicki Davis

  • 120 Twitter Mashups and Growing Fast

    CHeck out some of the amazing twitter mashups!

    Tags: twitter

    • Twitter now has over 120 mashups with it. Amazing, eh? – By James Gates

  • How children search the internet with keyword interfaces [PDF]

    Children are among the most frequent users of the Internet, yet searching and browsing the web can present many challenges. Studies over the past two decades on how children search were conducted with finite and pre-determined content found in CD-ROM applications, online digital libraries, and web directories. However, with the current popularity of the open Internet and keyword-based interfaces for searching it, more critical analysis of the challenges children face today is needed. This paper presents the findings of an initial study to understand how children ages 7, 9, and 11 search the Internet using keyword interfaces in the home.

    Tags: ad4dcss, keyword search, google, information_literacy, kids, research

  • Guaranteach – A Better Way to Learn

    Just received the press release on this new one. $4.95 a month and you have access to videos to help with homework. There is a growing business based upon videos for learning — that is because kids clamor for them.

    Textbooks, and teachers need to see the value in things like Eric Marco’s Mathtrain.tv and other screencasting for teaching. Have the kids make their own tutorials for one another — or you can just subscribe, I guess.

    Tags: education, learning, math

  • Top 100 Edu Tweeters | Online Degree World

    Lists do always get a lot of people riled up, but I did find some interesting tweeters on this list to follow. Some of them I wouldn’t add, but some are cool.

    If you want to see some great twitterers — my follow list is around 1600 and there are some amazing people that I’m following who just totally blow me away. (Add more daily.) Just go to http://www.twitter.com/coolcatteacher and click following to see them.

    Twitter is really a great tool for learning.

    Tags: education, twitter, learning, technology, edu_news

  • PBS & CR 2.0: Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students – Classroom 2.0

    Cool Webinar tomorrow – Live Webinar with the Folger Shakespeare Library on Wednesday, March 18 from 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time (5:00pm start Pacific Time, 12 midnight GMT).

    Our speakers will present and demonstrate methods for teaching Shakespeare using digital media. The educational activities to be presented were developed by trained workshop leaders and teachers during the Folger’s Teaching Shakespeare Institutes and sessions. Participants will learn practical and exciting ways they can incorporate Shakespeare’s King Lear and other literary works into history, social studies, English, and language arts instruction.

    I try to understand why we cannot use these as credits – they are free and they are announced a few days a head of time — but still, they are valuable learning experiences.

    Tags: education, learning, edu_news

  • Ideas to Inspire

    useful google docs presentations

    Tags: k-12, education, activities

  • Here’s Why PowerPoint 2007 Helps You Build Better E-Learning – The Rapid eLearning Blog

    Tags: elearning, powerpoint, howto

  • TwiTV

    This monitors what folks are watching or listening to on twitter. It shows WHO tweeted it, what they said, AND the media, if possible.

    Tags: twitv, twitter, mashup

    • Now you HAVE to check this out! It is AMAZING!! Caution! THis MAY show things that are NOT appropriate for school. But it’s VERY cool! – By James Gates

  • Live from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event

    Live from Apple Iphone OS 3.0 preview event. Really cool.

    Tags: education, gadget, edu_news

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of educators group favorite links are here.

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  • Toy Theater – Home

    activities for k-6

    Tags: education, k-12, kids

  • YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.

    Many people have not read the Youtube Community Guidelines. You should report any videos that break these rules to youtube – everyone should have a youtube account and be able to do this. Today, a student had a bad video linked to hers — I had to go to another place to report the other video but you can do this!

    Guidelines:

    “Don’t Cross the Line

    Here are some common-sense rules that will help you steer clear of trouble:

    * YouTube is not for pornography or sexually explicit content. If this describes your video, even if it’s a video of yourself, don’t post it on YouTube. Also, be advised that we work closely with law enforcement and we report child exploitation. Please read our Safety Tips and stay safe on YouTube.
    * Don’t post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making.
    * Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don’t post it.
    * YouTube is not a shock site. Don’t post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies or similar things intended to shock or disgust.
    * Respect copyright. Only upload videos that you made or that you are authorized to use. This means don’t upload videos you didn’t make, or use content in your videos that someone else owns the copyright to, such as music tracks, snippets of copyrighted programs, or videos made by other users, without necessary authorizations. Read our Copyright Tips for more information.
    * We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view. But we don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).
    * Things like predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, intimidation, invading privacy, revealing other people’s personal information, and inciting others to commit violent acts or to violate the Terms of Use are taken very seriously. Anyone caught doing these things may be permanently banned from YouTube.
    * Everyone hates spam. Don’t create misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails in order to increase views. It’s not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content, including comments and private messages.

    Please take these rules seriously and take them to heart. Don’t try to look for loopholes or try to lawyer your way around the guidelines—just understand them and try to respect the spirit in which they were created. If you’d like more details, check out our Community Guideline Tips.”

    Tags: education, youtube, learning, video, digitalstorytelling, edu_trends, digitalcitizenship, administrator

      • YouTube is not for pornography or sexually explicit content. If this describes your video, even if it’s a video of yourself, don’t post it on YouTube. Also, be advised that we work closely with law enforcement and we report child exploitation. Please read our Safety Tips and stay safe on YouTube.
      • Don’t post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making.
      • Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don’t post it.
      • YouTube is not a shock site. Don’t post gross-out videos of accidents, dead bodies or similar things intended to shock or disgust.
    • Only upload videos that you made or that you are authorized to use.
    • revealing other people’s personal information,

  • Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning | Video on TED.com

    Tags: opensource, ted.com, education, learning, ted

  • rayogram NEWScan

    Today’s front page from major newspapers

    Tags: currentevents, education, news, newspapers

  • Digital Booktalk

    Tags: languagearts, education, video, 2009, literature, techintegrator

  • Study on the Effective Use of Social Software to Support Student Learning & Engagement

    “Our investigations have shown that social software tools support a variety of ways of learning: sharing of resources (eg bookmarks, photographs), collaborative learning, problem-based and inquiry-based learning, reflective learning, and peer-to-peer learning. Students gain transferable skills of team working, online collaboration, negotiation, and communication, individual and group reflection, and managing digital identities.”

    Tags: school2.0, edu_trends, social-media

  • Wikipedia: Beneath the Surface [flash video tutorial]

    This wikipedia tutorial was produced by a group of librarians and present it from an academic standpoint. Good stuff!

    Tags: ad4dcss, digital_citizenship, wikipedia, information_literacy

  • Connexions – Authoring Area

    Tags: connexions

  • Five Great Microsoft Web Services You’re Probably Not Using – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership

    free web services from Microsoft

    Tags: web2.0, microsoft

  • Moontoast Offers a Better Way to Give Lessons Online

    Tags: moontoast, online, session

  • hwf-owl2 – zaplive.tv

    Eagle Nest live cam

    Tags: Eagle, nest, webcam, science, education

  • Year Two Blog

    A blog done for kids by kids. Excellent

    Tags: blog, kids blog, kids, students

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of educators group favorite links are here.

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