I don't really just go to conferences! This is an exploratory visit. I am checking out this new conference. It's in Raleigh, so practically local. Sleeping at home.
All of these will be on http://gdsmstech.blogspot.com/ I'll set up the blog posts tonight and Thursday night. Friday's sessions look really good.
Here's the list of sessions I'll be attending, see what appeals to you and remember, you can either participate live or just look at the conversation later.
Thursday: March 5
Opening Ke… Continue
I've been reading the book Influencers. One of the authors' assertions in the book is that the best way to establish or change a behavior is through direct experience. How do we provide direct experiences for learners? I would argue that one way to start is by providing direct learning experiences for teachers rather than "workshops."
One of our teachers at Greensboro Day is involved in a fascinating opportunity. Tim Martin, our 8th grade earth science teacher will participate in a clima… Continue
I'm going to live blog back to my school (Greensboro Day School) during the NAIS Sessions. I'd welcome questions and comments!
If you're interested in experimenting with live blogging come on by!
If you'll be there and would like to join in as a panelist, just let me know and I'll add you.
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What careers do independent school graduates go into? 1. Business, 2. Law, 3. Medicine
How do we encourage them to move beyond, without demeaning or diminishing those choices?
I'm in a workshop with Peter Cobb who is helping us revision our mission and curriculum
He with the above observation.
He's already mentioned one of my heroes, Paul Farmer.
Drop by if you have time:
http://gdsmstech.blogspot.com/
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Added by Sarah Hanawald on February 6, 2009 at 9:16am —
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This is really interesting. A British group did a longitudinal study of just over 3,000 adolescents, starting in 1946. Teachers were asked to evaluate the children's behavior at ages 13 and 15. Those children who were judged to have either mild or severe conduct problems continued to have problems throughout life. The researchers specifically looked at alcohol abuse, divorce, early unplanned pregnancies, social class and a vague "happy with family life." You can read the… Continue
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Tomorrow, I have 5 minutes to present a research base for my contention that teachers need help learning how to work collaboratively and develop more collegiality. I feel stumped. It seems, well, obvious. To me anyway, but I know that doesn't cut it as an explanation. Why does it matter if teachers are professionally connected?
Here's what I think I'm going to do. First, I'm going to re-tell in a shortened way the story with which Clay Shirky opens his book Here Comes Everybody. (Which I… Continue
I blogged recently about using Diigo with sixth graders. The whole post is here, but I'm putting an excerpt below.
I am a big fan of Harvey and Gouvis' work on the need to teach students reading strategies. Last year, students mentioned in… Continue
For some reason, I keep typing Worldle instead of Wordle. I did it twice, just trying to write that sentence! Anyway, I don't usually cross-post, but this one really struck me. One of the benefits of technology is providing teachers and students with ways to do something that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise. Would you ever have students count/tally the individual words in a newspaper article? Probably not, but it provides food for thought, especially when the results are displayed visually… Continue
Check out this ustream Show from the Lausanne Laptop Unstitute: http://tinyurl.com/5offxn
Monday Keynote Scott Klososky, later speakers will be Gary Stager and Deneen Frazier Bowen. Currently speaking is the head of the American School in Bombay, which sounds like a fascinating school. Continue
Added by Sarah Hanawald on July 14, 2008 at 9:30am —
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I met with our head of school just a few minutes ago to talk about 21st Century Learning/Literacy. A little nerve-wracking. He had seen a couple of videos already, which helped. He definitely has spent time processing the fact that the next 100 years will be significantly different from the last 100. He's incredibly well-read and in touch with other educational leaders, so he knows we need to reflect and move here. He was also brutally honest about the fact that, in spite of the reading and keep… Continue
I came upon this site last night and have been thinking about it ever since. Here's a video done by Bill Farren that I would like to show to audiences who've already seen and exclaimed over (or been depressed by) Did You Know or Shift Happens.
I started thinking about how we often hear the words: "preparing students for the 21st century." I'm starting to wonder exactly what that means. There are some fantastic teachers who haven… Continue
From today's eSchool News:
More than 50 percent of students in grades 3-12 would like to see more educational gaming in their schools—yet only 19 percent of parents and 15 percent of administrators favor that idea.
Does this surprise us? Is anyone using any gaming beyond the traditional review game activities? I know I'm not, I 'm just not sure that I know the extent to w… Continue
Two musical references from the 80's for this one:
First one is in response to some planning we're doing on a retreat topic for our faculty next fall. I'd love feedback.
Remember the old ABBA song: Knowing Me, Knowing You?
Knowing You or, Who are our students?
How about an "tour" of our kids lives--their anxieties, their relationships, their fears, their achievements. . . and how the online world plays a part in this.
Who are we?
Guiding Question--Are we modeling what we say tha… Continue
It's cloudy and icky outside today and so I seem to be finding one depressing video on the web after another--all lamenting the US's lack of standing in international education rankings. I didn't know UNICEF ranked education systems, and I have no idea what the criteria were for this particular ranking. Here's the video though--and it uses Cheetos to represent student populations. Now I'm off to see who is behind "Edin '08 the site hosting the video.… Continue
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I'm at a "Public Sector Multi-Customer" briefing at Lenovo's facility in Raleigh. We just heard from Charlie Prestia, Executive Director of all Public Sector sales in the US. He told us a little about how Lenovo is structured. My big take aways:
60% of their public sector sales are in education. We're an important sector.
Their goal is four days from order to delivery. Currently they are at 10 days. Should be at 8 days in the next 4 months. That sounds interesting to someone (me) who has somet… Continue
Recently, a teacher at our school asked me some questions about other schools and their expectations of teachers regarding homework pages and posting assignments. I went to several independent school websites and tried to peruse the middle school homework pages. I ended up really frustrated. Almost all the pages required a logged in account on that school's system. (Whipple Hill?)
Why? Does your school require this? Why is homework protected? From whom? Is this a deliberate decision or is it "j… Continue
Alan November is speaking at NCETC right now. He's doing his thing--I've heard him before and he's always interesting. Some highlights:
Google's main page shouldn't always be student's first choice for searching. Are we teaching them how to find information or just sort through the first 10 hits? Go to the advanced features (or another search engine). His example--using Google's front page and researching riots in Turkey after Pope Benedict XVI's speech last year. Google turns up all we… Continue
About 10 years ago, several faculty members at my school were sitting at lunch talking about the fast-approaching Parents' Weekend. "I don't know how parents do it," one teacher commented. "I know I could never have given up one moment with my kid...
This group is for people who are evaluating their databases and a place for communicate about the issues and challenges of managing information within an independent school.
We've found time by giving four faculty meetings a year to working on committees--the personalized PD time. And because the teachers are charged up about getting their pet projects done they find time to meet after school on their own. I find it h...
The K12Online Conference 2009 is about to begin! So far this year we have enjoyed 3 LAN parties leading up to the main conference. The LAN parties featured past presenters, their presentations, and chat room hullabaloo. While this was all connect...
Best of luck with your strategic planning. It sounds like you have a well-thought out process planned. Here are a couple of Disrupting Class resources we found useful to share with our faculty:
http://educationnext.org/how-do-we-transform-our-sc...
My school, Collegiate School in Richmond Va, has been working with Michael Horn, one of the junior authors on Disrupting Class to help change our school plan from a deliberative strategy to an emergent strategy.
As part of our work, David Colon, ...
