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Outfitting 21st Century Classrooms with 21st Century Teachers
What does a 21st century classroom look like? Is there a interactive whiteboard at the front of the room instead of a blackboard? Are students busily manipulating iPad screens rather than laboring with pencil and paper? Do students tweet their questions rather than raise their hands?
When we talk about giving students a 21st century education [...]
Alternative Professional Development Initiatives – Part 2
Videos, even short videos, still require a few minutes of an already packed day to watch, even if you do watch them between Dwight Schrute karate chops or Smoke Monsters devouring Lost souls. The following ideas take even less time or take advantage of a time when everyone is already held captive.
CommuterPod-
Nearly everyone commutes. Some [...]
Alternative Professional Development Initiatives, Part 1
There are very few who would say that learning new things is a burden. Everyone wants to learn something new. Everyone covets new strategies, new skills, new research or new techniques that will enhance abilities and ultimately make life easier. However, finding the time to learn something new is a constant challenge.
Everyday responsibilities gobble up [...]
Free Webinar on Tools for Building Teacher Leaders
On March 30 at 4 p.m. EST, ISTE will present a free webinar on tools for teacher professional development titled “Building Teacher Leaders: Tools for Teacher Professional Development.” Sponsored by Microsoft, the webinar will feature the experienced educator Becky Firth, Program Director for the ISTE-affiliate Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE). Click here to register.
Offered [...]
How to Teach an Old Dog New Tech: The Invisible Hand of Learning Part II
How do we motivate adults to learn new things? This question has been on my mind for months. In my first post for ISTE (The Invisible hand of Learning: Part I) I wrote about how we changed our Professional Development (PD) concept from a top-down to a bottom-up model. The experiment is now on it’s [...]
Priority #1 For Technology Integration Success—Professional Development
How many times have you heard an administrator or educator tout the number of new computers, projectors, or (insert hot new product here!) in their schools? My guess is more times than you can count. The more important question I’d like the answer to is, how many of these products are being used effectively to [...]
The Changing Nature of Professional Development
This post is cross-posted here.
I love my new job for many reasons.
One of the cool things that I have seen in the few months of my new role is how social tools have the potential to cause an amazing change in the nature of how Professional Development is accessed and delivered. And the really [...]
Learning & Teaching Around the World: Houston
ISTE continues with the HP Innovations in Education program! Come and “meet” Jim Vanides from HP:
Starting in Houston, Texas, earlier this month, North American grantees of the HP Innovations in Education program met to kick off a year of intensive professional development with ISTE staff and mentors. ISTE staff are also traveling this month to [...]
Adult Learners – How Do You Reach Them?
A vital element of 1-to-1 is that every teacher have a laptop, along with every student. In order for this to work well and be a transformative element in a school, district, or state, teachers need to embrace education technology in their practice. This means, even for the innovators and early adopters, continuous, varied, well-supported [...]
The ISTE10 Newbie Project is Underway! Meet this Year’s Newbie:
Back in April I wrote a post that appeared here on ISTE Connects which was titled “Demonstrate the Power of a Personal Learning Network: Help Send a Newbie to NECC.“ The post turned out to be incredibly popular and brought a lot of attention to the “Newbie Project.”
When I announced the Newbie project in April [...]
