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I thought we could all use a little fun.  This robot just struck me as funny.  Imagine just logging in  to your computer and virtually attending a meeting.  Or in teacher-speak, a professional development session. Or, in this particularly stressful time of year, what if we could just log in from home and teach...
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This is an interesting article with evidence that should fundamentally affect the way we teach. Research by MIT neuroscientists shows that our brain actually rewires in response to success.  Now that may not seem groundbreaking, but the corresponding finding might surprise you.  The brain does nothing in response to failure. In other words, if...
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This is a great site for resources on Robert Marzano’s instructional strategies. If you are familiar with Marzano, then you will find this site particularly interesting as it connects instructional technology resources with each of his strategies.  If you are not familiar with Marzano, each strategy is briefly defined so that you can implement...
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I ran into this article and just had to pass it along. It seems like this time of year is an especially cranky time for teachers.  I know that when I come home during the Spring, my stories dwell more and more on this entitled, lazy generation of teens. But this article helped me...
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I was asked once by a colleague to relate Dan Pink’s Right-Brain aptitudes to Bloom’s taxonomy.  To be honest I have always preferred to apply Bloom’s Taxonomy through the verbs that are usually associated with his work.  My colleague and I threw out as many verbs as we could remember, and I wrote them...
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So we can’t be all work all the time.  I ran into this online quiz about the Millennials.  Since I have been hearing so much about the differences between this generation and all others, I thought I would give it a try. I landed smack in the middle of Gen-X.
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After attending a Career and Technical Education training this week I started to look around for some data.  And even after two days of facts and figures, this article stood out to me. Economists have tied actual GDP numbers to improving education.  Something that we all felt was true, but here are some hard...
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Wow!  This would be quite a change in our educational system.  I’m not sure how I feel about it, but I can see some of the advantages. According to the article,  schools would no longer be held to “seat time” or credits to graduate high school students.  Instead students would take a battery of...
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This past Friday I had the honor of being a presenter at the annual KC TechNet conference.  I conducted a morning session over implementing Dan Pink’s 21st Century skills from A Whole New Mind into the classroom.  The session went extremely well, and I think that the participants left with a great framework for...
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This is a really interesting project that I found while I was looking through some education blogs.  As you think about Dan Pink’s Meaning aptitude from AWNM, this site gives you a resource for returning to your own personal sense of meaning.  Teachers have a strong sense of meaning in their lives, but you...
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