- Turning a Children’s Rating System Into an Advocacy ArmyFrom the New York Times - "James P. Steyer came here from San Francisco last week on a whirlwind tour to try to engage the country’s power brokers in his new crusade to put children and education at the top of the nation’s political agenda." tags:ratingsystemadvocacy
- Amazon Media Room: RSS ContentFrom Amazon - "New features and enhancements—including tiered administration, group management, and premium customer support—make it easier for organizations to use Whispercast at-scale" h/t Audrey Watterstags:amazonmediarss
- Turnitin - Turnitin Announces Availability of Turnitin Scoring Engine for Automated Writing AssessmentThis makes me nervoustags:scoringengineautomatedturnitin
- Pros & Cons of Using Blog Posts for School AnnouncementsA good look at the pros and cons of using a blog to communicate information to parentstags:prosconsbloggingcommunication
- How I Use the Social Networks These DaysFrom Chris Brogan "I wanted to tell you that I see a lot of shifts in the whole online/social networks landscape. Some of it kind of saddens me. The rest of it points to the weakening state of effectiveness of various platforms as business tools. You can disagree. That’s fine."tags:socialmediasocialnetworkingchrisbrogan
- A 6-Step Guide To Tracking Social Media In Google Analyticstags:trackingsocialmediaanalyticsgoogleanalyticshowto
- Let's face it, compliance is not the same as learningtags:learning
- The Internet has created a generation of great writersFrom Penelope Trunk - The best writers in the history of the world are graduating from college, right now. So everyone can just shut up about how no one can write anymore. tags:writersliteracytechnology
- The Trouble With Grading EmployeesCorrelations with education...tags:gradingemployees
- Global '100-year gap' in education standardsFrom the BBC - When it comes to education the differences between the developed and developing worlds remain stark.tags:educationstandards
- This school in Norway abandoned teaching subjects 40 years ago - QuartzFinland has announced that in their new national curriculum, they will emphasize phenomena-based project studies instead of traditional subjects. The Ringstabekk school—with 425 students aged 13 to 16 years just outside Norway’s capital, Oslo—has been doing this for 40 years with great success.tags:teachingsubjectsedreform
- HBO NOW on the App Store on iTunesLast Chance to try #HBONOW FREE for 30 Days. Download and start streaming #GameofThrones today. https://t.co/SXEj3VJDvqtags:HBONOWGameofThrones
- Virtual Library (Publications Getty)Over 250 ebooks from J. Paul Getty Museumtags:ebooksarthistorygettypublicationsebook
- Book titles with full text online | MetPublications | The Metropolitan Museum of Art437 book titles with full text online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.tags:arthistoryartebookebooks
- Free Technology for Teachers: Nearly 700 Art History Books to Read Online for Free
- How to Cite a Tweet in MLA, APA, and Chicago Styletags:citationtweetmlaapa
- A Handful of Tools That Help Students Analyze Their Own WritingFrom Richard Byrne - Here are some more good tools that students can use to analyze their own writing.tags:toolswriting
- Week of Inspirational MathGreat FREE program developed by Stanford Professor Jo Boaler to engage students in math.tags:math
- Standing Desks Keep Kids Better Tuned Intags:classroomdesign
- 2014 Report Card - Digital Learning NowDigital Learning Now rates all 50 states on their readiness for digital learningtags:digitallearning
- iPads, E-Readers, and Early Literacy: Emerging Research From AERA - Digital EducationResearch on the advantages of e-readingtags:ipadsliteracyresearcheducation
- Mr. C's 4th GradeA good example of a teacher using PBL in elementary schooltags:projectbasedlearning
- Escalante-Gradillas $20,000 Prize for Best in Education | The Best Schools@patrickmlarkin Hi Patrick, have you heard about our $20K educator’s award? Winner’s school gets $10K…! See: http://t.co/37RLsnQFJ4
- Changing What We TeachGood piece on teaching skills versus teaching content from terry Heicktags:curriculumstandards
- 50 Companies That Get Twitter – and 50 That Don’t - HBRThey have given their social media staff a clear mission and a great deal of autonomy; the account’s managers chat with customers, offer up front to solve problems, and empathize...tags:companiestwitter
- Britain should be wary of borrowing education ideas from abroadtags:educationideaspoliticspasisahlberg
- Snow Day RepriseGood post on options for teaching students remotely - I can flip the presentation using the video above. The video explains how you can use Blackboard Collaborate which is something we have in Fairfax County. But there are other alternatives as you can see below.tags:snowdayblizzardbagonlineteaching
- Does the Common Core help boost reading comprehension?Part 1 of 5 on Daniel Willlingham's Book - Raising Kids Who Readtags:comprehensionreading
- 23 Tech Tools that Help Students Follow their Pass23 Tech Tools that Help Students Follow their Passions Like the Pros http://t.co/D44Y1ZSmHj #geniushour #20Time #passionprojecttags:geniushour20Timepassionproject
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
cross-posted at www.patrickmlarkin.com
Patrick Larkin is the Assistant Superintendent for Learning of Burlington Public Schools in Burlington, MA and the former principal of Burlington High. He blogs about education at www.patrickmlarkin.com.
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