Posts Tagged ‘ change ’

0From Clark and Salomon (1986): General media comparisons and studies pertaining to their overall instructional impact have yielded little that warrants optimism. Even in the few cases where dramatic changes in achievement or ability were found to result from the introduction of a medium such as television, . . . it was not the...
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0Cross-posted on Always Learning Last week Jeff and I presented one of the final keynotes, entitled Moving A Community Forward, for the 2009 Webheads in Action Online Convergence. Not only was it a blast doing the presentation with Jeff, but it turned out to be a great reflection on what we’ve accomplished at ISB this...
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0  If you haven’t heard, Amazon has announced the Kindle DX. A 9.7 inch Wireless reading device with a larger screen made for reading textbooks and newspapers. Now this is all great news for technology and e-books. But as I listened to the TWIT podcast episode 194 they talked about what this device really is...
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0Cross posted on Always Learning Waaay back in September, I read the book Presentation Zen, thanks to Jeff (who insisted I read it before designing my presentations for Learning 2.008). Since then I’ve created and delivered six presentations. After each one, I received compliments about the style and lots of questions about how I found the...
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0Cross posted on Always Learning Last week, Jeff, Tara and I were on a mission to find a video for our elementary faculty meeting next week, so I sent out a Twitter plea for great videos: And thanks to all the wonderful folks on Twitter, we found quite a few excellent videos! I thought I’d share...
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0Cross posted at Always Learning Thanks to our wonderful and supportive Principal & Vice Principal, this past Tuesday, Tara, Jeff and I had the opportunity to present to the ES Faculty about the work that our ISB21 Team has been doing over the past few years. We were thrilled to be given the chance to...
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0(As you can tell from Kim’s recent post. Systematic change at all levels is on our mind at ISB) How much time to we spend helping our community understand the changing landscape of learning? If we want to change the system, then we need to be prepared to change the whole system. We need to...
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0(What follows is the thinking of many people that I have the pleasure to work with every day. It is my hope that I can put into words, for myself, how we are trying to bring systematic change to our school in hopes that you might be able to use a piece of it...
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0To often I hear educators make remarks about change. Either about that it’s too much, too fast, too often, or the more famous one, “Here we go again.” For some reason, some educators do not see the I in change. The school can change, teaching can change, students can change, as long as I don’t...
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0I’m going to remix some ideas from Gapingvoid. I do encourage you to read the entire post with an eye on education. It seems to me that in any school, large or small, you can divide the people into three broad categories. 1. The “Changers”. These are the educators who use their work as a platform...
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