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Envisioning An Innovative Learning Specialist
In our district, we are fortunate to have both certified technology teachers and teacher-librarians in many of our schools. Our department is currently brainstorming ways to maximize these positions to...
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The First Day
Tomorrow a new school year begins. Students and teachers alike are full of anticipation, excitement, and hope. The schools have been thoroughly cleaned, supplies have been re-stocked, textbooks are...
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Playgrounds and Social Media
Posted under Creative Commons License. Photo by Joe Shlabotnik I’ve been thinking about the similarities between playgrounds and social media lately. As the school year is launching, I am thinking of...
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Why Digital Textbooks Won’t Transform Education
The Obama administration on Wednesday announced that schools should get digital textbooks into students’ hands within five years. Ostensibly, this is about more than just making sure carrying around...
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Personalized Learning a Path to Innovation?
Jonah Lehrer posed an interesting question in the article “Cultivating Genius” in Wired this month (March, 2012): “How can we increase the pace of innovation?” In examining some of the...
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The Potential of Technology to Transform Education
Educational technology has the potential to transform this country’s education system in powerful ways, to better prepare students for living and working in a world that demands a different skill set...
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Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation
I will be presenting an ISTE Ignite Session on Monday, June 24 at 8:30 am on “Students as Curators.” Hope you can make it! -Nancy The response to my previous post on Understanding Content Curation has...
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Students as “Information Flaneurs”
School structure can easily be described as containers of time, space… content, standards…accountability. This is the reality of today’s education system. How does this fit with the real world...
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I’ve Moved!
On June 16, 2017 I retired from my position as 21st Century Learning & Innovation Specialist at Academy District 20 after 20 years! It has been a great experience working with amazing educators...
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