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thinking out loud about technology, education and life
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- 2012 Vision Still Holds: Redefining Public Education in the Age of AI and Perpetual Change
- 10 Things I Miss About My EV
- Is Your School’s Technology Strategy Still Stuck in a “Break/Fix” Mindset?
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Author: Andrew T Schwab
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What does Good Instructional Leadership look like? It’s a question that has come up often in the past year. As a leadership team in our district we’re reading through Hacking Leadership by Joe Sanfelippo (#gocrickets) and Tony Sinanis, which has great practical ideas for education leaders. But what does that look like when applied to instruction? During…
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Back in April, Adam Welcome wrote a blog post that really got me thinking entitled It’s No Longer About 1:1. As I’ve been an advocate for 1:1 in schools since 2009, I immediately drafted a response, one that I uncharacteristically then let sit for several months so I could stew on it a bit more. In that time,…
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And I think anyone would be hard pressed to find someone that disagrees that it is having a profound impact on the world we live in today. This post on twitter got me thinking this morning: "The real revolution is not technology, it is information." -Alan November — David Culberhouse (@DCulberhouse) September 30, 2016 I…
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I’m stepping into a new role this year and I’ve already found myself getting pulled into the Binder Planning Model. You know the one, where the entire year is laid out in the binder, and you’re just turning the pages. To me, it’s a metaphor for school planning in general. In schools, we like to…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about programs lately (new occupational hazard I guess). After edCamp last weekend, STEAM has been front of mind. I tend to think of programs from the perspective of what do we want to see students doing. For a 1:1 program, it basically comes down to accessing information, collaborating, creating and presenting using modern…
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There was a trap we found ourselves falling into back in the STAR testing days with data. We spent the majority of our time and energy focused on the kids just below the line. The ones close to being proficient. The ones that theoretically should be easy to move. That was how we (and many others)…
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I have a new title. It’s a mouth full and when people ask what it is, it actually takes my brain a few seconds to spin up to say it. Associate Superintendent, Learning & Innovation On more than one occasion, once I get it out, people have commented that it’s kind of cool or that it’s…
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I was reminded this weekend why I love edcamps so much. After a challenging few weeks in a new role, I was very much looking forward to a relaxing weekend of sleeping in and tinkering around the house when a calendar pop up reminded me that edCampSFBay was less than 12 hours away. I took…
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This question was on a back to school parent form from one of Kid1’s teachers. My wife asked me to fill it out…
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It’s been almost two months since I wrote about my Inbox Zero experiment and I am happy to share that I’m consistently hitting Inbox Zero every day. It does take some work but as an added benefit, I’ve been limiting my “email processing” to 2-3 times during the day so I am not constantly stuck in…
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