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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
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One of the biggest concerns for me with switching to Android from iOS was the Apps. Over the years I have invested a lot in iOS Apps (a lot). I easily have several hundred and I wasn’t sure if I’d miss any of them by moving to Android. What I discovered is that I was…
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My conversion to the Android side continues… The Nexus 6P arrived last week. I’ve been using it (mostly) since the day I took it out of it’s very thoughtfully designed packaging. The first thing I noticed when comparing it to the Nexus 5X was how much more substantial the 6P felt. The reviews are right, the…
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Ok, I saw the movie yesterday. We took the team to a 9am showing. Teambuilding! We saw it in IMAX 3D (or what I would call mini-IMAX). I’m not really a fan of 3D so I will be taking my kids to see it in good old fashioned 2D. If I could find a 70mm projector…
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Ever since I upgraded my iPhone 5 to iOS 9, I’ve been frustrated by my daily phone experience. The situation had been deteriorating for a while, with daily Google Account access becoming so frustrating, I actually installed Outlook on iOS in an attempt to make email work on my phone. For me, my phone is where…
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost I feel the same way about teaching with technology sometimes… I’m going to stick with the Tech as Tool theme for a bit longer because what I loved about Rockstar Admin Camp was the…
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I’ve been Han Solo’d Day 2 of CUE Rockstar Admin Camp started off strong with #edugrandpa Jon Corippo going all Captain Chaos on us with a book study by frayer activity. The frayer template is one of those simple little things I wish I knew about when I was teaching, because I would have been telling every one…
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My To Do list from CUE Rockstar Admin Camp: Coalesce leadership around a common vision for Instructional Practice Re-imagine our PD plan around integrating tech and core (ELA/Math) Help administrators use tech to setup simple time saving workflows Develop story tellers throughout the district to help get the message out about all the great things happening in our schools…
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I think we say Technology is just a tool so as not to scare people away from it but the truth is, technology is a powerful disrupter of the status quo and the idea of disturbing the status quo is very scary to a lot of people. As Jon Corippo said to me recently, if we as educators are merely…
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Technology is more than just a tool, it is a total game changer. To paraphrase an old Jedi Master, we must unlearn how we learned. To my mind, there are several transformative opportunities for teaching made possible by technology that go way beyond trading paper and pen for a Chromebook or iPad. Ubiquitous Access To Information In a…
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My first job in education was at a small rural high school district. I was their first full time “IT Guy”. And when I say full time, I’m stretching a bit, as I was actually farmed out to one of the feeder elementary schools for 2 days a week. Prior to my arrival, they had been contracting with…
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