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SITTI – School Improvement Through Teacher Inquiry. In New Zealand, we are fortunate to have teacher inquiry/research written into our national curriculum document.

SITTI – School Improvement Through Teacher Inquiry

This asks teachers to ensure they are experimenting with strategies to improve their practice and recording the process and results. My own school has put together a planning group to bring all of the school-wide improvement strategies together. The aim in doing this is to make more sense of why we have each component. It is a common complaint from teachers that school organised PD is irrelevant to what they do. It is also common for teachers, when asked to quote school vision or goals to draw a blank. As a way of structuring my own thoughts around this, I have sketched out a model that I’m referring to as SITTI (School Improvement Through Teacher Inquiry).

Here is a summary of my thinking regarding each component of this cyclical process. Assistive Technology: Resource Roundup. Getting Started.

Assistive Technology: Resource Roundup

Students Want More Alignment of Tech In and Out of School. Digital Tools Project Tomorrow’s 2013 Speak Up survey of more than 325,000 students and 75,000 parents, teachers and administrators digs into how students and teachers are using technology in school and for learning outside of school, and comes up with some interesting insights about the pervasiveness of tech use.

Students Want More Alignment of Tech In and Out of School

A quarter of students in grades 3-5 and a third of students in grades 6-12 report using a mobile device provided by their school in class. This trend is more pronounced in Title I schools. Still, as tech use proliferates, digital equity has risen to the top as a concern for district leaders. Why Inquiry Learning is Worth the Trouble. Visualization of SLA principal Chris Lehmann's 2011 talk: guiding kids' to thinking about how they think.

Why Inquiry Learning is Worth the Trouble

Nearly seven years after first opening its doors, the Science Leadership Academy public magnet high school* in Philadelphia and its inquiry-based approach to learning have become a national model for the kinds of reforms educators strive towards. But in a talk this past weekend at EduCon 2.5, the school’s sixth-annual conference devoted to sharing its story and spreading its techniques, Founding Principal Chris Lehmann insisted that replicating his schools approach required difficult tradeoffs. “This is not easy. Top 60 iPad Apps for Teaching STEAM Organized b... Designing the classrooms of the future. How to pick the best education apps for your classroom. Figuring out which apps work best in your particular classroom is not easy.

How to pick the best education apps for your classroom

Fatih.rapor_.ENG_.son_.pdf. Frameset IFIP. Apprendre le code, un effet de mode ou un enjeu de société ? Apprendre le code, un effet de mode ou un enjeu de société ?

Apprendre le code, un effet de mode ou un enjeu de société ?

Chloé Guardiola Coding gouters, Codacademy, école 42, Simplon.co, Hour of code [1], Décodez-le code... Les élèves français n'ont pas besoin d'une tablette à l'école, mais de véritables cours d'informatique. Les élèves français n'ont pas besoin d'une tablette à l'école, mais de véritables cours d'informatique Colin de la Higuera Il y a de meilleurs moyens de dépenser les fonds alloués au « grand plan numérique » promis par François Hollande.

Les élèves français n'ont pas besoin d'une tablette à l'école, mais de véritables cours d'informatique

Anatoly Karpov et la pédagogie. Anatoly Karpov et la pédagogie Rencontre et échange avec le champion du monde sur les échecs et leurs relations avec la pédagogie, l'informatique, Internet.

Anatoly Karpov et la pédagogie

Enseignement de l'informatique à l'école primaire : quelques mesures d'urgence. Tribune libre Enseignement de l'informatique à l'école primaire : quelques mesures d'urgence.

Enseignement de l'informatique à l'école primaire : quelques mesures d'urgence

Articles en ligne. Faut il vraiment respecter la loi informatique et libertés ? C’est un peu la question que l’on peut se poser au regard des dernières décisions pronnoncée par la CNIL.

Faut il vraiment respecter la loi informatique et libertés ?

En fait, la discussion est systématique et récurrente depuis l’adoption de la loi informatique et libertés. Quand bien même le risque juridique ne vient pas réellement de la CNIL (mais plutôt des infractions pénales qui existent), il n’en reste pas moins que l’absence de sanctions administratives prononcées par la CNIL encourage souvent les organisations à traiter la question en “gestion de risques” (noble expression pour dire “pas du tout”). Il me semble personnellement qu’il ne faut pas condamner cette approche car finalement pour quelle raison les organisations devraient-elles faire les frais de mise en conformité s’il leurs chances d’être sanctionnées est quasiment inexistante ?

50 Resources For Teaching With iPads. A Collection Of The Best Resources For Teaching With The iPad by TeachThought Staff. Connected Administrators: Fostering Learning That Leads to Opportunities. Every child should learn to program, but not ne... Eduquer ou instruire ? Bypassing the Textbook: Video Games Transform Social Studies Curriculcum. Digital Tools Skyrim Elder Scrolls trailer Educators typically think of using digital and video games as the actual learning tool, but one teacher is using video games for something else entirely — as a replacement for the textbook. Jeff Mummert, a social studies teacher and department chair at Hershey High School in Pennsylvania, uses games in his class to get students thinking critically about the subject matter the games address, even if they’re completely imaginary, he said.

Game designers put a lot of time and thought into developing aesthetically appealing games that they think will draw players into an imaginary world. Think Pedagogy First, Technology Second. Think Pedagogy First, Technology Second. The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration. Bring TeachThought Professional Development To Your School! The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration by TeachThought Staff Using technology for learning makes sense. Technology creates access, transparency, and opportunity. Any smartphone or tablet is media incarnate–video, animation, eBooks, essays, blog posts, messages, music, games. You can now import Book Creator books into iBooks Author. Last week Apple released an update to iBooks Author that allows you to import ePub files as a new book project.

Is This the Future of Reading? MIT’s Experimental Sensory Book. This new invention from the MIT Media Lab will no doubt be controversial. Readers strap themselves into a robotic suit equipped with sensors that literally make the reader feel the emotions conveyed in the text as the reader flips pages. The video below came with a disclaimer from its makers. Web Search. Middle Schoolers Develop App to Help Visually Impaired. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. Left to right: Janessa Leija, Caitlin Gonzales and Cassandra Baquero demonstrate their app Hello Navi. “We saw him struggling, trying to get around. What if we could create an app to help him?” Like many great ideas, Hello Navi started with a question. The app—invented by Cassandra Baquero, Grecia Cano, Caitlyn Gonzalez, Kayleen Gonzalez, Janessa Leija and Jacqueline Garcia Torres—helps visually challenged students navigate their school grounds.

Inquiry Learning Ideas for Math and Science With iPads. Digital Tools Laurie Sullivan/Flickr By Sam Gliksman The following is the second of a series of excerpts from Gliksman’s book iPad in Education for Dummies. TED Talks to Ignite Your Innovation and Creativity. VISION press release April 30 2013 - French.pdf. E-SKILLS : PROMOTION OF ICT PROFESSIONALISM IN EUROPE. E-SKILLS : PROMOTION OF ICT PROFESSIONALISM IN EUROPE. How to Grab and Keep Girls’ Interest in Computer Coding. There’s growing and well-founded concern about the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math fields, particularly when it comes to women of color.

Women’s participation in computer science careers has actually decreased since the 1980s. Right now, about 20 percent of all programmers are women and while women make up 57 percent of undergraduates they represent only 18 percent of the computer science majors. Meanwhile, a STEM Connector report from 2012-2013 predicts that 8.65 million jobs in 2018 will be in STEM fields. That growth makes the gender disparity numbers especially troubling. 50 Resources For Teaching With iPads. Learning T... Plan a Better iMovie Trailer with These PDFs. Here are a few trailers made by teachers and students. L'École numérique » Scratch : « Imagine, programme, partage ! » 

Scratch est un logiciel libre conçu pour initier les élèves dès l’âge de 8 ans à des concepts fondamentaux en mathématiques et en informatique. Il repose sur une approche ludique de l’algorithmique et propose à ses utilisateurs de les aider à créer, à raisonner et à coopérer sur le Web. Développé par le groupe de recherche Lifelong Kindergarten auprès du laboratoire Média du MIT, Scratch est un nouveau langage de programmation qui facilite la création d’histoires interactives, de dessins animés, de jeux, de compositions musicales, de simulations numériques, etc. L’enseignement de l’informatique en France - Il est urgent de ne plus attendre - Rapport de l'Académie des sciences - Mai 2013 - rads_0513.pdf. Learning Analytics: Leveraging Education Data [Infographic] : "Venice Time Machine": la Cité des Doges modélisée. 23.02.13 - L’EPFL et l’université Ca' Foscari créent un programme transdisciplinaire en faveur de l’éducation et de la recherche.

Les arts et les sciences s’unissent pour explorer la ville de Venise. Venice Time Machine. Top Tech Tools for Formative Assessment. Will Executives Get on the MOOC Train, Too? - At Work. 10 Brilliant Examples Of Sketch Notes: Notetaking For The 21st Century. Sketch notes–or graphic notes, or whatever other term you like–are one of the single most important developments in note-taking history. Hold on, give me a second to explain.

Stop Teaching – Start Learning. Do you ever teach a class? Remind101 is now Remind. 5 Powerful iPad Apps to Help Teachers Organize Their Workflow. October 9, 2014 In teachers' super busy life enhancing one's productivity amidst all the work and family preocupations is really a challenging task. Sometimes keeping up with this fast-paced lifestyle becomes overwhelmingly stressful. 5 Powerful iPad Apps to Help Teachers Organize ... ACOT2 - The Challenge for American Education. ACOT2 - Ubiquitous Access to Technology. ACOT2 - Social and Emotional Connections with Students. ACOT2 - A Culture of Innovation and Creativity. ACOT2. ACOT2. 3 things every teacher should be doing with web 2.0 tools.

BFM Business : "Les Moocs, mythe ou réalité ?" A Diagram Of 21st Century Pedagogy - Paper versus Laptop: The Best of Both Worlds - EdTech Researcher. Paper versus Laptop: The Best of Both Worlds - EdTech Researcher. 30 Ways Google Glass In Education Might Work. Can MOOCs help democratize access to education?...