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What impacts the perception of your ability to lead inthose around you? Often it is the little things that impact how others around you perceive your ability to lead. There are a few basic rules that, in my opinion, go a long way towards helping set the right perceptions: http://www.scoop.it/t/alive-and-learning/p/1832463747/teachers-and-technology-how-engaged-are-we-by-lucy-blakemore-on-prezi-voices-in-the-feminine

Teachers and technology: how engaged are we? by Lucy Blakemore on Prezi | Voices in the Feminine | Alive and Learning

How Technology is Changing Students Study Habits

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/05/how-technology-is-changing-students.html 6:07 PM inforgraphic Med People in their 30s now are born before the technological revolution and have in a way or other learned how to use technology in their life and work. This category of people are called digital immigrants.

Reflections On Educational Leadership | Integrating Technology in Education | Digital Media in the Elementary Classroom

Educational Technology Guy. Free resources for teachers, educational ideas and tips, educational topics, Personal Learning Networks, Project Based Learning, Google, Evernote, Discovery Education and more. http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-media-in-the-elementary-classroom/p/1799722264/reflections-on-educational-leadership-integrating-technology-in-education
http://www.scoop.it/t/everything-ipads/p/1805110891/technology-timesavers-for-teachers Andrew Marcinek is an instructional technologist at Burlington High School in Burlington, MA: Our teachers are not teaching to the iPad, nor are they teaching apps. They are teaching skills and assessing student learning in a more dynamic way.

Technology Timesavers for Teachers | Everything iPads

Why we need to bring creativity and technology back together across the curriculum | Critical thinking for the 21st century

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University released a new report from the Youth and Media project: “Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality". http://www.scoop.it/t/critical-thinking-for-the-21st-century/p/1463027765/why-we-need-to-bring-creativity-and-technology-back-together-across-the-curriculum

Seven Videos All Educators Should Watch

Summer is a time when many of us are thinking about and planning professional development workshops for our schools and for other schools. I've always found that a short 3-5 minute video can be a good introduction to a PD sessions and or make for a nice thought-provoking break during a PD session. Here are seven videos that I think serve those purposes well. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/07/seven-videos-every-teacher-principal.html
Over the past few weeks I've been thinking about the Habits of Mind as described by Art Costa and Bena Kallick. These habits of mind are the dispositions that a student has towards behaving intelligently when confronted with problems. My question has been, do the PYP Attitudes and the IB Learner Profile also promote these habits of mind?

What do you do when you don't know? (Part 5)

http://www.maggiehosmcgrane.com/2012/05/what-do-you-do-when-you-dont-know-part_06.html
How many media do today's students use in regular communication?

7 Ways To Keep Students Focused While Using Technology | Visual*~*Revolution

Back in 2007, I gave my students an end-of-year survey asking them how they felt their year with me had gone. On it, one of my most quiet, thoughtful students left a comment I’ll never forget: “This year felt more real .” Since then, I’ve made that a very intentional goal: helping students to have a classroom experience that avoids “schooliness,” where my teaching and the students’ tasks are consistently designed to be as genuine as possible.

How 1:1 Technology Is Making School More Real

Why I'm Sticking With Dropbox (Over Google Drive) - Coby Chapple

There has been a massive build-up to the release of Google Drive, and while this new offering from the search giant was always going to be a big one, I firmly believe that there’s a really convincing argument why Dropbox is a better choice for storing your stuff online: privacy, and retaining rights over your content. I’m no lawyer, but you don’t have to be to understand why the implications of Google’s privacy policy are probably something you want to avoid. Side note: If you clicked through to this then you’re probably the kind of person who would enjoy following me on Twitter .
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Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens -- THE Journal | Digital Citizenship in Schools | Scoop.it

''We may have been mistaken in thinking that cyber-bullying is just another form of bullying.We need to take a more objective look at it, treat it as a completely new thing and go back to basics and find out what's going on". Sheryl Hemphill, professor of psychology at the Australian Catholic University, led the team that reviewed international studies and tracked 700 Victorian school students over several years as they progressed from grade 5 to grade 9.