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Presenter’s Resources and Links From the 2014 Conference
Recommended Resources from Will Richardson
Will’s STUFF:
- Educating Modern Learners is our new subscription site for school leaders and policy makers, because modern learners need modern leaders. Be better informed to make better decisions for your students. (Save 15% off an annual subscription by using the coupon code: EMLSESSION14)
- My blog is at willrichardson.com. Join the conversation!
- Find me on Twitter at willrich45.
- A recent interview about Connected Educators.
Slides:
Here is a link to a .pdf copy of the slides from the keynote.
Articles:
An updated list of my published articles here. These are probably the most relevant to context shifting:
- Students First, Not Stuff (Ed Leadership)
- Preparing Students to Learn Without Us (Ed Leadership)
- Publishers, Participants All (Ed Leadership)
- Work That Matters (MindShift)
Books:
Will’s Amazon page with a complete listing of my books.
Videos:
OTHER RESOURCES:
Suggested Books to Read:
- A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger – NEW– Absolute must read for educators and leaders sincere about rethininking schools, classrooms, and personal practice.
- Don’t Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything by Kio Stark. The power and potential of informal learning.
- It’s Complicated by danah boyd – NEW – The best book I’ve read to understand teens and technology use. Must reading for educators.
- The App Generation by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis – Another great look at how teens are using technology.
- Open by David Price – Great overview of how the world is changing in both an education and work sense.
- Invent to Learn by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager – The bible for tinkering, engineering and making in the classroom. Must read for all educators.
- Knowmad Society by John Moravec et. al. – Pushes the contextual boundaries for learning.
- Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson – The positive spin on technology and learning.
- Visible Learners by Maria Krechevsky – Reggio Emilia inspired learning for schools.
- Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology by Alan Collins and Richard Halverson – Still one of my favorite books on the contextual shifts.
- The Anti-Education Era by James Gee – Minces no words about the need for change.
- The Way of Mindful Education by Daniel Rechtschaff – A great introduction to mindfullness in the classroom for teachers and students
Blogs to Read:
- Audrey Watters – News and views on shifts in education
- Kathy Cassidy – Primary school teacher from Moose Jaw, SK
- The Answer Sheet – As good a blog as any to chronicle ed reform
- Stephen Downes – Another great curator of educational news and research
- The Internet of Things Blog – Tracks the increasing connectedness of the world.
- Net Family News – Great insights for parents from Anne Collier.
- Home Free America – John Robb’s realistic take on the future.
- Shelley Wright – Inquiry based classroom
Twitter Accounts to Follow:
- Pam Moran – Superintendent of Albemarle (Va) School District
- Kathy Cassidy – First grade teacher from Moose Jaw, SK
- Edutopia – The George Lucas Education Foundation online magazine
- Silvia Tolisano – Elementary school teacher in Brazil
- Cathy Davidson – Duke professor
- Alec Couros – College professor
- Bill Fitzgerald – Ed programmer
Must Reading:
- Technology is Not Neutral – by Gary Stager, one of the most accomplished thinkers around computers and learning
- Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education
- Edutopia Magazine
- Scarsdale High School’s Center for Innovation overview (pdf)
- Self-Directed Learning
- The Right to Learn (pdf)
- The End of Higher Education’s Golden Age
- Game of Shark and Minnow (New York Times multimedia storytelling example)
- How We’re Fooled Into Thinking That Sexual Predators Lurk Everywhere (Chapter from danah boyd’s book above.)
- Castle View’s (CO) new Mosaic School. Blowing up the traditional model.
- Learner at the Center of a Networked World (pdf)
- Leading in Context (pdf)
- Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
- The Future of Education from the Hawken School – Provocative and visionary. Send it to your leaders.
- Dancing With Robots – The future of work for our kids.
- American Schools are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist – David Edwards from Harvard
UBC Physics & Engineering – Arduino Session Resources
by Bernhard Zender
Arduino Hands On Labs CUEBC2014 – Lab Power Point
Microsoft Canada – Technology in the Classroom – Links from their presentation
- Microsoft Canada Education Team www.microsoft.ca/education
- Microsoft Educator Network www.pil-network.com
- OneNote in the classroom http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-sg/teachers/guides/Pages/one-note.aspx
- OneNote Classroom Notebook Creator https://support.office.com/en-CA/Article/Learn-how-an-IT-Administrator-can-install-OneNote-Class-Notebook-Creator-for-your-school-db064f51-ae7f-440d-a89b-5d4120d873e2
- OneNote at Appleby College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV_xvZEnPMU
- Skype in Education education.skype.com
- Skype Translator http://recode.net/video/microsofts-skype-star-trek-language-translator-demo/ 3:09
- Photo Gallery http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/photo-gallery
- MovieMaker http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows-Live/movie-maker
- AutoCollage http://www.pil-network.com/Resources/Tools/Details/1d1fb292-d251-4d52-9fbd-9dd9cc45a076
- SongSmith http://www.pil-network.com/Resources/Tools/Details/e4aa34ed-e2c7-458b-89bc-4a9a94614d77
- PowerPoint office.microsoft.com
- Office Mix mix.office.com
- Sway sway.com
Flexible Assessment and Engagement with an iPad: going paperlite.
by Bryon Carpenter
CUEBC presentation can be found at: www.tinyurl.com/paperlitecuebc
Or the long version: http://prezi.com/smboov99xcyb/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
PDF Version
Project Ideas Using iPad Devices for Primary Grades
by Tricia Anton
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