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Announcing - Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
So some of you may have noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet here lately. All my writing energy has been going to a good cause though! I’m happy to announce a new book: Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering … Continue reading
Tips for student presenters at conferences
It’s educational technology conference time of year! There are so many educational conferences that you could literally attend 24/7. Hopefully some of you are taking students along with you to share their work. There’s nothing more exciting than seeing students … Continue reading
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Where Will Future School Leaders Come From?
Great leadership is inclusive leadership, yet the largest stakeholder group in schools is often forgotten: students. Students are 92% of the population at most every school site. To be a leader, you have to lead 100% of the population, not … Continue reading
Posted in blogs, education reform, student voice
Tagged empowerment, leadership, student voice, Youth Voice & Service Learning
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Back to School 2012 - Start your “year of empowerment” now!
Start the year off with hands on Think you need to wait for kids to settle down and learn the basics before you let them do projects and hands-on work? Not according to this expert teacher. What tech vision will … Continue reading
Webinars - Addressing youth risk in a positive and restorative manner
from Nancy Willard of Embracing Digital Youth: Addressing youth risk in a positive and restorative manner Embracing Digital Youth is proud to announce our first two Webinars. Through these Webinars, Embracing Digital Youth will seek to help educators, mental health professionals, law … Continue reading
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Tagged cybersafety, digital citizenship, empowerment, online youth risk, youth risk
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Student support of education reform - video
This is a 5 minute EDtalk shot at the Learning@School conference I keynoted in New Zealand in February. I touch on how students can be allies and advocates in the effort to improve schools, and how this enhances digital citizenship … Continue reading
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Tagged edreform, education, empowerment, reform, student, tech support, technology
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GenYES changes the way teachers view students, school, and technology
OK, I know a post this long violates all the rules of blogging. But I’m doing it to make a statement that only volume can make. And you don’t have to read it all - just skim through it. You’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged children, collaboration, educational technology, educator, empowerment, GenYES, project, projects, research, student, teacher, technology, youth
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Announcing TEDx Redmond - youth planned, youth led
Generation YES is proud to announce that we are co-sponsoring a TEDx event with Bing. TEDx Redmond will be held September 18, 2010 at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond WA. TEDx events are locally run events similar to the popular … Continue reading
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Tagged Adora Svitak, empowerment, GenYES, Microsoft, speaker, students, TED, TEDx, TEDx Redmond, TEDXREDMOND, Washington, youth
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Six Myths About Service Learning
From Principal Leadership magazine: Six Myths About Service Learning by Scott Richardson and Michael Josephson. Service learning is the Rodney Dangerfield of education. Students say that it’s an “annoying requirement.” Parents say, “My kid will learn more in the classroom … Continue reading
Student Leadership - Building Authentic 21st Century Skills
This is an archive from my webinar at the Cyber Conference for the Capitol Region ISTE affiliate (CRSTE) held on Feb. 27, 2010. Student Leadership - Building Authentic 21st Century Skills Clicking this link will launch the Elluminate web meeting … Continue reading
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