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How the @GitHub Update Could Be a Game Changer For #GAFE Teachers

GitHub made a recent update to their web interface that now makes me believe it is a place every educator belongs. flickr photo shared by Bernie Goldbach under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license You can now create and drag and drop files into your repos. Think of a repo as a cabinet,that holds both files and folders. Attached to your "cabinet" is a clip

Great post on OER @audreywatters #oer In the end there has to be some kind of platform or if we are going platformless with OER some kind of standard

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Great post on OER @audreywatters #oer In the end there has to be some kind of platform or if we are going platformless with OER some kind of standard that allows resources to have tagged metadata. Do you know how good people are at when it comes to tagging? I agree OER needs something such as GitHub. So I have a challenge to everyone go get three teachers. T

I broke one of the most important promises I heve made to myself

Not one minute. Not one dime. I made that promise May 19th, 1999 when I woke my brother Perez up from his slumber at the midngith release of Phantom Menace. I would never watch the first prequeln or give George Lucas any of my money for the movie. For sixteen years I kept that promise. Last night the credo blew up as predictably as some planet size laser. My

I get to teach High School classes!! #GearUpWorks #NHV #connectedlearning

flickr photo shared by Hldrmn under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license We held our first session of Power and Passion-Writing for Change as part of #GearUpNH. I am always inspired by the scholars who join us. This semester Gear Up New Haven is offering after school academic programs on our main campus. New Haven Public Schools has donated the transportatio

@slamteacher @mcjsa @KrisGiere @Bali_Maha @edtechinsight #moocmooc Or do we need to cause some disruption and be empathetic to struggle? My students d

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@slamteacher @mcjsa @KrisGiere @Bali_Maha @edtechinsight #moocmooc Or do we need to cause some disruption and be empathetic to struggle? My students demand rubricized and structured online learning modules. They want step by step walk-throughs of every task. Is it more empathetic to build the learning space that gaurantees success or do we just provide suppo

@mcjsa @KrisGiere @Bali_Maha @slamteacher @edtechinsight What about when learners want or expect linear. Is empathy sometimes a straight line of desig

@mcjsa @KrisGiere @Bali_Maha @slamteacher @edtechinsight What about when learners want or expect linear. Is empathy sometimes a straight line of design?

To my #edreform friends we need to rebalance teacher evaluation rubrics

I know the goal is to have one universal rubric of effective practice for each school district. Yet after evaluating over 200 teachers and working with numerous rubrics and frameworks I have come to realize the instruments are tilted heavily towards better performance in lower grades. Especially if classroom climate is an entire domain. I am sorry but it is

#RIPTwitter? Fanatical Fans need a better Funeral

The end of the chronological timeline means nothing for most people complaining about the change. For those who may not know last week the Internet blew up when rumors swirled of an algorithim based timeline over at Twitter. It came out today. For those loudest during the protest please stop talking. You have not been to the Twiiter web applciation in years.