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Emotional Data on the Job
categories: pedagogy
How to Manage Your Own Emotional Data on the Job
Liz KislikDecember 13, 2018 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-manage-your-own-emotional-data-job-liz-kislik/
emotions can give you truly pertinent, useful data about business problems that need attention.
negative emotions are useful indicators of both your instincts and your beliefs:
- If you’re feeling sad or down, you’re probably unhappy with your own behavior or the effectiveness of your response to events. You might be thinking that something has gone wrong and that it was your fault. Be careful not to leave sadness unattended or it can slide into hopelessness and the belief that you’ll never be able to make things better. Instead, let sadness prompt you to change: Look for small actions and steps to make headway and improvements.
- If you’re angry, you may be experiencing a fairness issue of some kind, and the anger may be telling you about a sense of violation or something that needs to be set right.
- If you’re afraid or don’t feel safe in some way, you may sense that something bad is going to happen but you’re not sure what it is or how it might damage you. Or perhaps you don’t trust upcoming events or the people involved. Your fear can alert you to do extra preparation and contingency planning so you’ll have your best shot at success.
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more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
Hacking Innovating Failing
categories: educational technology, instructional technology
Hacking, Innovating and Failing Well—How Tech Sector Principles Can Revolutionize Education Workplaces
By Barnett Berry Apr 18, 2016
In recent years, school reformers, philanthropists, and venture capital investors have placed big bets on blended learning, and edtech professionals have responded with vigor. But as education historian Larry Cuban has noted, the innovative instruction envisioned by edtech advocates remains the exception to the rule—in large part because of the lack of time for teachers to “learn, experiment, and overhaul their practices in collaboration with each other.”
Operating within archaic organizational structures, very few of our nation’s teachers have opportunities to incubate and execute ideas prompted by their deep knowledge of students, families, and communities. This includes ideas about how best to integrate technology.
Google’s 9 principles of innovation for every organization, to which many attribute the company’s dominance in the market.
1. Innovation should come from everywhere
recent Harvard Business Review post enjoined, hackathons are not just for coders. At the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), our TeacherSolutions model, like the one we used with Brevard Countyeducators, stokes creativity and prototypes promising ideas quickly.
2. 20% Time
3. Fail Well
European university researchers Oliver Baumann and Nils Stieglitz suggest that “to get more breakthroughs, the best approach is to focus on increasing the variety of ideas that are generated.” They note that some companies are experimenting with rewarding “brilliant failures that provide some sort of insights, even if they turn out not to work.”
The attitude in most schools couldn’t be more different. As education policy expert Linda Darling-Hammond has noted, our nation’s “test-and-punish approach” to accountability has tamped down much-needed innovation.
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more on leadership and technology in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=leadership+technology
K12 administrators and data analytics
categories: announcement
Data Analytics a Key Skill for Administrators in K–12
A recent report highlights how data can open the door for K-12 school administrators to maximize student outcomes.
Eli Zimmerman
K-12 school districts looking to improve student success rates should invest in training administrators in data analysis, according to a report from the Data Quality Campaign.
Report authors also call on state policymakers to help lead the charge for more literate school administrators. School and district administrators need to model and support effective data use at every level, including as part of classroom instruction
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more on data analytics in education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=data+analytics
students and technology
2015 Student and Faculty Technology Research Studies
https://library.educause.edu/resources/2015/8/2015-student-and-faculty-technology-research-studies
Report: https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2015/8/ers1510ss.pdf?la=en
Infographic: ECAR_2015
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Study of Students and Information Technology, 2014
https://library.educause.edu/resources/2014/10/2014-student-and-faculty-technology-research-studies
report: https://library.educause.edu/~/media/files/library/2014/10/ers1406.pdf
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Higher Ed: EDUCAUSE Releases ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2013
http://www.infodocket.com/2013/09/16/higher-ed-educause-releases-ecar-study-of-undergraduate-students-and-information-technology-2013/
Direct to Full Text Report (49 pages; PDF)
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ECAR 2011
digital literacy
categories: Digital literacy
Laura Devaney (@eSN_Laura). 4/12/16, 9:32 AM This is exactly why we need digital literacy: ow.ly/10zJeD #DigitalLiteracy #assessments #edtech
Online Testing Highlights the Need for Digital Literacy
Daily Exposure to Digital Devices
the Consortium for School Networking’s “Becoming Assessment Ready” initiative
Because online exams require students to have functional literacy with computing devices, such as switching between screens, opening drop-down menus and highlighting words, students should be using technology in their day-to-day classroom experience so they are building these digital literacy skills, he explains.
“The more often students use digital devices in their day-to-day learning, the more comfortable with those devices they become,” says Ribble, who has written a book about digital literacy and citizenship for the International Society for Technology in Education.
Younger Students Perform Better in Online Formats
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More on digital literacy in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+literacy
Managing the Digital Classroom