Having spent the bulk of the week on travel, this week is an abbreviated edition of ICYMI. Quality, not quantity!
Intention – original content by Walter
A Deep Dive Into Learning Innovation [VIDEO 12:39]
Global Growth Strong and Accelerating in 2016
Learning from the Emerging Future
What Do 7 Billion People Do? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Privacy Pitfalls as Education Apps Spread Haphazardly
How Open Educational Resources are being used in Schools [INFOGRAPHIC]
March Mindset – original content by Walter
Moving Beyond a Single Measure of a School
Rigor: What it Is, and What it Isn’t [TABLE]
How Social Media Impacts the Politics of Education
Four Reasons to Worry About “Personalized Learning”
Students: The Future of Learning Environments [VIDEO 5:56]
When School Leaders Empower Teachers, Better Ideas Emerge
Learning: The Factory Model versus the Flow
Sackstein: What if Education Honored Students’ Individuality…
Mindsets And The Power of Believing [INFOGRAPHIC]
Creating Memes to Explore Themes
Report: Local News in a Digital Age
Abdul-Jabbar: Who Will Lead Black Americans?
Sleeping Well in the Digital Age [INFOGRAPHIC]
Education Comes Down to Cultural Capital and Skills
The Gap Between Girls and Boys is Widening
A New Approach to Designing Educational Technology
A Display of School Spirit to Kick Off Your Weekend [VIDEO 5:27]
Your Next Generation of Professional Development – original content by Walter
LMS Evolution or Extinction? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Today’s Reformers Have a Major Blind Spot
Sheninger: Teacher Accountability Through a New Lens
Standardized Testing is Not Teaching [VIDEO 3:31]
Urging a Common Sense Look at PARCC Testing
Why Use a School #Hashtag? [VIDEO 2:09]
Using Design Thinking to Create a New School
Crowdfunding in the Upstart Age [INFOGRAPHIC]
University as a Learning Design Challenge
More Conflict Over Cutting Federal Role in Education
27 Ways to Be A Reflective Practitioner [INFOGRAPHIC]
8 Maryland School Systems’ Ed Tech Success
TN Lawmaker Wants to Bill K-12 for College Remediation
The Filter Bubble: Invisible Algorithmic Editing of the Web [VIDEO 9:00]
Blogging is Key to Social Media Success [INFOGRAPHIC]
5 Education Research Lessons from 2014
Choose Your Own Adventure Tutorial [VIDEO 0:19]
Cerebral Networking – original content by Walter
Does Teaching Kids To Get “Gritty” Help Them Get Ahead?
8 Semantic Mapping Tools for the Classroom
Building The Basics of Personalized Professional Learning
1905: Einstein’s Miracle Year [VIDEO 5:16]
6 Technologies That Will Change the Face of Ed
NH’s Journey Toward Competency-Based Education
Innovation as Freewheeling Collaboration [INFOGRAPHIC]
7 Things You Should Know About Makerspaces [PDF]
SETDA Seeks Ed Tech Startups for Private Sector Partners Program
Publishing Scholarly Work Digitally
Generation Z: Growing and Learning with Mobile [INFOGRAPHIC]
Shifting the Culture in Learner-Centered Environments/
It’s Time to Stop Using Terms Like “Achievement Gap” & “Student Success”
Improving Accountability in ESEA
Report: Pearson Earns Profits Even When It Doesn’t Get Results
Hello? I’d Like to Report a Hijacking! – original content by Walter
A Challenge to Educators with Innovative Ideas
Lipsky: What the Tests Don’t Tell Us
How Secure are Your School Data Management Systems?
Good Intentions & Unintended Consequences
Paradoxes of Ed Reform Critics
ASCD: It’s Time to Rethink Antiquated Accountability Systems
Shakira: Initiating a Tidal Wave of Change [VIDEO 1:39]
A Blueprint for the Future of Relevant Schools
What If We Pursued a Culture of Learning Instead of a Culture of Achievement?
Wi-Fi Enabled School Buses: Providing A Basic Human Right?
How Education Breaks the Prison Cycle [INFOGRAPHIC]
Striving for a Pedagogy of Empowerment
Makerspace at Deer Park Elementary [VIDEO 3:02]
Seattle Project Tackles Suburban Poverty & Early Education Deficit
That’s Why They Play the Game – original content by Walter
What Teachers Make and What It Buys Them [INFOGRAPHIC]
Doing the Math on Teacher Pensions
What Do We Really Mean When We Say ‘Personalized Learning’?
Secret Teacher: I want to be like Yoda, but I feel more like a Stormtrooper
The Status of Trust in Education
Can Students Have Too Much Tech?
Wireless Kiosks Keep 1-to-1 Initiative Running After Hours
Creativity Joins Fragments of Knowledge into a New Unity of Understanding
NC Early Childhood Impact on Special Ed Placements by 3rd Grade
How Vaccination Rates Have Changed, State by State
Annual Testing, Common Core Hot-Button Issues in NCLB Debate
Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up [VIDEO 6:10]
Parenting in the Social Age [INFOGRAPHIC]
Overcoming Second-Guessing Syndrome
Fewer Top Graduates Want to Join Teach for America
Staring Myself Down – original content by Walter
Lamar Alexander: Federal Accountability Of Schools and Teachers A Failure
Decoding Dyslexia [INFOGRAPHIC]
Microsoft’s “Classroom of the Future”
Further Explanation of the Transformational 6 Questions on Technology Use
Tenkely: To Change Education, Change Your Mindset
Learning vs. Knowledge Building
The Wonderful & Terrifying Implications of Computers That Can Learn [VIDEO 19:47]
Higher Education May Earn Your Child Middle Class Status, If It’s Still Around
Data Mine: Schools Still Separate and Unequal
Schlechty’s Levels of Classroom Engagement [INFOGRAPHIC]
Sackstein: “Having This Growth Mindset is a Very, Very Challenging Thing” [VIDEO 3:28]
How Does Your Smartphone Know Your Location? [VIDEO 5:04]
Common Core Standards in Action
Fostering Women Leaders: A Five-Question Check
Google, Deep Learning and the Neural Net
How Mobile Technology Impacts Learning
The Core Four Educator Requirements – original content by Walter
Dr. King on the Function of Education [MEME]
Let’s Try a New Bold Experiment
Report: 51% of Students Now Live in Poverty
The Two-Day Laptop Battery Is Here
The Importance of Grit [INFOGRAPHIC]
Growth Mindset at Greenshaw High School [VIDEO 2:31]
SETDA Guide to Implementing Digital Learning
Are You A Whole Teacher? A Self-Assessment To Understand
What If Assessment Elevated Learning Instead of Ranking Students?
The Past, Present & Future Of High-Stakes Testing [TRANSCRIPT AND MP3]
27 Ways to Check for Understanding [INFOGRAPHIC]
Wealth, Power & Intellect Are Becoming Hereditary
Equity in Education: Where to Begin?
Stopping The Bus To Get It Right
Reauthorizing ESEA: A Chance to Fix Testing & Accountability
Your Innovation Investment – original content by Walter
Venture Capital Investing in K-12
31 Ways to Be Creative [INFOGRAPHIC]
Decoding Leadership: What Really Matters
How Flipped Learning Transformed Ohio State Football
Whitby: We Need Vision Tempered with Reality
Obama Will Urge F.C.C. to Expand Local Broadband
We Have Met the Enemy and This Is Them! [VIDEO 1:51]
Are You Technology Rich, But Innovation Poor?
eLearning in 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Why Education Reporting Is So Boring
A Letter to Teachers Who Give the Rest of Us a Bad Name
Why Teachers Should Ask More Questions
Cardale Jones Puts His Education First
The Most Controversial Woman in Ed Reform
Authenticity – original content by Walter
STEM Makers and Shakers [PODCAST 36:51] – moderated by Walter
How to Curate Your Academic Digital Identity
Leadership Freak: 5 Choices that Lead to Extraordinary Results
4 Visionary Conference Mindsets
The Gamification of Education [INFOGRAPHIC]
STEM Builds Capacity for Our Future [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Internet of Things: Sizing Up the Opportunity
Education Trends & Drivers Impacting Learning by 2020
We Need to be Gritty about Getting our Kids Grittier [VIDEO 3:12]
The Powerful Invisible Force of School Culture
Take Back Your Mornings, Take Charge of Your Life [INFOGRAPHIC]
De Blasio Lifts Ban on Cellphones in NYC Public Schools
Why Can’t Schools Look Like This?
9 Ideas to which Education Is Having Trouble Responding
2015’s Fifty Happiest Companies to Work For
The End of Employeeship As We Know It [INFOGRAPHIC]
America is Secretly Number One Internationally in Education
Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare [transcript plus video clip]
The Mind Subway: Which Line Do You Usually Ride? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Actualization 