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Start Me Up: Dispatch from Startup Weekend Washington DC EDU
Over the weekend, I had the privilege to attend a portion of the second Startup Weekend event focused on education. Startup Weekend is itself a startup organization that organizes gatherings of developers, designers, business and marketing experts, and investors to … Continue reading
Posted in computing, edtech101, edu tech, education, teach for america
Tagged data, edu tech, education, internet, technology
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Textlab: Literacy is a technology. Technology is a literacy.
Music: “These Legs” by Thanks,Again This is my pitch, created along with my colleague Jordyn Sims, for the TFA Social Innovation Award competition. Textlab.org Literacy is a technology. Technology is a literacy. Andrew Plemmons Pratt (TFA DC Region ’10, 7th … Continue reading
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Tagged edu tech, internet, tfa, web development
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Technology is a Literacy (and I’ll be blogging about it on TFANet’s EdTech 101 blog!)
Exciting news! I’m joining the blogging team on Teach For America’s internal social network, TFANet.org. I’ve partnered with Lewis Leiboh, owner of the EdTech 101 blog. Together, we’re going to develop more content to get corps members effective digital tools. … Continue reading
Classroom Vision: Language is a Toolkit of Power
So one of the pieces of TFA pre-school work that I find really exciting is the “vision” we’re expected to lay out for the year. This is your classroom manifesto, your big call-to-arms for what you want your students to … Continue reading
Congratulations to the Class of 2020 (30 Days of Creativity: Day 17)
My 7th graders made it through their first year of middle school. And I am immensely proud of them. So I made this drawing on my new iPad, for which I am most grateful to the Reynolds Family Foundation.
Tomorrow is the Last Day of School (30 Days of Creativity: Day 16)
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Your Dropbox is Almost Full! Teacher Collaboration With Cloud Storage (30 Days of Creativity: Day 12)
Update below Teaching With Cloud Storage So since the very beginning of TFA Summer Institute, the hands-down most important web tool for me as a teacher (aside from email) has been Dropbox. Dropbox is a feature-rich, cross-platform file-syncing service. If … Continue reading
Posted in edu tech, education, teach for america
Tagged #30daysofcreativity, cloud, data, edu tech, education, storage, tfa
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On-Demand Professional Development and the PGCPS/TFA Innovation Challenge
Data-driven instruction is one of the transformative elements of excellent teaching. Simply put, if you don’t know where your students are at any given moment in terms of mastering the curriculum, then you’re going to have a tough time coaching … Continue reading
Posted in edu tech, education, teach for america, web development
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My Brilliant Scholars Need Some Computers. Got Any Sitting Around?
The remarkable students of my four 7th-grade reading classes started a playwriting project just before spring break. When they come back, I want all of them to be able to type and edit their projects. The problem is that I … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, edu tech, education, literacy
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A Progressive Education
In light of Obama declaring his campaign for re-election, I thought it would be a good occasion to share something intimately connected to his current presidency. Below is the farewell email I wrote to my co-workers at the Center for American Progress … Continue reading
Posted in education, science policy, teach for america
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