Free Webinar: Digital Schools: How technology can transform education

Education Week is offering this FREE webinar on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 ---- you do have to REGISTER for the FREE live webinar.

Digital Schools: How Technology Can Transform Education

This event takes place on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 2 to 3 p.m. ET.

Nearly a century ago, famed educator John Dewey said, "If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow." This wisdom resonates more strongly than ever today, and that maxim underlies this insightful look at the present and future of education in the digital age. In this webinar, Darrell West will discuss key findings from his book, Digital Schools: How Technology Can Transform Education, which examines new models of education made possible by enhanced information technology, and how new approaches will make public education in the post-industrial age more relevant, efficient, and ultimately more productive. West will explain how today’s educational institutions must reinvent themselves to engage students successfully and provide them with the skills needed to compete in an increasingly global, technological, and online world. West will share the potential contributions of blogs, wikis, social media, and video games and augmented reality in K–12 and higher education.

Presenter: Darrell West, director of governance studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

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Education Week is serving only as the host for this presentation. The content was created by the sponsor. The opinions expressed in this webinar are those of the sponsor and do not reflect the opinion of or constitute an endorsement by Editorial Projects in Education or any of its publications.

FREE Common Core, digital resources

Okay, you know how much we like FREE or in this case Federal Registry for Education Excellence (FREE) ---- check out the resources listed by subject (Arts & Music, Health and Physical Education, Language Arts, Math, Science, U.S. History topics, U.S. time periods, World Studies) or by standards (Common Core Mathematics, Geography Education Standards, Science Education Standards) ---- activities, games, curriculum, lessons plans, professional development, challenges, and more ---- check out the article below which was featured in MY eSchool News on July 16th, 2013: 

The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE) makes it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations.

About the new Beta version

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has introduced a new version of FREE, which is powered by the Learning Registry—an open database for sharing digital learning resources. It runs on a custom version of WordPress, an open source content management system. The new FREE incorporates a responsive design to best serve customers who access FREE from mobile devices.

The new FREE is a work in progress, as the DOE is mapping more and more resources to national and state standards and envisions adding more social features to the site in the future.

The DOE welcomes your feedback and ideas! Contact the Department at FREE@ed.gov or on Twitter @FreeResources.

Background on FREE

FREE was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President. The site was launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in November 2006 and again in June 2013.

Federal agencies, if you’re looking to involve teachers in developing teaching resources, see  lessons learned.

FREE is maintained by the Office of Communications and Outreach and the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education in partnership with the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative.

Free Webinars About Parenting Gifted Children

 

National Parenting Gifted Children Week is July 21-27, 2013!

SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) are offering four free webinars.  The important thing about this series - Each webinar is only free to download on the date listed and for a one-time ("single use") viewing.  So, wait until the day of to click the link and "order" the webinars you want.  The webinars can be "watched" at anytime you wish, however, to get it FREE it has to be "ordered" on the date it is offered below.

Monday, July 22: Bootcamp for Determined Advocates, presented by Wenda Sheard, an attorney, teacher, and mother of three grown gifted children. This webinar will focus on legal, political, and educational aspects of advocacy.

Tuesday, July 23: Forging Partnerships with Teachers and Why They Often Don't Work, presented by Nancy Robinson, professor emerita of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and former director of what is now known as the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars. This webinar will feature reasons parents and teachers can be on different pages, plus strategies for coming together and working together on behalf of the child.

Wednesday, July 24: Parent Engagement in Promoting a STEM Identity Among Gifted Black Students, presented by Tarek Grantham, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology (EPIT) at the University of Georgia, and Kristina Collins, a doctoral student in the EPIT department whose research focuses on parent engagement, STEM identity, and under-represented gifted students. This webinar details strategies parents can utilize to encourage and support a positive STEM identity in underrepresented gifted youth.

Thursday, July 25: This Isn't the Child I Dreamed of Raising, presented by Barbara Probst, social worker and author of When the Labels Don't Fit. This webinar will assist parents in deconstructing their child's challenging emotional and behavioral issues, followed by focused strategies to empower parent and child alike to overcome them and thrive.

More details about each webinar and each presenter are available at the webinar's link.

Free Webinar from ASCD on the Common Core State Standards - Monday, July 22, 2013

Shifting from the Elephant in the Room to Ownership of the Common Core State Standards: A Capacity-Building Implementation Plan

Nicole Clifton  

Participants will gain an understanding of building internal capacity for implementing the Common Core State Standards as well as understanding their role in facilitating implementation.

Participants will discover best practices for successful implementation through planning job-embedded professional learning, determining a timeline for implementation, and determining a plan for getting assistance.

This webinar will also focus on exploring powerful strategies that will demonstrate how to monitor and adjust implementation plans during the implementation period.

Monday, July 22, 2013, 3:00 p.m. EST

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Free Webinar from Education Week

Using data to inform instruction and personalize learning:  A continuous improvement framework.  Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 2 to 3 pm ET

Content provided by DreamBox Learning.

Educators and administrators across the K-12 spectrum aspire to effectively utilize data to enhance teaching and learning. But what powerful, easy-to-use frameworks are out there to enable them to make the switch from data collectors to data innovators?

Advances in technology now provide invaluable resources and tools for educators at all levels. These tools—and the data they provide—can be harnessed by educators to inform daily instructional practices to increase academic rigor and growth, enabling students of all abilities to enjoy learning, unlock their potential, and achieve proficiency. Learn new ways to use rich, interactive adaptive learning systems to accelerate personalized learning for all students in the common-core era. See how data from multiple measures of assessment are used to make informed decisions, assign personalized content with instantaneous feedback, identify instructional interventions, and help educators to create a personalized learning environment for all students.

Presenter: Sharnell S. Jackson, president, Data-Driven Innovations Consulting, Inc. Moderator: Tim Hudson, senior director of curriculum design, DreamBox Learning

Education Week is serving only as the host for this presentation. The content was created by the sponsor. The opinions expressed in this webinar are those of the sponsor and do not reflect the opinion of or constitute an endorsement by Editorial Projects in Education or any of its publications.

Registration is required to attend this event. Please register now.

13 FREE Web Tools Students and Teachers Should Know About

According to a posting by Katrina Schwartz on July 8, 2013 on KQED Mind/Shift, Adam Bellow, founder of EduClipper, and Steve Dembo, Online Community Manager of Discovery Education at the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) conference this year shared some of their favorite apps.

Check out this blog article 13 Free Web Tools Students and Teachers Should Know About. 

Oh we so like FREE!