Latest articles by J. Robinson
From the Principal's Office: 20 Applications for Everyday Use
Here’s my “Apps-I-Use-Everyday List.” Let me know what you think, or if you have an alternative app that you think is better.
From the Principal's Office: Which Model of Project-Based Learning Is Needed?
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is being touted as the 21st century answer to how we should be educating students and the perfect delivery-system for the Common Core State Standards.
From the Principal's Office: Computer-to-Student Ratio Stats Are Not Measures of School Effectiveness
From the Principal's Office: Transforming Our Schools by Changing Mindsets Not by Buying More Technology
If you really want to know why all that technology sits idle, it's probably because it does not fit the way your teachers teach and the way they have been teaching for the past 100 years or so.
From the Principal's Office: Teaching Active Reputation Management: 5 Steps for Sanitizing Facebook Accounts
From the Principal's Office: MindMapper for iOS: (Currently) Free and Easy to Use Mindmapping App
If you are looking for a mindmapping app for your iPad or iPhone, currently SimTech Systems has their MindMapper app for iOS available for free in the Appstore.
From the Principal's Office: Strategies for Teaching Students to Critically Validate Online Information
For students to effectively take ownership of that learning though, we can ill-afford to turn them loose with Google and expect them to dazzle us with what they find out.
From the Principal's Office: Great Resource for Helping Students Manage Their Online Reputations
“Many of today’s students are finding themselves with a very real permanent record---one that reflects every poor decision of their youth, and is stored online forever.”
From the Principal's Office: Empowering and Educating Students About Cell Phones - Ending the Bans
Schools continuing to ban cell phones and smartphones are fighting a losing battle.
From the Principal's Office: Tips for Google Reader Users Moving to Feedly
For those users who, like myself, who are migrating to using Feedly due to Google Reader's demise, here's an excellent blog post from Feedly to help you with that migration process.
From the Principal's Office: Feedly- An RSS Reader Replacement for Google Reader
With the impending demise of Google Reader, I have been in search for an RSS Reader replacement.
From the Principal's Office: 3 Steps to Leveraging the Power of Technology to Disrupt Your School or District
Then the next question is, what steps can we take to leverage the disruptive power of technology in our schools?
From the Principal's Office: 5 Guidelines for Rational School Leader Response to Social Media Issues
The crime was not the use of social media. The crime was the action of making threats which is illegal.
From the Principal's Office: iOS Kindle App Improvements - 3 New Features for the Power Reader
Recently Amazon released a newer version of their iOS Kindle app with three new features that clearly improve the app's functionality.
From the Principal's Office: Using Google Forms to Create a Walkthrough-Observation App for the iPad
You can create a Google Form in your Google Drive account, and set it up as an iPad observation app right on your iPad. That's a free option which is difficult to beat.
From the Principal's Office: 10 Things School Leaders Do to Kill a Teacher's Enthusiasm for Technology
Or, “10 Things a 21st Century School Leader Will Not Do to Discourage Teachers from Engaging in the Use of Technology.”
From the Principal's Office: Let’s End the Administrator War on Mobile Devices
We’ve all worked with them, educators who have made it their mission to rid the classrooms and schools of this world of those infernal, disruptive devices called “cell phones.”
From the Principal's Office: 5 Baby-Steps for Using Twitter to Begin a Personal Learning Network
From the Principal's Office: When Interactive Boards and Tablets Aren’t 21st Century Classroom Tools
When they are only used to reinforce lecture, worksheets and other 20th century teaching and learning methodology, they are little more than chalkboards with computer chips.
From the Principal's Office: Inspiration Maps for iPad: Excellent Mapping Solution for the iPad
Inspiration is an excellent choice for concept mapping because its features make it useful as a classroom tool and as a tool for anyone who uses mindmapping techniques.
From the Principal's Office: Ideas for Establishing & Revising Your School or District's BYOD Policies
A Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy is a necessity in a 21st century school.
