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	<description>Mostly pertinent thoughts about technology and education by school and district leaders.</description>
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		<title>Predictions for 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/predictions-for-2012/1480.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Butch Owens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yogi Berra once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” That&#8217;s especially true in the world of technology today, but I think we can, at least, predict what the hot topics will be as we head into 2012.  Most important is how we respond to these issues.  Let’s take a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educators&#8217; interest and enthusiasm for digital learning grows!</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/educators-interest-and-enthusiasm-for-digital-learning-grows/1240.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/educators-interest-and-enthusiasm-for-digital-learning-grows/1240.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data-Driven Decision Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Tomorrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speak Up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s driving educators&#8217; enthusiasm for digital learning?  The latest Project Tomorrow Speak Up Survey suggests three factors: &#160; &#160; Teachers and administrators are using technology to improve their own productivity.  They use mobile devices, online classes and digital content; and this causes them to think creatively about using these same tools in the classroom. Students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Technology Do Students Want?</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/what-technology-do-students-want/1194.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/what-technology-do-students-want/1194.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Results from the latest Project Tomorrow Speak Up Survey suggest today’s  students are looking at a different paradigm in their learning experiences. Students today are inseparable from their mobile technologies; instant messaging and texting is a way of life.  And they want to use their technology at school. It&#8217;s tempting to dismiss that idea out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What path innovation?”</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/what-path-innovation/841.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/what-path-innovation/841.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Butch Owens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[standards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are common standards and national tests the panacea for our nation&#8217;s woes?  Some seem to think so, but I’m not so sure.    Just last April I had the opportunity to hear Yong Zhao, author of Catching up or Leading the Way,  speak at our annual Leadership 3.0 Symposium.   He argues that while for years, politicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mentoring for Student-Centric Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/mentoring-for-student-centric-learning/742.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/mentoring-for-student-centric-learning/742.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students are motivated differently and want to learn in new ways.  One way to help teachers adapt to diverse and changing students may be to encourage them to think of themselves as mentors. In his book Disrupting Class, Clayton Christensen talks about student-centric learning, &#8220;customized&#8221; learning, and teachers mentoring students.  Technology for customizing learning is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mentoring for Creativity</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/mentoring-for-creativity/727.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/mentoring-for-creativity/727.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[21st century learning is exciting!  I feel like the chains of No Child Left Behind are beginning to loosen.   Hopefully, testing will begin to take a more appropriate role, and teachers will be free to teach in ways they know will serve their students well in the future.  Now, for those of us who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxonomy Blooms Anew</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/taxonomy-blooms-anew/619.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/taxonomy-blooms-anew/619.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Marie Gonzales</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloom's Taxonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HOTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rigor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Technology is fluff; real learning takes place away from the computer.” That perception persists in some quarters.  As our curriculum and instruction team at the Santa Clara County Office of Education has been working on professional development training, we&#8217;ve been talking about ways to intertwine technology and higher level learning.  I have to admit, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education and the National Broadband Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/education-and-the-national-broadband-plan/533.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/education-and-the-national-broadband-plan/533.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Simkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us are aware that work is underway at the Department of Education on a new National Educational Technology Plan, but you may not know that education figures prominently in another federal technology initiative, the National Broadband Plan being developing at the Federal Communications Commission. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act directs the FCC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change&#8212;it&#8217;s more than a wordle</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/changeits-more-than-a-wordle/466.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/changeits-more-than-a-wordle/466.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Simkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Building 21st century schools takes leaders who know how to initiate and sustain change.   No easy task! Initiating and sustaining change is the final topic we address in the School Leader Development workshop.  After reviewing some key resources on change management, the participants work in small groups to identify what they believe are the Big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loosen that leash!</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/loosen-that-leash/436.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/loosen-that-leash/436.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Jarvis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[21st century schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenge-based learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today's kids can go find information and use it in pursuit of their own learning if we give them the opportunity.]]></description>
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