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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

Edsurge

This is why hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world are participating in Twitter chats, Edcamps and other informal, organically organized professional learning communities. Everyone began to understand that the world would forever change as a result of the internet and mobile communication. Participate.

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Digital Equity in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

Through a school library’s checkout program, these low-cost mobile devices provide students and households in need with secure, reliable, and safe access to the internet. Michael Flood currently serves as Vice President of Strategy at Kajeet. Even more widespread in school districts are LTE hotspots.

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Boston Area Peeps, Come Learn Together this Summer

SpeechTechie

Click for More Information July 22, 2013- Boston MA: EdCamp BLC at Building Learning Communities- I am helping to organize this free unconference in which the agenda is built and executed by participants. Now a veteran of 7 Edcamps, I will say again that I learn more at these events than I do from traditional PD!

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2012 Edublog Award Nominations

SpeechTechie

Best ed tech / resource sharing blog all4mychild shares the creative use of a variety of apps, books (particularly with their books4all analyses) and other strategies to make therapy engaging and effective. Best new blog Hanna B.

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4 New Podcasters to Check Out and Subscribe To in 2018!

TeacherCast

Each time I attend an edcamp , ISTE , or conference, I often seek out those with the knowledge I might not have and attempt to find some time to get a 1:1 conversation going. Do you want to grow your brand using online mobile ads. Meaning, if you like a session, you stay, and if you don't like a session, you leave. Apple Podcasts.

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The 2014 ASCD Annual Conference: There is Hope

Philly Teacher

In addition, there were more sessions this year focused around topics like integrating technology, digital citizenship, mobile learners, technology and critical thinking and others. conference edcamp PBL reflection social media technology'

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The Greatest Challenge Facing School Leaders in a Digital World

Edsurge

When nearly all information is digital or online, multi-modal and multi­media, accessed by mobile devices that fit in our pockets, the question should not be whether schools prepare students for a digital learning landscape, but rather how. The goal of instructional transformation is to empower students, not to disempower teachers.