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What is Collaboration for Professional Learning?

My Island View

I started my Twitter account with a plan and focus to use it to develop collegial sources for my professional learning. Using Twitter for professional learning requires a collaborative mindset. Twitter for professional learning is not a passive exercise. This requires work. It does require time and effort.

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Laying the Foundation for Distance Learning Success

Digital Promise

In fact, more than 70 percent of teachers in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools reported feeling prepared, with 93 percent crediting the program with making aspects of remote instruction easier to implement. The students already were used to using those platforms in the classroom.”.

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Inside Google’s NYC Teacher’s Lounge

Edsurge

“One of the topics that were really important to educators was ‘self-directed learning,’” says Garrison. So her team took the theme and broke it down into five parts: flipped classrooms, blended learning, back to basics, executive functioning skills, and student self-assessment and self-regulation.

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Educator Perspectives: Leading in a Pandemic

MIND Research Institute

We got them all iPads simply because Chromebooks are hard to get right now. Google Classroom has been pretty important. I present regionally on innovative practices in education, topics such as the flipped classroom or using social media to build relationships for families. What are the advantages?

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THANK YOU for 5 Amazing Years of Educational Podcasting! Thank You For Amazing Feedback!

TeacherCast

Grad Student Necessity December 26, 2014 by dr.j_cyrus from United States I recommend this podcast as one of the resources for the professional learning networks (PLNs) that my graduate students create each semester. This is such a great teaching/learning resource. tools in the classroom and much more. 11 Dec 2015.

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Change Your Leadership: Introducing One-One Devices into Our School

Fractus Learning

As well as being an English teacher and a member of the professional development team, I was also integral in developing pedagogical outcomes and disseminating information through weekly professional development sessions. We hadn’t heard of Twitter as an effective Professional Learning Network ( PLN ). The Year Was 2011.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.