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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Subscribe to the Show Anywhere You Listen to Podcasts This week's sponsor Modern Classrooms will help you teach better today! You’ll be glad you did.

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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

Creating a positive classroom experience for your students can shape the rest of their academic year. Try to organize your classroom —and your lesson plans— in advance. How to sign up for classroom or field trip volunteering opportunities. You may even want to start a Facebook group or Twitter account for parents. [11]

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Classroom. He is a frequent keynote speaker who challenges and inspires audiences with stories and real-life examples from his classroom.

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ISTE 2018: Where I?ll Be Presenting and Joining in the Learning #iste18

The CoolCatTeacher

Live Q&A: Using Technology to Stay in Touch with Parents (Facebook Live). Type of Event: Facebook Live Stream and in the Exhibit Hall Booth 685. Last year, their classroom of the future was really cool but this year, they are leveling it up. Booth 2002. We’ll also address fake articles, fake photos and fake videos.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. Which new ideas will scale and deliver consistent and increasing revenue, ROI and profitability?

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready.

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How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

The Hechinger Report

Berenice Espino and her Quest for Space teammates had gathered in the engineering classroom to watch as a SpaceX rocket was launched into the atmosphere heading for the International Space Station, carrying onboard a science experiment they’d designed. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Photo courtesy of Pedro Raymundo.