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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Professional Learning Communities. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). Job Embedded Professional Development.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. BMC Medical Education 6, 41.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

Now, learning—like the internet—is everywhere thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and chromebooks. For young people today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise,” says Julie, Evans, the CEO of education nonprofit Project Tomorrow. “It But that doesn’t mean learning stops when they leave school.”

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

While individual members may have differing levels of competency, the group must be able to work collaboratively to achieve group norms and defined level of competency. It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002).

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry. The list goes on and on.

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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. You may not know it, but education is a very “green” industry. The list goes on and on.

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Five Ways Design and Making Can Help Science Education Come Alive

MindShift

Excerpted from Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in Middle School and Beyond by Christa Flores, published in 2016 by Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. These informal educational outlets do a good job spreading science literacy to the general public in a joyful and engaging manner. 2003; Cornett 1986). Benefit No.