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The Greatest Lesson I Learned As a New Teacher Was the Power of Saying "I'm Sorry"

Edsurge

I instantly recalled my interactions with his mother and connecting during parent-teacher conferences. Throughout my experience as a middle school teacher, I struggled with my presence as an educator, shifting and changing with every new trend presented through PD and feedback given by well-meaning administrators.

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

Edsurge

For more than 15 years, Project Tomorrow has run the popular survey effort called Speak Up , which polls hundreds of thousands of students and adults about learning trends and makes the local data available to individual districts. Actually that is more of a symptom that we saw in Millennials than we see in this current generation.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Motivation in Your Students

The CoolCatTeacher

You can even coordinate volunteer schedules, donations, and parent-teacher conferences. Larry Ferlazzo began teaching in 2003 after working as a community organizer for nearly twenty years. More than just connecting with their cell phones, you can send long or short messages. You can share pictures and links. Who is Larry Ferlazzo?

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This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning

Edsurge

Consider viral brain-based teaching trends and explorations of how the act of teaching shapes kids’ brains. So I connected with people who run the Learning and the Brain conference and began to attend. My first book was in 2003 (1*), and that book was all about connecting research with effective teaching.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. We did two live Future Trends Forum sessions from NMC summer conferences. It was a career honor to be invited to offer the closing keynote for their annual conference. On a personal note, this breaks my heart.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. We did two live Future Trends Forum sessions from NMC summer conferences. It was a career honor to be invited to offer the closing keynote for their annual conference. On a personal note, this breaks my heart.

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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. One of my very memorable failures was in 2003, when I went to Austin ISD to present to the technology team as the final step of a large purchase.

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