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These faculty members also may struggle to juggle the demands of the professorship with family commitments, raising children, service to practitioners, a growing social media presence, and innovation in realms that most postsecondary institutions fail to value. This second path would be me, of course. I’m also grateful for all of you.

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Math Expert Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell Endorses Hand2Mind’S Hands-On Standards

eSchool News

Created by hand2mind in 2012, Hands-On Standards reinforces key, grade-level math concepts and helps students deepen their understanding with hands-on manipulatives and activities. In 2006, Fennell was appointed to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel by President George W. Hands-On Standards. EST (3:45 p.m. ABOUT hand2mind.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). 9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. Madda et al.,

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education Acquires Pivot Interactives

eSchool News

Back in 2012, I began to experiment with integrating interactive video into my classroom practice. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. About Clearlake Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.

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Making connections

Learning with 'e's

One major phenomenon of the last decade has undoubtedly been the global and exponential rise of social media. Seeded at the turn of the century, the social web phase of Internet development promoted connections, participation, networked sociality. The social web truly is a powerful communication technology.

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Launching SchoolLibraryNJ (and some models beyond)

NeverEndingSearch

We’ve seen evidence of this in the many curated digital collections shared across social media, including all of those lovely Bitmoji libraries. 2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” During the pandemic we’ve seen value in the efforts of so many librarians whose online presence bridges their school communities.

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Announcing Amazing Keynote and Distinguished Speakers for the School Leadership Summit

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is a recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association and was named one of the 2012 10 most influential people in educational technology by the Tech & Learn Magazine. Eric has emerged as an innovative leader in the use of social media and web 2.0