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How Hashtags Can Empower You in 2016

Teacher Reboot Camp

In August 2007, Chris Messina introduced hashtags (#) into Twitter’s code , which meant anyone using the platform could add a # sign front of any word(s) without spaces to make it a clickable link leading to a page where all tweets with this hashtag were aggregated. Create a hashtag to start a movement or Twitter chat!

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Digital Promise Research Map: A Starting Place for Exploring Research on Learning

Digital Promise

In 2016, we launched the Research Map to provide education stakeholders a visual way to explore the full landscape of education and learning science research. The new data visualization is based on over 100,000 peer-reviewed articles from 184 journals published between 2007 and 2016. Explore the map. Send us feedback.

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Ten Resources and Next Steps: Education and Poverty….ASCD 2016

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to the first post in a series that allows me to share with you my journey to the ASCD 2016 Conference in Atlanta. As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @ mjgormans ). I am now almost booked through August, and September through December of the 2016 calendar is filling fast. I was about to find out!

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The Fallacy of the “Either/Or” Scenario

The Principal of Change

I am visiting a district in Pennsylvania soon, and as a “Twitter Challenge” before I join them, educators were encouraged to send some questions to me ahead of time. January 26, 2013 5 Characteristics of a Change Agent January 1, 2016 Be a Change Agent December 19, 2016 Just Ask August 22, 2012 Is “failure” an option?

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Learning @Learning2

The Thinking Stick

We had inquiries from other schools in Africa to host the conference in 2016. The things we have tried, the failures, the successes and how a little conference that was suppose to be a one off in 2007 in Shanghai, China has turned into a yearly conference that sells out in a matter of months and is slowly spreading….is I pinch myself.

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Web Filtering: equally beneficial for your 5-year-old & 15-year-old

Securly

Federal law doesn’t specifically require schools to block Facebook, Twitter, etc. From 2007-2016, the number of students who experienced bullying roughly doubled from 18.8% Another, that it is a breach of student privacy. Misdirected blame: Web filtering is different at each school. Cyberbullying & Self-Harm Detection.

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Rethinking Balance

The Principal of Change

” George Couros, primarily from 2007-2017. January 28, 2015 School Culture and Mental Health #BellLetsTalk October 4, 2016 What’s a video worth? October 22, 2011 Happiness and Balance August 29, 2011 Defending from Twitter Overload November 10, 2011 Lost in Learning. “Balance is stupid.” That was me.