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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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When given agency, teachers understand the what, why, and how so they can genuinely embrace what they are learning and put those skills to use in their classroom instruction. From 2007 to 2013 Bruce served as the state director of educational technology and data coordination with the Michigan Department of Education.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

This knowledge (especially in knowledge based industries) becomes the organization’s product. As a result, the management of knowledge becomes more than access to embedded knowledge; it becomes the organization’s identity. Patterns of composing: Connections between classroom and workplace collaborations.

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Study Findings

Connecting 2 the World

In discussing this document in a group interview, the difficulty in creating an agreed upon product was obvious: Well, what formally…I think the … for the classroom trainers, they have a document. Later: P: There’s a certain way to do that in the classroom. However, partaged knowledge is difficult to quantify, control, and capture.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

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Principal among them is pairing professional learning with quality materials to advance teacher practice in the classroom. But,” he continued, “if you ask students to justify student why hydrogen is placed in its position on the periodic table (in the first row in the first column), they’re using their science knowledge.”. Assessment.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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