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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

Doug Green on episode 284 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Doug: Well, the people that started this back in about 2007… They just started recording their lessons. Twitter: @DrDougGreen. And it just sounds overwhelming. Doug: Yeah. Blog: [link].

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @ mjgormans ). Manny Scott is an original Freedom Writer, whose story is told in the 2007 movie, Freedom Writers. Freedom Writers Movie – Visit Common Sense Media to learn more about this 2007 movie based on a true story. Please give this post a retweet and pass it on.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Moran on episode 236 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter: @pammoran. I think that technologies are certainly a part of it. a nonprofit organization authorized by the U.S. Congress to accelerate innovation in education. View story at Medium.com.

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Being Connected is Not the Same as Connectedness #CEM15 #edtechchat

Reading By Example

Contrast this with my first day back at school: I started the week by leafing through the latest issue of EdTech: Focus on K-12 magazine. A5: If schools leverage the power of @twitter @facebook @RemindHQ the rest of connectedness will take care of itself #satchatoc. But it doesn’t mean I should avoid it.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). They’re amazing.

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ISTE, Stirring the Pot, & Education Advocacy

The Daring Librarian

My district made a Twitter account for every school - some admins are involved more than others - but it''s a start! I also wonder why, out of 50 Library Mover & Shakers every year, Library Journal magazine (and I''m a grateful recipient of that award , mind!) Now my new principal Tweets from our school account ! Bless her heart!

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Die, American cable tv news, die

Bryan Alexander

The experience of sitting and watching Headline News for a while is a bit like listening to a meth-addled ADHD sufferer screaming into a kaleidoscope, while ragged copies of People magazine and Sports Illustrated get hurled past our faces. “HLN” is also somewhat bloodthirsty.