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Learning @Learning2

The Thinking Stick

118 of 119 of the participants on the survey said they would recommend the conference to a friend or plan on attending next year. We were one of the first conferences to use Twitter. In 2007, the first year of the conference, we made every participants sign up for a Twitter account. I pinch myself. to a conference.

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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% In our recent international survey , 53% of students aged 9-18 reported being productive only half of the total time spent working on school assignments.

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How I Became More Productive with Post-it® Brand Products #makeitstick

The CoolCatTeacher

DIY Productivity in Action From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A survey commissioned by Post-it® Brand found that 61 percent of working Americans believe they’d be more productive at home if they used the same organization strategies they use at work.* Each of us has our need.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 Rarely do the results of those activities contribute back to the information resources that students consume in carrying them out (Keats & Schmidt, 2007, para. Education 1.0 can be compared to Web 1.0 Keats and J. is similar to Web 1.0. Education 1.0

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

Joe Fatheree on episode 207 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I do a survey of my students every year. Twitter: @josephfatheree ‏. Global Teacher Prize finalist Joe Fatheree talks about what great teachers do.

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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. In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county.

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Why Teacher Recruitment Needs to Change

Insight Education Group

In Utah, Governor Gary Herbert addressed his state’s teacher shortage recently with the following plea to his fellow residents via Twitter: "Consider becoming a teacher; it is a noble profession.". Schools and Staffing Survey. The perception of teaching by the American public and teachers themselves is declining. Retrieved from [link].