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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2008), a study involving 735 workers was conducted to examine autonomy's impact on overall morale. You can also share stories across social media as a way to share successes more broadly, something I dive into deeply in Digital Leadership. & Fouquereau, E.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. Boy, have times thankfully changed, but I have not. I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal. They also have the capacity to support personal learning.

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OPINION: The pandemic challenged school administrators, but didn’t break us

The Hechinger Report

For example, the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the subsequent financial distress it imposed on school systems forced many superintendents to cut services to the bone, leading to conflicts among parents, school boards, financial overseers and employees. The superintendent of schools position has always been uniquely stressful. programs.

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Nonprofit News Literacy Project Welcomes Former Educator as CEO, With Plans to Expand

Edsurge

-Alan Miller, founder and outgoing CEO of the News Literacy Project In 2008, when Miller started the News Literacy Project following a visit to his daughter’s sixth grade class, he thought news literacy would be an important skill for students and educators in the age of burgeoning social media and smartphones.

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Toward Renewable Assessments

Iterating Toward Openness

Take, for example, the Murder, Madness, and Mayhem assessments from 2008: The University of British Columbia’s class SPAN312 (“Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation”) contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. At a minimum we can begin by asking questions about outcome alignment.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with 'e's

Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. London: John Wiley and Sons. Delfino, M.,

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