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Michelle Luhtala Wins AASL Social Media Superstars Award

edWeb.net

edWeb is so excited to congratulate Michelle Luhtala, department chair at New Canaan High School Library in Connecticut, for being selected as a 2017 AASL Social Media Superstars winner ! I’m the founder of edWeb.net and had just started our social network for educators. Time well spent. Thank you to both of you.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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Stories Link Us Together

A Principal's Reflections

With an array of social media tools at our disposal, every educator should aspire to be the storyteller-in-chief. Provide stakeholders with REALITY by sharing all the awesomeness in your classroom, school, district, or organization. Once I started drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid back in 2009 I quickly learned the error of my ways.

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Get the Good News Out

A Principal's Reflections

As I have been writing since 2009, if you don’t tell your story someone else will. When someone else controls the narrative, chances are it might not paint an accurate picture of what is truly happening in your classroom, school, or district. Want to program specific times to send out tweets and other social media messages?

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Teaching with the News in a Time of Challenge and Change

edWeb.net

While social media can play a big part in where our students get their information, it is paramount for educators to design news and media lessons on straight news. He began his career as a classroom teacher in the New York City schools through Teach For America. Join the Community.

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Back To School-Leadership In 2011

The Web20Classroom

I orginially wrote this post back in 2009. Since that time so much has gone on in the world of Social Media in Education, I decided it needed some updating. However, I believe there are 5 simple things that school leadership can do to help teachers as they transition their classrooms to Web 2.0 Why do we need to change?

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Separating Fact from Fiction: Why News Literacy Education is Essential

edWeb.net

Today’s students are inundated with information from myriad media sources—social media, blogs, podcasts, text messages, television, internet searches, radio, email, and other communication apps. He began his career as a classroom teacher in New York City schools through Teach For America. By Ginny Kirkland.