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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

EdTech Magazine

#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”. Simply adding technology to a classroom doesn’t make it an innovative space. MURRAY: In the past decade or so, there’s been a growing understanding of the need to transform classrooms on many levels. For me, I got connected with it in 2009.

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The Most Popular Post in 2009.

The Web20Classroom

As 2009 comes to a close I wanted to take a look back and see what post did people visit the most. On Nov 18 we discussed how to motivate teachers to use more technology in the classroom. On Nov 18 we discussed how to motivate teachers to use more technology in the classroom. What a year it has been!

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Why Solving the Teacher Shortage Is Critical for Edtech

Edsurge

Teachers cite a lack of administrative support, professional learning opportunities, time for planning and collaboration, and input into decision making as key reasons for their dissatisfaction. At the same time, enrollment in teacher education programs dropped from 691,000 to 451,000 between 2009 and 2014, LPI says.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

He does a lot of work with NNSTOY, and he is actually a full time classroom teacher teaching creativity and innovation. It used to be 30-40% of my kids wanted to be a classroom teacher. So great classroom teachers understand how to look outside of the box. 3 Great Teachers bring their authentic selves into the classroom.

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Lingua Tweeta and other ideas

Learning with 'e's

I spend a lot of my time thinking through issues and challenges around technology supported learning. I try to come up with new ways to use technology that take learning into another place, or into new directions. I wrote a blog post in 2009 during the emergence of Twitter as a tool for teaching in formal settings.

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Live Thursday Dec. 9th with Julie Young from Florida Virtual School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Event and Recording Page : [link] Julie Young began her career as a classroom teacher and has since served as an administrator and leading e-Learning expert and advocate. She is a frequent national conference speaker and has played an important role in charting the course of virtual K-12 education.

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10Q: Steven Anderson

Learning with 'e's

Anderson is known to many in the world of education as a passionate and knowledgeable promoter of social media and technology for learning. He has been a prime mover in some of the most innovative projects for technology supported learning in the past few years. Connected Classroom blog.