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What Skills Do Google, Pinterest, and Twitter Employees Think Kids Need To Succeed?

Edsurge

Here's the start to an interesting story: a Google program manager, a Twitter engineer, and a Pinterest employee walk into a bar. In today’s day and age, Google, Twitter and Pinterest are three of the largest employers in the United States and internationally. Ryan Greenberg, Twitter Software Engineer And what about the bigger trends?

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Are You a Critical Consumer?

A Principal's Reflections

As we explored moving towards Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD ) in 2010, I was able to glean powerful insights and evidence of efficacy from the Forsyth County School District in Georgia. Since many of my queries when out through Twitter at the time that is how I received the majority of the information for consumption. Case in point.

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Creating a Culture of Joy

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In 2010 he won the ISTE Award for Outstanding Leader of the Year. Blog [link] Twitter @shareski Instagram @dshareski. Bringing Joy to Zoom Presentations with Cool Tools 00;01;03;29 – 00;01;46;24 Dean Shareski Oh, okay. There we go.

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Listen. Reflect. Decide.

A Principal's Reflections

I remember as a principal in 2010 my pursuit of a tool that I wanted to purchase to improve communications with parents and students. Even though I had been using Twitter for over a year by this time to do just this, the embracement by my staff as a whole just wasn’t where I wanted it to be. That is not the point of this post.

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The Journey to Becoming an Author

A Principal's Reflections

My unexpected journey began with a decision to give Twitter a try in 2009. Apparently, I was dead wrong on this assumption and quickly learned that Twitter in itself wasn’t a powerful tool, but instead, it was the conversations, ideas, resources, and passionate educators that connected with me. This was not my intent or even a goal.

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Final Reflections Of TeachMeet Nashville 2010

The Web20Classroom

There were large groups of teachers learning how to use Twitter and social networking for professional development to small groups of 2 or 3 people in impromptu learning sessions. Twitter is a vast resource with lots of people who drop in and out. I have made tons of Twitter connections with all sorts of different people.

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Carnegie Learning Recognized as Global Innovator on 2023 GSV 150 List

eSchool News

After evaluating over 4,000 companies globally, we are proud to present the list of the 150 most impactful companies in digital learning that are leading the charge in providing ALL people equal access to the future.” For more information, visit carnegielearning.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Twitter , and Instagram.

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