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Back To School-Leadership In 2011

The Web20Classroom

The NETS provide guidance to school leadership on everything from learning culture to professional practice to digital citizenship. Many of the Standards only require the encouragement, vision and assurance from the administration to ensure that technology is being used to re-shape learning in their buildings.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

Class Dojo-2011. Desmos-2011. In many schools, students juggle multiple devices and frequently tackle projects that go far beyond rote learning and give them the experience of learning through doing. Conversations about the role of privacy and digital citizenship wash into social studies and current events.

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Week of August 22nd, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

EpCoP MOOC webinar [link] TECH TALK TUESDAYS: DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP/SOCIAL NETWORKING WITH STUDENTS ( Australia Series ) Tue 22 Aug 02:00AM New York / Tue 23 Aug 06:00AM GMT / Tue 23 Aug 04:00PM Sydney Anne Mirtschin. View the new Learning Forward Washington Web site and plans for professional learning opportunities during the year.

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Getting the Digital Generation to Read Over the Summer

edWeb.net

She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award. Emerging Tech is a free professional learning community where school librarians can explore all the ways to integrate technology and 21st century learning into school library programs.

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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”

edWeb.net

The Future Ready movement grew out of the Connect Ed initiative launched by President Obama in 2013 with several goals: to connect 99% of students in schools to broadband, and to address the need for more professional learning and leadership to ensure the effective use of technology. Empowering students as creators. About edWeb.net.

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Dear ISTE (reprised)

NeverEndingSearch

The whole conversation brought me back a blog post I wrote following ISTE’s 2011 conference in Philadelphia. The purpose of the Librarians Network is to promote librarians as leaders and champions of educational technology and digital literacy. We led schools in evolving understandings digital citizenship.

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Change Your Leadership: Introducing One-One Devices into Our School

Fractus Learning

As well as being an English teacher and a member of the professional development team, I was also integral in developing pedagogical outcomes and disseminating information through weekly professional development sessions. The Year Was 2011. We hadn’t heard of Twitter as an effective Professional Learning Network ( PLN ).