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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

They desperately sought time during the school day to engage in professional growth opportunities, learn how to integrate Web 2.0 Image credit: [link] The PGP was launched in September 2011. I also used last year as an opportunity to work with my teachers and better articulate how to compile their learning portfolios.

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What the flip?

Learning with 'e's

Everywhere I look I'm seeing 'Flip teaching' or 'Flipped classroom'. There's a lot of hype about this 'flipping' idea and it's getting me flipping irritated. What does flipping actually involve? Even Aaron Sams, a highly visible proponent of the flipped movement admits that the term is ambiguous.

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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. Though the flipped class model proved to be an effective strategy in which we saw increases in student achievement and engagement, we only did the traditional flipped classroom for one year.

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Reflection of ISTE from a Newbie

wwwatanabe

I found that Jackie Gerstein ''s session on the Flipped Classroom at Edubloggercon gave me incredible perspective. Later in the day when I had a moment to ponder this, I realized the possibility of the Flipped Classroom was no longer something intangible to me that only districts with lots of money and high SES could do.

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

Fractus Learning

The Year Was 2011. Instead of telling me what to do and how to do it, he empowered me to develop tech skills, to emerge as a role model and leader who would then go on to empower other staff members and students. Anxiety ran high. We hadn’t heard of Twitter as an effective Professional Learning Network ( PLN ).

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Telestream Screenflow: An Podcasters Guide to Creating Professional Screencasts and Tutorials

TeacherCast

In this post, we will be reviewing Telestream Screenflow and how it can be used by educators to create and produce educational podcasts. How Does ScreenFlow Fit Into The Curriculum? How to Record. How to Edit. How to Publish. It simply is a complete television studio in one app. Popular Video Projects.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million.

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