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How Online Learning Can Improve Your Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). Hall, an online professor with the University of Wyoming since 2012 says: “Early in my online career, I marched students, expeditiously, from one weekly deadline to the next.

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Michelle Luhtala Wins AASL Social Media Superstars Award

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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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How to Recognize and Understand Conspiratorial Thinking

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The deliberate teaching of critical-thinking skills will enable young people to evaluate information presented to them through social media, family members, and news sources. The presenters caution educators to use patience, empathy, and persistence with students. About the Presenters. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Beyond PLN

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I joined Twitter in 2012, and since that time I’ve had the chance to experience the power of a Professional Learning Network (PLN) firsthand. If you've heard of the hit television show "Shark Tank," you know that guests on the show present their ideas to a panel of sharks who pick which projects they want to invest in.

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Trying to Ban Facebook is Not the Answer.

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. - From Pinecrest Preparatory Middle-High Administration Letter to Parents , February 22, 2012 When I first read and watched a news story about this Florida charter school''s letter to parents encouraging them to get their kids off of Facebook because of the problems social media activities were causing during the school day, it got me thinking.

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Google Apps for Education Tips, Tricks, and our Favorite Chrome Extensions | #TechEducator 101

TeacherCast

Learn How to Create a Professional email signature that links to social media accounts. View LIVE Professional Development from TeacherCast. Need a Presenter? Jeff Bradbury (@TeacherCast) is available as a Keynote Speaker, Presenter , or to Broadcast your conference LIVE! Tweet This. Wise Stamp.

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EdTechTeam Leadership Symposium Ohio

EdTechTeam

On March 10, 2017, at Avon Lake High School in Avon Lake, OH nearly 100 educational leaders gathered for a day of learning, discovery, exploration, reflection and energy. I had the honor of presenting three times, two one hour break-out sessions and the keynote presentation.