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How Instructional Technology Coaching Can Help Teachers Create Powerful Learning Experiences

Digital Promise

“Technology use must, first and foremost, be designed to support learning goals, not the other way around.”. Ottenbreit-Leftwich in their 2013 study of authentic technology-enabled learning, highlights the main challenge coaches face when trying to support teachers using technology. This insight, penned by Peggy A.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

Kahoot-2013. Newsela-2013. 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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Announcing the 2013 School Leadership Summit, Worldwide and Online March 28th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership ( TICAL ) and I are pleased to announce the inaugural worldwide and online School Leadership Summit, Thursday, March 28th, 2013 (SchoolLeadershipSummit.com). The Call for Proposals for the conference is open HERE.

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EdmodoCon Guest Post #3: M.Valois

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

Megan is the guest moderator on the Canadian Ed Chat (#cdnedchat) on Twitter who enjoys expanding her PLN and learning about new tech tools to improve her teaching and class experience. Here is Megan''s recap of EdmodoCon 2013. On Tuesday, I participated in a virtual conference - a professional learning opportunity - called #Edmodocon.

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Focusing on What We Can Do

The Principal of Change

We had some great conversations and I later discussed them with the group of teachers that I was learning with. This came back to the students, and they actually offered to bring me a Starbucks to the professional learning day, which was unbelievably kind of them, especially since the closest Starbucks was about 30 minutes away!

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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. Great way to incorporate digital citizenship. This is such a great teaching/learning resource. May 13, 2013 by FootballMom19 from United States TeacherCast.net is an incredible platform of resources for educators.

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Getting the Digital Generation to Read Over the Summer

edWeb.net

After years of sharing her passion for reading, writing, research and information literacy skills, digital citizenship, and technology with students, she continues to share that passion with other teachers and librarians through social media, her blog, and presentations. She is a Google for Education Certified Innovator and Trainer.