Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Discovery Education is hosting a free, online conference - 2016 Fall VirtCon - on Saturday, Oct 22nd.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2020

As a classroom teacher, I have always kept a bright orange poster on display that asks students two critical questions: Do you know it? Many professional learning opportunities give teachers the chance to add to their bank of knowledge, but don’t encourage teachers to put what they know into action. Can you show it?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 4, 2019

TW Williamson on Episode 452 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast TW Williamson, an educator in Taiwan, shares how he is helping literature and language teachers use augmented reality (AR) in their classrooms. Travel to the leading edge of this new technology in ways any literature teacher can use. Blog: [link] Twitter: @tww00.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I served on the initial advisory board for ISTE’s Standards for Education Leaders (back then, they were the NETS-A) and in 2016 I received ISTE’s global Award for Outstanding Leadership. I have worked with ISTE in a number of other service and professional learning roles and currently am serving as one of ISTE’s Community Leaders.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 10, 2017

They were blown away by what I shared and had hoped that this would start making its way into classrooms. If the professional learning days and times are not directly benefitting students, is this ultimately a waste of resources? They stayed, excited about the idea of a free lunch, but luckily, I never had to pay up.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 30, 2018

Most of my work is now leading professional learning opportunities for educators. So I can understand why during professional learning many teachers rush there to be early, to sit as far away as possible from the learning, or ask questions not to move forward, but to hold on to what they have always done.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“The educators who had the greatest impact on me as a youth recognized my personhood by actively developing a relationship with me, challenged their explicit and implicit biases in visible ways, and valued multiple perspectives within their classroom.” – Maima Chea Simmons, Black Girls’ Literacies. 2016; Harmon et al.,

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2018

They built an online professional learning program that uses the edWeb.net platform in combination with webinars and 14 virtual specialists in social studies at all grade levels. Our goal was to find a way to provide professional learning for content and instructional support throughout the state of Georgia.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2017

The 2016 results are in. Who is participating the most in professional learning webinars? edWeb.net just completed an analysis of their 2016 webinar viewership stats for 2016. They hosted 260 professional learning webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar.

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Kathy Schrock

MAY 1, 2019

You can continue to learn on your own using simple online tools and have access to experts from all over the world to help you out. In addition, you can help others with their own professional learning, too! Twitter and chats My favorite personal professional development tool is Twitter.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job. Collaboration and Blended Learning Fosters Critical Skills.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2018

The irony of this is that many of us educators have been successfully navigating the waters of personalized learning for our students, but haven’t been given the opportunity to transition that same approach to our own professional learning. And what I’ve found is that they love having a role in my learning.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2018

Participate.com allows us to pull all of this goodness together for ourselves and for the learning communities we serve. Way back in 2016 I wrote a post about Participate.com, Curating with Communities. The tabs on the redesigned dashboard represent the realm of learning opportunities. . Collections.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 27, 2021

The post 15 Ways to Use Mote in the Classroom – SULS0107 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Learn how Mote helps support ELLs, STEM, and helps engage ALL students with 15 Ways to Use Mote in the Classroom. 15 Ways to Use Mote in the Classroom – SULS0107. Watch this quick video to learn how!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This hands-on, authentic process re-establishes learners as active contributors of their learning environment by providing true agency through the connection of interest with impact. Micro-credentials can serve as a scaffolded approach to personalizing professional learning for educators. Student portfolios: Classroom uses.

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Edthena

MAY 19, 2016

On Wednesday, Edthena, a video classroom observation platform for teacher development, was named the best Professional Learning Solution for K-20 Faculty and Administrative Staff as part of the 2016 CODiE Awards, organized by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Read more at [link].

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Waterford

AUGUST 18, 2023

You may already be familiar with family engagement , or listening to and working with families in the classroom. Why Family-Teacher Connections Matter Family partnerships are one of the most effective steps you can take as an educator to create a strong learning environment in your school. What are Family-Teacher Partnerships?

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. Commit to Personalized Professional Learning.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Paula was joined by Adam Geller, author of “ Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning ,” as she shared her story. Using video also facilitated reflective practice among teachers, enabling them to view classroom interactions from a student’s perspective.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

HMH takes a human-centered approach to advanced technology like generative AI, one that enables and extends the valuable work of teachers, blending the best of technology with the best of the classroom experience. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. Teachers are spending a lot of time talking about student data.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Discovery Education, the Charlotte, NC, based leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms worldwide, today announced the appointment of Eli Kennedy, the CEO of SMASH , to the company’s Board of Directors. About Discovery Education.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

Each day, Geneva CUSD 304’s teachers, administrators, and staff seek to educate the nearly 5,500 students they serve within an environment that encourages the desire to learn and meets the unique academic, personal, physical, and social needs of each child. However, the data only tells part of the story.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2018

However, no opportunity had truly satisfied my urge to improve my teaching and also prepared me to become a principal until the fall of 2016. This pilot sought to understand how beneficial MCs could be for teachers and begin to determine how MCs could play into the professional learning landscape of our state.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

is to transform BCPS into a student-centered, personalized learning environment. To affect this change district-wide, BCPS needed to shift professional learning for educators to a more competency-based, autonomous model. principles in the classroom if teachers reinforced the skills for themselves. environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Develop the solid core of a Professional Learning Network. Click to join.

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EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 1, 2016

I eventually figured out they liked coming to the band room for the same reasons I liked it when I was in high school - they enjoy music, they like playing an instrument, and my classroom felt safe. Ok Mom, I’ll take a tiny bit of it but it really comes down to the fact that they felt empowered in my classroom. That’s huge.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Mangum then took the floor to take the attendees back to 2016 and talked about the important edtech trends of that time. She mentioned that blended learning and learning models were the top edtech trends, and defining blended learning was a big deal. SETDA is the principal association representing U.S.

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edWeb.net

MAY 22, 2019

Laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, and even cell phones are providing students with opportunities to access the internet for researching, communicating and social learning. Classroom teachers are embracing the technology as a means to provide immediate feedback, assess student understanding and interact with both parents and students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

How a school defines student success influences its design and impacts critical aspects such as professional learning, curriculum, assessment and school culture. This work is supported by NGLC. EdSurge takes full responsibility for all editorial content. Those two hours weren’t enough.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

If we want our learners to have that — the knowledge, the skills, the dispositions — we know that we need to transform our classrooms. We also have adopted a set of learning beliefs to help us better articulate what we want our classrooms to look like in the future as we approach 2020. You have learning beliefs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 15, 2016

The Global Education Conference will take place around the clock during International Education Week ( November 13-16, 2016 ) featuring thought leaders from the world of education and beyond. Together, we can connect K-20 classrooms to the world and prepare students for their globalized futures.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. Together, these resources give educators everything they need to facilitate instruction in any learning environment and create lasting educational impact.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The effort, aptly named the “Unified Classroom” product suite, aims to connect assessment, enrollment, gradebook, professional learning and special education data services to its flagship student information system, which already houses a variety of data including attendance, discipline, health, roster and schedules.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 6, 2018

Recently, I had a conversation with Tom Murray and Katie Martin about professional learning. The one thing that bothers me is often seeing principals or superintendents that are there to “learn”, walking out of sessions when their phone rings to take a phone call. That is okay and wanted.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Learning : Next, provide models of what full-integration looks like in the classroom. Management : Explain and provide examples of how digital citizenship can help teachers and students manage their attention and behavior in classrooms and schools. We used the data from these activities to shape the next phase of integration.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 26, 2016

She will sit with her letters making words and then, the best part, she can create a digital story using the words she learned. ( ) Now, my background isn’t in Early Childhood. The closest I came was that one day I spent observing in a Kindergarten classroom during college.)

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