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What is an EdCamp?

EdTech4Beginners

Edcamps are organic, participant-driven professional learning experiences for educators across the country and worldwide! I would say the key difference between an Edcamp and a typical educational conference is that they are unstructured and the sessions are based on sharing expertise. Have you been to an Edcamp?

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Edtech Needs More Infrastructure, Educator Support in 2017

Edsurge

2017 is shaping up to be a big year of what-if’s. While device penetration is increasing and edtech products are proliferating, adequate infrastructure in schools lags behind. While device penetration is increasing and edtech products are proliferating, adequate infrastructure in schools lags behind. education technology agenda.

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50+ Can’t-Miss K-12 Education Technology Events for 2017-2018

Edsurge

And what better way to learn, grow and challenge ourselves than at the hundreds of education-themed bacchanals that dot the world? How to stay posted on the latest edtech events. These shows happen across the year and across the world, gathering teachers and techies alike around tools and tips that support teaching and learning.

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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

Edsurge

The parallels between the early days of the world wide web and today’s edtech scene are surreal. There is a lot of noise in edtech today, mostly coming from technology and consumer marketing-oriented companies. In the nineties, this included. Here’s why.

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Coming This Summer: Powerful, Peer-Led Professional Development That Won’t Bore

Edsurge

Or, for that matter, without the slightest idea of what you might learn? For us, it was at EdFoo 2017 , an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gathered at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters for three days of spontaneous learning.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Change is the end result of all true learning. – When times like this creep up, we must resort to a tactic that incentivizes their learning by offering them treats, or (in my house) bribes to get them to be good students both in school and at home. Incentivizing learning works wonders for small children. Leo Buscaglia.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Change is the end result of all true learning. – When times like this creep up, we must resort to a tactic that incentivizes their learning by offering them treats, or (in my house) bribes to get them to be good students both in school and at home. Incentivizing learning works wonders for small children.

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