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How Teachers Can Learn From One Another at Unconferences, Meet-ups and Edcamps

MindShift

One district employee was smiling about how there were elementary and secondary teachers connecting and sharing: “Where else do you see this?” If you’re looking for something more formal, the same kind of gathering can take place at a school site, ideally one with Wi-Fi and at least a few accessible classrooms.

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7 Great NonProfits Changing the Face of Professional Learning

Tom Murray

As mentioned in my previous post 16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools , prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director.

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How a Cheapskate Introduces Technology Tools

Tech Helpful

I actually bought one for every elementary teacher at our school and for 3of the middle school science teachers. Staying plugged in and aware of new things, how to access them, and how to get training on them in a cheap or free environment. I see that as a cheap win. Free Learning: Become a Connected Educator. Find sponsors.

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Merritt Public Schools: How a Rural Oklahoma District Developed its Digital Learning Program

Education Superhighway

Walking into a Merritt Elementary School classroom today, you’ll find students using iPads to figure out math problems and submit their answers, while teachers grade those answers and provide feedback and follow-up support in real-time. The Impact.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

And then all the content and the videos and the images and links, they’re all in one spot for the kids to access. So that was a great way from an elementary standpoint to use FlipSnack. So, entire units being created in a FlipSnack book and then being given to students so that they can work through the content at their own pace.

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Effective Digital Leadership: Moving Our Schools Forward

EdTechSandyK

Can also be accessed from anywhere that you have internet access, not just when you are connected to your school/district network. Edcamps - unconferences where there aren''t traditional keynote speakers or vendors. Royse City is hosting EdCamp Awesome in Feburary 2014. Ex: Creating elementary student handbook.

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My #ISTE17 Takeaways

Tech Helpful

Big news from Wonder Workshop: Challenge Cards- Dash and Dot are some of our favorite robots to introduce robotics to preschool and elementary students. I plan to introduce one tool every 2 months to our teachers (I'm working on curating those tools now) via an interactive introduction that they can access at any time.