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Student Agency: Moving From Talk to Action

A Principal's Reflections

Image credit: https://andrewherrick.files.wordpress.com If we are to improve learning and ultimately school-based outcomes student agency needs to be a real element of school culture. Student agency is about empowering kids to own their learning (and school) through greater autonomy. It is driven by choice, voice, and advocacy.

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How SBG Led Us to Empower: The Tyranny of 82% (Part 1 of 2)

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

After a committee of teachers and admin reviewed several platforms, Empower Learning emerged as the most comprehensive digital tool for several reasons: It is student-centered. Personalized learning can be done well and help a teacher use their time more effectively. as well as standards with low scores requiring intervention.

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GlobalEdCon - Day 2 Schedule + Toward a Global Education Declaration

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Close CEO Able-bodied People’s Perceptions of and Communication with Persons with Disabilities. - Information about certificates for volunteers, presenters, and attendees is here. 8:00am Our school, a planet!

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

EDMODO AND CLEVER ( www.edmodo.com/integrations ) & ( www.clever.com ) Edmodo announced a new partnership with Clever to give teachers, students and parents immediate access to fully rostered digital classrooms.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. million in venture capital, for example, Edmodo hadn’t even figured out a business model, let alone become a powerful platform. A belief in technological utopia. A fierce embrace of the new. .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For a time, Edmodo was quite the ed-tech industry darling. Can Edmodo Turn Virality into Profitability?” Diamond Dove.

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