Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

40+ Hall of Fame tech ed articles. During the week, review lesson plans, ebooks, articles, and videos that address the weekly topics. Weekends, discuss issues, concerns, and projects in a virtual group via Google Hangouts or Twitter Chats. Complete one weekly project using what you learned and add it to your digital portfolio.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 18, 2012

I was honored to have won a DENny for "PL DEN", a play on PLN (personal learning network), for my work sharing and connecting with other educators about Discovery Education resources on social media and the DEN blog for the CT Leadership Council. More about the Discovery Educator Network: [link].

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 31, 2011

This morning I read a great article on PBS Media Shift by Audrey Watters entitled " Why Schools Should Stop Banning Cell Phones, and Use Them For Learning." This shift in mindset can be directly attributed to what I have learned from innovative educators in the social media spaces that I now delve into on a routine basis.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), as school PD, or through select colleges for grad school credit. They start at $750 for a group of five or more. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. The Tech-infused Teacher.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Assessment Common Core 79

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 30, 2015

No one likes a person who brags excessively and just about all of us have been guilty of this at some point or another. Alina Tugend highlights some of these in an article on the etiquette of bragging: "Susan A. The best way to brag about yourself to others is probably not to brag at all." Build on your positive attributes.

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Personal Learning Network Social Media Personalized Learning Strategy 150

Graphite Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

Common Sense Educators is our Facebook group for educators committed to creating a positive, collaborative culture of digital learning and digital citizenship in their classrooms, schools, or districts. Members share articles, ask for advice from peers, give virtual high-fives, and relate to each other's challenges.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 16, 2017

Common Sense Educators is our new Facebook group for educators committed to creating a positive, collaborative culture of digital learning and digital citizenship in their classrooms, schools, or districts. Members share articles, ask for advice from peers, give virtual high-fives, and relate to each other's challenges.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Clearly, the article has touched a nerve in the education community about the fault lines between preaching and pitching products. Some court teachers with large online followings such as Kayla Delzer, the other featured teacher in the article (and an EdSurge columnist). The tactic is not unique to education.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 12, 2013

Instead of wasting time visiting each and every website in the hopes there is a new article or post you can use an RSS reader. However why not take the idea of social networking one step further and enrich the experience with video and file sharing, discussion forums, events and specialty groups. What is RSS you ask?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2019

June 8th-10th: Discounted Group Professional Development. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer.

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Groups Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 189

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Group enrollment. Group enrollment.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others. Then there are the virtual, online spaces where many of us are increasingly spending our time collaborating, conversing and sharing with our personal learning networks.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 24, 2017

Allow students to choose group members, seating arrangements, assignment due dates, etc. Here’s a great article from Educational Psychology that discusses three different aspects of autonomy and suggests ways teachers can support student autonomy. 2. One solution is to start small. Embrace failure.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 24, 2017

Allow students to choose group members, seating arrangements, assignment due dates, etc. Here’s a great article from Educational Psychology that discusses three different aspects of autonomy and suggests ways teachers can support student autonomy. 2. One solution is to start small. Embrace failure.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 24, 2017

Allow students to choose group members, seating arrangements, assignment due dates, etc. Here’s a great article from Educational Psychology that discusses three different aspects of autonomy and suggests ways teachers can support student autonomy. 2. One solution is to start small. Embrace failure.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 25, 2017

Allow students to choose group members, seating arrangements, assignment due dates, etc. Here’s a great article from Educational Psychology that discusses three different aspects of autonomy and suggests ways teachers can support student autonomy. 2. One solution is to start small. Embrace failure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

For folks who need an introduction to blockchain we recommend starting with the video in this EdSurge article from our blockchain meetup in Berkeley. This work will be especially important for career pathways that are not overseen nationally by workforce groups.” So why do proponents think blockchain can improve higher education?

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Kyle Pace

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This article is a guest post cross-posted at Edsurge for their “Fifty States Project: Stories from the 2015-2015 Edtech Classroom” The flood of edtech tools that teachers are presented with has been staggering over the last several years, and continues to be this way. Edtech tools come, they go, they’re free, then they’re not.

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How To Classroom EdTech Company 53

The Principal of Change

APRIL 19, 2015

What is important is that I find what works for me and sometimes a personal learning network pushes people towards “group think”, where I need to find what works for me to become successful, at different points of the day. That self-assessment and reflection is critical to people in our world today.

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Social Media Personal Learning Network Digital Citizenship Facebook 28

Kyle Pace

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This article is a guest post cross-posted at Edsurge for their “Fifty States Project: Stories from the 2015-2015 Edtech Classroom” The flood of edtech tools that teachers are presented with has been staggering over the last several years, and continues to be this way. Edtech tools come, they go, they’re free, then they’re not.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 23, 2020

It’s my top level organization tool where I keep track of all these others… plus longer term ideas, or article and book outlines. I have a personal system where in my outliner I keep the day’s count of Keep Notes and Email (plus voicemail and pinned tabs that require follow up) so I can calculate how many hours I’ll need.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching: February 5th-8th: Group Professional Development. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Pick a topic: Tech infused Teacher/Classroom. Writing With Tech. Building Digital Citizens.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2020

These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), as school PD, or through select colleges for grad school credit. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. This is a group enrollment via Google Classroom. College credit MTI 557.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 224

MindShift

JULY 10, 2017

There is a growing network of educators who are self-motivated to grow professionally, often spurred by technology. For example, red might be the most difficult parts of the article, blue could be the key ideas, and yellow could be difficult vocabulary. Unbeknown to him, that girl was in the group and her friends soon let him know it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2020

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Classes. The Tech-infused Class.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 223

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2019

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Group enrollment. Group enrollment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Group enrollment. Group enrollment.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Personal Learning Network 151

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Group discounts available. Today: Classes.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 152

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Group discounts available. Today: Classes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2019

I still have a few spots for summer PD so I’m reprising this popular discount: July 5th-8th: Group Professional Development. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety Assessment 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Mentoring and Classes.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media 175

MiddleWeb

JULY 15, 2015

For co-authors Todd Whitaker, Jeff Zoul and Jimmy Casas, a "connected educator" is a teacher or school leader who not only brings what they know to the conversation but encourages and values the sharing of everyone's expertise through online learning networks.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

After months of peer-review, only a handful of articles had appeared on Nupedia. The initial academic concerns over the reliability of information in Wikipedia articles have now largely dissipated, assuaged by an army of volunteers, who correct over half the cases of “vandalism” in less than four minutes. DO IT FOR FUN.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

After months of peer-review, only a handful of articles had appeared on Nupedia. The initial academic concerns over the reliability of information in Wikipedia articles have now largely dissipated, assuaged by an army of volunteers, who correct over half the cases of “vandalism” in less than four minutes. DO IT FOR FUN.

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