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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by 2gnoMe.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Don’t be fooled by the headline; there isn’t really anything in the article recognizing imperialist nostalgia or racist TV tropes. “Personalized learning instructional models” is just chef finger kiss perfect.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) The Death of Aaron Swartz.

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