Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2021

It’s more of a thought experiment to introduce today’s topic: how to research as a teacher, which brings us to…. Sometimes, this trial and error approach takes a lot of time, and assessing its effectiveness takes even longer. Read more: Top learning myths to leave behind in 2020. Your personal learning network (PLN)?

Education 368

Education Examples Personal Learning Network Study 368

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2019

As technology changes, so must pedagogy, especially assessment and feedback. Leaders should always be looking to improve instructional design and establishing accountability protocols to ensure efficacy in digital learning. Additionally, leaders need and should want access to the latest trends, research, and ideas in the field.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2016

In this course, teachers will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, critical thinking, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network.

Wiki 150

Wiki Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Learning 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. Time after time, they took responsibility for their own learning.

Digital Citizenship 150

Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Twitter Gamification 150

Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

Head to the DLP Strategy Menu to take a tour of this new tool, or see below for step-by-step guide on how to get started. This is just one element of the Dynamic Learning Project, now available for all schools! Click here to learn how to join for the 2019-2020 school year. 3 Steps: How to Use the Strategy Menu.

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Strategy Personal Learning Network Android Secondary 237

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environment. Today’s students are studying and learning differently – a change confirmed by the widespread adoption of digital studying. Technologically-based tools provide opportunities for students to learn both in and out of the classroom.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning ePortfolio Learning Analytics Learning 40

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

The fear of not being able to meet national and state standards, as well as mandates, leaves no time in the minds of many educators to either work technology into lessons, the will to do so, or the desire to learn how to. Current reform efforts placing an obscene emphasis on standardized tests are expounding the situation.

Technology 334

Technology Education Social Media Assessment 334

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 27, 2017

I spent a great deal of time writing numerous detailed memos on everything from technology tools to improve assessment, developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN), and embracing innovative ideas. I drafted memos and emails that provided guidance and examples. Then I waited.

Examples 184

Examples Personal Learning Network Training Industry 184

My Island View

JANUARY 29, 2020

Technology’s effect on education is difficult to assess, because it is not just the technology that affects the learning. If there are three teachers teaching the same subjects in a school and are given equal access to technology, how can the technology impact on learning be fairly assessed?

Personal Learning Network 64

Personal Learning Network Twitter Assessment Accessibility 64

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2017

This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be a fully-involved and eager risk-taker.

Wiki 173

Wiki eBook Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network 173

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

Digital Citizenship 79

Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Assessment Common Core 79

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning. And during this time of hybrid and distance learning, being flexible is paramount as we shift in-person learning experiences to online formats.

Edmodo 210

Edmodo Classroom Learning Gamification 210

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

Learning Space Toolkit by North Carolina State University has a system for needs assessment and space planning. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft. Build your Personal Learning Network (PLN) by adding these experts and resources to your social media accounts.

Resources 150

Resources Classroom Personal Learning Network Social Media 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2017

This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Assessment is project-based so be prepared to be a fully-involved and eager risk-taker.

Wiki 155

Wiki eBook Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network 155

Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

Not quite sure how you're going to run formative assessment in your classroom, or lead professional development workshops? For example, learn how a South Dakota district is getting rid of grade levels in favor of student-centered learning. Making Data Work : Data, privacy, assessments--you’ve heard all about it.

Schoology 85

Schoology Personal Learning Network Education Online Assessments 85

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 31, 2011

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. The knowledge that I have acquired from my Personal Learning Network (PLN) provided me with the ideas and strategies to utilize student cell phones as mobile learning devices.

Mobility 297

Mobility Poll Everywhere Mobile Learning Learning 297

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2015

Some of the problems students faced down: How to use twitter. How to use GHO. How to make a tagxedo interactive. How to work tech tools into their unique student groups. How to create screencasts and screenshots. How to create professional blogs. How to embed materials into digital portfolios.

Digital Citizenship 150

Digital Citizenship Flipped Classroom Personal Learning Network Twitter 150

MIND Research Institute

MAY 17, 2017

Looking to learn something new this summer? Maybe you want to develop your personal learning network on social media, read a few new books , or take a course alongside other educators. Thanks to technology, we can take learning online and collaborate with educators around the country and the world. Self-paced.

Course 74

Course Blended Learning MOOC Personal Learning Network 74

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

This three-week course (July 11-July 31) is a follow-on to the introductory class, Tech-infused Teacher , digging into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Your Personal Learning Network.

Wiki 152

Wiki eBook Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

With PLCs, we decide as a team that ‘this’ is really what every student at Benton High School leaving Algebra 1 should know how to do,” says Brandy Beckman, Secondary Math Instructional Facilitator. Often, PLC groups take the lead in creating curriculum, resources, or assessments. They have particular goals for students in each grade.

Data 112

Data Secondary Education Assessment 112

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p.

Study 121

Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Shortly after I received the award, it seemed like everyone wanted to visit my classroom and sit in a room with me to understand how I was getting my kids to learn. I had been working alone behind closed doors for so long that I didn’t know how to share the work in a meaningful way.

Personalized Learning 149

Personalized Learning Meeting Classroom System 149

The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 1, 2013

"My students don't know how to learn. They don't know how to succeed. " ( Au Contraire , Nov 2012) When I initially wrote the post explaining that a personal learning network was not an echo chamber, readers questioned my assessment of the comments that Kirch censored.

Personal Learning Network 83

Personal Learning Network Twitter Assessment Personalized Learning 83

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2019

To move beyond her current customer-service job, she’d teach herself how to use customer-management software popular with the type of higher-paid sales position she coveted. Members also receive professional portfolio help and two in-person sessions a week. Taylor Hill devised a plan to better her life.

Training 139

Training Software Online Assessments Google 139

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

Digital Citizenship 391

Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 391

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Teach Writing with Tech.

Resources 312

Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Personal Learning Network 312

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

Blended Learning 387

Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 387

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

Digital Citizenship 386

Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 386

EdTechTeam

MARCH 26, 2019

Head to the DLP Strategy Menu to take a tour of this new tool, or see below for step-by-step guide on how to get started. This is just one element of the Dynamic Learning Project, now available for all schools! Click here to learn how to join for the 2019-2020 school year. 3 Steps: How to Use the Strategy Menu.

Strategy 86

Strategy Chromebook Google Personal Learning Network 86

There is no box

JANUARY 4, 2016

Not if we’ve taught kids how to find, assess and utilize information from the web. Information is everywhere; in blog posts, youtube videos, scanned documents, websites, podcasts and personal learning networks (PLNs). Not even if we’ve scaffolded that experience with curated resources and links.

EdTech 40

EdTech Personal Learning Network Accessibility Assessment 40

MindShift

JULY 10, 2017

Every year thousands of educators gather for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference eager to learn about the newest features in favorite apps and to glean ideas from one another about how to effectively teach in new ways. Self-assessment with Prism could also be even more obvious.

Future Ready 93

Future Ready Conference Assessment Video 93

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

The conference general information page is HERE and call for presentation proposals and instructions for Learning 2.0 A full strand list is available ? The conference will also include an all-day virtual unconference (SocialEdCon online!) as well as a special educational start-up "pitchfire" event. can be found ?

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Conference ePortfolio Libraries MOOC 77

The Web20Classroom

JULY 28, 2010

Last weekend I finished up a week of speaking and leading professional development by attending NTCamp in Philadelphia.The purpose was to try and give new teachers a jump start on their year by talking about issues that they might face in their first years and to give them ideas on how to make it and stay in the profession.

Social Media 100

Social Media Facebook Conference Personal Learning Network 100

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Kindergarteners in Mrs. Shuler's classroom learning how to implement their learning stations! Each year students in Texas are required to take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam, also known as the STAAR exam. No one was hearing about the students and their achievements.”.

Twitter 86

Twitter Elementary Facebook Outcomes 86

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. We voted on five project to to focus on right away with a set of basic questions for each: " What do you want to do?

PLE 63

PLE Personal Learning Network Conference Social Media 63

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Integrate keyboarding skills into classroom activities and prepare for yearly assessments.

Digital Citizenship 245

Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 245

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Only eight percent of 15-year-olds from around the world exhibit a sophisticated grasp of collaboration skills, according to the recently released 2015 results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD).

Social Media 99

Social Media Outcomes Technology Tools 99