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Today’s Classrooms Should Be About Flexible Teaching—Not Furniture

Edsurge

At the end of June a group of passionate, dedicated educators gathered for one of New Jersey’s last EdCamps of the 2017 school year. It’s like fixating on the technology with considering how we can best use these tools. And how many elementary and middle schoolers do you see hanging out at Starbucks?)

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"Edcamp Style" PD- Personalizing teacher learning on a required PD day!

Tech Helpful

Several of the elementary teachers at our school attended and many plan on attending again. After the experience it allowed the lower school curriculum coordinator and myself (lower school technology coordinator) to rethink some of our professional development days. I am thankful for a curriculum coordinator that I work well with.

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Many Frustrated Teachers Say It’s Not Burnout — It’s Demoralization

Edsurge

They were just coming in and sitting down, reluctantly opening up their books. Experts like Bowdoin College education chair Doris Santoro, author of the book “ Demoralized ,” define the concept in moral terms. She says she loved working in elementary school but the switch to middle school was tough. But I felt the same way.”

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

The CoolCatTeacher

So, if you can imagine reading a book on Kindle, the finished product you can actually flip through like a book. Only the … the difference between just a regular book and Flipsnack is that you can actually make the book interactive. It is an interactive flipbook creator. The students or the teachers or whatever.

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Wonderful Word Problem Breakthroughs

The CoolCatTeacher

Listen to Felicia Casto talk about her awesome elementary math classroom. Kitty Tripp, @ kitty_tripp an innovative educator with 19 years in the field of education has experience not only as a teacher and district office administrator, but also in a wide variety of experiences integrating technology into the classroom. Kitty Tripp.

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Changing The Way We Educate Incrementally

Tech Helpful

Reading the book Edupreneur and meeting a few new people at ACSD Empower18, I am ready to take this concept to a bigger level next year by creating opportunities for teachers to submit a proposal for innovation after going through the design thinking process with their idea. Innovation is best when it is organic and based on need and passion.

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mauilibrarian2's 10 Nominations for the 2013 Edublogs Awards #eddies13

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

Best individual blog - One of the EdCamp Movement''s founders, Kristen Swanson , is in my exclusive Google+ MVP circle. Her Teachers as Technology Trailblazers blog is a must-read. Here''s his twitter description: "Bite-Sized Self-Development Resources for Educators and Parents/Book Summaries/Net Nuggets."

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