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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

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I always look forward to this final exercise. Knee: A set of case studies about some of the biggest edtech failures, with amazing lessons for current companies. Let us know in the comments or ping us on Twitter ! Then, we ask Seminar participants put their entrepreneurial hats on and pitch ideas for a business.

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Addressing the Digital Learning Gap with Effective Educator Coaching

EdTechTeam

However, in other scenarios, students are engaged with lower-level uses of technology such as test preparation, reading static online content, and seemingly endless drill and practice exercises. You can follow her on Twitter at @kcator. This dichotomy is especially pronounced in underserved schools. Cross-posted from Digital Promise

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Incorporating Social Media and Digital Citizenship in the First-Year Experience Course

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Of course, we can’t dictate how the faculty teach their course but it’s likely that most faculty would use and build on well-constructed, useful materials (handouts, case studies, example exercises, etc.) Students will then write their own case study.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

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Scott Benson NewSchools Venture Fund Twitter: @scottb_edu So their two organizations decided to work together, creating The Collaborative—a ten-month, intensive professional-development experience for ten school districts and charter school management organizations from across the country. And he said, ‘Good question. How’d you do that?

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

– Getting set up with Twitter and our new hashtag. – Going deeper with the components of high-quality PBL – A PBL case study – Making sense of PBL in our own context – Getting set up with Feedly and some awesome school leadership blogs. How could we make them better? How could we make them better?

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Learning Revolution Free Events - ISTE Unplugged + Hack Education - AERO - Gaming in Ed Call for Proposals - Students Driving Change

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

[link] Introduction to Mind Amplifiers June 11 - July 10, 2014: A five week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter. More information at [link]. One Week Calendar All events are listed in US-Eastern Daylight Time. 5 Musts for Reading Teachers.