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Voxer, Twitter, and EdCamps: How to Tackle the Harsh Realities of Finding Good Statewide PD

Edsurge

To truly achieve statewide PD, it’s not just about connecting on general topics anymore—it’s about finding what tickles your particular fancy (from design thinking to libraries to Catholic teaching practices) and finding others that you can jive with. Teachers Know Best, 2015 But the beauty of an EdCamp isn’t just in the fact that it’s live.

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Weekly Free Event Calendar - Conference Keynotes Update - Edcamp USDOE - Digital Citizenship

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. How does your library manage digital collections? How does your library manage digital collections?

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Coming This Summer: Powerful, Peer-Led Professional Development That Won’t Bore

Edsurge

Here in the Pittsburgh region, educators from the Remake Learning Network —a coalition of more than 250 schools, universities, libraries, startups, nonprofits, museums—offer several hundred peer-led programs, including workshops, peer networks, one-on-one mentorship programs, and summer seminars.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

Mandy Froehlich talks about a tool she uses in her classroom, Flipsnack. For example, the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Parents couldn’t really look at it unless they were in the library for parent-teacher conferences or whatever. It was a more authentic way to showcase the student work than just having it one spot in the library.

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A National Push for More ‘Active Use’ of Technology in Learning

Educator Innovator

To help her students better connect to the material, she also asked them to draw comic strips about microaggressions they faced in their own lives—being left out of a game for not speaking English fluently, for example. The most obvious addition to the plan is its focus on the “digital-use divide.”

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Massive "Mobile MakerSpace" Resource

Adjusting Course

Since we didn't have the luxury of designating an extra classroom as a “MakerSpace” we opted for a mobile-cart model. Accessing a cart is as easy as checking out a library book! For example, a certain level of attrition occurs with LEGOs and other small parts. Don’t go all-in on any one product (this includes carts).

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My #ISTE12 Reflection, Part 1

wwwatanabe

Educational Blogging: Flattening Classroom Walls by Linda Yollis and Kathleen Morris I am always inspired and in awe of these two women. Their stellar session was filled with powerful tips, incredible resources , while providing powerful examples of what can evolve out of blogging. What new goals will I set as a result of this week?