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YouTube as a PLE

Connecting 2 the World

Now, you're probably wondering how YouTube could possibly be used to capture your learning in a Personal Learning Environment (PLE). This idea came to me after my daughter explained how she was using her YouTube Channel. Her school does not have a formal music program. She studied piano outside of school for 4 years.

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The most important lessons we learned this year

eSchool News

One of the biggest challenges we face, as educators, is learning how to put our health and happiness first. We created a Positive Learning Environment (PLE) committee consisting of one person from each grade level to focus on one mindset a month and decide how were going to roll that out to the whole school.

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This time it's personal

Learning with 'e's

That means that when you learn, you do it differently to everyone else. If you are a student you may be sat in the same classroom or lecture hall as many other students, and listening to the same content, but you interpret it differently to everyone else. The PLE is an approach rather than a technology. Nobody else is like you.

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10 ways we made our school happier

eSchool News

We started by asking what it means to be happy in the classroom. As educators, one of the biggest challenges we face is learning how to put our health and happiness first. For us to pull our way out of this difficult time, we first had to take a closer look at building strong relationships between staff and students.

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#1: 10 ways we made our school happier

eSchool News

We started by asking what it means to be happy in the classroom. As educators, one of the biggest challenges we face is learning how to put our health and happiness first. For us to pull our way out of this difficult time, we first had to take a closer look at building strong relationships between staff and students.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with 'e's

Informal and self regulated learning are defining characteristics of 21 st Century education. Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). The central tenet of heutagogy is that people inherently know how to learn.

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Innovation In Teaching Follow-Up

The Web20Classroom

Earlier I asked for y''all to tell me what you though innovation in teaching and in the classroom looked like.I a commercial application, innovation is about opportunity, but the same holds true in the teaching and learning environment. Sometimes I am the one who learns the most. got a ton of great responses.

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