A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 18, 2015

Understanding how they are impacting teaching and learning will help guide your consideration of which tools are useful and how to best implement them. Image retrieved from https://l2lbyte.wordpress.com/learning-videos/ Currently, online tools. There are thousands of free digital tools available that promote the art of doing.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The first is on a topic close to my heart, Personal Learning Networks. The day will also include a component on using social media tools with students at varying levels. Course Description: Do you feel isolated in your classroom? This session will help you find information and lesson ideas, inspiring your work!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Here’s a long list of websites to address Digital Citizenship topics you teach in your classroom: Avatars. Wiki Images. Admongo –explore, discover and learn about online ads while playing a game. Social media. Look up –don’t let social media take over your life. Free Photo.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. It is essential to translate practice in order to communicate with our stakeholders and to support and inspire learning.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

This is Part 5 in my series of posts on the future of learning and technology. A few years ago Peter John and I wrote a book entitled 'The Digital Classroom'. Everyone in the world of education it seems, has an interest in how technology is going to influence what we do in the classroom.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

They are only a small group of a dozen students, but over the last few months, my elearning module group has created a very large amount of content, including blogs, wiki pages and videos. The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 16, 2014

Many of the earlier learning theories place the learner in splendid isolation. From the neo-behaviourist theories of Thorndike, Watson and Skinner, we were led to believe that learners respond to stimuli and make associations between the two, and that these links represent learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Classrooms are infused with technology. By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. By 3rd grade, play music while students type so they learn to type in a paced rhythm. Each year, add those that are age-appropriate, scaffolding from those already learned. Internet use.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 6, 2016

New media educator Howard Rheingold interviews educator Shelly Terrell about her new book, which highlights the power of students’ mobile devices to drive learning in and out of the classroom. I’ve learned a great deal from her. I had been encouraging students to take charge of their learning.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 19, 2011

Since that time so much has gone on in the world of Social Media in Education, I decided it needed some updating. With all of these external pressures there is little time for school leadership to encourage teachers to take risks in their classroom and be creative in terms of technology. Connected Principals (Classroom 2.0

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’.

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The 21st Century Principal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

“We now live in a world where even twelve-year olds can create their own global classrooms around the things about which they are are most passionate,” writes Will Richardson in an essay entitled “Navigating Social Networks as Learning Tools.” In other words, they need adults who are “network literate.”

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 16, 2016

A key feature of social media is its open architecture, because it allows all members of a community to easily modify, extend or delete content. More importantly, such activities have been shown to be very beneficial for all those who participate to learn together (Wheeler et al, 2008). It's a fine balance. But it's not easy.

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The Daring Librarian

JULY 27, 2010

Social Media Dim Sum: One Small Plate at a Time I love my PLN! The main plate features those parts of my Personal Learning Network that are the most significant to me: Twitter , Flickr , Google (Gmail & Google apps) Nings ( Classroom 2.0 , Teacher Librarian Ning , MSET , ISTE Community ) Wikispaces and Sqworl.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 8, 2010

The rest of my favorite links are here.'

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Use and understand social media platforms: Instead of giving in to fear and trying to find ways to limit access and use of social media platforms by educators, 21st century administrators need to be engaged heavily in the use of these platforms to both promote their educational organizations and to communicate with stakeholders.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2012

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21st, is worldwide 2012 Social Learning Summit , a one-day virtual conference being held as a partnership of Classroom 2.0 The conference theme is the use of social media and Web 2.0 in teaching and learning, and the URL for attending is [link]. and the Discovery Educator Network.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As the world sheltered in place during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, stories of youth designing spaces in Minecraft popped up on social media. The process of designing worlds and lessons that could support playful writing and learning was challenging, fun, and rich with possibilities.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 23, 2012

Notes from FutureofEducation.com Webinar Steve Hargadon , Moderator Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay , authors of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds [link] Book was three years in the making. Wanted to tell the story of the classroom teacher and show these things are really happening. So, learning can improve by doing pilot projects.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

This is Part 5 in my series of posts on the future of learning and technology. A few years ago Peter John and I wrote a book entitled 'The Digital Classroom'. The idea of a 'classroom' (regardless of how anachronistic that may sound) is appealing when it is 'digitised'. Much more learning will be done outside of the classroom.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 1, 2009

These awards celebrate "the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology." She writes about technology, teaching, and the blending of the two in her classroom and school. The other is the Digital Learning Environments Blog.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2012

Dear Friends: This March marks the 5th anniversary of Classroom 2.0. It''s pretty amazing to think of all that has happened in the world of social media and education during this time, and I''m especially grateful for the role that Classroom 2.0 A HUGE thanks to each of you in Classroom 2.0 (or So here it is!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. social media. social media. Exhibit a positive attitude toward technology that supports learning. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 8, 2012

Down the Hall is produced by the External Programs and Learning Technologies (EPLT) department of the University of British Columbia. How important of a resource are various social media for doing this? Social media can be a very valuable source of information and professional development for educators.

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wwwatanabe

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thank you, Edublogs , for providing this opportunity to acknowledge amazing educators around the globe, and for raising the awareness of the awesome impact social media and web 2.0 can have on our learning and our learners. Her genuine love for learning is apparent in all she does. Best new blog: Ms Edwards Considers.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Even our own Vice Chancellor Professor Wendy Purcell (@WMPUPVC) this morning remarked on how productive our student body has become on social media platforms over the past few months. Here at Plymouth we are taking social media seriously, and are encouraging innovative uses. What do the students learn from blogging?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Join me today, Thursday, February 2nd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com panel discussion on "Personal Learning Profiles," also referred to in variously as "personal success plans," "learner profiles," or "personalized learning paths." How can and should personal learning profiles interact with student portfolios?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

This is a great way for writing-challenged students to learn about plot, setting, characters, domain-specific vocabulary, evidence, and the habits of close reading in a non-text way. When completed, it can be saved to the camera roll or shared via email or a variety of social media options. Google Storybuilder. VoiceThread.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

How practice, feedback, and revision lead to writing growth; full size image here Decades of research on writing instruction all point to these ideals, which can be put into practice in any classroom with appropriate support. Students, in most classroom contexts, are not accustomed to being evaluators. Troy Hicks’ Twitter: @hickstro.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 28, 2012

More than four decades after Toffler's book was published, there is conflicting evidence that technology has actually delivered any significant change to the pedagogy practiced in school classrooms. The mass production pedagogy model stubbornly persists, and personalised learning seems far from the reach of many young people.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blogs, wikis, Skype, YouTube can be learners’ power tools, but their creative and pedagogical potential is only activated when learners get to think, work, create, and do for themselves. I was particularly drawn to the blog’s description: “One Student’s Mission to Explain the Benefits of Social Media in the Classroom.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

The 2012 Edublog Awards are a go, and I''m pleased for Classroom 2.0 The purpose of the Edublog awards is promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media. It is that time of year again! and my Web 2.0 Labs to be co-sponsors again of this very fun annual event. How Does It Work?

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

Think about it in a lower elementary classroom. Here is an example I use a lot where I asked people to give me their thoughts on what a PLN (Personal Learning Network) means to them. Check out the Voicethread In Education wiki for some. Skype took off and more and more teachers are using it in the classroom. Need ideas?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In their 7th year, the Edublog Awards are a chance to celebrate blogging, social media, and Web 2.0 I should note that I am co-host of the actual awards ceremony, that Classroom 2.0 This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about many terrific sites and individuals. Best Use of a PLN " - Two nominations: Classroom 2.0

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

A friend & fellow teacher librarian in my district Barb Randolph mentioned that the teachers who posted QR codes in their classrooms had parents lining up to scan them on BTSN! Feel free to go to my Slideshare or wiki to download and adapt it for your school! Want to learn more about QR Codes?

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