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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Thanks to the GEC Sponsors Social Media Amazing List of Currently Scheduled Sessions! Some important conference updates are below: Still Taking Proposals Keynotes + Sessions Presenters - Check Your Instructions Volunteering + Advisory Board - We Need You! Become a Partner Organization! We're Still Taking Proposals! Sears, M.A.,

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning. For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique.

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Why We Still Need to Know Things in the Age of Google

The CoolCatTeacher

Let me give you an amazing example from a research team led by Sam Weinberg at Stanford. Now the two groups that he did find were excellent at solving these sorts of problems were Wikipedia editors and magazine fact checkers. Stanford: our problem-solving skills tend to be local to our domain expertise.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Karen has presented at conferences around the country about teaching students to navigate social media and working with teachers to develop digital projects that embrace new media literacies. Her professional blog, Always Learning, is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking examples of authentic student engagement.

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Facebook and Fake News: Esther Wojcicki On Teaching Digital Journalism in High School

Edsurge

Today she's turned her classroom into a multi-million dollar media center. You might call her the hipster teacher since she embraced collaborative learning, flexible seating and student autonomy before it was trendy. In this media center, we have ten different publications. And we have a newspaper.

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Connected Educator Month - Week One's Amazing Schedule!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As "pioneers" of connecting educators through Ning, David and I will talk about educational social networking and social media for both teacher professional development and also for student learning. In Blackboard Collaborate, live link [link] Recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-08-01.1559.M.6CB0F782170E38EDF560068CC4CA79.vcr&sid=2008350