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7 Digital tools for student engagement across all grade levels

Neo LMS

Over the years, I have noticed that student engagement tends to decrease in my classes around this time and I reach out to my personal learning network (PLN) for ideas or tools to boost engagement. Students should also be part of the process of deciding on different tools to try.

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How to build your global classroom in 4 steps

Neo LMS

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. Some of them prefer to seek classroom collaborations directly. Lock from the University of Calgary has developed a four-item framework to help teachers design authentic collaborative learning.

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A PLN Quick Start Guide

A Principal's Reflections

The construction of a PLN enables educators to harness the power inherent in 21st Century technologies in order to create a professional growth tool that is accessible whenever, wherever. Image Credit [link] Most educators I talk to have no idea where to begin when attempting to create a PLN that meets their teaching and learning needs.

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

Ostensibly, learning is an individual goal, and each student does tend to learn in their own way, using their own favoured approaches and tools. We refer to this as personalised learning ( a video explains ). Collaborative learning does not undermine or contradict personalised learning.

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Why Twitter Will Never Connect All Educators.

My Island View

The classroom is no longer the only location where learning takes place. If today’s learner has a need to learn something that has meaning to him/her, he/she can access information and tools to curate, communicate, collaborate and create without any help from someone standing at the head of the class.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning. A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0 The Network Society. Kamel Boulos, M. Maramba, I.

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#EDENchat Growing minds

Learning with 'e's

Such growth can be chaotic and seemingly void of structure at times, especially in the digital age where there are multiple pathways and a bewildering number of choices we can make as to what we learn, how (and with what tools) we learn it, and at what pace we learn. How do teachers engineer such learning opportunities?