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Digital Tools to Mobilize a Community to a Goal

Tech Helpful

I use social media to share the things I've learned via blogs to help others, I've asked people to join me at educational events like Edcamp Gig City and CoffeeEDU, I've asked people to support me in my JDRF walks to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, and more recently I've reached out to an entire city to help me find my lost dog.

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Participate.com: Your toolbelt for professional learning

NeverEndingSearch

Participate’s Jennifer Williams shares that the goal is to be the glue , pulling together the array of possible professional development options–edCamps, Twitter chats, workshops, conferences, PLN sharing, and more–into one uniform experience. Expanded permissions capabilities.

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Educators as Empowered Citizens (Unpacking the ISTE Standards for Educators)

Tech Helpful

Learning where to look for the owner of a website and doing comparisons with multiple websites helps us to share and learn non-biased information with our community. I offer help in my community through edcamps and technology conferences. Learning how to critically look for resources on the internet is a valuable tool.

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9 Ways to Upgrade Professional Learning in Your District

Tom Murray

A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. This post is sponsored by Samsung. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own. The notion of “effective professional learning” is something that has been discussed for decades.

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Understanding The Deep Fake: A Troubling Trend

The CoolCatTeacher

He is an organizer for Oklahoma EdCamp and the PLAYDATE OKC professional development conferences. But we must discuss and help people understand what deep fake is and to be careful about what they believe.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.