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Knowledge, practice and community

Learning with 'e's

How it can be applied in education Knowledge, especially expert domain knowledge, is a critical and essential resource for any form of professional learning. The spread of domain specific content can become exponential if propagated through technology to a large enough global CoP, through the use of mobile technology and social media.

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9 Ways to Upgrade Professional Learning in Your District

Tom Murray

The notion of “effective professional learning” is something that has been discussed for decades. A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. Learn alongside your staff members and model expectations for them. Nothing more.

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What It Means To Be A Reflective Teacher

TeachThought - Learn better.

As a kind of definition, to reflect means to look back at how something “went,” and see it for all of its available parts and patterns: Causes and effects; comparisons and contrast; strengths and weakness; its characteristics; how close it came to what you were expecting; your emotions. How am I spending my time right now on social media?

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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. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.

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Big Tech Needs to Treat Our Children Better

Edsurge

Technology is, in fact, already touching nearly every part of our public education system, from assessments to communication to professional learning. But when the school day ends, kids at increasingly younger ages swipe on their phones and immerse themselves in social media, games, YouTube and other corners of the internet.