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Participate.com: Your toolbelt for professional learning

NeverEndingSearch

A recent winner of the ISTE Seal of Alignment Report , Participate.com is a professional learning networker’s dream, packed with features offering local relevance as well as the potential for global connections. Participate on twitter @participate. It’s definitely time for a revisit. Participate on Facebook.

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Getting Rid of Cemetery Style Seating in the Classroom with Bill Selak

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 118 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. He also shares how flexible seating should go with more student voice and choice in their learning. I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you.

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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. Dewey Experiential Learning 8. Ebbinghaus Learning and Forgetting Curves 10. Festinger Social Comparison Theory 11. Craik and Lockhart Levels of Processing 6.

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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 Actually Works in EdTech? with Tom Murray

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 119 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In this podcast, Tom shares the research and highlights, some of which are included in the book Learning Transformed that he co-authored with Eric Sheninger. How do we make learning personal? Listen Now.

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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. Professional Learning Networks?

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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 Twitter : Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information. That was certainly the case in our experience.