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Leveraging Web 2.0 for Revolutionary Teacher Professional Development

Dr. Shannon Doak

Tailoring Personalized Learning Paths: With Web 2.0, teachers can design their learning experiences to fit their individual interests and needs. Educators can access and contribute to a massive repository of lesson plans, instructional materials, and teaching strategies. Pooling Resources via Crowdsourcing: Web 2.0

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What Will Schools Do in the Fall? Here Are 4 Possible Scenarios

Edsurge

What has taken place during the last two-and-a-half months, the authors contend, is “crisis distance learning,” brought on by near-ubiquitous restrictions on movement and stay-at-home orders since March. School staff should use the summer break to pause and catch their breath, and re-evaluate how they approached distance learning this spring.

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged. I would keep a list of the next three things I wanted to learn. Books, Videos, Courses, and Conferences. The fascinating aspect of micro-credentials is the melding of online and offline learning.

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Let Learners Get in Their Zone (of Proximal Development)

Edsurge

Personalized learning” is a term that people take quite personally—and that leads to a variety of interpretations about what it means. Reyes recognizes that personalized learning overlaps with a number of long established instructional philosophies, frameworks and practices.

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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The Hechinger Report

Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. Higher Education.

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Delaware Department of Education, DuPont and Discovery Education Launch First-of-Its-Kind Partnership Supporting STEM, Career, and Technical Education Statewide

eSchool News

As part of this new partnership, Delaware’s educators will also receive ongoing professional learning designed to help them realize the return on this education technology investment and connect them to the broader Discovery Education Community. DOVER, Del.,

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Curriculum Associates Featured on Inc. Magazine’s 37th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

techlearning

With a focus on reading and mathematics, the company offers an integrated print and digital solution for K–12 diagnostic assessment and instruction, making blended learning a reality in the classroom. 5000 Conference & Awards Ceremony is an annual event that celebrates the remarkable achievements of these companies.

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