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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. EBooks and audiobooks are key in this regard.

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Latest in Games and Learning Research Reveals Need to Empower Educators

MIND Research Institute

Last month I attended the annual Digital Media and Learning (DML) Conference at University of California, Irvine. These four themes emerged from my experience of the conference: The role of failure in games (and the contrast of the experience of failure in traditional education). October 5, 2017. Connected Learning. October 6, 2017.

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ETA hand2mind Unveils Daily Math Fluency at 2018 NCSM/NCTM Conferences

techlearning

April 25, 2018 – This week at the 2018 National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual Conferences, ETA hand2mind unveiled Daily Math Fluency, a ready-made solution for developing efficiency, flexibility and accuracy in the grasp of basic math facts for students in grades K-5.

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Do It Right the First Time: How to Maximize Your Edtech Investment

Edsurge

Prioritize early evaluation With so many options being showcased at trade shows and conferences or on social media, it’s tempting to make your mind up before the search has even started. Administrators involved in upgrading technology attended conferences to see what their peers were doing and what was available in the market.

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The Journey to Becoming an Author

A Principal's Reflections

It was during one of these presentations at the National Association of Secondary School Principals Conference that I was asked by Corwin to consider writing Digital Leadership. I cannot even begin to explain the sense of pride I felt by being asked to present on the work occurring at my school.

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Take Student Collaboration to the Next Level – SULS0120

Shake Up Learning

The terminology is all the same giving kids a strong knowledge base for both subjects. . Another support for students came through a personal conference Vicki held. Defending their claims with evidence is the same process for writing arguments.

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How to Make Assessment Meaningful this School Year | By @EduSight

TeacherCast

Given what we’re trying to help teachers with at Edusight , I was attracted to two sessions – making assessment meaningful, and reinventing the parent-teacher conference. The minor word of caution is that there is some value to memorization and knowledge-based learning, especially in early foundational concepts (e.g.,