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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Weekly Free Event Calendar - Conference Keynotes Update - Edcamp USDOE - Digital Citizenship

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Friday, June 6th at 8am - 3pm in Washington, DC Edcamp US Department of Education: Leading, Learning, Listening , Edcamp US DOE will be an intimate gathering of teacher leaders and policy leaders in order to discuss the most important issues in education. Join Jason on June 9th for a big-picture view of digital citizenship.

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Parent/Educator EDU

My Island View

The Edcamp model of instruction for professional development seems to fit the bill for the needs of both educators and parents. I guess for parents we might refer to PD as Parental Development. All Edcamp topic sessions are based on conversation and not lecture. Individually we may be smart, but collectively we are even smarter.

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The 2014 ASCD Annual Conference: There is Hope

Philly Teacher

In addition, there were more sessions this year focused around topics like integrating technology, digital citizenship, mobile learners, technology and critical thinking and others. Another bright spot was the increased number of sessions referring to project or problem-based learning. Student-Centered, Project Based Learning.

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"I Used to be Sitting in Seat 17D" - How I Rejuvenated My Teaching Career

Fractus Learning

He had QR codes for all of us to use as takeaways so that I could reference everything later, and boy did I! I designed a Digital Citizenship course ( #digcit ) that requires me to stay technologically relevant and to lean on my Professional Learning Network for assistance. Since this change, I have… attended #edcamps.

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The 2014 ASCD Annual Conference: There is Hope

Philly Teacher

In addition, there were more sessions this year focused around topics like integrating technology, digital citizenship, mobile learners, technology and critical thinking and others. Another bright spot was the increased number of sessions referring to project or problem-based learning. Student-Centered, Project Based Learning.

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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. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.