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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE

The Web20Classroom

Ask any of the thousands of teachers who regularly use Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook about connected education, and you may get an earful about using digital tools as a means to connect with educators and students worldwide. The Edcamp model connects educators to PD like never before. According to DeWitt, we can.

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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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Seesaw - Notes from #EdCampR13 Session | #EdCamp

EdTechSandyK

Great way to teach digital citizenship and appropriate online behavior. She downloaded as a PDF then uploaded to the Seesaw activity, and students were able to use the Seesaw tools to create. Parents only see their own students' work unless the teacher posts to the blog function. Students can comment on each others' work.

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How to DIY Your Distance Learning PD

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Common Sense Educators : A Facebook group with over 15,000 educators dedicated to a collaborative culture of digital learning and digital citizenship, this is a closed group, so you'll need to request to join. Check out their calendar to see whether there are any online events being sponsored near you.

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Parent/Educator EDU

My Island View

We should not expect to razzle-dazzle them with bells and whistles on the latest tools of technology. Conversation is the best tool for collaboration, which is the basis for adult learning. The Edcamp model of instruction for professional development seems to fit the bill for the needs of both educators and parents.

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Digital Tools to Mobilize a Community to a Goal

Tech Helpful

I use social media to share the things I've learned via blogs to help others, I've asked people to join me at educational events like Edcamp Gig City and CoffeeEDU, I've asked people to support me in my JDRF walks to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, and more recently I've reached out to an entire city to help me find my lost dog.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

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Common Sense Education provides many valuable resources focused on helping teachers identify how they can use tools and technology to assess learning in the classroom. From polls to digital tools, the articles, resources, and videos can help reshape or clarify the role technology plays in everyday assessment. Take a deep dive.