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To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media

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This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”. Several educators echo Yates’ comments.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

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We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They worked together as a Personal Learning Network.

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Online Classes! On Your Schedule

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These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), as school PD, or through select colleges for grad school credit. They start at $750 for a group of five or more. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. digital citizenship.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

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Here are my takeaways as moderator of this amazing group: They are risk takers. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand. They were curious.

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15 Take-aways from Online Grad School Classes

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How to work tech tools into their unique student groups. How to embed materials into digital portfolios. How to create a vibrant, healthy Personal Learning Network. Lots (and lots) of schools are not 1:1, making do with shared carts of digital devices. As educators, we need to remember this.

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Subscriber Special: July

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229 (individual); $750 (group of 5). Digs deeper into digital tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. This course is designed for educators who: Are serious about integrating tech into their class. Your Personal Learning Network. July 3rd-July 10th only. Click to join.

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SEL and Classroom Culture In an Age of Distance Learning

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Classroom learning and management all begin with relationships, and SEL can guide the relationship and community building process. Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning.

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