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OCTOBER 18, 2016

For anyone who missed the April announcement, Twitter switched its app category from ‘social media’ (where it consistently ranked in the top ten with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Pinterest) to ‘news’ (now ranked #1, ahead of apps like CNN, Fox News, and Reddit). Establish rules for Twitter use.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

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. Twitter Chats worked best with larger groups.

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JULY 21, 2015

Sessions were run like a flipped classroom where attendees accessed daily topics, read/watched materials, tested their knowledge, and experimented with projects. They chatted with colleagues on discussion boards, blogs, and Twitter. Some of the problems students faced down: How to use twitter. How to use GHO.

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MAY 23, 2017

Digital portfolios—via wikis. Flipped Classroom—attendees learn in a ‘flipped classroom’ environment. Twitter—used to share notes, thoughts, mini-assessments, to collect information via #hashtags, and in TwitterChats. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e., Just as they tell students, it’s OK.

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MAY 26, 2017

Blended learning occurs when an education program combines Internet-based media with traditional classroom methods. Communication tools include all those digital ways teachers encourage students to communicate their thoughts and provide evidence of learning to both teachers and classmates.

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APRIL 13, 2018

We need to become the COO of our classrooms, the Chief Opportunity Orchestrator. I first heard ‘sage on the stage’ and ‘guide on the side’ early in my teaching career when I decided to try The Flipped Classroom™. Through my flipped classroom failure, though, I did learn how to create a student-centered classroom.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. Prism – Welcome to an outside the box application that measures the wisdom of the crowd in reference to a particular reading. Always be certain to facilitate and model proper digital citizenship.

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