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My Journey to Becoming a Distance Learning Teacher-Leader

Digital Promise

Manus shares how these Edcamps supported her practice and work with other educators, and we look forward to the launch of our next Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home session on November 21. . Were my students really learning anything? I was hungry for learning and connecting somehow with something different.

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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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Merritt Public Schools: How a Rural Oklahoma District Developed its Digital Learning Program

Education Superhighway

As a result of their efforts, teachers have seen far greater opportunities to marry critical thinking with digital learning in their classrooms. With this approach, the excitement about the newly digitized curriculum was contagious amongst teachers. The Path to a Successful Upgrade.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

Many are also taking advantage of the hundreds of free tools found in the Future Ready Dashboard. In a Future Ready district, curriculum, instruction, and assessment are tightly aligned, redesigned to engage students in 21st Century, relevant, technology-empowered, deeper learning. Personalized Professional Learning.

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Understanding The Deep Fake: A Troubling Trend

The CoolCatTeacher

With respect to school change, he describes himself as a “catalyst for creative engagement and collaborative learning.” His “ Mapping Media to the Curriculum ” book series and digital literacy framework focuses on helping students “show what they know” with media and create digital portfolios.

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How to DIY Your Distance Learning PD

Graphite Blog

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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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

This, unfortunately, discourages staff members from looking outside of school for professional learning opportunities and punishes them for the times that they do seek to improve themselves. What are digital badges? After the completion of the online learning course, the teacher will be emailed a badge for that tool.

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