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From EdCamps to Google, 11 Professional Development Offerings for Teachers This Summer

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As testing comes to a close, the next big event for educators on the horizon is summer vacation. Grab Your Tents: Time to Go Ed-Camping Okay, so for most of these edcamp events you probably won’t need a tent, but they are often full of multi-day events (so pack snacks).

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From Playgrounds to Programmers: How Sharing Shapes Schools

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Whether we’re typing an address into our GPS or sending a text message or setting an alarm clock or reading the paper on an iPad or uploading an image to a course management system or making a reservation. Edcamp events are free, generally locally organized “unconference” meetings where the agenda is decided by those in attendance.

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Disintermediating IT: The Secret Sauce To Small School EdTech Success

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Local IT service companies tend to be business focused, just like school IT shops of old, and are not well versed in the unique edtech challenges facing classrooms today. District’s don’t want to be messing around with routers and need a single point of contact to call in the event “the Internet” stops working.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via KPCC : “ LAUSD may try again to give an iPad or computer to every student.” Apple had a big press event this week. ” Via The New York Times : “ Edcamps : The ‘Unconferences,’ Where Teachers Teach Themselves.” ” More on the plan from Chalkbeat. Seems like it worked out.).