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The end of FlipCon means big changes for flipped learning

eSchool News

According to Bennett, there’s going to be more of an emphasis on connecting local educators with each other for meetups, edcamps, or visits to established flipped classrooms. “The internet has grown in the last 5-10 years in ways people really couldn’t imagine,” he said. ”

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Effective Digital Leadership: Moving Our Schools Forward

EdTechSandyK

We need to be using social media to tell people about the positive things that are going on in our classrooms and schools! Professional Growth Don uses Twitter for a professional learning network. He is constantly in conversation with people about what is going on in his job, growing with them and learning from them.

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"I Used to be Sitting in Seat 17D" - How I Rejuvenated My Teaching Career

Fractus Learning

There have even been a few days that I’ve been participating in #BFC530 (Breakfast Club 530 where we discuss one question for a quick 15 minutes to get our day off on a learning note) and then included that in class two hours later. Since this change, I have… attended #edcamps. Averaging attendance at one a month.

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THANK YOU for 5 Amazing Years of Educational Podcasting! Thank You For Amazing Feedback!

TeacherCast

Grad Student Necessity December 26, 2014 by dr.j_cyrus from United States I recommend this podcast as one of the resources for the professional learning networks (PLNs) that my graduate students create each semester. This is such a great teaching/learning resource. Edsby: Learning Management System. A Great Listen!

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Creating Change

The Principal of Change

Things such as Genius Hour, Innovation Week/Day, Identity Day, Maker Spaces, EdCamps, Flipped Classrooms, revamped professional learning opportunities, using social media to create powerful opportunities for learning, and a myriad of other empowering ways to learn, are things that didn’t exist when I went to school.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.