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New Cohort Opportunity for Designing Powerful Learning Experiences

Digital Promise

At Edcamp: Maker Learning , educators from all over the country joined us to discuss the most pressing topics related to designing hands-on learning opportunities. In this post, we share how the learnings from these events have informed our approach to a new professional learning opportunity, the Maker Learning @ Home Cohort. .

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The Conversation We Need To Have With Leadership

Teacher Reboot Camp

This means you may have to coordinate with another staff member you possibly might not get along with and you might be given some guidelines that thwart your initial plans, but you can make it work. You might even offer to help organize that meeting to save your leadership time.

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7 Great NonProfits Changing the Face of Professional Learning

Tom Murray

EdCamp Foundation. The grassroots effort is supported by hundreds of free EdCamps organized around the world each year and is undoubtedly one of the most robust, fast moving, game changing forms of professional learning worldwide. URL: www.edcamp.org. International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

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

Education Superhighway

Creating Guidelines Around Classroom Technology Use. The district implemented periodic checks to ensure that student device use adhered to the guidelines. They began helping each other implement the digital classroom tools, going to ISTE , and sharing information and best practices with each other and at Edcamps.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

Edsurge

Lachelle Brant) Creating Guidelines for Distance Education The Problem: Sometimes, the greatest solution stems from the greatest need. It dates back to 2008, when an educational journey began in Wyoming that revealed the important role technology plays in enhancing teaching and learning—especially in a rural state. 2016 Wyoming Google Summit.

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Four Ways School Leaders Can Support Meaningful Innovation

MindShift

There are schools where administrators are experimenting with models of teacher-led professional development like EdCamps. EdCamps are conferences or professional development days that have learning sessions, but they aren’t planned in advance. The fourth entry point is about guidelines and guardrails.

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8 Things to Look for in Today’s Professional Learning (Part 2)

The Principal of Change

Although there may be “guidelines” that must be done for teacher evaluation (three visits into the classroom, etc.), EDCAMP professional learning day. What is EdCamp? having educators their own ongoing portfolio is a great opportunity to shift the conversation from the “evaluator” to the “learner”. Concluding Thoughts.