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Thinking About Redefining Professional Development

The Web20Classroom

The traditional forms of sit-and-get PD are giving way to MOOCs, webinars, Edcamps and flipped learning. The post on The Flip Side Of Professional Development really captures how to make this work and gives several examples. Professional Development is more than just flipping the traditional models.

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3 Misconceptions About Innovation in Education

The Principal of Change

Look at EdCamp. This has become one of the best ways that educators have taken ownership of their own learning yet technology is not necessarily at the forefront of this process; it is the process of the professional learning that is innovative.

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Why #techquity

Educator Innovator

Those recent experiences lead me to believe that an open #techquity involving all kinds of stakeholders is an entry point for youth to engage in connected learning. At an EdCamp, unconference-like event early this year in my school district, teachers expressed interest in having a conversation about equity of access.

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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.