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Run your meetings edcamp style: The un-faculty faculty meeting

eSchool News

Want to take it even further with engaging, interactive professional learning community (PLC)-style faculty meetings? You can elevate the motivation and learning to heights that seem unreachable. Edcamp-style faculty meetings! Edcamps are typically free and built around community participation and organization.

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Give Teachers Credit: They Know Learning Is Social

Edsurge

My job is to interview and survey the pioneers, investors and stakeholders who drive technological change, share their stories, and collaborate with very smart people to build and distribute tools that help everyone else get involved. I’ve served as both a journalist and participant within each movement. Participate.

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

The Principal of Change

(This is the second of two parts on professional learning. Connected Learning. To be successful in helping people develop professional learning networks is to narrow the focus on the tools that are being shared with staff. You can read the first part here. We need to do less, better.

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TOP 10 Ways To Deliver The Worst PD EVER!

MSEDTechie

Mandating that teachers attend a specific training, and never surveying them to ask what they need, or what they would like to learn. and finally, One size fits all PD- professional development that is not differentiated by content, expertise, grade level or delivery. Their professional learning should be personalized.

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Making Your Teaching Something Special: 50 Simple Ways to Become a Better Teacher

EdTechTeam

which are easier with digital tools such as Google Forms, Quizlet, and other survey-generating software) Ultimately, for myself, the reflection on assessments we give iaan critical takeaway. professional learning network). And yes, there is work involved, but with rewards that will benefit everyone involved. You decide.

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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.