Cycles of Learning

JULY 19, 2018

Looking for a strategy to promote more critical thought? ​ Interested in developing and hosting an EdCamp at your school site? Challenge your students to create a video explaining a topic at 5 different levels of difficulty (5 Year Old to Master). Use this video as a template. Click here to learn more about the process.

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techlearning

JULY 26, 2018

Looking for a strategy to promote more critical thought? Interested in developing and hosting an EdCamp at your school site? Challenge your students to create a video explaining a topic at 5 different levels of difficulty (5 Year Old to Master). Use this video as a template. Check out the the Question Formulation Technique (QFT).?

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Cycles of Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

My top three strategies, ideas, or tools of the week! Student-Driven EdCamps might be an easy way in the door. ​ Looking for a tangible application for leveraging VR in the classroom? Recently our school acquired a classroom set of Google Cardboard VR goggles via a generation donation from an former student.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2020

This fall, educators can also continue assisting each other in the transition to digital learning through upcoming Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home sessions, where attendees can dive into the concerns that matter most to them using an unconference model.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 22, 2013

It is an opportunity to become better at what we do as well as gain knowledge on new pedagogical techniques, learning theories, leadership strategies, technologies, and federal/state mandates. We can all agree that professional development is essential in any profession, especially education. Each is hyperlinked to additional information.

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The Jose Vilson

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The teacher may have learned a plethora of pedagogical strategies, but ends up getting hired at a place that’s antagonistic to student inquiry and focuses more on rote pedagogy. We also have examples of teachers building their professional sustenance in the form of Edcamps, unconferences, and meetups.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 19, 2013

For those of you not familiar with the Edcamp Foundation. About the Edcamp Foundation The Edcamp Foundation is a Delaware non-profit, which was started to promote organic, participant-driven professional development for K-12 educators worldwide. One of the staple features of an Edcamp is the “Web2.0

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2019

The post How to Choose a Digital Assessment Strategy – SULS010 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Choosing a digital assessment strategy is not easy, but it is critical to success! How to Choose a Digital Assessment Strategy with @teachmomrepeat! Carly Black is an eighth-grade language arts teacher in Ashland, Ohio.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 26, 2015

Inspired by the popular EdCamp movement, and facilitated by Jimmy Casas , Principal of Bettendorf High School in Iowa and Jim Warford , of the International Center for Leadership in Education , this strand makes it possible for any participant to take the stage and present on an education-related passion. Hope to see you there!

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

When Digital Promise and EdSurge considered which educator award categories to include in the 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards , we wanted to highlight five areas where exemplary teachers around the world are using innovative strategies to engage and empower students.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 5, 2017

As a result, I challenged myself and others to come up with strategies to invite diversity. Strategies to invite diversity 1) Converse Take note of whom you are engaging with in conversation. It’s even more important to determine solutions to address that problem. If everyone looks like you, change that.

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Tom Murray

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Non-traditional forms of professional learning such as the use of social media and Edcamps are valued, not dismissed. When employed as part of a comprehensive educational strategy, the effective use of technology provides tools, resources, data, and supportive systems that increase teaching opportunities and promote efficiency.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 7, 2019

Not only do you come away with a plethora of strategies you can use in your classroom on Monday, you also walk away with a Professional Learning Family for life. Look for a free, unconference style EdCamp in your area or start micro-burst professional development series in your school led by your teachers. On a budget?

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

This is why hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world are participating in Twitter chats, Edcamps and other informal, organically organized professional learning communities. Yet scheduled institute days and workshops are all too often remedial and not responsive to the actual needs of a teacher. Participate.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2020

For most teachers, summer is both a time to recharge and a time to reflect on the past school year and consider new teaching strategies and curriculum. EdCamp : The first EdCamp was hosted in 2010 in Philadelphia, and since then it has expanded into decentralized community, hosting events called "un-conferences."

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My Island View

OCTOBER 22, 2019

That seems to be the strategy to protect most bureaucracies, but that being said, there are still many good things happening within the education system. The best example I can think of is the Edcamp movement. This is the Kevlar vest against any silver bullet that an insightful, forward-thinking change agent might shoot.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 9, 2013

Click for More Information July 22, 2013- Boston MA: EdCamp BLC at Building Learning Communities- I am helping to organize this free unconference in which the agenda is built and executed by participants. Now a veteran of 7 Edcamps, I will say again that I learn more at these events than I do from traditional PD!

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My Island View

APRIL 13, 2015

It is probably the key to the success of the Edcamp movement. All of the Edcamp sessions are guided conversations. Accountability Administrator conference Connected Educator Edcamp Education ISTE Leadership PD Professional development Professionalism Reform Teachmeet Thought leadership Thought Provoking Uncategorized unconference'

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 3, 2015

Great group shot of #edcampusdoed w/ @arneduncan pic.twitter.com/oex1G4cNcg — Zac Chase (@MrChase) May 29, 2015 #EdCampUSA On Friday, May 29, I had the privilege to attend #EdCampUSA (aka EdCamp DOED) in Washington D.C. This was no ordinary EdCamp. This EdCamp was held at the U.S. GET YOURSELF TO AN EDCAMP!

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MSEDTechie

MAY 17, 2018

Whether you are attending a conference like ISTE, or creating your own personalized learning experience, utilizing this “break” to explore new tools and strategies that help expand your teaching toolbox can be very rewarding. For those of us in education, summer is a time for relaxation, reflecting, and also new learning. Here are a few tips.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Whether you are attending a conference like ISTE , or creating your own personalized learning experience, utilizing this “break” to explore new tools and strategies that help expand your teaching toolbox can be very rewarding. For those of us in education, summer is a time for relaxation, reflecting, and also new learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

Embracing the belief that educators themselves provide the most valuable PD for their colleagues, EdCamps began in Philadelphia in 2010 and have since been replicated more than 700 times around the world.

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Tech Helpful

MAY 17, 2017

I know there are strategies for pulling in the outliers but do we use them? On top of all this I helped lead Edcamp Gig City this past Saturday and when I'm looking at the feedback I can't help but think.even teachers don't truly understand how to best engage in group discussions. Is there a reason our students feel like outliers?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2017

She greatly enjoys sharing her passion for being a connected educator through venues such as ISTE, Edcamp, EdTechTeam and various conferences. VICKI: So how does this method of being a stage director of math word problems compared to some of the other strategies that you’ve taught the kids to tackle word problems?

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 11, 2013

Click for More Information July 22, 2013- Boston MA: EdCamp BLC at Building Learning Communities- I am helping to organize this free unconference in which the agenda is built and executed by participants. Now a veteran of 7 Edcamps, I will say again that I learn more at these events than I do from traditional PD!

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edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2020

Michael Flood currently serves as Vice President of Strategy at Kajeet. In his role, Michael leads strategy addressing equity and scalability of mobile technology in the education market while focusing on technology’s transformative role in education. She teaches grades six through eight in the growing CTE program at the school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

But she’s probably best known as founder of the Edcamp Foundation, which helps teachers run free, grassroots professional-development workshops. She still chairs the board for the foundation.). There is something I learned about the power of play when I was an educator and when I was a school leader that has never left me,” says Swanson.

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ignitionEDU

JUNE 28, 2016

attend the EdCamp organizers meet-up where, again, I was able to see my digital PLN come to live before my eyes. A conversation that would have never happened with the previous ISTE strategy. spend two hours volunteering at the BreakoutEDU bus, giving back to the community that has given me so much over the past year.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

We are talking about some alternative ways to share professional learning tips and strategies through what has been dubbed as #PottyPD. I am not the first one to use this strategy; there are many different versions out there. She has presented at FETC, the EdTechTeam Low Country Summit, and EdCamps.

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MSEDTechie

MAY 18, 2016

Whether you are attending a conference like ISTE , or creating your own personalized learning experience, utilizing this “break” to explore new tools and strategies that help expand your teaching toolbox can be very rewarding. For those in education, summer is a time for relaxation, reflecting, and also new learning. Not sure where to start?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

I had heard about Breakout EDU back in 2015 when it first hit the EdCamp scene in New Jersey. Breakout EDU is an immersive learning game platform where players use teamwork and critical thinking to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to open a locked box. I bought a Breakout box and had it ready to go but never used it.

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Philly Teacher

MARCH 17, 2014

I attended the Edcamp session and watched as attendees unhooked chairs and created discussion circles and then proceeded to generate discussion topics and hold discussions around topics of their choice. conference edcamp PBL reflection social media technology'

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Best ed tech / resource sharing blog all4mychild shares the creative use of a variety of apps, books (particularly with their books4all analyses) and other strategies to make therapy engaging and effective. Best new blog Hanna B.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Librarians can’t wait to be asked to provide these tools, it must happen routinely and in a variety of formats.

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The PL2C Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Needless to say it was a packed two days filled with exploration, taking risk with intention, failing forward, building professional networks, and sharing best practices and strategies to support student-centered learning and empowering educators at all levels.

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MindShift

JANUARY 3, 2017

She shared her findings at a recent EdCamp gathering in New Jersey. But over time, she came up with a range of classroom strategies that put students squarely in charge. It took about a year, maybe a year and a half, to abandon her top-down approach to teaching and replace it with what she calls “structured chaos.”

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MSEDTechie

MAY 23, 2015

Whether you are attending a conference like ISTE , or creating your own personalized learning experience, utilizing this “break” to explore new technologies and strategies that help expand your teaching toolbox can be very rewarding. For those in education, summer is a time for relaxation, regrouping, and also new learning.

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