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How to succeed with online PD for teachers

Neo LMS

For example, if schools want teachers to manage their time better, they should try to reduce the admin work before creating online courses on time management. Online training for teachers is the perfect opportunity to also train them to use edtech and other online tools. building a personal learning network online.

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Practice vs. research in education? Why teachers need to do both

Neo LMS

For example, an English teacher might stumble upon this meta-analysis that looked at 41 summer reading programs across 35 studies and found that lower-income students from kindergarten to eighth grade benefit the most from these programs. Read more: Top learning myths to leave behind in 2020. Your personal learning network (PLN)?

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It’s Time Edtech Conferences Stopped Ignoring Equity and Race

Edsurge

The typical edtech conference buzzes with gadgetry, infrastructure and new ways to engage students. Ken Shelton (African American Educator and Tech Strategist): I have had the opportunity to attend, speak at and even keynote a lot of conferences—particularly edtech ones—over the years. Here are our experiences.

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How to build your global classroom in 4 steps

Neo LMS

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. For example, there is a much larger global conversation going on about recycling and reducing our use of certain materials. Intentional integration of ICT/edtech.

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The Fault Lines Between Sharing and Shilling for an Edtech Product

Edsurge

The piece from Natasha Singer examines the murky relationship between edtech developers and the educators who tout their products. That celebrity status can attract edtech companies who want to get a visibility boost. The tactic is not unique to education.

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

Edsurge

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. We can be the example.

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What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

My personal learning network is key to my success with integrating robots into our activities,” Innes says. “I With my example of the bilingual students learning their spelling sight words, we start with a simple lesson — learning the words,” says Innes. The students were learning about Jackson Pollock.

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