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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

They desperately sought time during the school day to engage in professional growth opportunities, learn how to integrate Web 2.0 tools, and develop their own Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). 21st Century Education Change educational technology Flipped Classroom Innovation New Milford High School teachers'

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

FC – Flipped Classroom ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). FL – Flipped Learning ( click here for my guide to flipping lessons ). PBL – Project Based Learning ( click here for my guide ). PLN – Personal Learning Network. RED – Rapid e-learning Development.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. Time after time, they took responsibility for their own learning.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Time after time, participants took responsibility for their own learning. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand. Failed and tried again.

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SEL and Classroom Culture In an Age of Distance Learning

Edsurge

Classroom learning and management all begin with relationships, and SEL can guide the relationship and community building process. Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning.

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others. Learning can then occur in any part of the space, not just in the area where students are sat. There are other spaces to use.

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15 Take-aways from Online Grad School Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

Sessions were run like a flipped classroom where attendees accessed daily topics, read/watched materials, tested their knowledge, and experimented with projects. How to create a vibrant, healthy Personal Learning Network. How to work tech tools into their unique student groups. How to create professional blogs.