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Beware of Time-Wasting Low Level Technology Learning

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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Tom Murray reflects on his first 1:1 program seventeen years ago with Palm Pilots. Website Twitter Some of the links in this blog post are affiliate links. He’s concerned that we often celebrate low-level learning.

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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”

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Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning.

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Reclaiming Your Calling #MotivationMonday with Brad Gustafson

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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Principal Brad Gustafson, author of Reclaiming Our Calling: Hold on to the Heart, Mind, and Hope of Education , inspires us to find our reason for teaching and being an educator again. He co-hosts UnearthED ; a popular school leadership podcast.

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10 Tips for Instructional Technology Coaches

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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Blog: [link] Twitter: @Katie_M_Ritter. Vicki : So do you find most people find their tribe on Twitter, on Tik Tok? But ten years ago, Twitter was everything to me to find my tribe. Katie finished her Ed.D. Thank you for Today’s sponsor Lum.io

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Throw out Learning Styles and Replace it with UDL

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Kathleen McClaskey on episode 229 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I also want to refer people to an article that I wrote for ASCD several months ago this past year. Blog: Make Learning Personal : Empowering Every Learner to be Future Ready.

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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

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“It’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,” says Tom Murray, director of innovation for Future Ready Schools , a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education. Around this time, I first got on Twitter. This incident really struck me.

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Effective Digital Citizenship Education

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Kristen Mattson on episode 242 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter: @DrKMattson. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Bio as submitted.