Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 19, 2020

I was fortunate to be the primary host for Episode 05 of Silver Lining for Learning yesterday. Will has been talking about how to rethink learning, teaching, and schooling for decades. willrich45 on Twitter. Freedom to Learn. Personal Learning Networks. Learning on the Blog. Why School?

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Wiki Personal Learning Network Learning Video 276

EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The Personal Learning Network (PLN) that I''ve built on Twitter over the past couple of months has become an amazing resource for learning about what''s going on in the educational technology world. One thing I''ve learned about using the web and Web 2.0 The list that follows is a result of that reflection.

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Personal Learning Network Twitter Personalized Learning EdTech 73

The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

High school math teacher Crystal Kirch used her blog to ask for help with her biggest struggle this year: "My students don't know how to learn. They don't know how to succeed. Kirch was directly confronted about her practice of silencing those who didn’t share her views on Twitter and in the blogosphere.

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Personal Learning Network Personalized Learning Learning Twitter 78

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). As you will see, the true power of connected learning is what you glean from the people you engage with. You can read the article HERE.

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Social Media Twitter Personal Learning Network Outcomes 289

Reading By Example

DECEMBER 5, 2015

My topic was how to get started in building one’s personal learning network. There were positives, but it seemed like schoolwide professional learning wasn’t enough for the teachers attending. That is why we started with Twitter. Tweet = post on Twitter.

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Personal Learning Network Personalized Learning Learning Twitter 28

ProfHacker

MARCH 26, 2015

I’ve learned from years of trying that nobody “gets” Twitter when you talk to them about it, and that part of the power of it is in the capacity to make global connections to knowledgeable others. Here are some guidelines if you’re a Twitter fan and want to do the same. Please share in comments!

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

I have also been blessed to observe great examples that members of my Personal Learning Network (PLN) make available on social media. Instagram by far is my favorite tool for bringing more clarity, detail, and context to what I share online, but Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all support embedded visuals in any update.

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Social Media Personal Learning Network Facebook Strategy 313

Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2020

So after you've taken a needed respite from distance learning and its immense screen-time demands, consider these tips for engaging in meaningful online DIY professional learning this summer. Maybe you're a high school biology teacher who has connected with other teachers on Twitter.

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How To Edcamps Learning Conference 57

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2017

For the most part, my integration of technology into workshops is to foster greater collaboration, showcase how to increase engagement authentically, formatively assess, and creatively showcase what they have learned. Integrating them to support high-level learning and having evidence to support this is the challenging work.

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Personal Learning Network Learning Outcomes Tools 238

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2017

A conversation with Peggy George in episode 105 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, Peggy George discusses how to get the most out of ISTE 2017 even if you’re not at there: The #notatiste17 Google Group. The #notatiste17 hashtag on Twitter.

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Microsoft Twitter Edcamps Conference 369

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The teachers are very new to web tools, developing Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) and are currently teaching full time. After the course, they have contributed to our collaborative Pinterest boards, created and shared on Twitter, attempted missions and received digital badges, and kept digital portfolios.

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ePortfolio Moodle Digital Badges Personal Learning Network 389

Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2021

It’s more of a thought experiment to introduce today’s topic: how to research as a teacher, which brings us to…. Read more: Top learning myths to leave behind in 2020. Your personal learning network (PLN)? However, another teacher’s situation might be different than yours, seeing how each classroom is unique.

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Education Examples Personal Learning Network Study 368

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 19, 2020

So many resources are being shared daily on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. You can either lurk and learn or develop your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) to farm the best ideas and strategies that are actually working in similar demographics.

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Learning Social Media Personal Learning Network Policies 405

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

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. They wanted to get it right, see how it worked. Asked questions.

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Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Twitter Gamification 150

My Island View

JANUARY 26, 2015

The best we can do to help them is to focus on the “how” to learn for the future, and they will determine the “what” based on their specific needs at that time. The gap between teacher and student will continue to widen if the educators’ mindset for learning does not evolve.

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Twitter Education Social Media Future Ready 48

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2013

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). Math teacher Jeff Fiscina learned how to create engaging learning activities using Educreations.

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Common Core Educreations Personal Learning Network Flipped Classroom 359

Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Unless you’ve been living in a box at the bottom of the ocean since 2006, you should know about Twitter, the social network that lets users read and send “tweets” no more than 140 characters long. According to the Pew Research Center , Twitter is the fourth most popular social network used by teens. Within seconds.

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Twitter Personal Learning Network EdTech Video 40

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2017

It challenged me to really think about what motivates my students and how to keep them interested and engaged in their learning. I want to scream, “This is time that’s been given to you so you can learn something new. ” So, the question is, how to do we get teachers to want to continue learning?

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Personal Learning Network Professional Learning Report Training 420

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When principals hear the words Twitter and Facebook they cringe. This is true, in many cases, when these tools are used for personal use. Quite simply, social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook have improved my effectiveness and efficiency as an educational leader.

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Social Media Facebook Twitter Personal Learning Network 289

The Web20Classroom

MAY 12, 2014

So we had to look at how to reclaim some of that time. Then face-to-face time is spent going deeper with that understanding, creating something or looking at how the learning can be applied. The post on The Flip Side Of Professional Development really captures how to make this work and gives several examples.

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Edcamps MOOC Personal Learning Network Meeting 248

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags Find your hashtag community! Schools worldwide are in need of educators who can engage students of all ages in an online platform and facilitate students’ learning success virtually.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The teachers are very new to web tools, developing Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) and are currently teaching full time. After the course, they have contributed to our collaborative Pinterest boards, created and shared on Twitter, attempted missions and received digital badges, and kept digital portfolios.

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ePortfolio Moodle Digital Badges Personal Learning Network 265

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Twitter chats- Sites.google.com/site/twittereducationchats/education-chat-calendar. Tinyurl.com/quarantinegamez. Connect with educators online! Find your hashtag community!

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

As a practitioner I am always looking to learn how to better assist educators at all grade levels. So I did what I have been doing for the past five years and that was submit a query to my Personal Learning Network (PLN) using Twitter and Google+. I had a few in my toolbox, but needed more.

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Elementary EdTech Personal Learning Network Secondary 240

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2017

This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Accounts for blog, Google, Twitter, various web-based tools, class wiki. Commitment of 5-10 hours per week for 3 weeks to learn tech. Your Personal Learning Network.

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Wiki eBook Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network 173

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2017

This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Weekends, discuss issues, concerns, and projects in a virtual group via Google Hangouts or Twitter Chats. Accounts for blog, Google, Twitter, various web-based tools, class wiki.

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Wiki eBook Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network 154

My Island View

JANUARY 29, 2020

This includes how to use technology to learn more technology. How to develop a personal learning network through technology should be a course offered in every teacher preparation program. The next two questions might be: “How?” Twitter is the backbone of my PLN. and “Who?”. Easy Pickens!

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Personal Learning Network Twitter Assessment Accessibility 64

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 1, 2017

Thoroughly explore new technology and get to grips with how to use it before a lesson or unit. Learn from the digital natives! Use their strengths and foster a collaborative class who all learn together. Set students open-ended challenges so they can direct their own learning and push themselves. Use the experts!

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Personal Learning Network Facebook EdTech Mobility 100

The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The Art of the Follow: One of the hardest things on Twitter is to master is the art of the Follow. Twitter Comic Tutorial At-A-Glance Part Deux that coordinates to this blog is below- thanks!) Twitter Comic Tutorial At-A-Glance Part Deux that coordinates to this blog is below- thanks!) Middle school that''s great! 6 - Say What?

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Twitter Wiki Personal Learning Network Social Media 74

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

My personal learning network is key to my success with integrating robots into our activities,” Innes says. “I I use Twitter a lot. The students will build out a maze and teach the Ozobot how to navigate it. Buy one robot, start with the online coding or set up a small club. But a lot of it is student-driven. “My

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2016

Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. At the completion of this course, the teacher will be able to: Use blogs, wikis, Twitter, and Google Hangouts to collaborate and share. Rely on a Personal Learning Network. Course Objectives. What do students say?

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Wiki Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network Learning 150

Educational Technology Guy

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Edchat Interactive is a new type of free, online PD brought to you by some of the same folks who created #echat twitter discussions, including Tom Whitby and Steven Anderson , who are both friends of mine and in my Personal Learning Network and great educators. Register and/or learn More.

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Personal Learning Network Personalized Learning Twitter Google 100

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 27, 2017

After getting on Twitter in 2009 I realized that we had to be better for our kids. I spent a great deal of time writing numerous detailed memos on everything from technology tools to improve assessment, developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN), and embracing innovative ideas. Then I waited.

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Examples Personal Learning Network Training Industry 183

The Principal of Change

JANUARY 31, 2015

This could be something to applied the idea of educators using Twitter. With the Twitter now implementing video in the service, it will be something that people will not only be open to learn, but I am sure will do interesting and new things with. For those reasons Twitter will never connect all educators.

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Twitter Social Media Edcamps Personal Learning Network 28

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

This three-week course (July 11-July 31) is a follow-on to the introductory class, Tech-infused Teacher , digging into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Weekends, discuss issues, concerns, and projects in a virtual group via Google Hangouts or Twitter Chats. Who Needs This.

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Wiki eBook Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network 151

Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Pacansky-Brock stresses how valuable it can also be to take an online professional development course, as I did previously through the Digital Pedagogy Lab.

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Online Learning Learning OER Course 183

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2015

They chatted with colleagues on discussion boards, blogs, and Twitter. Some of the problems students faced down: How to use twitter. How to use GHO. How to make a tagxedo interactive. How to make a tagxedo interactive. How to work tech tools into their unique student groups.

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Digital Citizenship Flipped Classroom Personal Learning Network Twitter 150