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Georgia Principal Wins Curriculum Associates’ 2022 Inspire Award

eSchool News

Realizing there is much to learn from her own experiences and those of other dynamic female leaders, she also recently created the Principal Captain Kirk leadership blog and other social media platforms to share best-practice insights and advice. “It About Curriculum Associates.

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The challenges of mobile learning in the classroom

Neo LMS

However, this frenzied adoption of mobile devices within learning has presented many new challenges for education leaders. Designing learning materials for mobile devices. It’s easy for students to text with friends, play games, watch funny videos, browse social media channels or even answer calls.

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What BloomBoard is and How it Energizes Professional Development

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To earn these, teachers view the required materials, answer a set of questions, and then submit evidence of impact on practice such as lesson plans, instructional materials, and videos. They can also be shared via email and/or social media platforms. This is done through Embed.ly

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From digital citizenship to digital leadership in a South Carolina elementary school

Hapara

Technology is present in kids’ worlds now more than ever before. Whether it be social media, school use or gaming, students are almost always on some sort of digital application. Much of this time is not instructional material used in classes. Where we started . Digital citizenship can start at any age.

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Common Sense Media digital citizenship refresh

NeverEndingSearch

Sexting: Common Sense Media is now aging the topic down with a new lesson and video addressing the issue for middle school. Fake news (news and media literacy): addressing the research that young people often get their news from social media rather than news outlets. How does social media affect our relationships?

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Why Stubborn Myths Like ‘Learning Styles’ Persist

Edsurge

For example, there is no evidence that matching instructional materials to a student’s preferred “learning style” helps learning, nor that there are “right-brain” and “left-brain” learners. and found that, on average, they believed half of the neuromyths they were presented with. But those beliefs persist.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. It’s about saving teachers instructional time. But it’s also about telling a story, organizing resources for sense-making, interpreting, presenting choices, palettes and dashboards.

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