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The Journey to Becoming an Author

A Principal's Reflections

My unexpected journey began with a decision to give Twitter a try in 2009. Apparently, I was dead wrong on this assumption and quickly learned that Twitter in itself wasn’t a powerful tool, but instead, it was the conversations, ideas, resources, and passionate educators that connected with me. The rest is history.

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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

Johnson (2013), a PLN is: “a self-created set of experts, colleagues, and resources…that meet one’s daily learning needs.”. More simply, it’s: …an extended group of knowledgeable people you reach out to for answers, and trust to guide your learning. What is a PLN. According to D. Why build a PLN. Post to it regularly.

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5 Technology Workflows Your School Needs

Vizor

Retrieved from Kelly Stephens Twitter Feed. Create a knowledge base of documents so students and parents can access them after school hours. Consider monthly Zoom question and answer meetings. Retrieved from Lenape Media Center’s Twitter The post 5 Technology Workflows Your School Needs appeared first on VIZOR.

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Hemet Unified School District Adopts LETRS for New Two-Year Professional Learning Program

eSchool News

It approaches adult learning in a really respectful way and meets them where they’re at,” she said. At Lexia, we’ve seen the need for a common language and understanding of effective evidence-based literacy instruction practices across a school, district, and even a state. Anderson praised the programs’ analytics and rigor. “I

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. We’ve been doing this project eight years now.

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Why Do High School Teachers Lecture So Much?

TeachThought - Learn better.

The best teacher I have ever seen at the HS level, Leon Berkowitz at Portland HS years ago, organized his entire history course using the Steve Allen Meeting of Minds format. You have rich and interesting knowledge based on research that can overcome confusions and missing elements in the current course.

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What Should First Year Teachers Know About Tech Integration?

Tech Helpful

I recently participated in a #TnTechChat Twitter chat moderated by @TeachTnTech regarding Technology skills needed in preservice teachers. Apparently this tweet resonated with many educators on Twitter because it got an over abundance of love. I believe this is a game changer for education and can't be ignored.