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Advancing Mobile Phones as Learning Devices

A Principal's Reflections

This shift in mindset can be directly attributed to what I have learned from innovative educators in the social media spaces that I now delve into on a routine basis. For the most part they used a program called Poll Everywhere to check for understanding, review prior learning, and informally assess.

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Spice It Up! 6 Tech Tools to Transform Your Staff Meeting

Fractus Learning

For instance, for our administrative retreat, we opened with a superhero quiz, sparking our discussion on celebrating our schools through social media. Poll Everywhere. I have used Poll Everywhere in many staff meetings. I have used Poll Everywhere in many staff meetings. Today’s Meet.

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Here's what you missed at the MidWest Technology Conference 2014 #METC14

MSEDTechie

Social Studies: [link] - tons of resources on creating effective flipped videos. link] [link] [link] social media - @METCenews [link] Solution for a teacher Web site, assignment submission, and a dozen other things that we do in a dozen different ways, but all in one place. I co-presented two workshops this year.

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Draw on Student Interests to Make the Common Core Work for You

Educator Innovator

As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere. This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. The problem was that I didn’t let my students teach me.

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Testing Giving You The Blues? Get Creative with EdTech Formative Assessments

MSEDTechie

I wish my teachers had access to the digital tools and resources available in our classrooms today. 20 years ago we never would have imagined that the position as a Social Media Manager would be an actual job, and just about every company or organization would need to have someone manage their social media accounts.

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Tools Harvard Computer Science Students Use to Collaborate, Stay Organized

MindShift

And the silly community events are shared on social media and the course website to help create the community feeling that keeps kids engaged in the academic work. It’s just designed to be a resource for students to make that process of understanding error messages easier,” Malan said. The questions pop up as students watch.

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Forging Ahead With Change

A Principal's Reflections

It is time to realize that social media, technology, and the change process are not the enemy. To this end, teachers and students are now routinely utilizing social media and other various Web 2.0 Instead of viewing student-owned technology as a hindrance, it is now wholeheartedly embraced as a mobile learning tool.