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Digital Learning Day: Social Media PD Best Practices #DLDay

The CoolCatTeacher

These truisms are valid for the flowers and the fruit trees and also for the fragrant pollination of ideas happening at the digital water coolers satiating the learning thirst of digital scholars tap tap tapping at keys and pressing send on their smartphones. Best practices for hashtag maintenance and open learning. Listen Now.

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Managing Smartphone Distractions in the Classroom

edWeb.net

Using charts, sixth-grade students collected cell phone usage data and recorded every time a student received a notification from social media apps and texts from family and friends. is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net that helps teachers get advice, support, and share experiences about teaching.

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First Look—Discovery Education Back To School ’23

eSchool News

Click below to listen and scroll down for details and selected edited highlights: Creating Curious Classrooms is a free professional learning series for school and science curriculum leaders that takes a fresh approach to how the latest digital resources and tools can be integrated into instruction to drive engagement.

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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. Importance of Professional Learning Network (PLN) 00:02:11:22 – 00:02:34:20 Debbie Tannenbaum discusses the importance of a PLN and how it has enriched her career.

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Increase teacher effectiveness with eduClipper

The Innovative Educator

Social media, a somewhat broad and nebulous term that refers to digital tools that allow people to create, publish, share, and exchange information and ideas, is not new. We are all learners and social media allows all people to be respected and celebrated for what they create and share.

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Livestreaming and Podcasting in the Classroom

edWeb.net

Do you need to have a desktop or laptop to get the most out of the platform, or would a smartphone work best? What social media do you use regularly for communicating with your students and parents? Many platforms let you promote events via several social media channels, but some are meant for a specific channel.

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Ambient learning

Learning with 'e's

They can draw upon archived content written by experts, or upon the live expertise of knowledgeable members within their professional learning network. One clear example of technology supported ambient learning can be seen in the increasing use of Augmented Reality (AR) tools in the workplace.