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25 Smart #SocialMedia Tips For #EdLeaders
Let’s continue the conversation at iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium. I’m leading a social media conversation on Tuesday at 4:30pm. We’ll use #EdSocial.
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Featured EduPreneur: Trenton Goble, MasteryConnect
Trenton Goble is chief academic officer of MasteryConnect, where teachers go to learn about Common Core State Standards and to share assessment items. In this podcast, Goble talks about the transition from principle to entrepreneur.
Personalized Learning
Fowler USD has Success with Online Speech Therapy
Many schools, especially those serving rural communities, have experienced difficulty providing speech-language therapy solutions.
Leadership
Let’s Make Nice Go Viral: Preventing & Coping with Cyberbullying
The effects of bullying, whether online or off, fall along a spectrum of negative consequences ranging from sadness to suicidal ideation. But interesting is that experiencing such consequences as a victim may lead to adopting the role of an aggressor in an attempt to regain some degree of control.
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EdTech 10: Bush, Boston and Bukowski
Team Getting Smart spent the back half of the week in Boston at #EIE13, the National Summit on Education Reform (and Bukowski Tavern enjoying a huge selection of beer, epic microwaved cheese dip and our favorite Bukowski poems).
Ed Policy
ExcelinEd Summit Focused on Students
The sessions at this year’s National Summit on Education Reform reflected growing recognition of the potential of personalized, digital learning to improve student access to high-quality educational options across the board.
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Students Outsmart School Laptops – And That’s A Good Thing
As a developer, my answer is simple: let the students explore their own laptops. They can use the educational software when required, and design their own programs when not. In a world that is increasingly built on computer knowledge and experimentation, do you really want your schools taking away technological devices simply because the students have learned how to use them? I don’t think so.
Ed Policy
The Digital Learning Opportunity & What it Means for School Finance
Learning opportunities are expanding and improving around the country. With online and blended learning, students are gaining access to personalized learning and expanded options.
Personalized Learning
Getting Out of the Way of Learning
I have learned from implementing design teams with students the importance of stepping back and letting students learn for themselves. Some teachers think of this more in terms of letting go of control. I think of it more in terms of getting out of the way.
EdTech
The Next Generation of World Language Learning
A Getting Smart and Rosetta Stone Education white paper that describes a vision for next-gen world language learning and the opportunities blended learning creates for foreign language instruction.