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No More Boring PD with Flipped & Blended Conferences
With all the cool conferencing apps and social learning tools, there’s just no excuse for running an boring old fashioned get together these days.
The ASD Catapults Schools to the Top in Tennessee
The ASD seeks to "dramatically expand our students' life and career options, engage parents and community members in new and exciting ways, and ensure a bright future for the state of Tennessee."
Adding EDU to the End of “Startup Weekend”
During the weekend of September 20th, interested educators in Chicago came together at National Louis University on Friday night, pitching their ideas in sixty seconds or less. Once the projects were picked, educator/developer teams jumped into a 54-hour “hackathon” to build a tool and demo the final product on Sunday. But the experience didn't end there because the first place ideas were eligible for one or more of the following"prizes."
Professional Development Powered By Edmodo
While most of the adult learning on Edmodo has been teacher-driven, there are some good examples of administrators leading by example. The SUPES Academy integrated Edmodo into a professional development program for superintendents.
Plugging Into Professional Learning Communities
We're celebrating Connected Educator Month with Edmodo , the largest social learning network- where the educators ARE connected educators. Many districts and teacher networks connect on Edmodo, the free social learning platform. Following are five examples:
6 Tools for Connected Educators
Because it's hard to know where to begin to share, I decided to base my framework on the ideas of the work of Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall, the authors of The Connected Educator, Learning and Leading in a Digital Age and some of the leaders of Connected Educators Month.
4 Opportunities in Blended Special Education
We discuss the 5 critical decisions that schools and districts need to make (as outlined in the recently released, new & improved Blended Learning Implementation Guide) while considering special needs students:
EdTech 10: Bigfoot, Behavior, Broad Prize & Blended Learning
We love the opportunity to share what we are hearing with you, so check out this week’s top ten “B” rated stories, and that’s “B” as in best for anyone that’s wondering!
MasteryConnect Powers PLC Connected Educators
Solution Tree, a midsize innovator headquartered in Bloomington Indiana, helped introduced American educators to the power of professional learning communities (PLCs) through books, events and professional development. In contrast to top down PD, PLC are an authentic way for teachers to collaborate and learn together. Sanger Unified, Schaumburg,…
The Surprising Social Side of Online Teaching
Currently, I have 35 online middle school students, 33 of whom I have met in person. Like Vygotsky posited, we learn through social interactions with mentors and teachers in our Zones of Proximal Development. But nowhere in his Theory of Cognitive Development did he say anything about having to go to a brick-and-mortar school to successfully do that. Apparently, my students and I are proving just that.