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Practices such as BYOD, 1:1, blendedlearning, personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, professional learning, etc. This need served as a call to action of sorts and catalyzed my current work.
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Training teachers to adapt to a blendedlearning environment during COVID by becoming more adept at using Canvas, a learning management system (LMS) that gives students equitable access to the district’s instructional resources and assignments and promotes collaboration among teachers.
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How many of you wake up when your alarm goes off, grab your phone and the first thing you check is either your email or socialmedia? **raises my hand** I’m guilty of it, too! Own your Morning! When you own your morning, you own the day! I want to encourage you to stop this practice. I know it’s easier said than done!
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Increasingly formal use of socialmedia by education institutions. Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. Rapid change in the demands for media forms (e.g., blogs, socialmedia, podcasting) to promote conversation and thinking around what’s possible in education. Maker Movement.
If you don’t have socialmedia accounts for your school, this may be the time to move forward with creating them. Create videos and screencasts that you can send to your parents via email and/or post to your school’s website and/or on socialmedia. In times like this, I don’t think there is too much information.
I have learned how to run a business, especially how to use socialmedia marketing. Until Next Time, GLHF cross-posted at Teched Up Teacher Chris Aviles presents on education topics including gamification, technology integration, BYOD, blendedlearning, and the flipped classroom.
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