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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE

The Web20Classroom

My book, The Relevant Educator ships today. Corwin''s Connected Educators Series features short books, about 70 pages, in both paperback and electronic formats, aimed at helping educators improve classroom practice and educational leadership in the digital world, something that has been sorely missing in the education book world.

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Books, Videos, Courses, and Conferences. Teachers can find books, videos and courses to help them on an issue. The most popular form of the unconference is the Edcamp , but many conferences are scheduling an “unconference” day with this same format. It is free. Teachers self-organize into topics.

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9 Ways to Upgrade Professional Learning in Your District

Tom Murray

The notion of “effective professional learning” is something that has been discussed for decades. A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. Learn alongside your staff members and model expectations for them. Nothing more.

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How Kristen Swanson Applies Her Classroom Experience to Lead ‘Professional Learning’ at Slack

Edsurge

These days, it involves spending time thinking about Choose Your Own Adventure books. For one of her latest efforts, called Slack Certification , her team developed a series of interactive scenarios partly inspired by those children’s’ books. Pull Learning'. She still chairs the board for the foundation.).

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The 6 Truths Of Effective Educators

The Web20Classroom

Continuously Seeking Out Professional Learning- Effective Educators don't just believe that lifelong learning is a characteristic they want their students to have, it's a mantra they live by. They aren't waiting for their principal or school or district to tell them what they need to learn.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

So, if you can imagine reading a book on Kindle, the finished product you can actually flip through like a book. Only the … the difference between just a regular book and Flipsnack is that you can actually make the book interactive. It is an interactive flipbook creator. The students or the teachers or whatever.

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Connecting Personalized Professional Learning to a Bigger Purpose

The Principal of Change

When I think about how to effectively empower educators to create personalized professional learning for themselves, I often think of Google’s “20% time”, where employees had 20% of their own time to move forward Google as an organization. “We Let’s start with the second point first.