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Control or Ownership

A Principal's Reflections

Image credit: [link] The motivation from this post came from a recent presentation I did on digital learning. The whole premise behind this concept it to provide relevancy, meaning, and authenticity in the teaching and learning process. In the end students have taken ownership of their learning.

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8 Essential Books Every Tech-Minded Teacher Should Read

Ask a Tech Teacher

Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age. The author of this book discusses his own Digital Learning Farm model, which effectively enables students to change the way they learn, by creating new learning tools and finding meaningfulness in their work. by Alan November.

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Get Your MOOC On!

The Web20Classroom

Coaching Digital Learning | Cultivating a Culture of Change was developed by the Digital Learning Collaborative team at the Friday Institute, led by Verna Lalbeharie, Senior Program Director. The Friday Institute at NCSU has developed 3 MOOCs that might be of interest to you.

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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The platform has been designed so that its resources will help to prepare our educators to fully leverage the potential for mastering digital age skills embodied in the ISTE NETs Standards for Teachers , as well as the seamless integration of technology addressed in the Common Core Standards. ?After

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The best BYOD tech tools for the Common Core classroom

eSchool News

With just 4 categories and less than a dozen tools, educators can hit a lot of Common Core standards. I recently had the pleasure of spending a few hours in a friend’s classroom where I introduced her students to technology applications that would engage them in “showing what they know” at different points in their learning.

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Please Stop Calling It “Digital Content”!

More Verbs

.” But content or curriculum is the “what” of what you want students to learn. They are the learning targets. To me, digital content is a PDF of the Common Core, the Maine Learning Results, or your state’s standards. as “digital learning resources.”

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1st Grade digital PBL: Does it work?

Neo LMS

Today I will share with you a more specific example of how an elementary school in California, Woodcrest Elementary School, of the Fullerton School District, has created wonderful digital learning environments for its K1 learners, specifically in the area of literacy.