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9 Ways to Upgrade Professional Learning in Your District

Tom Murray

A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. From professional learning modules to social media, opportunities for learning through high quality digital content must be available for both teachers and kids. Grow Your Network.

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Digital Tools to Mobilize a Community to a Goal

Tech Helpful

I use social media to share the things I've learned via blogs to help others, I've asked people to join me at educational events like Edcamp Gig City and CoffeeEDU, I've asked people to support me in my JDRF walks to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, and more recently I've reached out to an entire city to help me find my lost dog.

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Educators as Empowered Citizens (Unpacking the ISTE Standards for Educators)

Tech Helpful

Learning where to look for the owner of a website and doing comparisons with multiple websites helps us to share and learn non-biased information with our community. I offer help in my community through edcamps and technology conferences. I try to keep my social media accounts clean from spammers and questionable followers.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information.