A Principal's Reflections

JULY 17, 2022

There is no shortage of advice on how to lead effectively. Let me be clear: No one has all the answers, no matter how many books they have written, keynotes delivered, or years of experience under their belt. The simple fact, though, is that the process is rarely easy.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

I have also been blessed to observe great examples that members of my Personal Learning Network (PLN) make available on social media. On the contrary, I have seen this firsthand from some fantastic educators whose schools I have been blessed to work with on a long-term basis in the role of job-embedded coach.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 19, 2020

You can either lurk and learn or develop your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) to farm the best ideas and strategies that are actually working in similar demographics. When using social media, think about the platforms being used and mix it up by mashing together text, hyperlinks, images, and video.

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Learning Social Media Personal Learning Network Policies 452

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. social media.

Digital Citizenship 394

Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 394

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. social media.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Teachers and principals also increasingly voice opposition to blocking social websites, noting that schools have an obligation to teach students how to use social media responsibly. Social media is already a part of their frameworks as teens. Social media is already a part of their frameworks as teens.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Facebook Education 159

Neo LMS

MARCH 15, 2022

Over the years, I have noticed that student engagement tends to decrease in my classes around this time and I reach out to my personal learning network (PLN) for ideas or tools to boost engagement. Presentations can have sound, hyperlinks, social media buttons and so much more.

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The 21st Century Principal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Our children need to have adults in their lives that know and understand the art of developing personal learning networks and connecting with others. In other words, they need adults who are “network literate.” But what does being “network literate” look like as it relates to personal learning networks?

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Personal Learning Network Personalized Learning Learning Education 96

The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 9, 2013

There are obviously quite a few social media resources available to school leaders on the Web, but finding high-quality information can be difficult. Here are some books that I consider vital for school leaders seeking to learn as much as they can about its potential to enhance leadership and education.

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Social Media Resources Personal Learning Network Personalized Learning 106

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). As you will see, the true power of connected learning is what you glean from the people you engage with. And if so, how? You can read the article HERE.

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Social Media Twitter Personal Learning Network Outcomes 297

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. social media.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 393

The Web20Classroom

MARCH 11, 2010

Recently at NCTIES Kevin Honeycutt spoke on Personal Learning Networks. And it would have been difficult, nigh impossible, to have these kinds of connections and relationships without social media. Social Media can connect to both like-minded people but also expose people to divergent viewpoints.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

The fear of not being able to meet national and state standards, as well as mandates, leaves no time in the minds of many educators to either work technology into lessons, the will to do so, or the desire to learn how to. To truly create an innovative culture of learning we must not fear failure either.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2019

All educators can now form their own Personal Learning Network (PLN) to meet their diverse learning needs; acquire resources; access knowledge; receive feedback; connect with experts in the field of education as well as practitioners; and discuss proven strategies to improve teaching, learning, and leadership.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 12, 2012

Educators need to start with good pedagogy and lesson objectives and activities and then look for technology that can enhance those lessons, improve teaching and learning, and help students learn. The How''s, Why''s and Value of Educational Technology 1. This skill is needed for school, work and life in general.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2017

For the most part, my integration of technology into workshops is to foster greater collaboration, showcase how to increase engagement authentically, formatively assess, and creatively showcase what they have learned. Integrating them to support high-level learning and having evidence to support this is the challenging work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. This three-week course is a follow-on to the introductory class, Tech-infused Teacher , digging into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. social media. social media.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Assessment Course 79

The Web20Classroom

JULY 28, 2010

Last weekend I finished up a week of speaking and leading professional development by attending NTCamp in Philadelphia.The purpose was to try and give new teachers a jump start on their year by talking about issues that they might face in their first years and to give them ideas on how to make it and stay in the profession. Social Media.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 31, 2011

This shift in mindset can be directly attributed to what I have learned from innovative educators in the social media spaces that I now delve into on a routine basis. Image credit: [link] Last year some of my teachers began to utilize student devices as tools for learning, mainly as student response systems.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. In this three-week class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce at what age and how to make these authentic to student lives. social media. social media. Topics include: cyberbullying. digital citizenship.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety Assessment 332

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

Social media had to be blocked for all and I, for one, wasn’t going to waste any of my precious time using it professionally or personally. Learning spaces had to conform to the perceived rule of law in education. Prior to 2009 I basically saw technology as just an add-on and something that could spruce up a lesson.

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Learning Social Media Personal Learning Network Strategy 284

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2017

In today’s show, Peggy George discusses how to get the most out of ISTE 2017 even if you’re not at there: The #notatiste17 Google Group. How to share learning. How to deal with Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) if you can’t go. Listen to Terry Freedman talk about how to get the most out of education conferences and ISTE.

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 27, 2012

According to Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall, “Teachers must learn to model connectedness and enable students to develop personal learning networks, made up of people and resources from both their physical and virtual worlds but first, teachers must become connected collaborators themselves.”

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Personal Learning Network How To Social Media Education 95

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Develop and employ a Personal Learning Network. social media.

Digital Citizenship 244

Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 244

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2020

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. This three-week course is a follow-on to the introductory class, Tech-infused Teacher , digging into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. social media. social media.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 221

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. social media.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 217

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2020

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. This three-week course is a follow-on to the introductory class, Tech-infused Teacher , digging into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. social media. social media.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 224

The Web20Classroom

MAY 11, 2012

NETS Aligned Tools tags: web2.0 resources literacy A Teacher’s Field Guide to Parents | Ecology of Education tags: parents favorite Why Do We Connect? . NETS Aligned Tools tags: web2.0 resources literacy A Teacher’s Field Guide to Parents | Ecology of Education tags: parents favorite Why Do We Connect?

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Iowa went 1:1 with computers for students in 2008 which meant that teachers could extend the learning beyond the four walls, so they needed to re-imagine learning. A PLN has helped Shaelynn learn from an extended network of educators how to to that. Twitter is easy, but may not be the best.

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Personal Learning Network Personalized Learning Social Media Learning 49

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. social media.

Blended Learning 184

Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 184

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. social media.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 191

Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

Head to the DLP Strategy Menu to take a tour of this new tool, or see below for step-by-step guide on how to get started. This is just one element of the Dynamic Learning Project, now available for all schools! Click here to learn how to join for the 2019-2020 school year. 3 Steps: How to Use the Strategy Menu.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

If you’re new to tech education and wonder how to teach kindergartners to use the mouse, first graders to keyboard, third graders to sagely search the internet, pick the brains of our seasoned team of technology teachers. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. social media.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media 176

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2020

In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. social media. image—how to use them legally. social media. Exhibit a positive attitude toward technology that supports learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Pacansky-Brock stresses how valuable it can also be to take an online professional development course, as I did previously through the Digital Pedagogy Lab. His meaning-making challenge presents three different options for demonstrating and further exploring our learning. We don’t have to be enrolled in his class to access it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2019

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce at what age and how to make these authentic to student lives. social media. social media. Topics include: cyberbullying. digital citizenship. digital commerce.

Digital Citizenship 208

Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety Assessment 208

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2018

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. social media.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 160