Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

In our latest publication, Micro-credentials for Social Mobility in Rural Postsecondary Communities: A Landscape Report , Digital Promise conducted four in-depth case studies to explore how postsecondary institutions are using micro-credentials to create real-time career pathways for rural learners.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The idea of using a learning management system (LMS) to deliver professional learning and development to K-12 educators is not new—but it’s not quite mainstream, either. He’s been involved with cutting-edge educational technology, including virtual worlds, mobile applications, new media, and the web, for more than 15 years.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 19, 2014

But if you ask teachers who have never used a social network, blog, or mobile device for learning in their classrooms to discuss connected education, you are likely to be met with blank stares, furrowed eyebrows and shrugged shoulders. Enter Corwin Press and the Connected Educators Series. According to DeWitt, we can.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Reinventing professional learning depends on our willingness to foster internal regulation, openness to problem solving, and self-awareness. His goal now is to prepare the teaching force worldwide to be ‘future ready’ through redesigning professional learning for the digital age. By far, this is the steepest challenge.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Provide devices and mobile WiFi, if possible. In Mount Olive, school officials were initially doubtful the district could support virtual learning. From there, districts and schools can begin to put in place professional learning plans that transform practices in the classroom that can be used for remote learning if the need arises.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 28, 2016

All of these organizations are shifting the needle and rocking professional learning nationwide. This resource is sure to jumpstart your next professional learning or team building activity! The organization helps district leaders plan, implement, and measure high-quality professional learning within their schools.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 31, 2020

Ongoing professional learning opportunities are critical as teachers strive to continuously advance their ability to meet the needs of their students in an ever-changing world. One incentive for continuous learning is the recognition teachers receive through methods like credits or pay increases. How can I learn more?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Introducing Whitsby and Penny Reinart 00:00:31:38 – 00:01:01:45 Vicki Davis: Whitsby is a mobile-based PD platform.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Teachers in Lynwood Unified School District, Menlo Park City School District, and Chesapeake Public Schools, for instance, are engaging in comprehensive, personalized professional learning opportunities.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 16, 2017

June 27th, from 11:45 am–12:45 pm, in Room 301BC, I will be part of the ISTE panel, Personalize Professional Learning with Digital Badges and Micro-credentials , along with digital badging gurus Rich Dixon, Noah Geisel, and Cate Tolnai. We will be interviewing the presenters, including one of the organizers, Noah Geisel ( @SenorG ).

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Sanderling is a mobile field journal that lets teachers collect badges as they document their professional learning and take part in a lively social community based around education. The following post is an Edscape announcement from one of our sponsors.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 3, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Equitable learning involves getting education where needed, even if students need help to reach their primary school destination. Challenges and Recommendations There were challenges to ensuring that students and families accessed the services provided by the mobile learning labs.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 27, 2017

Leveraging Learning Trajectories and Diagnostics for Personalization in 6-8 Math (B304). Professional Learning with SeeSaw (B302). Adding Interactivity to Google Slides for Customized Learning (B307). iPad Art & ‘Tra-Dgital’ Approaches to Learning in Hands-On Creative Classrooms (B306).

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2013

To put it bluntly, leaders feel that they either do not have, or cannot find, the time to attend professional learning opportunities due to this tsunami of work that comes at the sacrifice of meaningful growth and development. Now more than ever leaders need to take control of their learning. community at edWeb for free.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Professional Learning Communities (PLC''s): The district will be moving to this research-based model as our main means of professional development. The more I learn about the power of PLC''s the more excited I get! In another mobile device area I recently submitted a grant for a mobile iPad learning lab.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Let me begin by saying that I was absolutely honored that various members of my Professional Learning Network (PLN) and the greater educational community reached out to me to address administrators looking to embrace social media, plan an educational technology conference at my school, and discuss leadership in the digital age.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Schools will work to improve these matters, while maintaining aspects of the job teachers value most, including school culture, opportunities for professional learning and certifications, and STEM and arts programs. Teachers want solutions for student behavioral issues, more attentive leadership teams, and more manageable workloads.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Mobile technology is a game changer. I have previously written on this blog about how mobile technology can give the edge and also about some of the social implications of learning on the move. We see this happening on a global scale through increasing mobile phone subscriptions. For many that is already a reality.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The new message: Everyone is a learner: We are hearing a steady drumbeat about the importance of becoming lifelong learners: Bootcamps are cropping up to serve those looking to make a significant career shift, and online communities and professional learning circles are all becoming a part of the lingo of every industry. Collaborative?

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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. The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. Learning spaces must become learner-centered.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

The other thing for me as director of technology it’s been really strange to be talking about furniture but we have these devices that are so powerful and they’re incredibly mobile. Bill is currently obsessed with sharing his professional learning on Snapchat. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator, ISTE 2014 Kay L.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 18, 2019

Also, some interactive sessions will require you to use at least your mobile phone. ISTE is the perfect opportunity to meet new teachers and expand your professional learning network. You will need enough storage space for all the pictures you’ll take — and trust me, you will snap a lot of pictures. Plan your sessions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Arlington, VA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ASCD releases Witsby , a new professional learning and credentialing platform featuring ASCD’s trusted research-based content. We’re excited to give educators what they have been asking for – a professional development tool that meets the needs of today’s teacher.

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Tom Murray

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Please join Future Ready Schools ® (FRS) for a webinar that is part of its Leadership Hub , a one-stop-shop of professional learning opportunities for school leaders. In today’s innovative schools, there is a shift in mindset as students, teachers, coaches, and administrators learn and grow together.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Knowledge work has moved online as professionals work remotely. Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.”

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2020

Not only are these students growing up with widespread access to computers and the internet, they are surrounded by smartphones and other mobile devices with impressive computing power. Related content: 10 findings about K-12 digital learning. As a history teacher for nearly three decades, I have seen this transformation firsthand.

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More Verbs

MAY 2, 2016

” On the other hand, educators in Washington County, PA, find that their devices benefit students , and in Auburn, ME, educators found that when they carefully selected apps aligned to their curriculum or participated in professional learning focused on using apps to build conceptual understanding of mathematics , student learning improved.

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More Verbs

MAY 2, 2016

” On the other hand, educators in Washington County, PA, find that their devices benefit students , and in Auburn, ME, educators found that when they carefully selected apps aligned to their curriculum or participated in professional learning focused on using apps to build conceptual understanding of mathematics , student learning improved.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2021

Not only are these students growing up with widespread access to computers and the internet, they are surrounded by smartphones and other mobile devices with impressive computing power. Related content: 10 findings about K-12 digital learning. As a history teacher for nearly three decades, I have seen this transformation firsthand.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 19, 2015

Not only was there a focus on solid instruction, but we also provided numerous supports for our teachers in the form of ongoing and job-embedded professional learning opportunities. If the expectation was to integrate technology with purpose to support and/or enhance learning we made sure everyone was prepared to do just that.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

These include the quality of the relationships between their caregivers and their schools, financial security, and lifestyle factors that can interrupt learning, like student mobility. They pointed to factors related to students’ home or community environments that can affect their mental and emotional well-being.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

PLANO, Texas and SILVER SPRING, Maryland (September 23, 2021) — Toyota’s mission of Mobility for All is at the core of a new education initiative by Toyota and Discovery Education called Keys to Connect. . Career profiles to introduce innovators working behind-the-scenes at Toyota to deliver Mobility for All.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

The Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Initiative directed by Digital Promise has provided 50,000 4G LTE iPads to middle school students and teachers since 2014. In this session, team members will share the best practices implemented in schools across America and the lessons learned from this work.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 16, 2020

My hope is that this template will give you even more ideas for how to use podcasts for professional learning at your school or on your own. Now that there are more than 50 episodes of the Shake Up Learning Show Podcast , I thought it was time to put together another Podcast PD Choice Board. © Shake Up Learning 2020.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

The future, and increasingly the present, of educator professional development is predicated upon insights and resources shared within professional learning communities. Everyone began to understand that the world would forever change as a result of the internet and mobile communication.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

technologies in connecting educators and creating professional learning communities. Steve Dembo served for ten years as Discovery Education’s Director of Learning Communities and led their Innovation and Strategy team. Dembo was also a featured panelist at Nokia Open Labs as an expert on mobile device integration in education.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 11, 2016

Ability to join specific communities aligned to professional learning needs and interests.Be Watch and participate in live webinars aligned to professional learning communities that are of interest to you. edWeb can be accessed on any mobile device. sure to check out the Leadership 3.0 community that I facilitate.

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