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Advancing Mobile Phones as Learning Devices

A Principal's Reflections

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. For the most part they used a program called Poll Everywhere to check for understanding, review prior learning, and informally assess.

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Forging Ahead With Change

A Principal's Reflections

It is time to realize that social media, technology, and the change process are not the enemy. To this end, teachers and students are now routinely utilizing social media and other various Web 2.0 Instead of viewing student-owned technology as a hindrance, it is now wholeheartedly embraced as a mobile learning tool.

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Small Changes, Huge Results

A Principal's Reflections

I was also adamant that social media had no place in an educational setting, but most of you who read this blog know about my radical change of mind in regards to this. technology, including social media. This small change evolved into my present philosophy on how schools can, and should, use social media.

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The Seeds of Innovation

A Principal's Reflections

A few weeks ago, I made a commitment to visit schools that are using social media, smartphones, texting, and other digital technologies, as a vital part of daily classroom instruction. Principal Sheninger obviously sees that social media and students bringing in their own technology are great educational tools.

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Has Your School Reached an Edtech Plateau? Here’s the Key to Moving the Needle

Edsurge

For example, create a live word cloud with AnswerGarden or Poll Everywhere in response to a school-wide question to help focus the discussion. Always follow the district social media policies, but consider starting a department or team Instagram account. Empower your students/children.

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. Mentimeter is a great tool that allows you to poll your audience in a variety of ways. You can even create a presentation that has multiple polls. Let’s use the power of social media to crowd source even more examples. AnswerGarden – My new favorite tool!

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Spice It Up! 6 Tech Tools to Transform Your Staff Meeting

Fractus Learning

For instance, for our administrative retreat, we opened with a superhero quiz, sparking our discussion on celebrating our schools through social media. Poll Everywhere. I have used Poll Everywhere in many staff meetings. I have used Poll Everywhere in many staff meetings. Today’s Meet.