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Interesting read with some excellent points.
- skills that we as educators are charged to teach our kids will be used in a technology-driven society. The skills remain the same, but their application has drastically changed over the last decades.
- It should be a tool for curating data, collaborating, communicating, and creating. This requires an application of their learned skills to produce and create stuff in a format that society recognizes as relevant.
- technology needs not to be in discussions of education, but rather in how will the education of any kid be applied in an ever-evolving, technology-driven world in which tour kids will be required to live.
- Educators need to be digitally literate and that doesn’t happen on its own. It takes effort. The excuse of “too much on the plate already” doesn’t hold up against the argument of professional responsibility. The argument of education for the sake of education and the hell with technology doesn’t hold up in light of the technological world in which these kids will live. Yes, we need to do more, and it isn’t always easy. If we are to better educate our children, we need to better educate our educators.
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- The place where you can easily convert a Google™ Spreadsheet into a set of online flashcards,
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Watch a YouTube video, without any of the clutter you normally see on a YouTube video. Input the URL, and the video is played against a black background.
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Some are free and some are much better if you pay.
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- are lots of ideas out there as to why teachers don't want to engage in PD. Many times the PD, when it is required, isn't meaningful.
- at the district level, teachers rarely got to choose the direction of the PD. Now, I understand, working at the district level there are just some things that we need to do PD on for one reason or another. But what has seemed to work well for us are buffet offerings. Several of our divisions like Title I, Social Studies and others have taken whole days and run them like a mini conference. There are sessions to choose from and the only requirement is that you attend a minimum amount of sessions for the day. Even better, teachers are the ones in charge of decided what will be presented and there are some really great offerings.
- Ideally the solution is on-demand, anytime PD.
- K.I.S.S
- Reflect. Reflect. Reflect.
- Play.
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- ClassCharts is a digital management tool which can help you, your students and their parents to track and improve student behaviour across the whole school.
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
ED Tech Resources 02/27/2014
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