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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/22/2012

5 Tips to Better Connect with Your Students You can connect with your students. Here are five ways I strive to do this in my own classroom. (In a piece I wrote for the Atlantic.com)95% of what you accomplish is b…

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/22/2012

Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide – Megan Garber – Technology – The Atlantic Excellent article about the research from several researchers about Tweets that are compelling and those that are …

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Engaging with criticism

If you need to find out how your audience is receiving your work, it’s worth considering how you’ve structured the interactions around criticism. Sometimes a customer has a one-off problem, a situation that is unique and a concern that has…

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/22/2012

Earth Hour 2012 Official Video – YouTube Earth hour is 8:30 pm, Saturday March 31st. They are asking everyone to turn their lights off for an hour in celebration of this day.  tags: …

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Quick Look: Are Rocketship Schools the Future?

Educator and author Larry Cuban takes a close look at Rocketship schools in a three-part series, and concludes that the Rocketship model of blended learning may well work for a specific niche — low-income, urban communities — but wonders how those students will fare through high school and beyond. Source: WordPress The answer is maybe. … Continue reading

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/21/2012

The Wise & Witty Teacher: Pinterest Inspired Presidents and DIY Lesson Plan Book Although President’s day is past, this Pinterest Inspired President’s and DIY Lesson pLan book is a very cool idea.  I love post it…

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How to Choose the Right Words for Best Search Results

Dear Savvy Searcher, My students keep wanting to enter their entire research question into the search bar. I keep trying to tell them that’s a bad idea. How do you teach students to identify the right words to use in a search? Frustrated Educator     Dear Frustrated, I had a particular conversation with a … Continue reading

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/21/2012

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Basics for Beginners: What is Web 2.0? this is an older post but I reviewed it tonight and it is still current. If you want to learn what Web 2 is and get comfortable with the terminology, t…

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My ISTE 2012 Schedule (so far), heading to Canada, and New Jersey

If you are coming to one of these events, please say “hi.” I’d love to meet you. ISTE 2012 Schedule  Saturday, June 23 – Event that Steve Hargadon is running (the remix of Edublogger, not sure of new name) Sunday, June 24 – We’ll have a booth i…

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/21/2012

Prepared Statement for the Dec. 14 Congressional Privacy Caucus | Common Sense Media While SOPA was going on, many of us missed that COPPA is under review. Here is an overview of the congressional testimony given …

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