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Twitter EDU - David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

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    Great resource for those new to Twitter.
Steve Ransom

Google Drive Blog: Bring a little something extra to Docs and Sheets with add-ons - 0 views

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    There are many great add-ons for Google Docs and Sheets. What they don't tell you is that each add-on needs the ability to access your profile information and other information in your account. This is always important to disclose. Some add-ons require subscriptions and even $$.
Steve Ransom

Los Alamitos High School Teacher Tweets - YouTube - 0 views

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    Hello, students!!! Social media is public. Nice approach, using humor to make a serious point
Steve Ransom

Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources and Ideas | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources and Ideas
Steve Ransom

Grammatically Speaking - 0 views

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    Test your grammar savvy. It presents the most common grammar errors. This would be good for students to do as well.
Steve Ransom

"It's Complicated" with danah boyd - 0 views

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    If you want to understand teens and their new social spaces and all of the implications that come along with that, Danah Boyd's new book, It's Complicated: The social lives of networked teens is a must-read. This interview is on the topic of this research and her book.
Steve Ransom

Expanding the Definition of a Flipped Learning Environment | Faculty Focus - 0 views

  • “Ultimately, flipping a classroom involves shifting the energy away from the instructor and toward the students and then leveraging educational tools to enhance the learning environment.”
  • This allows students to spend time problem solving, creating, critiquing, and synthesizing in class with their peers and with their instructor. Students are more active in flipped environments which add a new level of complexity to the classroom.
  • Instructors focus on higher level learning outcomes during class time and lower level outcomes outside of class
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  • focus on involving students in the process of learning during class.
  • The true essence of the flip is really to focus on the student.
  • Flipped classrooms are interactive— sometimes even ‘messy’—because students are working together and solving problems rather than sitting passively listening to a lecture
  • are also risky. Instructors relinquish a degree of control when the energy in the classroom shifts to the students
  • “What do the students need to DO to achieve the learning outcome?”
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    An excellent synthesis of flipped learning... no smoke and mirrors.
Steve Ransom

Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom | DML Hub - 0 views

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    Free eBook/PDF
Steve Ransom

Easily Remove Image Backgrounds Online - Clipping Magic - 2 views

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    Great online tool for creating image masks, cutouts, and more.
Steve Ransom

InCtrl :: Cable in the Classroom - 0 views

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    Cable in the Classroom brings you a series of free, standards-based lessons that teach key digital citizenship concepts. These lessons, for students in grades 4-8, are designed to engage students through inquiry-based activities, and collaborative and creative opportunities. - 
Steve Ransom

Study: Texting Erodes Writing Skills? RU Kidding Me? - Pacific Standard: The Science of... - 0 views

  • Regarding classwork, text-speak was considered moderately appropriate for use in lecture notes, but strictly off limits for assignments or exams.
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    "the current study provides real-world evidence to address past media concerns that textism use is somehow damaging English literacy." At least among university students, they found, it's just not happening. So NTW (not to worry).
Steve Ransom

It is Personal and Dangerous Now | Rethinking Learning - Barbara Bray - 0 views

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    Always important to reflect on...
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NYC Schools Social Media Guidelines - 0 views

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    These seem pretty balanced... [PDF]
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