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Social Professional Learning is a method of developing in teachers the confidence and process they may need to connect with others professionally online.

You can create professional learning that is all about you and your students, and not about devotion to a series of systems and protocols

The papers are part of UNESCO’s larger Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning, which scans the globe to provide concrete examples of how mobile technologies, thanks largely to their ubiquity and affordability, can respond to unique educational challenges, supplement and enrich formal schooling, and make learning everywhere more accessible, equitable and personalized.

“Mobile technology is enabling schools to truly reshape and rethink today’s and tomorrow’s K-12 classrooms. The more leaders and educators embed mobile learning into their districts, the more we’ll see an educational transformation that goes beyond our school walls, helping to maximize the potential of all students in the 21st century,” said CoSN CEO Keith Krueger

able to make appropriate use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) either as a teacher who uses ICT in the classroom, or as an e-teacher or e-moderator of open and distance learning.

adapt to new educational changes without compromising the quality of education

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[professional development] myself. I make the training mandatory

“How do you get tech-reluctant teachers and administrators to use technology effectively?”

“To get educational staff on board with tech, encourage and support them using tech for their non-work purposes.

All of these require professional development and a systemic mindset that such an environment is desired. The latter requires leadership. The former requires both leadership and learning.

The Age of Personalization

Yet when many of our students reach the schoolhouse door, it's like the Internet and social media don't exist

We tell students to turn off their cell phones and put away their tablets.