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"As school boards address the overall challenge of social media use within schools, they should focus on the reality that the impact no longer lies only on the individual and local schools. Social networks include students and teachers all over the world and, therefore, teaching and coaching on digital literacy for teachers and students is where the focus should rest. Knowing how to build successful communities of learning and how to integrate social connectivity within a learning environment is a much more needed outcome than finding a way to control and monitor specific users and content."

According to TLE team member Owen Milne, this site is "the go-to for understanding the ongoing relationship between pedagogy-space-technology as it relates to designing and managing active learning environments."

Riverdale is applying "design thinking" to its teaching and learning environments... Check out the links to Ideo and to Design Thinking for Educators. Note: The October conference is being moved to mid-winter, to align with teachers' needs.