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Adult learning is often pushed aside in schools as educators sprint through the day, worried about leaving no child behind.
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a new emphasis on the importance of collaborative learning among members of close-knit teams in schools
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Second, digital tools now help fulfill Elmore's desire for fresh "portals through which new knowledge about teaching and learning can enter schools."
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writing blogs about teaching and learning, bringing transparency to both the art and the science of their practice
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I've found a group of writers to follow who expose me to more interesting ideas in one day than I've been exposed to in the past 10 years of costly professional development.
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Feed readers are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they make it easy to sift through the amazing amount of content that is being continually added to the Internet.
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generate buzz about the potential for making professional learning organic, easy, and fun.
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you'll start to see a real change in the quality of the conversations that you're having with your peers.
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The difference between a wiki and a blog is that wikis are designed for collaboration among groups of users.
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to create warehouses of materials among teachers working in the same content area
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, I see even greater potential in using blogs and wikis to gain influence as a teacher leader
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No longer do teachers have to sit unsatisfied, wishing that we had more influence over our profession. Blogging has made it possible for all of us to be publishers and to elevate our voices to improve classroom practice.
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A power shift is underway and a tough new business rule is emerging: Harness the new collaboration or perish. Those who fail to grasp this will find themselves ever more isolated—cut off from the networks that are sharing, adapting, and updating knowledge to create value.
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there are few portals through which new knowledge about teaching and learning can enter
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schools
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schools
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schools; few
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few sources of assistance for those who are struggling to understand the connection between the academic performance of their students and the practices in which they
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they engage.
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Richard Elmore, professor of educational leadership at Harvard,
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ASCD recognizes and respects intellectual
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Scott McLeod (www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org) forces me to think about driving school change from the system level
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I wrestle over the characteristics of effective professional development with Patrick Higgins (http://chalkdust101.wordpress.com
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. With a feed reader, learning from edubloggers goes from a frustrating search through thousands of links to quickly browsing the thoughts and ideas of trusted writers.
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is my favorite primarily because it has a visual layout that I find easy to read. Pageflakes has also developed a teacher version of its tool (http://teacher.pageflakes.com)
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SupportBlogging wiki (http://supportblogging.com), which includes a list of hundreds of blogs broken down into specific categories, such as education blogs, principal blogs, teacher blogs, classroom blogs, and
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blogs
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librarian blogs. Aggregator
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School leaders may be interested in the collection of blogs at www.pageflakes.com/wferriter/
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23697456.
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Share your feed reader with your learning team and begin to explore together
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Bloggers spend significant time pushing their own thinking—and having their thinking pushed by others.
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Blogs become a forum for public articulation—and public articulation is essential for educators interested in refining and revising their thinking
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about teaching and learning.
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