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shared by thebda on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached

She encourages educators to start small by carving out 15 minutes twice a week to look around on Twitter and read articles. Then you'll find yourself wanting to respond to what you saw, Marten said.
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Connecting online through Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ has made a tremendous difference
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in order for me to continue to grow and do the best that I can for kids, I have to make myself carve this time out,
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Busy schedules are one reason why educators don't collaborate and connect through social networking platforms. But a lack of time isn't the main issue. It's priorities.
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shared by thebda on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached

Technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything. —Neil Postman
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If we see technology simply as additive, our questions will be about the technology
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it's about addressing the new needs of modern learners in entirely new ways
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the ecological shifts we need to make: What do we mean by learning? What does it mean to be literate in a networked, connected world? What does it mean to be educated? What do students need to know and be able to do to be successful in their futures? Educators must lead inclusive conversations in their communities around such questions to better inform decisions about technology and change.
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productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more
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wanting to learn more" suggests a transfer of power over learning from teacher to student—it implies that students discover the curriculum rather than have it delivered to them. It suggests that real learning that sticks—as opposed to learning that disappears once the test is over—is about allowing students to pursue their interests in the context of the curriculum
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with those changes comes a change in the role of the teacher. Teachers must be colearners with kids,
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shared by thebda on 10 Mar 13 - No Cached

- thebda on 10 Mar 13
  
  I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.</div>
  
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When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people.
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By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading
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Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases.
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Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities.
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Online writing is a 21st-century skill
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shared by Jess Keenan on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached

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