Group items tagged twitter - Waynflete TLC

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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 03 Dec 13 - No Cached

unblock the sites so he could incorporate social media into his lessons,
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Lazarski believes, he's better engaging students and reinforcing responsible use of the online tools that have become part of the fabric of modern society
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educators such as Lazarski are teaching students to engage with the same tools they use in their social life in a more professional and academic capacity.
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the tweets from other students can be revelatory.
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Education should be about play and experimentation, not absorption.
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he's better engaging students and reinforcing responsible use of the online tools
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"They would just be inspired to use blogs and Twitter and technology, but the No. 1 thing that was missing from it was a sense of purp
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ose."
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It doesn't matter what method you use if you do not first focus on one intangible factor: the bond between professor and student.
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He's a lecturer. He's not breaking them up into small groups or having them make videos. That's my thing, right? But he's totally in tune with where they are and the struggle it takes to understand physics concepts. He is right there by their side, walking them through the forest of physics."
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"Students can all sniff out an inauthentic place of learning," the professor argues. "They think, If it's a game, fine, I'll play it for the grade, but I'm not going to learn anything."
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"None of this work is off-the-shelf," she said, noting that the group promotes a "scholarly approach" to teaching. "That means you aren't just picking something and plopping it in there, but you're really thinking through what its value is and what you would have to do to change it."
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