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@rscalateach The key is to start with your pedagogical goal and identify ways tech can be used to enhance or inhibit that goal. #engchat
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@rscalateach Design a place online. Then choose one unit you already teach well and go from page to pixel with that one unit. #engchat
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@rscalateach There are many. The first is generic, you create an extension of your class. A space for student to gather. #engchat
Greg McVerry
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@MaggieBRoberts I can't take credit for that either it was a friend Kristy Dyer at #mnl12 who coined it #engchat
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@KtBkr4 @iChrisLehman @meenoorami I am a big edmodo user too, but stacked discussions can be cumbersome to follow. #2OldSchool #engchat
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@iChrisLehman @cohend Can't take credit. It is straight from NCTE def of 21st century literacies. Poached it immediately #engchat
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mardie (aka RhondaD) (mardieteach) Thanks for the follow. Look forward to learning together.
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@iChrisLehman @CohenD In some sense the connected eduators have to act as the public reviewers of multiple streams of information. #engchat
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@mardieteach glad you picked that as the starting point. Firmly believe that building an online space is THE place tchrs to start #engchat
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@MaggieBRoberts Best practice would be like saying in the olympics. Silver is nothing more than first loser. #engchat
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@MaggieBRoberts Yes the best practice stinks of medical model where you either get healthy or you die. Not good metaphor for edu #engchat
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@mardieteach Start w/ making a survey of what folks want, identify the experts, hopefully find some way to reward those experts. #engchat
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@mardieteach It sounds like you already started. In-house PD so helpful. Also put together screencast tutorials. #engchat
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@johnsonmaryj Thats because an essential question should be a dichotomous yes/no choice. Open ended exploration of human condition #sschat
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RT @meenoorami: Tech is great, people & connections matter. That's why I love my @writingproject & #engchat community. We help e ...
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@sriii2000 We also have to be weary of #ccss allowing big publishers to find ways to monetize and wall-off connected ed #engchat
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I also steal from David Reinking when talking practice. Need to speak in terms of good and better not best. There is no one way #engchat
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@sriii2000 @MrsL132 @ryanrish @meenoorami @EduNut beauty of connected edu and SM in schools is process is captured and can be eval #engchat
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@meenoorami We should do a joint #engchat #FYCchat again sometime
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@sriii2000 No just reflecting on a mistake of not recognizing power of SM. Compare english companion ning to ncte website. #engchat
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