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Teacher Digital Learning Experience Standards – Filing, Tagging, Naming

Leading a digital class has new Standards and some of them are protocols of filing, tagging, and naming things that replace the filing cabinets in the back of your room. Lots to discuss here abo...

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Guest Educator Panel – Lessons Learned in Our Digital Transition

One of the most popular features of our digital transition series is the Guest Educator Panel. In this year’s Southern California Panel, the gloves came off and all issues were on the table. You...

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So Ca - Leadership vs. Systemic Inequities – the Hybrid Models Workshop

According to Dr. Stacey Perez, Principal at the Classical Academy High School in Southern California, “It's actually been an incredible evolution of our existing students stepping up. Like they ...

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So Ca - "Solve Your Top Three Digital Learning Challenges: Access, Engagement, and Rostering"

Everyone can agree that ClassLink has been a major help to schools and districts during the pandemic. And now that the pandemic seems to be winding down to some degree, ClassLink is proving to b...

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So Ca Lunch & Learn - Vital Source

Our Lunch and Learn presentations give the Learning Counsel the opportunity to recommend technology and programs that our districts urgently need. This Lunch and Learn, presented by Robyn Nunis,...

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So Ca - Ed-Tech Market Briefing Update & Intro to "Learning Leadership vs. Systemic Inequities"

According to LeiLani Cauthen, CEO and Publisher at The Learning Counsel Delivers her Market Briefing, “This is the generation, even the parents, they grew up on their iPhones. They're expecting ...

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Leadership & Model Shifts

In this Special Guest Educator Speaker series, Scott Spector, Coordinator of Innovation and Academic Events in the Santa Barbara County Education Office shares some of the challenges and solutio...

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Administrative Digital Learning Experience Standards – Working Towards Digital Pathways

There’s a new Standard in town, and it’s about bringing order to digital pathways. Real personalization is happening outside of schools with digital mixing of resources, and your brand needs to ...

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Administrative Digital Learning Experience Standards – Leading Knowledge Inventory

You’re supposed to be the boss, but just this once, indulge someone else telling you there are standards even for you. These standards for school administrations impart the new professional resp...

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Digital Instructional Design – Teacher Challenge

We double-dare you! Take the Instructional Design Challenge and create at least one lesson using each of the two modalities. Participating teachers entering the challenge have a chance to win 1s...

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Digital Instructional Design - Discovery Design vs. Addies

How about leaving the Industrial Age behind when it comes to designing instruction? Digital Instructional Design holds great promise to drive vastly improved student agency. Curated resource lib...

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Digital Instructional Design - Workflow Logistics vs. Addies

An over 50-year-old model of instructional design doesn't make sense once you know what technology can do. Learn about digital workflow logistics and a model that detaches the assumptions of pla...

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Foundational Ed-Tech Leadership - What's Basic and Not-so-Basic

Just one of the definitions in this section deals with data literacy, so different than digital literacy. Other definitions help anchor your perception of the digital learning universe with term...

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What You Don't Know about Software Can Hurt Your School

There's a reason most websites are asking your permission to "cookie" you before allowing you to see their site. Other potentially hostile characteristics must be known for the sake of staying i...

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Instructional Qualities of Digital - Does it Cause Learning?

When you look inside a major system or an App, is what it is doing causing any learning? What are the instructional qualities of digital programming? The problem with choosing digial resources i...

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Customization of the Digital Learning Universe

  Teachers love to customize/individualize and need to so that they can fit learning to the unique students in front of them. How could software help them do this rather than make it more work...

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Controlling Digital Learning

Some of your learning software gives teachers the ability to control some interactions, to "hold back" or differentiate, see analytics, and more. Some do not. Systems, as well, provide high flex...

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The Design of Digital Resources in Learning

Poorly designed software is just like poorly designed instruction. Now the two are very intertwined and data points to both learners and teachers missing key navigational cues and getting lost i...

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Intro to the Big Things on the Ed-Tech Landscape

What are the “Big Things” on the landscape of Ed-Tech and the nine major categories of digital curriculum characteristics? Are your tactics cloud-based or on-premise? Be grounded in the mental m...

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8 New Models of Schooling

Which one are you? Discuss the emerging models of school space and time use and the shift in teaching. Hybrid, Blended, even "HyFlex" are a thing now. What's it all mean for burdens on teachers,...

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