Professional Learning for Busy Educators

Sharing is something vital to a society’s progression toward advancement. It is a practice that helps make a community stronger and more responsive to change. We may not be aware of it, but most of our formative education has been a form of sharing:.young learners often teach each other skills they have acquired, middle and high school students share information and ideas over lunch, and professors share expertise and perspectives with us in college. But for some reason, the close-the-door-isolationism of schools, combined with contrived PLC structures and a serious lack of time in the workday, has halted prolific sharing and schools are suffering as a result.

Q. How do you take screen shots of articles and then post them on Twitter, with sections highlighted and the URL of the article included?

A. Annotating screen shots of text passages — and then posting the image and a link to the article on Twitter — is an effective way to make a point with the selected text. It also lets you get around the service’s 140-character limit. You can mark up the screen shot’s text in a few different ways on a mobile device or computer.

"For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Not long ago, the 11-year-old—who, like all the other kids in this story, is referred to by a pseudonym—discovered that her mom had been posting photos of her, without prior approval, for much of her life. “I’ve wanted to bring it up. It’s weird seeing myself up there, and sometimes there’s pics I don’t like of myself,” she said."