Hedreich Nichols
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Author, educator, CEO & lead coach for SmallBites Educational Consulting. Where edtech and school culture meet. #SmallBites
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2 months ago |
edutopia.org | Hedreich Nichols |Becky Lee |Dobrila Vignjevic
If you’re like many social media–savvy educators, you may have spent years building your professional learning network (PLN) on the platform formerly known as Twitter. From educational threads and chats to finding like-minded teachers across the globe, it felt like the very best of one great big teacher workroom. During the Covid-19 years, especially, it was a lifeline, with many educators hosting virtual meet-ups and talks in addition to posting daily.
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Nov 1, 2024 |
edutopia.org | Hedreich Nichols
The jeans pass. The pizza lunch. The yoga hour. The extra mental health support hours buried in an obscure system briefly mentioned during back-to-school professional development. The flowery platitudes about teacher well-being. These gestures often fall short of truly promoting educator wellness. Meanwhile, teachers are expected to pull off trauma-informed practices for students without ever receiving real support to handle their own traumas and triggers.
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Oct 2, 2024 |
blog.tcea.org | Hedreich Nichols
346 Since the early 2000s, we have studied the increasing distractibility of students, largely laying the blame at the feet of digital devices and social media. The problem with that is, it absolves us of any responsibility and lets us off the hook for overcrowded classrooms that have not changed in design for over 100 years, despite science challenging the advantages of the physical learning environments in schools.
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Sep 26, 2024 |
edutopia.org | Hedreich Nichols
When national and international events that affect us deeply dominate headlines, the phrase “be kind online” can quickly be forgotten. Anonymity and reactive typing on social media are, for many, hard to resist. Unfortunately, toxic rhetoric has been the loudest “netizen” teacher-voice for the children of our nation. While the educational sector has not done consistent, large-scale work defining and explicitly teaching what online kindness, respect, and civility look like, we can still change that.
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Sep 10, 2024 |
edutopia.org | Hedreich Nichols
Three years ago, most educators had not heard of artificial intelligence (AI) outside of science-fiction movies. Today, it seems you can’t open an app or educational publication without AI taking center stage. If you’re one of the educators who are already researching it and using it with success, kudos. Still, there are still many educators who just wish it would go the way of last year’s bright and shiny new thing. That’s not uncommon with emerging technologies.
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