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Week #1 Report - Through my exploration on Twitter this week, I realized just how much information is out there. One article that I found on Twitter was "[|10 Incredibly Powerful Teaching Tools of the Future]" This article quickly highlighted 10 new ways to teach: visual learning, evolved currencies, personalization, gamification, social media, game-based learning, connectedness, crowdsourcing, project-based learning, and digital and physical merge. Several of these Ihave some reference for but a couple of the ideas I have never heard of. Crowdsourcing was a completely new idea to me. It is interesting to me that as a young teacher seeking her masters there are still educational ideas out there that I have not experienced with or even heard of. There are definitely ideas here that I would like to seek out more and investigate.

Week #2 Report - As searching through Twitter this week, I stumbled [|Top Hashtags to follow on Twitter]. I had heard of such as [|#edtech], [|#edchat], and [|#edapp]. Some hashtags that I have not heard of were [|#elearning] and [|#BYOD] (Bring Your Own Divice). I thought the information on the BYOD was fitting to what we talked about in one of our group chats. While looking at this hashtag, it was interesting that this is not just an educational idea but also an idea that is catching on in the business world.

On Twitter, someone shared a link to a video about Fineland education and technology ([]). While watching the video, I found it interesting that usually they have the same teacher several years in a row in elementary school. In contrast in the United States, students rarely have the same teacher the next year. I believe this would add a interesting bond unlike what we have in our educational system now. Before the students even begin learning, they take a quiz to see where their prior learning level. They focus on discovery and collaboration. This video was on Share My Lesson, an online resource for teachers that is free. I looked around on this site and it seems like something worth exploring more.