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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

You’ll learn from other school leaders who have successfully built a network of contacts and resources, and develop strategies to help you do the same in your community. In addition, you’ll learn how to create a well-balanced presentation of your schools’ current needs to energize community members to get involved. Learn More.

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How this state is turning its virtual teachers into online learning experts

eSchool News

The idea is to provide a full range of services, from catering to students in rural areas looking for a hard-to-find class to districts turning to online in the face of teacher shortages or budget cutbacks. When you talk about online and blended learning, they don’t have the background for that. An intense experience.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

This handy tool has opened up the doors of blended learning and collaborative classrooms like never before. Teachers wanting to implement Google Classroom can use these resources to get started, level up their learning, or become a pro at all things Google. Assessment. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments.

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Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

Teachers can share resources, assign tasks, and assess student work digitally, promoting efficiency and organization. Collaborative tools enable real-time collaboration on documents, presentations, and projects, encouraging teamwork and enhancing communication skills.

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

Shake Up Learning

This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding. Formative is a free online assessment tool that is very robust. Learn more about InsertLearning here: 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning. Mentimeter.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Facebook Argument : Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.