The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can take your professional development courses from Advancement Courses and save 20% by using the code COOL20. Stay tuned at the end of the show to learn more about Advancement Courses. Advancement Courses sponsored this show. VICKI: 00:01.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Michelle Zimmerman on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Dr. Michelle Zimmerman @mrzphd talks about social emotional learning and education technology. Edtech and Social Emotional Learning. Transcript for Episode 137.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. Thanks so much.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. By Maylin, Age 5. By Chloe, Age 6.

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Brainscape

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Education is everything. Well fear not, for in this guide, I present to you the best advice of our experienced panel of early childhood educators on how to teach your young kids from home. Now, back to your learning: here are our best tips for teaching your kids at home! You never signed up for this. Or perhaps you did!

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. For example: These teachers are far more likely than their less-confident counterparts to report daily use of digital curricula, learning management systems, and parent communication tools. . Read more about the Education Week Tech Confidence Index.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 7, 2016

Welcome to this second post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. What a wonderful place for educators to find quality teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and best of all… it’s free!

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Many educators and parents, including the readers of this blog, may know that October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. This presents a good opportunity to explore this language-based learning challenge and question our own knowledge. Visit Regieroutman.org to learn more.

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techlearning

JUNE 12, 2018

Many districts need to secure approval from communities where as few as 20 percent of the population are families with children in the district. One of the most important questions to ask in your community survey is: “How would you rate the quality of the education in your public schools—excellent, good, fair, or poor?”

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 23, 2022

Principal Gerry Brooks has a popular video on Facebook, Paradigm of Education , that describes how many students in a “normal” classroom will be economically disadvantaged, below grade level expectations, and have mental health difficulties or trauma. This is reality. As a teacher, we also look for signs of “normal” development.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. There is no cost to join, but there is a membership approval process in order to eliminate spammers.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

Edtech tools are helping educators everywhere discover new possibilities for writing instruction. Gale calls the online program BoomWriter “perhaps the most impactful technologybased tool that we’ve used to support writing instruction.” Teachers are happier. The teetering stacks of papers waiting to be graded are gone.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

We’ve found several benefits to incorporating opportunities for students to present to their peers in a positive and safe classroom environment. This enables them to apply new vocabulary, demonstrate their learning, and feel more confident in their knowledge.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Elbert Hubbard As a second year teacher, I remember being very excited about leading my students to participate in a project-based learning activity. How do we best help them to understand the value of new technology and how it might benefit their students lives (rather than how might it help my fit into their classroom).

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 26, 2023

In a previous blog, Does High-Impact Online Tutoring Live Up to the Hype? we discussed how students could expand their learning beyond the classroom and experience accelerated math achievement. High-impact online tutoring offers a wide range of benefits for students from all walks of life. Who Needs Tutoring?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

5, 2022 — BenQ , an internationally renowned provider of visual display solutions, is empowering K-12 and higher-ed educators and students with its new educational BenQ Board smart displays. Educators today need to be able to start their lessons from the classroom display as easily as they would any computer.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2021

This includes the use of case studies, starting at the elementary level, which are standards-based, transdisciplinary, and give young people “voice and choice” in what and how they are learning. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Blog post by Michele Israel based on this edLeader Panel. Video emerged as a crucial, game-changing tool in this adaptation, enabling K-12 teachers to provide students with the best possible learning environments despite the crisis. The Many Benefits of Video.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 24, 2019

Today I’m talking with Cornelius Minor , a Brooklyn-based educator and staff developer with the Teachers College Reading a nd Writing Project. We live in a specific kind of America that’s okay for one kind of education for some kids, and then a totally subpar education for other kinds of kids. Oh, for sure.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: A sneak peek on book #5 and my current book-writing process. I’ve gotten a lot of requests to talk about how I write and publish books. So if you fall into either of those two camps, this episode should be pretty enjoyable. Then I’ll share a bit of insight as to my writing and publishing process.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2012

Connected Educator Month kicks off this week, and serving as a consultant to the event with significant responsibility especially for this week''s events, I humbly think you''re going to be BLOWN AWAY by the opportunities to learn and participate. Connected Educator Month is a U.S. Don''t miss the newly announced Learning 2.0

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via the Washington Post : “ Trump pitches $20 billion education plan at Ohio charter school that received poor marks from state.” More on Bill Clinton and Laureate Education in the for-profit higher ed section below. Elsewhere in Education Politics. ” Education in the Courts. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” “Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest” – historian Sherman Dorn on “ Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.” billion from the Department of Education. “Who Is Betsy DeVos ?” ” asks New York Magazine. ” $100,000. .”

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. Immigration and Education. ” (National) Education Politics. Betsy DeVos ’s statement. “The Dept.

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