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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s a fun lesson with lots of activities and meandering paths students undoubtedly will adore. Hours of preparation wasted because no one could get far enough to learn a d thing. You blame yourself–why didn’t you stick with what you’d always done? Really, the reason doesn’t matter.

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18 manageable ways to differentiate when kids have gaps in their learning

The Cornerstone for Teachers

The “normal” classroom is not one where every 8-year-old is meeting 8-year-old developmental markers, or where every 15 year old has the same reading level. How do you manage a classroom where “average” feels like it’s lost meaning? As he says in his video, “This is reality.”. This is reality.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

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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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How to Use Oral Presentations to Help English Language Learners Succeed

MindShift

We’ve found several benefits to incorporating opportunities for students to present to their peers in a positive and safe classroom environment. This type of practice is useful since students will surely have to make presentations in other classes, in college, and/or in their future jobs. GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION.

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The workshop model: Beyond the basics

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is most commonly done in grades 1-5 but kindergarten can also follow the model and it works well at the secondary level. JEN: This teaching style is near and dear to my heart because it’s been a strategy I’ve used for years as a classroom teacher, a literacy coach, and a professional developer.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

I thought for a good long while about how best to summarize this decade, and inspired by the folks at The Verge , who published a list of “ The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech ,” I decided to do something similar: chronicle for you a decade of ed-tech failures and f**k-ups and flawed ideas. Good for you.

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