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6 Ways to Add Video to Your Classroom with Animoto

EdTech4Beginners

Just grab your smartphone during the event and take a few quick photos and video clips. Video is a way to differentiate instruction and help visual and auditory learners shine. Check for understanding in a way that’s more interactive than a traditional book report. Video recaps are shamelessly easy. Research project.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction. I distinctly recall my first, although remote, encounter with “differentiated instruction.” I was confident that his report would be a good one until he asked me something like what measures do you take to support talented learners ?

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How to make math a key part of your ELL curriculum

eSchool News

For that success to happen, however, ELLs need individualized, differentiated instruction to close the math gap—but challenges abound. More than 80 percent of low-income families have smartphones, a number that grows every year. When students succeed in math, it can provide a boost of confidence.

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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. Do you want to hold it up in front of your face and report or do you want to hold it to the side? We start with the paper version and they'll start with my kindergartners and I'll say, okay, here's a five screen, color it in two different ways.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction. I distinctly recall my first, although remote, encounter with “differentiated instruction”. I was confident that his report would be a good one until he asked me something like what measures do you take to support talented students?

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It feels natural to a generation groomed to presume that everything is calibrated to their needs and wants — whether it’s online shopping, news or math homework — and raised with smartphones in their hands. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. What can that look like?

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What you Need to Know about K-12 Fundraising Tech

Technology Tidbits

If your students aren’t yet connected to the internet and social media via their smartphones, it’s almost certain that their parents are. Similar to differentiated instruction , this type of fundraiser creates opportunities for students with various preferences and specialties, such as writing and communication skills.