Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Why does personalized learning, ironically, feel so impersonal? Personalized learning, in its broadest application, suggests tailoring instruction to meet the needs, strengths and interests of each learner. One of the more measured posts reads: There is NOTHING “personal” about personalized learning!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2017

Digs deeper into digital tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

Abl’s staff worked closely with these principals to learn about their scheduling pain points, and refined its tool based on these early users’ experiences. To borrow from the poet Robert Burns, the best-laid plans of teachers and principals often go awry and unfinished—especially when it comes to a school’s master schedule.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2017

The survey, “ Online College Students 2017 ,” was produced by The Learning House, Inc. This is the sixth year they have conducted the survey, which seeks to explain who takes online courses, why they choose them and what they prefer to experience when taking these types of classes. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2017

This unique approach combines a Student Information System (SIS), Learning Management System (LMS), Assessment Suite, and more into one classroom that shares data and has one login for teachers and students. Come by the PowerSchool booth 2918 to meet me in person. This is a sponsored content episode. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 27, 2017

I've used Storify , one of my favorite social media tools, to summarize my experience by curating my tweets as well as the tweets of others which caught my eye throughout the day. (As Even if you can't attend in person, follow the # ISTE17 hashtag. You can learn no matter where you are! * It's hard to put into words!

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

It was obvious that colleges weren’t getting better at helping students learn this. How much would you pay to score a job interview? $10? In desperate times, that's apparently the price range in the market for these services, which involve commodifying age-old job seeking practices: networking and mentoring. percent, compared to 9.6

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 25, 2017

Traditional professional development for teachers, while important, doesn't usually address every teacher's unique needs when it comes to professional learning. It's no wonder, then, that online PLNs -- professional (or sometimes "personal") learning networks -- have become so popular in recent years.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

I’m very pleased to share my New York Times Learning Network blog post with the Educator Innovator blog. In fact, this kind of learning was repeatedly promoted over the past century, as this 1928 article from The New York Times shows. It comprises just four lessons plus a speech presentation session. What can these projects look like?

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

It mentions that professors were not normal students in their own college experience, and so they often have trouble putting themselves in the positions of the students sitting it their classrooms. We now understand much more about how the brain works and how learning works. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

EdSurge sat down with Pittinsky last month to talk about lessons from his time at Blackboard, as well as what has surprised him most about how learning management systems have evolved (or haven’t). How did you even get the idea to make a learning management system, which was a new thing? It wasn’t really about distance learning.

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Kyle Pace

JUNE 30, 2017

It was such a pleasure to help them experience their first ISTE and learn from so many of my excellent friends. I was able to hear about their excitement first hand after listening to my friend Jennie give a standing ovation-worthy keynote, I watched them post selfies with other presenters that I knew they’d love learning from.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Mobile phones are in the hands of young people everywhere, so it is quite natural that teaching and learning opportunities are progressing towards the mobile domain. Mobile phones are in the hands of young people everywhere, so it is quite natural that teaching and learning opportunities are progressing towards the mobile domain.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2017

However, he never did learn how to write, claiming that he never quite got the hang of it, and he left that to the monastic scribes. However, he never did learn how to write, claiming that he never quite got the hang of it, and he left that to the monastic scribes. In the Middle Ages, literacy was highly valued.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2017

As a veteran improv director and performer, I’ve distilled the essentials of improvisation into what I call the Improviser’s Mindset, a posture we may all adopt to better deal with the variables and ambiguities in our personal and professional lives. The Improviser’s Mindset is built upon three principles: accept, communicate and trust.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

It makes me wonder about your own K-12 experience. I’ve had numerous times looking back 30 years later and saying “Wait, that’s not at all how I learned that.” If he weren’t making podcasts, Jad Abumrad believes he would be teaching high school. It boils down to this: There’s a benefit to being lost, and that should be shared. “If

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