Learning Confluence

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I am working part time as an Adjunct, with two Masters level classes starting this week – about 50-60 students in total, so that will keep me busy. I started to blog about my PhD journey – but now I find it is 3 months since the last post – oh! tools and disrupt class activities. Just a little?

Wiki 40

Wiki Professional Learning Analysis Study 40

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

The unconventional flurry of both in-person and virtual academics in a school that had never before offered AP physics is part of a broader experiment that experts say could herald the future of education, especially for rural schools. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state.

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 26, 2018

While I may have whole class mini-lessons, once the lesson is over, students get to practice their new skills at levels that best suit their capabilities. The majority of my classes have been below to far below grade level. I currently teach a required sophomore history course and a senior elective, “AP Psychology.”

How To 72

How To Strategy Groups Differentiated Instruction 72

The Daring Librarian

JULY 20, 2018

So, though it's taken me a better part of a week to write this, and I warn you -- it's LONG. Work Smarter, Not Harder 3. Related How To: Be a Daring Defender, Part 1 Be a Daring Defender, Part 2 How to be a Teacher Librarian Rock Star Psssst!!! Just sit quietly at the back or side of the class and take notes.

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Future Ready Libraries Twitter Elementary 50

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Students in a marketing course at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island check their phones before class begins. To tame classroom distraction, their professor uses Flipd, an app that locks students out of their phones during class. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. CARSON, Calif. — Fifteen minutes!”

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Smartphone Laptops Social Media Facebook 173

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com civics and government topics.

Tools 58

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 58

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Makerspace Product Roundup, 2018 It seems like everywhere you turn, new products are being launched that are the perfect fit for making and makerspaces in schools. Students can be deactivated and classes can be archived. Audience: Ages 3+ What it Does: The Omegas are on vacation and need help. Website: thinkfun.com/ Cost: $39.99

Robotics 64

Robotics Android Software Tablets 64

Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

While most of the headlines this week about Puerto Rico addressed the fact that a Harvard study found the death toll from Hurricane Maria hit almost 5000, Edsurge runs with a happy story about the island : “Months After a Devastating Hurricane, Puerto Rican Schools Turn to the Sun.”

Education 47

Education Kaplan Robotics Schoology 47

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

I’ve taken part in marathon business strategy planning sessions. Higher education is at a turning point, and it can either adapt and thrive, or stay put and be irrelevant. Did I have to clock in, like when I worked part-time jobs in college? I’ve done design sprints with people high up the org chart. This was all new to me.

Steelcase 82

Steelcase Company Learning Digital Badges 82

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2018

. — The single, formerly homeless mothers living in Family Scholar House apartments are used to seeing faces drawn down with pity or judgment when they tell their stories. But when these women speak about their lives, their eyes rarely fall to the floor, and their faces don’t mirror that unspoken expectation of shame. Pregnant at 15.

Report 99

Report Secondary Meeting Accessibility 99

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

“Free College” Via NPR : “ Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won’t Have To Pay Tuition.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.”

Education 58

Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 58

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

ESPN turns to a real expert here : “Shaquille O’Neal says more cops is answer to school shootings.” ” Robert Pondiscio writes in The 74 that “Civil Disobedience Means Facing Consequences. Via The Outline : “ ICE is detaining teenagers when they turn 18.” Then the scandals hit.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46