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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. In this blog post, you’ll discover ten topics that can help you improve your online or blended classroom.

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Subscribers: Your February Special is Available

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Gamification of education. Inquiry in the Classroom. The Flipped classroom. Twitter in the classroom. Differentiation—How to teach the hard-to-teach class. Digital citizenship I. Digital citizenship II. Digital note-taking. Google Search and research. Grading Technology. Problem solving. Search and research.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. Flipped Classroom The flipped classroom allows students to learn from pre-recorded videos and then to complete homework and other activities during class. So many of us are exhausted.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

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We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. Twitter Chats worked best with larger groups. They failed and tried again.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Failed and tried again. They are life long learners.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Platforms like X/Twitter, LinkedIn, and education-specific websites offer spaces for educators to share experiences, resources, and insights. These sources often provide in-depth analyses, research findings, and articles on the latest trends in K-12 education. Online Educational Communities: Join online educational communities and forums.

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Being ‘The Guide on the Side’ is not Enough. Become The COO.

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We need to become the COO of our classrooms, the Chief Opportunity Orchestrator. I first heard ‘sage on the stage’ and ‘guide on the side’ early in my teaching career when I decided to try The Flipped Classroom™. Through my flipped classroom failure, though, I did learn how to create a student-centered classroom.