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Eye Opening! Harvard Researchers Say Data Isn’t Improving Student Outcomes

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Harvard Researchers Say Data Isn’t Improving Student Outcomes appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. These are just a few suggestions I have as a classroom teacher.

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Experience Can Be the Best Teacher

A Principal's Reflections

During a breakout session at a large national conference, I had a packed room, which is something most presenters yearn for, and I was no different. Later that evening, I pulled up Twitter to see if there was any chatter about my session. This isn’t necessarily true, although it can be if the outcomes listed above are embraced.

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Gale In Context: Literature Launches to Promote Critical Thinking Skills and Better Learning Outcomes in ELA for High School Students

eSchool News

This sparks greater interest in literature, enabling teachers to facilitate meaningful interactions that inspire more compelling classroom discussions that increase critical thinking skills, delivering better learning outcomes. Educators need a solution to contextualize literary works in both the past and present day.

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Backchanneling: The Why, How, and What (Best Tool)

A Principal's Reflections

So why and how should one incorporate backchanneling during workshops, presentations, faculty meetings, after hours, or in classrooms? Backchannels or back-channeling is common at conferences where attendees use tools like Twitter to discuss the various presentations in near real time.

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Technology is Here to Stay: Now What?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Although the pedagogy of utilizing technology was not readily available in the early 1990s for educators, it is ever-present today. Additionally, I made of point of consulting with other teachers around the nation via Twitter on their experience with the platform. All of this requires considerable time. T4Edtech #edtech.

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Online College Classes Start Monday!

Ask a Tech Teacher

Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. Explain how differentiating content and presentation engages a greater proportion of learners. INTASC 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10. INTASC 1, 6.

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What Learners Really Need

A Principal's Reflections

For starters, my primary device to connect on Twitter was a Blackberry. What I really like about the MMI image is not only how it aligns to Quad D learning, but also how it lists the qualities, outcomes, and dispositions that present and future learners really need. I didn’t even have a Facebook page until a year later.

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