Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

A second question has been given almost equal importance: Is reading a book to students online even legal? While many well-intentioned commentators have warned teachers against this practice, the fact is that copyright law—specifically fair use—permits many read-aloud activities online. The short answer is, well, yes. What Is Fair Use?

LMS 218

LMS Accessibility Examples Analysis 218

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

As a young teacher, I also engaged my students in their own This I Believe essays once upon a time. Teaching through the pandemic, there also has been no shortage of challenges to reflect upon this year. But I would be remiss not to also acknowledge the opportunities with which I, my colleagues and students have been presented.

Assessment 207

Assessment Meeting Exercises Professional Learning 207

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

Tools, such as AI-powered writing assistants and language-analysis platforms, offer real-time feedback and aim to empower students to engage in self-directed learning and refine their writing and editing skills. Students who may never have paused to reflect and consider their writing can now do so at the touch of a button.

Tools 147

Tools Education Secondary Analysis 147

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. I recently taught my students about budgets and they were so grateful! I recently taught my students about budgets and they were so grateful! Welcome to an extended episode focusing on AI!

Classroom 382

Classroom Data Tools Software 382

BYOT Network

JUNE 5, 2020

10 Best Practices for Teaching with Digital Content. As students and teachers continue to have increased access to digital tools and resources, there is a shift in the traditional instructional practices that have been used for teaching and learning. Develop a learning community. Have an instructional purpose.

Digital Citizenship 98

Digital Citizenship Video Assessment Accessibility 98

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

Mobile apps have made it super easy for kids to learn in fun and engaging ways, anywhere anytime. There are tons of learning apps for kids out there and the choices can sometimes be confusing. However, one of the effective ways to select a learning app for your kids is by considering their learning interests and needs.

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iPhone Khan Academy Android iPad 100

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

When I first began blending digital and face-to-face learning, it was easy enough to create a flow between online learning spaces and offline learning. However, I noticed that sometimes my students were not getting as much out of the digital learning platform as I had anticipated.

Blended Learning 94

Blended Learning Learning Outcomes Assessment 94

User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Walk into a classroom in any part of the United States, even the world, and you most likely will scratch your head in disbelief asking yourself questions such as: Why do the classrooms look pretty much like the ones in which I, my parents, and my grandparents learned? Why aren’t they using them for learning?

Education 120

Education Meeting Groups Mobility 120

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. These webtools offer standard topical text that can be quickly personalized, saved for re-use in the future, and easily updated year-to-year to reflect changes in the curriculum and desired learning outcomes.

Tools 150

Tools Common Core Assessment Digital Citizenship 150

edWeb.net

MARCH 6, 2019

iNACOL defines personalized learning as “tailoring learning for each student’s strength, needs, and interests—including enabling student’s voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn—to provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of the highest standards possible.”

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Student Engagement eBook 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. “How

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And it raises questions about gender and race: How can schools inspire more girls and students of color to pursue STEM? And it raises questions about gender and race: How can schools inspire more girls and students of color to pursue STEM? A student at William J. Palmer High School in Colorado Springs. Palmer High School.

Accessibility 90

Accessibility STEM Robotics Elementary 90

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2021

All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. From the Big Picture to Individual Details.

Data 53

Data Education Report Professional Learning 53

EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As learning environments remain fluid at the mercy of COVID-19, it is important for teachers and coaches to have some tools that will facilitate instruction in any type of learning environment. The same best practices that work in the classroom will continue to work online – you might just have to get a little creative.

How To 52

How To Learning LMS Video 52

BYOT Network

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. The building block of Critical Thinking helps to construct a firm foundation for personalized learning. This process involves making sense of new concepts by constructing or reconstructing personal frameworks of thought.

Personalized Learning 56

Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Digital Learning 56

BYOT Network

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. The building block of Critical Thinking helps to construct a firm foundation for personalized learning. This process involves making sense of new concepts by constructing or reconstructing personal frameworks of thought.

Personalized Learning 56

Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Digital Learning 56

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Because digital devices and online environments can simultaneously be transformatively empowering and maddeningly disruptive, the work of integrating digital learning tools into schools is usually difficult and complex. Common challenges arise, however, and can be thoughtfully addressed by proactive leadership.

Digital Learning 83

Digital Learning Technology Mobility E-rate 83

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As educators, we must provide a variety of options for students to develop their content area knowledge and skills in ways that meet their interests and needs. Our decisions need to focus on helping students by designing assessments and ways to show what they have learned while also promoting voice and choice in learning.

EdTech 544

EdTech Learning Game-Based Learning Assessment 544

User Generated Education

AUGUST 13, 2020

Some of the issues that have emerged and are still emerging include: the social emotional health of learners, a realization that students aren’t able to be independent and self-directed learning, and an awareness of inequities that exist in the United States. Self-Determined Learning and Learner Agency.

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Education Groups Resources Edmodo 434

MindShift

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Process-oriented skills are hard to pin down; teachers can see them in certain students, but developing these competencies in students who aren’t already demonstrating them can be tricky. But Watt was frustrated that in order to meet his expectations his students would often have to redo their work six or seven times.

Tools 78

Tools Data Training Course 78

Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

So take a browse through the list or jump direct to your area of interest. Learning Culture. In Lean In, Sandberg digs into issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. Inspiration.

Maker Movement 40

Maker Movement Social Media Handbook Strategy 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). Seja bem-vindo(a)! Bienvenido! We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below.

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Conference Education Advocacy STEM 0

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Melanie Pritchett - Compass Learning, Austin, TX Dr. Frances McArthur - Superintendent, Lexington, TX We are on the cusp of exciting times in Texas, using digital content in the classroom. Hochberg: HB 2488 Allows the Commissioner of Edu to purchase digital content and provide it free of charge to all students in the state.

Advocacy 49

Advocacy Mobility Assessment Social Media 49

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

I’ll never forget walking into a fellow teacher’s classroom where every student was doing something different. Yes, it all seemed quite impressive, but is keeping that pace all year practical, let alone possible? In an ideal world, your classroom would have one of you for every single one of your students. Cloning is possible.

Strategy 144

Strategy Meeting Video Examples 144

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. Tech Enablers.

Learning 77

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. To explain this idea to the more than 100 people gathered in the hotel ballroom, students from Coolidge tossed around a colorful soccer ball. goals, which students referred to, casually, as “SDGs.”

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Policies Data Examples Exercises 167

MindShift

AUGUST 12, 2015

This cultural terror of messing up, combined with modern modes of parenting and schooling obsessed with narrow versions of academic and career “success,” are making students more than risk-averse. Trying something and failing, she writes, is how children learn and make discoveries about themselves and the world around them.

Examples 28

Examples System Learning Accessibility 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. The next day, she’d meet with other teachers and a counselor to discuss their students’ academic progress and wellbeing.

Report 130

Report Elementary Meeting Classroom 130

MindShift

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

“Being a good teacher is exactly like being a good Dungeon Master, but with far more pressure,” said Kade Wells, who uses Dungeons & Dragons with his high school students. This series has looked at how Dungeons & Dragons and similar role-playing games (RPGs) have been used for learning. DESIGN FOR EXPERIENCE.

Learning 69

Learning Handbook Outcomes Course 69

edWeb.net

JUNE 9, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Tutoring, it turns out, not only boosts student achievement but also heightens teacher retention, a discovery made by Dr. Tina Powell, Orange Public Schools (NJ) Assistant Superintendent of Innovation and Systems, when her district explored solutions to post-pandemic unfinished learning.

Assessment 89

Assessment Personalized Learning Data Blended Learning 89

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2017

By adding the creativity and problem-solving skills that are part and parcel to Anything Art, students have permission to use colors, images, and outside-the-lines thinking to address Big Ideas and Essential Questions. Here are twelve of my favorite STEAM projects where artistic thinking becomes the engine for unpacking solutions.

Robotics 176

Robotics STEM Software Google 176

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Many school districts are now going through a process of determining which pandemic-related practices should be kept, improved, or discarded, and the use of remote and blended learning technologies is frequently being raised during these types of discussions. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment.

Technology 88

Technology Blended Learning BYOD Assessment 88

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Previously , I wrote about the tension surrounding book choice in schools from four main parties: parents, teachers, students, and admin. Guiding students in book choices is not an administrator’s role, as I understand it; we trust the mentors directly speaking into students’ lives for that.

Libraries 93

Libraries Handbook Policies Study 93

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com Achieve3000 will add 30 of iCivics’ best-in-class student readings to its platform. civics and government topics. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad.

Tools 59

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 59

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

One teacher, many students: It’s basically the definition of school as we know it, going back to the earliest days of the Republic. It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? Personalized learning is the No.

Personalized Learning 34

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

I know there have been lots of murmurs about what it means that someone who’s been quite critical of the Horizon Report project would be invited to speak, let alone to get to offer the closing remarks. So I’ll say at the outset that I’m not here to offer solutions or resolutions or absolutions. Why and where.

Robotics 67

Robotics Company Technology System 67

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JULY 2, 2017

One of the questions a lot of teachers like to ask 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club members is: “What exactly did you learn to do differently through the club? The club’s project manager and I combed through the survey data afterward to look for patterns. I ask myself now, Could a student do this?

System 85

System Facebook Survey Strategy 85