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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

When I facilitate workshops on this model, I describe it as a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a specific learning goal or objective. In addition to using data to design the playlist, it is essential to build mechanisms into the playlist to collect formative assessment data. These are great questions!

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UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes (has arrived!)

Catlin Tucker

We combined our expertise on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning to write a book designed to help teachers develop a mindset, skillset, and toolset that allows them to thrive no matter the educational setting–in class, online, or a blend of the two. Katie Novak on this project. A Quick Introduction to the Book.

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Keep, Start, Stop: A Student Feedback Strategy

Catlin Tucker

At this point in the school year, you have had time to establish classroom routines, nurture your relationships with students, and design and facilitate entire units of study. The Keep, Start, Stop Feedback Strategy My friend, who manages a team of designers, described this strategy to me. Stop: What would you like me to stop doing?

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JotForm Approvals–Great Way to Manage Workflow

Ask a Tech Teacher

Over the past several years, JotForm has released many features designed to simplify and automate teaching’s more mundane tasks ( Smart PDF Forms , a PDF Editor, JotForm Cards, Tables , and JotForm Reports –click for my reviews). Their latest is called JotForm Approvals. Approvals is always on and always working.

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Blended Learning: Designing with Balance in Mind

Catlin Tucker

As I work with teachers, I stress the importance of balancing the various elements within the design of a lesson. When we design learning experiences with balance in mind, the output of a lesson will feel more balanced too. There are several reasons it’s critical to consider balance when designing learning experiences.

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Designing and Facilitating Learning for an Alternating A-B Hybrid Schedule

Catlin Tucker

Though this approach has presented challenges for teachers in terms of design, I believe this scenario is more manageable than the concurrent classroom, where teachers juggle a group in class and a group online simultaneously. Stagger the Groups’ Progress to Avoid More Design Work. Let’s begin with an analogy.

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Voice ChatGPT: A New Dimension in the Educators’ Toolkit

The CoolCatTeacher

To ensure I don’t lose generated content, I’ve realized that when I’m ready to generate content, I should type requests for compiling posts. First, I used the official app from OpenAI on iOS, but they have an official app for Android phones, as well. Blog post coming, and we’ll see what you think.) It felt like a thinking companion.

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