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These faculty members also may struggle to juggle the demands of the professorship with family commitments, raising children, service to practitioners, a growing social media presence, and innovation in realms that most postsecondary institutions fail to value. Some faculty members are like race horses out of the gate.

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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Visual learners do best when information is presented graphically, be it in the form of illustrations, charts, diagrams, or photos. Fornelli is an award-winning digital media producer who has enjoyed a wide- ranging career, in an array of fields including recording arts, journalism, film & television production, and advertising.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

It’s perplexing,” said Elena Forzani, an assistant professor of education at Boston University, in reaction to this reading data, which is still unpublished but was presented at two education conferences in April 2021. “We Perhaps reading posts on social media and clicking on article links in Google searches are useful types of reading too.

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Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 with a New Virtual Field Trip hosted by NBC’s Jenna Bush Hager from 9/11 Day and Discovery Education

eSchool News

Developed for students born after September 11, 2001, this experience highlights ways people in the United States came together during and after the terrorist attacks. We are proud to work with 9/11 Day to present this engaging virtual field trip to students across the United States.”.

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How to Cope with Bullying

Ask a Tech Teacher

Hawkins, Pepler, and Craig, 2001 ). It includes not only websites, but cell phones, Nintendo, and Wii, as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites. Check these statistics (from Pacer.org ): One out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year.

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Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap

The CoolCatTeacher

His presentations are a unique blend of outrageously energetic performance art and magic, mixed with an inspirational message of how and why to become more passionate in the classroom. Participants will leave with a tool-box full of dynamic presentational ideas that they can immediately use to improve their lessons.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL - Episode 8 Today, "Home as a Place for Learning" #reinventingschool

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Today (Thursday, June 25) at 4:00 pm US-EDT, we present the eighth LIVE episode of the new LearningRevolution.com weekly interview series, REINVENTING SCHOOL. Social media: @organiccowboy. If you miss the LIVE show, we post the edited version here by Monday over the weekend.