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Self-Regulation in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

Self-regulation is the “self-directive process by which learners transform their mental abilities into academic skills” and “the self-generated thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are oriented to attaining goals” (Zimmerman, 2000; 2002). It is not a mental ability or an academic performance skill (Zimmerman, 2002).

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Stop Celebrating Low-Level Learning

Tom Murray

In the spring of 2002, I was teaching 4th grade in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. That’s right, in 2002, 17 years ago, we were 1:1. Image Credit: The Morning Call, 2002 “I’d love to see these units become standard equipment for all students in five to ten years.” Murray, 2002 (HAHA!!) Palm Pilots.

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Teaching and reading literature in the digital age

Neo LMS

In 2002, the National Endowment of the Arts had bad news for educators and society at large : For the first time in modern history, less than half the adult population [of the US] was reading literature. NEA, Reading at Risk , 2002. in their lists. Adult Population Reading Literature. Not really. Things just moved online.

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How to Get Motivated This Monday Morning

The CoolCatTeacher

She was nationally board certified in 2002 and in 2006 was Mauldin High School’s Teacher of the Year and a Greenville County School District Teacher of the Year Top 10 Finalist. Pat Hensley – Bio as Submitted Pat taught students with special needs in public school for over thirty years.

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3 Ways to Stress Less in Today’s Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Dr. Desiree Alexander is an award-winning, multi-degreed educator who has been in the educational field since 2002. Digital Equity: How to Understand The Problems Facing #Edtech. Dr. Desiree Alexander – Bio as Submitted. She is currently the Regional Director of North Louisiana for the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana.

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Leadership for School Innovation graduate certificate 001: The launch

Dangerously Irrelevant

In 2002 Joan Hughes (now at the University of Texas-Austin) and I received a large federal grant to create the first graduate program in the country designed to prepare technology-savvy school leaders. I’ve done this twice before.

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Educators as Purveyors of Hope

User Generated Education

2002) have higher overall grade point averages. 2002), self-esteem (Snyder et al., 2002), personality (Day, Hanson, Maltby, Proctor, & Wood, 2010), and college entrance examination scores such as high school GPA and ACT/SAT (Gallagher & Lopez, 2008; Snyder et al., 2002), self-esteem (Snyder et al.,

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