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ISTE 2018: Where I?ll Be Presenting and Joining in the Learning #iste18

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve been going most years since 2006 and while it overwhelms me, it is truly an awesome learning experience. ISTE Flipboard Magazine to follow. Type of Event: Listen and Learn Multi Presentation. Type of Event: Listen and Learn Panel on Location and Streamed by ISTE. Booth 2002. ISTE 2018 is here again.

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What We’re Reading: 3 Resources for Implementing Edtech

Edthena

Nowadays, an important responsibility of administrating student and teacher learning includes implementing edtech for a school or district. In planning for a robust rollout process, you must examine how you define proficiency, differentiate resources, and provide accessible learning opportunities.

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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

If you’ve been in the educational field long enough, you’ve probably come across Fleming’s learning styles theory. For over forty years, researchers have sought to classify how different students learn and what teachers can do to support them. What Are the Four Learning Styles? How would you discover a student’s learning style?

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How to Teach Divergent Thinking Skills in the Classroom

Waterford

Divergent thinking is defined here as a learning strategy that encourages students to come up with many different solutions to a problem.[9] 1] And according to neuroscience, creative thinking helps our brains learn new concepts by creating stronger neural connections.[17] Creativity Research Journal, 2002, 14(2), pp.

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STUDENT VOICES: Transfer schools offer a second chance to graduate high school

The Hechinger Report

Good Shepherd was working in Red Hook in the 1990s, during a time when Life magazine called it the “crack capital of America.”. South Brooklyn emphasized social-emotional learning, a high counselor-to-student ratio and paid internships. The early days were tough,” said LoManaco. “The The early days were tough,” said LoManaco. “We

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Tuesday - Pat Farenga on John Holt and Homeschooling

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

and was the Publisher of Growing Without Schooling magazine (GWS) from 1985 until it stopped publishing in Nov. Pat worked closely with author and teacher John Holt for four years, until Holt’s death in 1985. He is the President of Holt Associates Inc. GWS was the nation’s first periodical about homeschooling, started by Holt in 1977.

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Dave Eggers on Finding Creative Refuge From the ‘Lunacy’ of Technology

Edsurge

But the increasingly sophisticated technologies that people have come to rely on should not absolve personal responsibility for learning how to spell, write or communicate, says Dave Eggers. That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002.