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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

In many cases, without even realizing it, educators plan their curriculum without considering whether it includes the diverse backgrounds and identities of their students. Then, we’ll provide a few strategies for improving your cultural competency and even a starter list of diverse books to include in your classroom library or curriculum.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. One active learning technique she cites in the book, for instance, was devised by Samuel Delany, who was also a renowned science fiction author. Active learning wins.

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What Are the Best Books about the History of Education Technology?

Hack Education

As many of you know, I’m working on a book proposal for Teaching Machines , a project I’ve had on the back burner for far too long now that is finally starting to come to a boil. What do you think are the best existing works of history of the field of education technology? David Noble, Digital Diploma Mills (2001).

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

Edsurge

But he’s not done trying to bring big changes to higher education. EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. But there's this new distance education thing, and if you want to keep your preferred provider status, you have to start offering that.

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ISTE Certification 01

Dangerously Irrelevant

When we created the nation’s first graduate program designed to prepare a technology-savvy school administrator at the University of Minnesota (way back in 2003!) , ISTE was one of our most important partners in that work. Connected Educator Month launches today. A new adventure: Silver Lining for Learning.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Zeitz, 2008. 2 What is the best age to introduce keyboarding?

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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

This Edutopia article by educator Richard Curwin is a great resource for learning more about lightning rounds. To learn more about this technique, we recommend the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond.

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