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Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

A large body of empirical evidence suggests that self-regulated learners are more effective, confident, resourceful, and persistent in learning (Pintrich, 1995; Schunk & Zimmerman, 1994; Winne & Hadwin, 1998; Zimmerman & Campillo, 2003). I love seeing 13- and 14-year-olds learn how to manage their time using short-term deadlines.

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Free computer training resources and courses

Educational Technology Guy

GCFLearnFree is a program of Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC and provides quality online learning courses for free. The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system. This is a must bookmark, must share resource.

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6 Steps that prove any teacher can create educational videos

Neo LMS

Of course, I’m not talking about production quality here either! Each channel can become “overloaded”, so that’s why “meaningful learning involves cognitive processing including building connections between pictorial and verbal representations” ( Mayer and Moreno, 2003 ). What makes an educational video good?

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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: It’s a new year and time to plan your professional development with Advancement Courses. They offer over 280 online graduate-level PD courses in 20 subject areas. And right now, you can save 20% off each course with the code COOL20 — that’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours.

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20 Years of Student Feedback Drives Digital Learning

edWeb.net

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Can you guess what students said was their most-used mobile device in 2003? The findings became foundational in the Department of Education’s annual technology plan—and have been since 2003. So, what was students’ most-used mobile device in 2003? Hint: It burned.

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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. I’ve had a longtime relationship with ISTE. So far we’ve met once and have been assigned to some small groups.

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

Edsurge

EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. So I get here in 2003, and there were about 18 people [teaching] and a few hundred students [online]. It was changing the way we were doing courses. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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