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Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

Over the years, the state of Utah has provided me with a plethora of opportunities to work with schools on Personalized Competency-Based Learning ( PCBL ). In Shawn Berry’s 8th-grade math class, I observed students writing down individual learning goals for the lesson based on unpacked standards in the form of learning targets.

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5 ways to help students struggling with algebra due to learning loss

eSchool News

Key points: Students need algebra, but many get “stuck” as they learn Offering tutoring, particularly high-dosage tutoring outside of school hours, could help See related article: 5 ways virtual tutoring reinforces our after-school program Since the pandemic, students have struggled markedly in math, particularly algebra.

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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? Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow and the founder of the heralded Speak Up Research Project, along with a panel of students, had a conversation about decades of trends and the latest shifts in digital learning today.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

Keyboarding is a topic that most parents want their children to learn and many schools don’t have time to teach. Why learn keyboarding? Here–briefly–is a summation of the research: 1 Why Learn Keyboarding. Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. –Type to Learn, 1986.

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6 Steps that prove any teacher can create educational videos

Neo LMS

Student engagement is a big part of independent learning. We want students to actively interact with the learning material, no matter where they are and how they’re learning. As such, educational videos are nothing new, especially in the world of asynchronous and blended learning. Cognitive load and multimedia learning.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission to promote the practice of active learning. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. It contains what are essentially recipes for various active-learning techniques.

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30 Effective Classroom Attention Getters with Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This state of boredom is not just an occasional inconvenience; it is a significant barrier to effective learning. Research has consistently highlighted the detrimental effects of boredom on student learning. Furthermore, Pekrun et al. Situational interest is interactional in nature. But why does situational interest matter?

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