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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When teachers engage in this collaborative culture, they share best practices, develop interdisciplinary projects, and contribute to professional learning communities, leading to more innovative teaching strategies and cohesive learning environments. But culture is an elusive concept and mandates a definition here.

Study 121
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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

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He has started having small-group discussions with school principals to learn about key issues and what can help to resolve them. Meanwhile, the district is also moving forward with a professional learning program for educators that is focused on blended learning. Join the Community.

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Donors Choose YOU - Top 10 Tips to Fund Your Project

EdTechTeam

In 2006 while waiting on a very late bus to pick up my first graders, my principal stopped by my room to tell me about this new website she had heard about from some admin colleagues. iPads, laptops, robotics, Hokki Stools, books, construction paper, art easels, rugs, tables, shelving, Crayolas of every kind… the list could go on and on.

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Five Compelling Reasons For Teaching Spatial Reasoning To Young Children

MindShift

Children were randomly assigned to one of two groups: one group engaged in spatial training involving mental rotations, and the other group spent the equivalent amount of time working on crossword puzzles. Both groups of children completed pre- and post-tests involving a range of math and spatial skills.

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Eight Ways To Teach Climate Change In Almost Any Classroom

MindShift

The 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth and its 2017 sequel, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power have curricular materials created in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation. The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility has a group of 19 lessons for K-12. ” She described the unit as a success.

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Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds With @CoolCatTeacher & @JulieLindsay

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Notes from FutureofEducation.com Webinar Steve Hargadon , Moderator Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay , authors of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds [link] Book was three years in the making. Vicki says they wanted the book to be an experience that is encouraging. They first connected in the K12 Online Conference in 2006.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

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For the teacher and student workflow SAMR might look like these examples 8: 7 Professional Development: Designing, Developing, and Implementing Professional Development offerings can be the catalyst of positive change. We have spent a great deal of time in this book discussing adopters and who we are in the story. Dotger, B. &