100mentors

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. For the implementation of these Approaches in the classroom, we discussed how to improve students’ research skills through inquiry-based teaching.

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100mentors

AUGUST 16, 2018

Chin, 2006). In fact, pedagogies that immerse students “in a learning environment that values questions” makes all the difference in their ability to ask “good quality questions” (Chin, 2006). By definition, this is the goal of education. With or without an answer, learning how to set a question is a worthwhile experience.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration transcends classroom boundaries, involving a myriad of stakeholders – colleagues, students, parents, and the broader educational community. In my experience, these connections don’t just bring new ideas and perspectives to the classroom; they also offer support and inspiration from a global teaching community.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2016

Well, what is Computational Thinking (CT), and how does it differ from Coding and Computer Science—especially when it comes to classroom practice and instruction? My short definition: CT is a strategy that uses many of the powerful ideas in computer science to solve problems. Let’s get into a simple, but longer definition.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The SLP looks toward the classroom in selecting information sources and crafting treatment activities. After the student achieves some competence in this controlled setting, the SLP moves to coaching application of the skills within related activities in the classroom.” The SLP can choose a particular park (e.g.,

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100mentors

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge learners to engage in Approaches to Learning. For the implementation of these Approaches in the classroom, we discussed how to improve learners’ research skills through inquiry-based teaching.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

Through its award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, and innovative classroom tools, Discovery Education helps educators deliver equitable learning experiences engaging all students and supporting higher academic achievement on a global scale. together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”). About Clearlake.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

SLA opened around 2006, with EduCon starting a few years later. The Case for Dreaming in Public" This session easily won for best titled, and was facilitated by Timothy Boyle (founding principal of SLAMS) and David Jakes (veteran school designer and author of The Design Thinking Classroom ).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

There’s untapped potential among people who work in schools right now, as classroom aides, lunchroom workers, afterschool staff and more, the thinking goes, and helping them become teachers could ease the shortage that’s dire in some districts around the country, particularly in rural areas like this one. What if we eliminate the question?”

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 23, 2012

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. Wanted to tell the story of the classroom teacher and show these things are really happening. What does flat classroom mean?

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

Rigor This buzzword holds one meaning in education and another beyond classroom walls, and that can make things muddy. This is not what a classroom should be.” We certainly don’t need that in our classrooms.” We certainly don’t need that in our classrooms. I’ll let you decide. Rigor means harsh, inflexible, and strict.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Nowadays, 99 percent of classrooms are wired with high-speed internet (which is very different than schools being “wired”), more than half of schools have wireless capability, hundreds of school districts have 1:1 devices and the U.S. Internet ubiquity in the classroom led teachers to adopt email and experiment with other technologies.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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. The next week, the materials arrived in my classroom. Simple is definitely best. It was called donorschoose.org. What was that? It was incredible.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Some people may be doing it with reluctance, but they’re definitely understanding that this is something that has to be happening now,” said Fox Troilo, managing director and head of higher education at the consulting firm Hanover Research. A story about higher education marketing in 2006 was titled “The M Word.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A child in a classroom for the youngest students at Hill Country Montessori sets up his workspace. Two students work together in the primary classroom at Hill Country Montessori. Rachel Rodriguez teaches a small-group lesson in her classroom at Hill Country Montessori. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

In his 2006 TED Talk —still the most-watched of all time—he claimed that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and charged the current education system with being too rigid in adhering to traditional academic subjects. Sir Ken Robinson’s views on creativity are abundantly well documented.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In fact, PEN, the group she runs today, was started in 2006 by a group of preschool parents who had heard the same thing yet refused to listen. Altadena Arts is an inclusion school, so kids of all neurodiversities are included in the same classroom. The message ends up making its way to newer Pasadenans. I’m already here.’”

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 24, 2021

Another pressing challenge is engagement both in and out of the classroom. While these are definitely useful, I am always on the lookout for even more to assist the district and schools I work with on an on-going basis. Engagement strategies need to start early and be sustained. Epstein, J.L., & & Sheldon, S.B. Dearing, E.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

As a New Leaders principal candidate back in 2006-2007, King-Morris said she was asked what she thought about the potential of all children to learn and about her track record as a teacher leader up to that point. The 2016 corps was 51 percent people of color, up from just 29 percent in 2006, according to TFA spokesperson Danielle Montoya.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 29, 2011

I have a master’s degree in Educational Technology Leadership and 18 years of experience in K-12 public education, including 8 years in the classroom, 6 years as a campus-level technology facilitator, and 4 years as a district-level instructional technology specialist in Georgetown ISD. My name is Sandy Kendell and I am a career educator.

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Reading By Example

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Multicultural themes that would make excellent read-alouds for your classroom. Speakers and authors Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty discussed their book Grammar Matters: Embedding Instruction Into Daily Classroom Practice (Stenhouse, 2014). Curiosity Powered by Pedagogy in the Workshop Classroom. We Teach Thinking!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Classroom management skills is the topic of our blog post today! Classroom management is an art and a science that lies at the heart of effective teaching. It’s the invisible thread that weaves together student engagement, academic success, and the overall harmony of the classroom environment. Gage, Ph.D., and Ashley S.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2006 I described and recommended the community-based model to support sustainable OER-based pedagogy. His focus has been on traditional institutions of learning and the traditional classroom model. Nowhere in my definition of open is there a requirement that a resource be licensed in a way that allows for commercial use.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cultivating the First Language When the dual-language program at the Honors College at Miami Dade College launched in 2006, leaders recognized there was a niche of students who spoke Spanish at home but didn’t have the chance to develop into fully bilingual students. Back in 2006, it started with 50 students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. ” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. Flipped Classroom.

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MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

A group of young women who had graduated from high school between 1997 and 2006 sat at the front of the room crying and laughing about their experiences learning math at Railside High (a research pseudonym for the school). Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom. Designing Groupwork. Smarter Together!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cooper's definition is similar to the one found in Cambridge Dictionary which defines homework as "work that teachers give their students to do at home" or as "studying that students do at home to prepare for school". There is way more to homework than what these general definitions outline. Synthesis of research on homework.

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2015

He had been playing since 2004—his teams were back-to-back Super Bowl champions in 2005 and 2006—so he knew the game intimately. You definitely have to research a lot.” They were having these conversations on social media that I wanted to have in my classroom.” The Arab Spring had arrived, and suddenly it meant something.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2017

I hope it helps starts some conversation about what matters in the classroom. The first big project was the Flat Classroom Project, which went on to win ISTE’s award in 2006 for the best online learning project, that I co-created with Julie Lindsey, who at the time had been in Bangladesh. How about you? Do you agree or disagree?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 14, 2023

Defined by the process of learning through doing, reflection, and active engagement, experiential learning takes learners beyond traditional classroom boundaries, immersing them in real-world scenarios. Kolb’s definition lays the foundation for understanding experiential learning as more than just hands-on activity.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

Wired for Learning Document-based questions have long been a staple of social studies classrooms—those exercises that ask students to analyze a given text and assess it critically, looking at things like the author’s motivation and intended audience. Same framework, many scenarios.” Civil war battles by year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 5, 2018

They are practical courses that have teachers developing tangible resources to use in their classrooms immediately. Aimee: Several years ago — I think it was 2006 — a student gave me a book for Christmas. So I dug it out of my closet in my classroom, and I reread her note. Listen Now. A student gave me a gift.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Operational definition of expertise and competence. Patterns of composing: Connections between classroom and workplace collaborations. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. Writing workplace cultures: An archaeology of professional writing. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. Herling, R. Turner (Ed.), Syriquin, A.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

My purpose behind this post is to introduce you to UDL, explain what it is and talk about the different ways you can use it in your classroom to enhance your teaching and boost students learning. Each definition offers a unique perspective on UDL’s purpose, application, and impact in educational environments.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

Here’s what I’m using all the time in my classroom right now. 36 Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life. She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Throughout this series, we have delved into the characteristics of 21st-century teachers, students, classrooms, and the very nature of learning itself. This definition highlights critical thinking as a broad set of cognitive skills used in problem-solving and learning. In How Critical Is Critical Thinking?

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 17, 2012

For eight years (1998-2006) I was essentially the R and D person for the university, Duke's first full-time Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies (the first anywhere in the US in fact), charged with innovation across all eight schools of the university, and with the delicious mandate to "break things and make things."

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