The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In this episode, Leanna Prater and I discuss how to use play in the classroom to teach. In this episode, you’ll learn: Four powerful ways to teach your students with play. Several examples of technology and hands-on tools to create a playful learning environment. Learn more about Bloomz. Listen to the Audio.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

You’ll learn easy tips to apply in your life as a teacher. In this episode, George Couros and I discuss how to bring teachers and schools into an open culture of learning and teacher improvement. In this episode, you’ll learn: What mistake did George make by sharing too many apps with his teachers?

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. My main recommendation however, was one grounded in the technology mediated learning approach.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. Sharma has a background in technology and video production (he actively researches and writes about educational technology and knowledge translation) led him to consider how to bridge that divide.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. My main recommendation however, was one grounded in the technology mediated learning approach.

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Learning Confluence

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I have blogged now since 2006… and looking back at February 2008 was quite interesting. February 18, 2008 – How to start shifting teachers: A successful model. February 25, 2008 – Another look into the ‘Fischbowl’ of 21st Century Learning. The early heydey of Flat Classroom projects was exciting.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches. Transparent admission standards? million donation.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. 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. Activity-Based Learning. Blended Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Learn more about PBS''s Cyberchase and the recent additions to many invaluable resources offered by PBS.” Even learn about making your own Custom search tool.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

All conversations start with why: Get all constituents involved from the beginning—even students and teachers—as to how the schools might adopt digital learning. Administrators need to have a detailed home survey for every student to understand how to serve them. Get them all to agree to the why before moving on to the what.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Unfortunately, I still haven't figured out how to include my word graphics into blogger and since I don't have a lot of time to figure it out, it will just have to be left out of this post. The Traditional Model The traditional model used by organizational learning theorists begins with the depth of knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Yet, like everything about raising and educating children, it’s one thing to know how you intend to handle a situation and another to actually handle it. This illustration, which appears in Harris’ book on sexual health for 4- to 7-year-olds answers one of them: “How do babies eat before they’re born?” Illustration courtesy Amaze, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. For the next eight days we'll be publishing three special 30-minute video interviews each day with an amazing set of learning experts (see below), for a total of 24 interviews (and maybe a surprise bonus interview or two).

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 27, 2013

Evidence from a number of sources has indicated that our conceptions of knowledge are indeed changing and that new and emerging technologies have a key role in the process (Guy, 2004; Lankshear and Knobel, 2006; Kop, 2007; Kress, 2009). Personalised tools lead to personalised learning, and the impact of this should not be underestimated.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Deishangelxa, 9 years old at the time, struggled with virtual learning and fell far behind. because of climate change, and unusually ill-equipped to help children recover from the learning setbacks that come with them. How do we make up for the impact of those disruptions of school and how do we make schools more resilient?”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

She was a high school junior when she learned she was pregnant, and didn’t receive the support she needed from school officials to continue. Fewer than 2 percent of mothers under 18 complete college by age 30 , according to a 2006 report published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (now Power to Decide).

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