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Humanizing technology

Learning With Lucie

This week I had the benefit of attending a two day workshop lead by a master facilitator, Liz Lerman, where we learned about and practiced using her Critical Response Process for giving and getting useful feedback on anything you make - from dance to dessert. And sure enough, the two day workshop left me in the promised state.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

When we take the time to persuade our colleagues about adoption we are providing them with context-based application effective action which makes them more likely to mobilize greater effort than those who are not persuaded, but told. Workshop and other in-service events are magnified by collaborative, shared-experiences. Dotger, B. &

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Needing students, Appalachian colleges reach out to fast-growing Hispanic population

The Hechinger Report

to go too far from the mobile home park where she’s grown up in Conover, North Carolina, when she goes to college. It’s less than four miles from the Paradise Valley Mobile Home Park, where the Cantus and other mostly Hispanic Catholic families live. He seemed like somebody I’d like to meet.”. Maria Cantu (l.)

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Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix

The Hechinger Report

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests.

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Can Schools Change Measures of Success by Focusing on Meaningful Work Instead of Test Scores?

MindShift

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests.