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Engaging Students Right From the Start

User Generated Education

In normal times when students come to my classroom (I provide pull-out services for gifted elementary level kids), I get them doing hands-on activities within minutes of entering into my classroom. Akinator is a computer game and mobile app. I, like many of you, have been doing remote teaching since March, 2020.

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Hindsight: How I *WISH* I had Supported Our Technology Rollout

Tech Helpful

Simon Sinek originally published his book Start with the Why in 2009. Mobile devices in education have been a messy journey. Our elementary school started with a rolling cart of iPads and we have slowly added more and more into the mix for use and a chromebook cart as well. Oh to have read that book then!

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Education Has a Three-Headed Crisis. Mental Health Is Only Part of It.

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Levels of empathy in youth fell by nearly half between 1979 and 2009. Some examples of impactful social-emotional programs include: Roots of Empathy , which is taught in early childhood and elementary schools, where a baby and his/her parent or caregiver join a classroom. Our empathy and human connection crisis.

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

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This guest speaker was talking about how to run group interviews, and she, a white woman, was imparting what she learned from years of research with various U.S. populations, including “tips” on how to work with diverse communities. Asians have a politeness norm, so it’s difficult to get anything useful out of them,” she continued.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike. This theory requires the student to passively accept information and knowledge as presented by the instructor (Pogue, 2009, para. Table of Contents. The Basics.

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Technology for the Sake of Technology: Consider the Why and the How

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In my recently published book , I highlighted the conditions John Hattie found in his research about effective use of technology in schools, from his seminal resource Visible Learning: Maximizing Impact on Learning (Routledge, 2009, p. It is so easy to state “I need technology in the classroom” without thinking about the why and how.

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4Cs Series: Creativity

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No one would argue with this but it doesn’t really help teachers understand how to instill something in our students that we may never have had in us. Students have more computing power in their cars and even their phones than the Apollo 11 systems (Computer Weekly, 2009). Inquiry, then, is the key to creativity. Psychology Today.