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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

In this article, we’ll go over why classroom discussions are important and introduce a few techniques to help you supercharge discussions with your students. How to Lead a Class Discussion: Helpful Strategies to Know. This Edutopia article by educator Richard Curwin is a great resource for learning more about lightning rounds.

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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

Edsurge

Instead, they just need a little bit of guidance on how to approach the flood of text, images and websites they encounter on a daily basis. The result is the book “ Verified: How to think straight, get duped less and make better decisions about what to believe online.” You've got to go find that article.

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Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools

EdTech Magazine

Q&A: Class Tech Tips Blogger Monica Burns Explains How to Work with Digital Tools. Monica Burns first started working with educational technology in 2011 when she was teaching at a New York City school that was becoming a magnet school. Or is it big picture, such as learning how to collaborate more effectively with others?

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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

In this article, we’ll look at some specific ways to help students develop written and verbal communication skills, as well as why it’s healthy for them to do so. As they listen, teachers can also show students how to be judgment-free listeners. This is also helpful by modeling for students how to be good listeners to their peers.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In these spaces students are learning how to tinker collaboratively with a problem and keep trying until they find a solution. As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”.

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Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

In particular, I see a clear connection to how path and pace can promote self-regulation, a competency that is important for students in school and all of us in our professional lives. An article by Y. In the beginning, we discussed how to make sure the tasks they chose for their lists were reasonable to finish in 17 minutes.

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Epic Sketchnoting Resources: How to Get Started Teaching Sketchnoting

The CoolCatTeacher

Smashing Magazine’s Article on Sketchnoting. Notetaking Skills for 21st Century Students – one of my most popular blog posts that incorporates visual notetaking/sketchnoting into how I teach students to take notes. How to Create Awesome Visual Notes [BLOG POST]. Kathy Schrock is quoted in the article. 10 VIDEOS].

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