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#04: Simple Ways to Find Your Teaching Blindspots in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

David Guerin, (@ DavidGeurin ) is the 2017 NASSP Digital Principal of the year. Register for my free Differentiating Instruction with Technology webinar sponsored by SMART Learning Suite next Thursday, February 9 at 4pm. Differentiated Instruction Webinar – ( [link] ). David believes that. David Geurin.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). This can involve differentiated instruction strategies where tasks are tailored to each student’s learning pace and style. Department of Education.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. Journal of Literacy Research , 44, 149–170. Reeves, P.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 But for others, the teacher is still central to the picture, using technology as a means to support differentiated instruction. Later that year, the district paid an additional $215,500 more for “professional services.”

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Using tech to help differentiate instruction

Kathy Schrock

Differentiated instruction is defined by Carol Tomlinson as “an approach to teaching that advocates active planning for and attention to student differences in classrooms, in the context of high quality curriculums”. Permission granted by ASCD to share. Students can easily provide verbal feedback to the teacher and/or each other.

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Inside DC Schools: The Struggle to Develop Personalized Learning’s Independent Learners

Edsurge

In 2014, Facebook appointed a team of six engineers to help the organization build a more robust tool. Summit officials say more than $20 million was invested into the tool in 2017 alone. Its Summit Learning Platform, originally called Summit Basecamp, was first designed by the schools’ leaders using Google spreadsheets. People cried.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

The shift in mindset involves moving away from a teaching model that is centered on curriculum and meeting benchmarks toward being student-centered in ways that demand differentiated instruction based on a child’s interests, strengths, weaknesses and background.