Learning Confluence

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching. This book provides essential pedagogical approaches and frameworks for global collaborative learning. The World is my Classroom - Anne Mirtschin. Leading the Global Classroom Project - Michael Graffin. September 2016 (1).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

According to an article published in Education Week in 2016, 27 percent of pre-k-12 teachers were absent for more than 10 school days per school year. In 2016, this ratio nearly doubled to one sub for nearly every 6 teachers. Unfortunately, from the vantage point of student learning, the experience is remarkably poor.

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wwwatanabe

JULY 2, 2016

Collaborative learning promotes communication among students; it is particularly beneficial for English Learners (ELs) because peer interaction contributes to the development of language," ( CA ELA ELD Framework, Chapter 2 ). Contribute to team projects, presentations, and ideas (2016 ISTE Standards for Students).

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Securly

JANUARY 12, 2017

Web filtering is required by law, as long as schools wish to receive e-rate funding to supply their digital classrooms. From 2007-2016, the number of students who experienced bullying roughly doubled from 18.8% To learn more about web filtering, sign up for our newsletter: Cyberbullying & Self-Harm Detection.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 6, 2015

20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking. This is our equivalent to “back to school,” and is intended to help you focus in the 2015-2016 school year on taking a thoughtful approach to your craft as a teacher. Part 2: Learning Profiles: What Great Teachers Know About Their Students. Learning Is An Ecology.

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Securly

APRIL 6, 2016

This reliance poses a threat to the actual retention of knowledge learned in the classroom. But how can we keep students learning and engaged amidst so many other distractions of 2016? First, consider that all students learn in different ways. Gamify” the Classroom. Do Collaborative Projects/Group work.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Epson and Smart aim to bring collaborative learning solution to classrooms. Epson and Smart Technologies are now bundling Smart collaborative learning software with Epson BrightLink interactive projectors. For additional information, visit www.epson.com/brightlink.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

5:00pm Developing Wisdom - Paul Loranger 6:00pm Creativity and the Classroom: Reflect, Create, Dream, Diagram, Model, Propose - Linda Keane , Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design 7:00pm Moving Students up the Cultural Ladder - Harry G Tuttle , Ed.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. This type of questioning and analysis will drive schools toward selecting better products for their classrooms.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

has announced two new education solutions to enhance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum, and create more collaborative learning spaces. withMalala campaign giving away 20k He Named Me Malala DVDs to classrooms. to use in their classroom.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

New interactive displays target increased classroom engagement. The new displays are designed with a range of innovative features and capabilities to smoothly transition any classroom to fully immersive active learning environments. BenQ America Corp.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

to bring advanced collaborative learning solutions to the classroom, Epson has announced a line of projectors designed and certified specifically for use with SMART Board interactive whiteboard systems. As part of its ongoing partnership with SMART Technologies Inc.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. Here are six change management strategies that practitioners stressed as vital to driving new models of learning across traditional systems: 1. Open doors.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 22, 2016

What does this look like in the classroom? So how do we get our students to develop critical thinking skills in the classroom? Try Project Based Learning, a teaching method where students are presented with a challenge, complex question or problem and are given extended time periods to investigate and respond.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

Dell Classroom, a new software solution available for Dell Chromebooks, helping foster student and teacher engagement. Dell announced the debut of three new, interactive display products, purpose-built for active learning, classrooms and conference rooms at ISTE 2016. Dell Classroom.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 16, 2018

Asking teachers to “teach a lesson” to a panel, when we are looking for more collaborative learning in classrooms, or panels that don’t talk to applicants and have conversations, but shoot rapid-fire questions their way. As I have seen interviews in education, I have seen some of this disconnect as well.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2016

CUE , a nonprofit professional development organization for education technology, chose Touchjet , the first company to create a touch projector with a standalone Android operating system and a recent finalist of the 2016 Edison Awards for innovation, to help bring interactive technology to classrooms around the U.S.

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EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 14, 2016

This is one of a four part series on the 4Cs in the classroom: Collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. We are told that we must have our students collaborate more often and that the upcoming job market is looking for individuals who can work together and collaborate. Connect Learning Today.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 6, 2017

By partnering with Marginal Syllabus, Educator Innovator seeks to facilitate open learning for educators in all kinds of spaces (in schools, libraries, and afterschool programs to name a few). Step 3: Participate! You can participate in the following ways during the month of April.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

As teachers, we know that the physical environment of a classroom can have a significant impact on how students engage with the material and each other. Have you considered how the furniture placement in your classroom can either reinforce or distract from the specific tasks we are asking students to do?

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2016

I had been invited to speak at the American Research Society's International Conference on Education and Information Technology ( ICEIT 2016 ). Collaborative learning, Khalife argued, is fundamental to this shift, and can take on any form, from simple to complex, with personal technologies at the heart. Unported License.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 8, 2020

Catlin Tucker reaffirms this idea in this incredible post discussing “5 Tips for Teaching Online”: #4 Prioritize Student Communication & Collaboration. Learning remotely can be an isolating experience for students who are used to seeing their classmates every day.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

For an overview of the genre, check out my previous ProfHacker posts on ARGs in the classroom and other examples such as Tessera and Endgame. I spoke with designers Patrick Jagoda and Kristen Schilt about their collaboration and this elaborate, playful twist on a familiar college tradition: Anastasia: What brought on this design project?

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MindShift

JULY 17, 2017

His Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab develops Scratch , one of the most popular coding programs for kids, which is based on the seminal work of Seymour Papert, who died in 2016. Being part of a community is part of that creative learning process.”. Ipzy started using Scratch when she was 11. TEACHER ACCOUNTS.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Redesigning Learning Spaces: Panelists identified changing learning spaces as a trend that educators and district leaders have embraced for quite some time and which is likely to continue. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Excerpted from Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in Middle School and Beyond by Christa Flores, published in 2016 by Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. Making learning “hard fun” (Papert, 2002) is a real-world balancing act that happens everyday when children are designing and inventing in the classroom. Benefit No.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

The professionals we spoke with described a process in which they began by collecting or gathering; moved to connecting content and resources for specific purposes and audiences; curated by adding value with context and commentary; and contributed by offering the community opportunities for collaboration, learning and growth.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend. 2016 – the phones in their pockets. Either way. as well as honored to be here.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With the Epson Multi-PC Projection with Moderator function1 and the Epson iProjection App for Chromebooks, the teacher has the ability to display up to four Chromebook notebook computers simultaneously from a maximum of 50 connected devices for an engaging collaborative classroom experience. I wish I had this when I was a teacher!

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Over the past few years the education industry has been experiencing a shift away traditional learning environments. Incorporating technology in the classroom has paved the way for a myriad of innovative methods and practices that are aimed at improving upon teaching structures of the past. What is blended learning?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanny Zuiderveld, co-founder Global Classrooms - Teresa Kramarz, Assistant Professor Middle School General Music.A It's a ton of fun, you'll be doing some good, and you'll have the undying gratitude of the conference organizers! Provincial Dumping Ground or Global Oasis?

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User Generated Education

JULY 25, 2016

It is invigorating ( Adam Savage’s 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire Talk ). Traditional classrooms are often marked by students quietly at their desks completing the same tasks at the same time. The classroom was loud, seemingly chaotic and messy. It is not unusual at all for messy learning to be …um …messy!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Scott Benson NewSchools Venture Fund Twitter: @scottb_edu So their two organizations decided to work together, creating The Collaborative—a ten-month, intensive professional-development experience for ten school districts and charter school management organizations from across the country. Mexican Youth,” by Angela Valenzuela Viewings.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

If the bright lights and casino bling of Las Vegas weren’t enough to dazzle conference-goers from around the world, the awe-inspiring displays of futuristic technology littering the Infocomm 2016 show floor certainly were, such as Epson’s trippy Infinity Room and LG’s mind-bending OLED curved tiling display. 264 compression.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

We’re looking at a paradigm where technology is intertwined with critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and other key skills, preparing learners not just to succeed academically but to thrive in life beyond the classroom. Both critical thinking and problem solving are essential skills in today’s learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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