Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

Windows offer new views, while mirrors offer reflections. This metaphor is the heart of the Windows and Mirrors learning framework, which recognizes the importance of both perspectives. By understanding this learning theory, you can create a curriculum that serves the needs of all students.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

What barriers make designing for deeper learning in schools challenging? In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, educators face numerous challenges when designing instruction that promotes deeper learning for all students. How can teachers weave social-emotional learning (SEL) skills into the fabric of their lessons?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2021

The question arises, “How does one know if the applications have an impact on student learning?”. Typically students enjoyed the novelty of something new and exciting, especially if the tools allowed them to become more than passive participants. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, taught for 36 years before retiring.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

After taking some time to reflect on your learnings, you’ll be ready to create a plan to sustain your technology practice in the school year to come. Reflection: What was it like to get started with using new technologies in the wake of COVID-19? Every teacher’s starting point with technology and distance learning was different.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2023

On the surface, you prepare lesson plans and determine the series of activities you will give for your next class. The past two years have produced learning gaps, so much so that educators will have to concentrate on improving the delivery of lessons and tracking learners’ progress. This is where learning models come in.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2021

When we look at all the assumptions that have been overturned in higher education because of the pandemic and all the needs that have only grown during this time, what becomes clear is that frameworks that previously worked for higher education are no longer guaranteed to function. What is flipped learning?

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Securly

MARCH 5, 2024

As of March 5th 2024, Securly has launched a ground-breaking new solution for K-12 schools and districts: Securly Discern. Securly Discern is a revolutionary AI that generates insights based on students’ online activities and digital footprints, automating data collection and analysis for schools. The sky’s the limit.”

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

One path is to make computational thinking (CT) learning opportunities more readily available to students, especially in the early grades. Designing the Water Runoff Challenge Curriculum . Designing the Water Runoff Challenge Curriculum . Students use this model to design, test, and compare engineering solutions for the schoolyard.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“The educators who had the greatest impact on me as a youth recognized my personhood by actively developing a relationship with me, challenged their explicit and implicit biases in visible ways, and valued multiple perspectives within their classroom.” – Maima Chea Simmons, Black Girls’ Literacies. 2016; Harmon et al.,

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Most math curricula are designed for a whole group teacher-led lesson where the teacher is expected to cover a new concept or process every day. Then, the teacher transitions into a mini-lesson designed to introduce a new concept or process. Math is a linear subject, with each concept building on the one before.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When surveying the research , effective teacher professional development is content-focused with active learning, supports job-embedded collaboration, uses models and modeling, provides coaching and expert support, gives opportunities for feedback and reflection, and is of sustained duration (Darling-Hammond). Course Background.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning. Lately I have been leaning into the task of enhancing my instructional coaching knowledge and skillsets, so I signed up for Eduro Learning’s yearlong online course, The Coach.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

para Instructional Suite can be used to support social and emotional learning (SEL). In December, I had the privilege of hanging out with a group of grade five students who were working on a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activity. Their objective was to save a hippopotamus. Not this day.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

It is nearly impossible to create a culture of learning if there are elements of boredom, inactivity, and lack of relevance. This is a lesson I learned most recently as a presenter and workshop facilitator. Early on, I used more traditional strategies since this was a new arena for me.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Just like with learning, it's a process, not an event. From a learning standpoint, this requires a focus on pedagogical leadership , something I learned over time when I was a principal, which required taking a critical lens to my practice if I was going to help my staff do the same.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2020

Before our eyes, we are watching districts and schools valiantly roll out remote learning plans to support all students during extended closures. Scaffolded questions and tasks : Piling on low-level questions that are recall and knowledge-based don’t constitute learning. I cannot commend their efforts enough.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2019

ISTE 2019: New Coaching Standards to Draw on Comprehensive Input. ISTE standards offer a framework to help teachers, students, administrators and coaches create learning environments that are innovative and effective. CDW Activity ID. amy.burroughs_26341. Tue, 06/25/2019 - 14:40. Tweet text. Educators have until Aug.16,

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Have you ever stepped into a classroom decked out with technology, but the learning goals for the technology weren’t clear? Edtech has opened up an array of possibilities for instruction and learning. Pedagogical : What are your methods for instruction and learning?

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Hapara

JANUARY 16, 2024

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] When your school adopts a new edtech tool, educators may be excited or apprehensive. There are educators who are power users of technology and can run with a new tool. The SAMR Model is one way to make sure that educators are able to use a new edtech tool without feeling overwhelmed.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Many educators are excited about the potential for AI to finally help us realize our goals of creating personalized learning journeys for students. It enables educators to see learning patterns across platforms, revealing strengths, potential challenges, and engagement.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 13, 2022

Redesigning for deeper learning and student engagement [2-hour workshop] Scott McLeod. Redesigning for deeper learning and student engagement [2-hour workshop] Scott McLeod. This workshop focuses on how to redesign classroom instruction for future-ready learning. I do a basic introductory workshop on Monday. Monday, June 13.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

I started bringing them back again this year after remote learning due to the COVID pandemic. I understood this was a problem throughout our time doing remote learning from March, 2020 through the end of the 2021 school year. As a kid growing up, I loved board games. Years ago I brought board games into my classroom.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2022

In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning. The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Novak and I started writing our new book, Shift Writing into the Classroom, we anticipated that teachers outside of English Language Arts would take one look at the title and assume that the book was not intended for them. The lack of focus on writing in education is baffling, given the positive impacts of writing on learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Most of this work is focused on digital pedagogy so naturally, I am focused on observing and collecting evidence to get a handle on both the level of instruction and the learning that is taking place. In many cases, the "wow" factor of technology is placed ahead of getting kids to think deeply or authentically applying their learning.

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Waterford

JULY 30, 2023

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. Want to maximize family engagement in your schools? Teamwork makes the dream work.

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Waterford

MAY 31, 2022

Understanding the science of how children learn to read is a necessary component for creating well-rounded classroom instruction. One of the most well-known, concise, and grounded literacy models is the Simple View of Reading, a framework that divides core reading proficiencies into two major categories.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

My role, like in many other similar districts across the country, has been to assist the teachers and administrators with digital pedagogy leading to purposeful use and efficacy using the framework below. It was at this time that the decision was made for me to assist.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes and on standardized tests. For articles that discuss this, see [link].

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Dr. Shannon Doak

APRIL 14, 2024

Background Many moons ago, while I was in the process of getting my Masters degree, I wrote, “ Emerging Theories of Learning and the Role of Technology ” as a chapter in a class eBook. Here’s how Generative AI not only aligns with but also enhances these theories of learning: 1.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The unique and pressing needs of the ongoing global pandemic accelerated the adoption of education technology and innovations that could support urgent and evolving needs and provide on-demand and flexible learning. Micro-credentials are a quickly shifting landscape. higher education) within the state.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Designed to address the need for open educational resources that support student-driven learning in science, our new Challenge Based Science Learning Toolkit guides educators in developing science units that build on student interest, lead to deeper learning, and engage students in using science to solve problems in their community.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

We all want to help students learn. To support this goal, Digital Promise’s Marketplace initiative is dedicated to identifying “effective, engaging, tech-enabled learning environments.” To identify effective digital learning tools, we have to know what kind of impact we are looking for. What are students learning?

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 24, 2023

She has taught in a 1:1 classroom since 2008 where her students used MacBooks, iPads, and Chromebooks to collaboratively and creatively demonstrate their learning. Catherine has presented at over 75 regional and national conferences in the areas of technology integration, differentiation, gifted learning, and digital literacy.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 28, 2017

The most effective blended learning model that literacy classrooms can utilize to meet the needs of all readers is the “Rotation Model” in which online engagement is embedded within a range of face-to-face forms of instruction. In a workshop framework, there are 3 main components: Mini-lesson, Independent Practice, and the Share.

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Blended Learning Classroom Learning Twitter 270

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Recently, the 60,000-member National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) released a new “Research Compendium,” a handbook with 38 chapters , each summarizing the best research on an important aspect of teaching and learning mathematics. Second, the value of a well-chosen framework. So what did we discover? First, humility!

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Technology Handbook Learning Outcomes 381