The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2021

Join me and other education leaders at the upcoming online conference Engage 2021 sponsored by Kognity. I am speaking at this conference. The live conference is a mix of interactive and hands-on workshops, keynote sessions, and panel discussions. If you’re looking for excellent PD, this is the conference. .

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

But a common problem prevented that: some faculty have been slow to catch up with technological advances, and many wait until students ask for accomodations rather than having accessible materials from the start. “I It’s often up to faculty themselves to ensure all students can access their learning materials.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Discover more ways to integrate technology effectively by taking one of my fully accredited online courses or get one of my books ! Video Conference Check-in – If you already meet up virtually through a video conferencing platform, such as Teams , Meet , or Zoom , then do a quick check-in at the beginning. Digital Advent Calendar.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. Reflecting on the process of shifting from on-campus to online teaching reminds me of a recent experience in my personal life.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

As a side note: We’ve been fielding a lot of reader mail on the topic, and we’d love to hear more from you—particularly if you’re a science teacher covering the subject in class, or are working with consultants to shore up your digital learning plans. Or ping us if you simply have ideas for what you’d like to learn more about.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2018

But how should instructors foster rich, inclusive dialogues with diverse students—and do so online where everyone might be anonymous? At the Online Learning Consortium’s Innovate conference this week, a panel of digital learning specialists shared how they are working to address some of these challenges at their own institutions and beyond.

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Learning Confluence

JULY 1, 2018

Last week I attended the 43rd Improving University Teaching Conference held on the Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie campus. When designing online learning consideration should be given to how a community can be built around subject content and objectives and how students will interact with the academic and with each other.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’ve been using distance learning tools for years. James Tiggeman Digital Learning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Our teachers had already participated in professional development on how to incorporate the blended learning model into their classrooms. What we’ve learned.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. million online courses in 2014-15. million students took about 4.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. So far, the digital learning plans have been a boon to educators looking for advice. Here in the U.S. Sometimes saying to my kids, ‘Hey, I’m not ignoring you. I’m not being rude.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Who has access to it? These questions have been circulating for years, as schools have increasingly embraced technology to aid in learning. But now, with entire school systems using technology as a means to access learning, those questions are growing in volume and urgency. Which technologies are collecting student data?

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Sanchez leads the Mobile Experiences and Emerging Technology team at Coursera, the online learning platform where students anywhere can take courses, master a career skill, get professional certificates, and earn degrees from 200 top universities and companies, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Google and IBM.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

TCEA, or Texas Computer Educators Association, is one of my favorite educational conferences. Even though I miss seeing everyone in person, it was a great online conference! Many parts of the combined conference are still going on through the entire month of February.). Blended Learning with Google.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Thanks to this new collaboration, teachers across HNCS will soon have access to a suite of award-winning digital products that nurture curiosity and support their goal of implementing the first comprehensive STREAM program in a Wyoming Catholic school during the 2024-2025 school year. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

We’ve introduced tiered pricing models to make these paid programs equally accessible to students in places ranging from Uganda to the U.K. Avoid on-demand learning and instead impose deadlines. If you can host periodic live events in person and truly blend the learning experience, your completion rates may be even higher.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

The challenge: how students can complete lab work without access to a science lab. But the state also approved college credit for courses completed online. The sudden jump to online learning has upturned education disciplines around the globe. This will turn into a long-term interest, I hope,” he says.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. million online courses in 2014-15. million students took about 4.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2022

At conferences and on calls I see innovative presidents, administrators and faculty sharing ideas and solutions that we all used to hold close to our chests. The root causes of this crisis have not changed much over the last seven years. The solution is within reach. Success today looks different and more diverse than it did in years past.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

First, the tips: The Simplest Way to Go Online is to Shift to a Video Conference Platform Stachowiak says that just lecturing to a webcam instead of an in-person class isn’t the best way to teach online, but it is the easiest way to switch. Often the college already pays for access to one of them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The program also bolstered access to learning opportunities at times limited by availability and affordability. Nearman, “all of our students could have the same access to programming and not have to worry about, well, my parents can’t afford it.”. Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. With JumpStart, says Ms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2020

Instead, he hopes viewers will see learning as “a way to understand ourselves and our place in the universe—and that’s fun and that’s exciting.” But he liked ASU’s focus on reaching a broad range of students and making college more accessible. Other colleges had talked to Crash Course about a possible partnership as well, said Green.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

Is the prevailing takeaway from this brutal, oppressive year a shared aversion toward online learning? We need to proactively identify the ways in which remote learning can serve students just as well, if not better, than in-person experiences. That should give us all pause. That would’ve been nearly impossible.

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The Electric Educator

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

This week I am hanging out in Indianapolis at the Virtual School Symposium sponsored by the International Association for K12 Online Learning ( iNACOL ). Today I let an all day pre-conference on Google Apps for Education. Tomorrow the conference begins and I have a full slate of sessions on my agenda.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2016

As the conventions and election season draw near, a new partnership between Second Avenue Learning and BrainPOP will help provide new digital resources for educators teaching students about the election process. The partnership was announced to coincide with the recent ISTE 2016 conference in Denver.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

And to provide a stable structure for the school day, she keeps to routines and established office hours, follows the Indiana time recommendations for continuous learning, and disconnects in the evening. In regard to the online content she provides, Olivia focuses on making it accessible through the use of pictures, emojis, and screen shots.

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Learning Confluence

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

One of her favourite sites is Top 200 Tools for Learning 2017. In the past year she created the CSU ’23 Things for Digital Knowledge’ , an open source tool that anyone can access and learn at their own pace. Mastering the art of digital scholarship: from mind to mind. The K12 Online Conference.

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Learning Confluence

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Preamble……I will never forget that in 2011 Leigh brought a group of Masters degree students (practicing educators) from the USA to China to participate in the Flat Classroom Conference I designed and organised that was hosted at my international school. Part 3: Online Global Collaboration Case Studies. Conferences (3).

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MindShift

APRIL 8, 2020

Since many districts didn’t have a digital learning plan in place for an event like a global pandemic, they are scraping together varied approaches of online learning that are evolving as the situation changes. Find the complete list of publishers’ permissions and online reading rules here.).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Because digital devices and online environments can simultaneously be transformatively empowering and maddeningly disruptive, the work of integrating digital learning tools into schools is usually difficult and complex. Common challenges arise, however, and can be thoughtfully addressed by proactive leadership.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2019

That guest is Mitchell Stevens, a Stanford University professor who is the director of the Center for Advanced Research Through Online Learning. Which makes access to these technologies, both for users but also for entrepreneurs, much more affordable than it was before. Good or bad is a moot point. So what do you do?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Then our fourth annual (and free) Future of Libraries conference, Library 2.014, starts on Wednesday, October 8th, at 10:00am US-Eastern Time with the opening keynote by conference co-chair Dr. Sandra Hirsh from the School of Information at San José State University. See you online! See you online!

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 16, 2019

The program I am in is fully online, so I am able to study while continuing my current work as a Digital Learning Coach in Georgetown ISD. For my third course, Theory and Practice of Online Pedagogy, one of my assignments was to write my philosophy of online teaching.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Shiny new technologies can capture well-meaning educators like insects in amber, but the evidence is clear that digital learning can improve student opportunities and outcomes. Below I outline six strategic steps that will point school leaders as well as classroom teachers toward digital learning success: 1.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

The Clearinghouse not only provides access to programs that meet the different ESSA criteria, but users receive further guidance on successful implementation. Step 5 – Tap into Ohio’s new resources. With the assistance of REL Midwest, the Ohio Department of Education created Ohio’s Evidence-Based Clearinghouse.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’. In this activity, each of the students took individual responsibility to seek out, evaluate and then post useful websites and online learning resources that were deemed indispensable to the group. Wheeler, S. and Lambert-Heggs, W.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

The organisation’s primary activities include hosting key learning events, chief among them the annual ISTE conference and expo , producing professional development resources and a number of annual publications. Focus: EdTech Access and Advocacy. iNACOL (International Association of K-12 Online Learning).

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