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Balance the Delivery

Ask a Tech Teacher

While already aware of the effects smartphones had on students’ attention, I tried to keep a balanced approach to using technology in my classroom. I found that students were happy using the technology, but some would rather complete work pen to paper or do an assessment/project without the technology. .

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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

As society becomes increasingly dependent on social media sites for consuming information and as a personal pulpit for ideas and opinions, schools and classrooms need to become the primary source of instruction on how to prepare students for effective offline and online discourse. identifying an idea worth highlighting, and.

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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation

TeachThought - Learn better.

The title is self-explanatory enough: Let’s look at some ways for students to learn from one another in physical or digital classroom. This is a strategy I used a lot in my ELA middle and high school classrooms. Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here. Socratic Seminar. Achievable.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

A second problem comes in the article’s view of who’s involved in post-secondary teaching. The problem is that the piece cites a liberal arts campus as an example of post-secondary education as a whole. Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. That’s about 2.5%

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Flipgrid for every classroom

iLearn Technology

What it is: Flipgrid is a video discussion platform for your classroom that lets you engage and capture learning in new and awesome ways. How to integrate Flipgrid into your classroom: Flipgrid is a great way to get your students reflecting on learning, collaborating, and providing peer feedback.

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3 apps that lead to improved executive functioning skills

eSchool News

Executive functioning skills are the foundation of academic success in college, but similar to ‘soft skills’ in the workplace, are often not explicitly taught in secondary education. It may be helpful to first do an executive functioning skill assessment with students to determine their current level of EF strengths and weaknesses.

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Goodbye, Long Nights of Lesson Planning: The Secrets to Successful Virtual Co-Teaching

Edsurge

The First Year In the first year of our virtual co-planning, we first wrote common assessments, then later common lesson plans and projects, before beginning video conferences to reflect on and edit our work. Students in one classroom are paired with partner “e-pals” in another class to score and provide weekly reflection on others’ work.