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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

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Educators use a variety of resources to meet the needs and interests of individual students, including videos, images, games, non-fiction text and varying types of assessments. Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instruction Tools. Why Do They Want It?

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PD for Writing Teachers: STEM Workshops, Rockstar Camps, Twitter and More!

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Most teachers know that we learn from our students, and the highly interactive, practical model of CUE Rock Star camps exemplifies the best in collaborative learning. At various Rock Star camps, I have learned such things as: Google Apps for streamlining my workflow and collaborative writing among students.

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Mimio unveils MimioMobile for browsers

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In an effort to expand teachers’ ability to create unsurpassed collaborative learning environments, Mimio has launched two major updates to its MimioClassroom family of interactive teaching technologies: the MimioProjector 280T touch projector, and expanded device compatibility for the MimioMobile application.

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How I Took the Dread Out of Grading—and Replaced It With Fun

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The one change that I didn’t see coming was a shift in my curiosity about assessment. Perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned in the last nine years is that, as Spiderman says, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Working with categorized grades for almost a decade has totally transformed my view of assessment.

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Educators: The lessons we learned in 2016

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In 2016, among other things, I took the time to focus on learning the ins and outs of ClassFlow collaborative learning software. Now I’m able to help other educators in my school implement the tool in their classrooms to create a digitally collaborative environment.

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Edtech Needs More Infrastructure, Educator Support in 2017

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Teachers need the time and space to learn and share best practices around technology integration, especially amidst the sea of change of Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and ever increasing demands on schools.

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Rod Federwisch & Karen Goss Assessing and Developing Modern Language Fluency For Global Communication - Harry Tuttle, Ed.D.