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MARCH 15, 2023

The problem was four-fold: students didn’t have the technology foundation to smoothly incorporate digital tools into projects. Too often, the effort to provide evidence of learning suffered as students (and teachers) became mired in efforts to get the technology to work. Where is the tool? How do you do **?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). ” Ignore Innocent Mistakes. Simplify Tech Skills.

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MAY 14, 2021

International Children’s Digital Library. The ICDL offers over 4,600 digital children’s books in over 59 languages that exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library.

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MAY 23, 2022

Kiddom is an all-in-one education platform for remote or in-person learning or a hybrid of the two that provides a high-quality digital curriculum capable of integrating curriculum management, instruction, assessment, and communication tools into one location. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

This classroom might be 1 to 1 or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. In this post I would like to explore resources that are available for facilitating proper digital citizenship in the classroom. Upcoming Opportunities: Are you traveling to Learning Forward Conference in Washington DC in December?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

To prepare students for success in a remote learning environment, Learning.com is adding remote learning lessons to its EasyTech content library. Based on real-life applications and digital tools, lessons in Essential Skills for Remote Learning guide students through technical concepts in a fun, game-based environment.

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JULY 13, 2023

There are a lot of apps and software programs that can help you study and be prepared in a way that fits best with your schedule and also your learning style. To see how these resources could improve your study sessions, learn more about NotesEdu’s comprehensive test packs on their website.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Eamil we and we can talk about a powerful interactive online workshop for educators that models blended learning best practices. As we do this… what lessons can be learned? Thanks so much.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Why would such a person interested in a tech career spend thousands of dollars to go to college instead of learning at home? Good colleges and universities are filled with incredibly driven and passionate students from whom you can learn a lot and with whom you might collaborate professionally one day.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Many of us find students benefit greatly when the school employs curriculum-based assessments to measure progress. Because by teaching, assessing knowledge, tracking progress, and personalizing to student needs, we can determine if students are accomplishing what they must to complete the work of learning. What is Measuring Up?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 3rd, 2014 Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgi The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions.

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MAY 25, 2016

The problem was four-fold: students didn’t have the technology foundation to smoothly incorporate digital tools into projects. Too often, the effort to provide evidence of learning suffered as students (and teachers) became mired in efforts to get the technology to work. Where is the tool? How do you do **? Augmentation.

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APRIL 5, 2019

To take advantage of this special, purchase from Structured Learning with PayPal or with a PO. All of them, no matter whether they’re in a classroom, the library, one of the tech labs. provide access to full text PDF (or videos where relevant) from every digital device in your school, 24 hours a day. What is a school license?

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MAY 23, 2017

This summer, Ask a Tech Teacher is holding five Summer Learning classes : Tech-infused Teacher (Certificate edition for CEUs or grad class for college credit ). 20 Webtools in 20 Days (for groups interested in learning webtools from the Structured Learning curriculum ). Digital portfolios—via wikis. Tech-infused Class.

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MARCH 29, 2022

They are constantly tempted to mis-spend their limited income and then must face the consequences of those actions, basing decisions on what they learned in the 32 scenarios. Developed for middle school and high school students, this online game helps students learn important personal finance skills as they compete against classmates.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A couple dozen of us–teachers, library media specialists, tech integrationists, and lab teachers–gathered virtually for three-five-week-classes that included: The Tech-infused Teacher. Time after time, they took responsibility for their own learning. They worked together as a Personal Learning Network. Teach Writing with Tech.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. Although many professors still favor hard copies, online libraries have also made their way into the course plan in some places across the globe. Opportunities, Benefits, and Progress.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

The courses are the latest addition to Vector’s award-winning library of Student Safety & Wellness Courses. The short online video lessons help schools teach and promote discussions about important safety, wellness, and social and emotional learning topics that have a big impact on individual students and the school community.

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JULY 27, 2018

Kiddom is an easy-to-use learning management system that provides educators with an effective alternative to Google Classroom. Start by considering: What is your vision for how technology will be utilized to improve students’ learning outcomes? Collect and assess data easily and quickly. Click here for my full review.

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MAY 26, 2017

When the Internet arrived, I — as did my colleagues — adopted it mostly for two reasons: 1) research — in place of the library, and 2) rote drills, such as supporting math practice. Blended learning occurs when an education program combines Internet-based media with traditional classroom methods. Infrastructure.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Here’s an excellent collection of great apps for your classroom — to cover writing, research, and assessment. Storyboard That is a leader among online digital storytelling tools thanks to its comic-based themes, clean layout, vast collection of story pieces, varied strip layouts, and intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2020

Dear Friends: 2020 has started and there is a lot of fun learning ahead! Here’s the current roundup of the upcoming Learning Revolution events. Click on the images or registration links to learn more. LIBRARY SECURITY 2020 | A 90-minute webinar. An extended 90-minute webinar with Q&A, part of a special Library 2.0

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Students direct their learning with a unique space-themed avatar (called a ‘mathling’) that identifies their work and keeps them engaged. Teachers can add quizzes that assess student math knowledge by selecting the grade, the topic, one of the suggested Zap Zap Math games, and the duration.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

This can be stored in the Podcast Library (mentioned below). Podcast Library: Curate the varied student-created podcasts into a library of podcasts for present and future students. Show students how to use them and then offer them often as an alternative when assessing knowledge. More on multimedia in education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today is the first day in a daily, two-month free online summit focused on home-based and home-centered learning. Whether by circumstance or choice, learning at home is now the reality for more students than ever. Understanding when, where, and how learning takes place has never been more important. Blended Learning ?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“We’ve heard a lot about the need to tackle pandemic-related ‘learning loss’ this school year, but if we don’t support students’ behavioral, social, and emotional needs, they may not be able to focus on academics,” said Vector Solutions CEO Marc Scheipe.

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JULY 27, 2015

Participants–like students–learned in different ways. Time after time, participants took responsibility for their own learning. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand. That is today’s learning–taking it to students. They were connected educators.

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Digital Citizenship Gamification Common Core Flipped Classroom 150

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MAY 25, 2022

This is the only service that can access the libraries like Elsevier/Scopus and Springer & Nature. Let’s see what each of them offers before assessing which one is the best. The website claims to have advanced machine learning technologies, however, Copyleaks “keeps” your texts after checking them.

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JULY 21, 2015

How to embed materials into digital portfolios. How to create a vibrant, healthy Personal Learning Network. Because this was an online class, learning broke out everywhere. That is today’s learning–taking it to students. Teachers were comfortable with those programs, students learned them and then applied.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Watching videos and interacting with visual media are engaging ways to help students learn. And of course, how can I help my students learn as much as possible from movies and videos? Every school and district is bound to have its own policies, rules, and norms around using video content for learning. That's a no-no.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Words Open Reading Doors) is an independent K-5 learning resource that is committed to the principle that all kids should understand the words they use, how to use them to express themselves, and that doing so powers their lives. gathers them into manageable learning groups. Scholastic’s W.O.R.D. scholastic. Mission US.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device. Students can find and share assignments, receive feedback, and collaborate digitally.

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APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics are a well-accepted, even transformative tool for assessing student knowledge over a breadth of criteria. The pre-online versions weren’t dynamic or flexible, couldn’t be re-used, and few teachers had the time or energy to build these summative, purpose-built assessments. Nothing new to learn.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Even the ones who love it put in lots of extra time to do one or more of the following: learn tech tools and then teach their students. learn tech tools only to discover it’s not what they need. learn a tech tool they love only to have it either disappear or switch to a fee-based program. Nothing more; nothing less.

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