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OPINION: To succeed in tomorrow’s workforce, today’s students need equity-driven policy

The Hechinger Report

To do that, they must advance the use of high-quality data to develop equity-driven policy solutions. This is what an equity-driven higher education policy could create, not just in the Bronx but throughout the country. But, in fairness, even the most well-intentioned lawmakers lack the tools to fully assess the equity landscape.

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5 Ways to Address Student Resistance in the Flipped Classroom

Fractus Learning

The flipped classroom is one type of active learning environment. It’s hard because flipped classrooms require a new set of skills for both the instructor and the students. Try flipping your syllabus by embedding big questions and prompting discussion about the course, not just the policies and procedures.

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Making Time vs Finding Time

A Principal's Reflections

Consider flipping your faculty meetings. This concept is based on the popular flipped classroom model. When flipping a faculty meeting teachers are given informational items to read and view in advance. If you are an educational leader one of your responsibilities is to take the time excuse away from your staff.

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5 Tips for incorporating blended learning into your classroom

Neo LMS

Veteran teachers — who are, by nature, also of an older generation — are being compelled to include technology into their long-held and hard-won traditional classroom techniques in order to meet policy goals of their districts or schools. 5 Tips for incorporating blended learning into your classroom. But there are casualties.

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Leveraging Your LMS & Tech Tools: PBL and Blended Learning (Part 2)

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Other tools may compliment the LMS after careful evaluation under the filter of the school budget, technology capabilities, and the District AUP (Acceptable Use Policy). How do I empower students to own their learning and encourage their unique and creative skills of technology to provide authentic performance assessments?

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

Naturally peer-to-peer assessments remain controversial, but there are undoubtedly benefits to not only having work assessed by peers, but by also communicating to students that learning is a collaborative, not competitive, activity. The peer-to-peer learning trend feeds into a burgeoning trend of peer-managed learning communities.

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Finding Content for Reteaching, Blending, and Flipping

EdTechSandyK

Photo by familymwr used under a creative commons license Recently I had a wonderful conversation with my district''s high school educational technologist, Kristin Thompson , about apps and online tools that could be used for formative assessment and reteaching of concepts. Unported License.