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Taking Student Voice Beyond The Classroom: Student Perspective

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For this post, I asked the heads of the three student-led teams that have been pitching Skype to explain their ideas and how it makes them feel to lend their voice in creating the learning tools they’ll use in the classroom. Read more at Teched Up Teacher.

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Welcome To Fair Haven Innovates

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A week later I flew cross country to Seattle to help run Picademy for over a hundred educators and in two days, I’ll by flying to Moscow for the EdCrunch forum where I’ll talk about Gamification and Fair Haven Innovates. In FH Innovates, failure is a valuable teaching tool. When we fail, reflect, and try again, we learn a lot.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

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BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. BYOD is often seen as a way of solving budget concerns while increasing the authenticity of learning experiences , while critics point to the problems BYOD can cause for district IT, privacy concerns, and more.

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CrazyIdeas.Doc

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Technology classes should be less about the tools and more about teaching students to find and use the tools they decide they need to be successful. Early this year, students worked on making a wheel chair tracking system for our local hospital using RFID sensors and Raspberry Pis. They told me what to buy, and I bought it.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.