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6 Self-Care Strategies for School Leaders

EdTechTeam

Kids that just won’t engage, phone calls and emails from parents, learning new systems and tech on the fly. It’s critical that you have non-negotiable strategies in place to help you cope and deal with what you experience every day. Strategy #1. Strategy #2. Strategy #3. Strategy #4. Strategy #5.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

BLearning – Blended Learning (using a range of multimedia and strategies). BYOD – Bring Your Own Device. BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. But have a look and get familiar with what they stand for: 1:1 – One to one (usually talking about the ratio of devices in a class per child). AUP – Acceptable Use Policy.

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Student Agency is More Than Voice and Choice

A Principal's Reflections

A culture that embraces student agency promotes risk-taking while working to remove the fear of failure helps students develop a growth mindset, and has students applying what they have learned in real-world contexts as opposed to just in the classroom. Student agency is all about improving the learning experience for kids.

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Measuring Impact with the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA)

A Principal's Reflections

Practices such as BYOD, 1:1, blended learning, personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, professional learning, etc. The DPA creates the context for our work with leaders and teachers, providing authentic baseline data to support personalized professional learning.

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A Practical Way to Increase Access to Mobile Technology Regardless of Age

A Principal's Reflections

Sites like Common Sense Education and edshelf make it easy to find the right alignment to the right instructional strategy. As I was conducting some learning walks with the admin team I noticed some kindergarten students in Deborah Weckerly’s class engaged in blended learning activities using smartphones.

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7 PROs and CONs of m-learning in the classroom

Neo LMS

So, for me, while e-learning is a genre of learning that encompasses all tech-enabled learning, m-learning is a subgenre that specifically applies to smaller, portable devices. So any m-learning initiative needs a back-up in terms of portable devices and even learning activities. In the end.

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

TeachThought - Learn better.

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. ” BYOD programs allow students to use their own technology (usually smartphone or tablet) in a classroom. Blended Learning. Challenge-Based Learning.