The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. As teachers, we need to constantly refresh and update topics to improve our distance learning skills.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

What are the best-flipped learning apps for K-12 grades in flipped classrooms? The best-flipped classroom tools can transform and remodel classroom teaching, allowing in-depth learning and personalized attention that can help learners improve their grades. Khan Academy. Screencast-O-Matic.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 31, 2021

The flipped classroom is an education model that sort of happened naturally. In 2007, two chemistry teachers at Woodland Park High School in Colorado, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, discovered flipping that would impact traditional teaching models. Table of Contents What Is Flipped Learning?

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Neo LMS

APRIL 20, 2017

The introduction of technology is a march towards a more integrated, interactive and motivated learning space. 5 Tips for incorporating blended learning into your classroom. Here are some simple ways teachers can overcome their reluctance to using technology and begin blending their classrooms. Start small.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Read more: How to facilitate meaningful discussions in hybrid or virtual classrooms. In a recent Twitter thread responding to this question by Dwayne Reed, “What’s ONE thing you would do to make remote/distance learning more sustainable, less burdensome, or simply just better?” Less synchronous screen time. The take-away.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Design Your Classroom for Maximum Learning From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Blended learning happens when you mix the face to face classroom with online learning. While flipped classroom is a form of blended learning, it is not the only one.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Tune in to find out a few strategies teachers can use right away to encourage any human brain to come up with great ideas and pave the way to innovation in the classroom. A few ways to nurture innovation in the classroom. Look around you and steal any idea that can improve any aspect of your classroom. Stealing ideas.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

These days many schools tout blended learning programs when marketing their school to potential students. Blended learning can combine the flexibility of online instruction with the benefits of in-person teaching. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2021

In this post, I’ll share some of the new features in Screencastify and how I’ve used it in my classroom. Screencastify has some awesome new editing features making it an even more important part of the flipped or online classroom. This post takes a dive into five new features of Screencastify every educator should know.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 13, 2022

But most schools still are struggling to transition their day-to-day classroom instruction to include more critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and other ‘future-ready’ student competencies in ways that are substantive, meaningful, and aligned to those vision statements and graduate profiles. Wednesday, June 15.

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Hapara

MAY 20, 2022

When students are actively engaged in tasks that require them to use higher-level critical thinking skills and communication and collaboration activities, it helps promote deeper learning in the classroom and successfully prepares learners for college, career, and life. Have learners create digital products to demonstrate learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Last summer, we, along with other members of the sixth grade teaching staff at our school, adopted the Modern Classrooms model. Here’s how we do this in our own sixth grade classrooms.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

this year I am bound and determined to move ALL assessment into the classroom! As I’ve embraced technology and blended learning models, I’ve found it much easier to create time and space to provide feedback as students are working. Below are three blended learning models.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

All classes follow an easy-to-use course design: establish goals–what students will learn by the end of the class. provide a clear module-based learning path culminating in a ready to use action plan. How to get started. Topics include but not limited to: Flipped Classrooms. Student-led Classroom Management.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 31, 2017

While choosing the right edtech for the needs of the school — from a complex learning management system to a simple education app — is a very important part of making it successful, there is one aspect that often gets overlooked. Let’s take the example of a program that helps teachers learn how to use a new school LMS.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

American poet and etymologist John Ciardi once remarked, “The classroom should be an entrance into the world.” Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. Instead, it should use simple rules to guide it.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

With traditional teaching methods, it isn’t possible to address this issue because in a classroom setting students can’t possibly be differentiated on the basis of their ability to learn. There will always be students who learn faster, and students who learn at a lower pace. What is screencasting?

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

For a conference named after “blended learning,” many attendees were surprised to learn that they did not agree on what the term meant. I was talking to a colleague who was using blended and personalized learning the same way,” says Dance. Here’s a blog post that teases at the 10 blended learning models she’s seen.)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Classroom learning and management all begin with relationships, and SEL can guide the relationship and community building process. Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 7, 2019

Microsoft in Education Blog Microsoft Educator Community Microsoft Education Products 50 Ways to Use Office 365 for Education Accessibility with Technology Teacher Training Packs for MS Tools Microsoft Education Site for Educators Training and PD Site Lesson Plans Courses and Resources Microsoft in the Classroom Learning Path Microsoft Innovative Educator (..)

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative has provided every student and teacher at select middle and high schools with a device equipped with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom. Verizon Innovative Learning Schools were better prepared for distance learning.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Technology seems to be involved nowadays in most aspects of education and many schools are adopting it quite well, whether it’s adopting BYOD initiatives, blended learning, flipped classrooms , creating content using authoring tools, or using a learning platform. They don’t know how to use it.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space. Five years ago, I ditched whole-class lectures in my fifth grade brick-and-mortar classroom in favor of small group rotations.

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wwwatanabe

JANUARY 31, 2012

Our district focuses on creating 21st century , student-centered classrooms. We want classrooms filled with student collaboration and discussion about their learning, connecting to the world around them. Some rights reserved by tgbarrett Blended learning Students learn in different ways, and at different paces.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Welcome to the latest post in our series on blended learning. Previously, we’ve explored what blended learning is and delved into its strengths and weaknesses. We’ve also looked at practical examples of blended learning and how they are applied in various educational contexts.

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Linways Technologies

MAY 21, 2020

Why does it work so well and how to implement active learning in your classrooms. Active learning is an approach in which students are engaged in the learning process. In teaching-learning, there is a lot of importance in keeping the students involved and engaged in the session. Flipped Classroom.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Have you ever felt that the traditional classroom structure we’ve all grown used to is a bit too limiting for the today’s day and age? Below you’ll find professional insight into: What is a flipped classroom approach? What challenges will you face within a flipped classroom approach?

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2016

It’s a technique he calls peer instruction, and he has found that it’s quite effective for students to learn how to reason from each other. He would have his students think about their response, then find peers who disagreed with their answer and discuss the problem together.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

A manifesto for effective classroom collaboration. Having many collaboration issues is not the standard for all classrooms. When done right, learning as a team works. That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. If a teacher is using Google Classroom, they need to use hyperdocs. Students just turn in work.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

I explain why I believe it’s important to place students at the center of learning in the classroom and how I use blended learning strategies and technology to create a student-centered learning experience. Virtual Tour of Our Classroom Resources. This is a favorite with parents!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection. A blended learning experience should be far beyond basic online or e-learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Not long after schools closed because of the coronavirus last spring, a Rhode Island nonprofit launched a hotline for teachers who were struggling to launch new technology for remote leaning and trying to figure out how to teach with it. Related: Rhode Island teachers trying out blended learning — but without high stakes pressure.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. Most schools are completely unprepared – or, at best, woefully underprepared – for coronavirus and virtual learning.

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