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Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

My interest in blended learning and weaving together learning mediums to include both in-class and online learning was in part driven by my desire to create smaller student-centered learning communities in my classroom. How many devices are needed for the online learning stations?

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Early Elementary: Differentiate Reading Practice

Catlin Tucker

In my last post titled “ Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model ,” I provided a blended learning strategy that creates more time in the classroom for teachers to work individually with students. This strategy uses technology in two stations. Read & Listen Resources.

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8 Essential Books Every Tech-Minded Teacher Should Read

Ask a Tech Teacher

In order to be able to reach them better, teachers not only have to be up to date with the latest strategies and teaching methodologies, but also with modern technology and new ways of connecting with their students and engaging them, both inside and outside the classroom. Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.

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The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using! (but should be) – SULS0148

Shake Up Learning

As he moved around into different grade levels and roles, Rich discovered his passion for using technology to teach. With the emergence of Common Core and very few resources available to align with these new standards, teachers began utilizing OER once again. Then add in the pandemic forcing the use of online learning.

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The Importance of Student Buy In for the Use of New Technology and Teaching Methods

Saving Socrates

How does this relate to technology and different teaching methods you ask? This year, we have a unique opportunity to recreate the learning experience for our students. Having been given a rather large grant (BOLD, Blended Online Learning Day Schools), we had ambitious goals, we still do. That I knew.

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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

The Hechinger Report

“A lot of people worry that technology will take the place of the teacher, but I think it’s exactly the opposite,” said math teacher Kaswell. This is a list of kids I need to check in with, maybe because they’re learning the English language, or because I’ve observed something where they need a little more help,” Kaswell said.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Teacher unions cautiously endorse it, while flagging the concern that teachers could be replaced by technology. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. Is it important for all children to be taught common skills and content? Could personalized learning spur an even more splintered society?