The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. They are working once they have some of their work done for reader’s workshop where they are getting on their computers and investigating that way. They are reading their books during readers’ workshop. Vicki: This is intriguing. Blog: [link].

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 29, 2023

The social studies teacher who taught you what taxes were AND how to file them. The math teacher who used student loans to show you how interest worked. The schedules are particularly great for elementary teachers and secondary students who want a handy visual of what their day looks like. Everyone remembers THAT teacher.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Northwood Elementary School, Napa, Calif. Originally we partnered with Education Elements to provide on-site personalized learning PD and consulting. They don’t have to think in terms of ‘I can’t go on my vacation this summer because I have to attend face-to-face PD workshops.’ It’s giving teachers a break.

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Tools Education Elements Training Elementary 111

Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Students were able to Google directions for how to get them up and running. Teachers are excited to start their elementary students recording their voices. . Up next for Jen is a virtual PD workshop through Kent State University. She was also part of the Blended Learning with Google Book Launch Team.

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Meeting Google Blended Learning Assessment 94

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools. They have a Personalized Learning Implementation Framework that guides users through 25 key areas of personalized learning. It can work for those just starting or those already on a personalized learning path.

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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. Up to 300 educators attended the workshops, which ran every day and sometimes on weekends.

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Learning Blended Learning Flipped Classroom Training 117

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. Manager of Blended Learning. 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Adam Green, an instructor at Einstein’s Workshop, shows 3D printers to students learning BlocksCAD, a free 3D-design software developed at the Workshop. In a side room, about a dozen elementary and middle school students were learning computer-aided design (CAD) for 3D printers. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Software Blended Learning Training Study 64

edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Especially in elementary classrooms, make sure you are complying with all recommended methods for safe storage. What do I do for elementary school kids? leads the science team at Flinn Scientific, including the development of laboratory manuals, online courseware and professional learning programs. Mike Marvel, Ph.D.

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STEM Outcomes Data Elementary 68

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Roots Elementary School in Denver, Colo. Students at Roots Elementary are not constrained by grade levels and instead learn in an open area called “ the Grove ” (pictured below).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Upcoming Opportunities: Are you traveling to Learning Forward Conference in Washington DC in December? Check out my PBL and Technology Integration Workshop.

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Digital Citizenship Resources Classroom Internet Safety 60

EdTechTeam

MARCH 14, 2018

I needed to become more comfortable with not only utilizing Chromebooks with students but how to connect this tool to my lessons. 1:1 Chromebooks were a game changer…I had to figure out how to use these tools in a meaningful way and learn what I could do to provide what everyone is calling “21st Century” skills. .

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

This is an older post, but I recently updated the bottom to include reflections on gradpoint; the blended learning digital content provider Magen David Yeshivah High School chose this past year. There has been an ongoing debate among educators as to how students best acquire literacy. It needs to be addressed in high school.

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Technology Blended Learning Elementary Assessment 51

techlearning

MAY 2, 2018

Consonance, assonance, dissonance and meter How to crystallize an image in the mind of your reader.… After 10 years as an elementary teacher, Suzy Brooks is a Director of Instructional Technology for Mashpee Public Schools in Massachusetts. So I continue to teach them…. Miss Brooks? May I share?” Don’t just celebrate Poetry Month.

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Blended Learning Social Media EdTech Elementary 40

Tech Helpful

APRIL 8, 2018

They were learning along side their students. Next step for me is to decide how to move forward with the teachers that did not go through the process. Elementary Electives- One day when talking with our school president I said "wouldn't it be awesome if we could do electives with elementary students?" And so it began.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Part 1: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Reading. I enjoy learning from all of you. Check out my Booking Page.

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Resources Tools Differentiated Instruction Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

That could be giving social-studies students a tutorial on research skills; showing a French class how to make stop-action animation, short videos, or websites for presentations on Francophone countries; or helping a math teacher free up class time by creating sharable videos of introductory explanations and sample problems for students.

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Future Ready Libraries Software Advocacy 110

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. STEM Workshop – If you are at Pete and C in Hershey, Pennsylvania check out the STAR Educator Discovery Preconference Workshop.

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Resources Tools Differentiated Instruction Learning 60

Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Shout out to all of my friends with Northside ISD in San Antonio, specifically at Thornton Elementary and Rudder Middle Schools. So few programs include discussions of diversity and inclusion and how to create a more connected classroom. You cannot attend a workshop and come out equipped to address the issues in an ongoing fashion.

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STEM Policies Social Media Chromebook 101

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

These days, schools are trying to figure out how to bring making into every facet of the school day, with mobile kits, clubs and more. Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They are well into their journey to bring blended and flipped learning to all classrooms. Saint Stephen’s College invited me to share my direct experiences with their teachers and conduct large and small workshops with their teachers to inspire and brainstorm possibilities.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 31, 2017

Big thanks to Micah Shippee, @micahshippee , for sharing how to use Wikitude to upload your MyMap pins to create your placemarks to get started, but if you want to have more than just text you need to create your placemarks using getech.com and then export them into Wikitude and use the Wikitude app on your mobile device. Stacy Behmer.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They are well into their journey to bring blended and flipped learning to all classrooms. Saint Stephen’s College invited me to share my direct experiences with their teachers and conduct large and small workshops with their teachers to inspire and brainstorm possibilities.

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MOOC Adobe EdTech Learning 50

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 91

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

Could you give us a thirty-second pep talk about how to progress and advance using Google with our kids? How can educators progress and advance using Google with our kids? If you expect to learn something, say, in a training, step-by-step directions and that would be it for the next year or two years? Kasey: Yes.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Learning Menus Can Be Used with Any Age Group. I have found that menus and choice boards tend to be more popular among elementary teachers, but I used them in my middle school classroom, and now I use them in professional learning workshops with adults. Any grade level can use learning menus! What do you think?

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Learning Google Differentiated Instruction Examples 15

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

More specifically, how to reduce the amount of time you spend grading papers. She has taught kindergarten through 5th grades, and her favorite part of teaching is the fun, laughing, and learning with her students. She loves flexible seating, workshop-style instruction, project-based learning, and technology integration.

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Assessment How To Strategy Groups 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Elementary 145

Shake Up Learning

MAY 7, 2019

The post How to Create a Class Brand (and much more!) with Tony Vincent – SULS011 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Tony Vincent , from Learning in Hand , shares many genius tips in this episode. How to Create a Collaborative Class Brand with Your Students! The post How to Create a Class Brand (and much more!)

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In this model, teachers can no longer attend a workshop and receive credit for merely being there. Instead, they must take their learning back into their classrooms and try it out, submitting evidence, receiving feedback from peers and refining their approach. Micro-credentials have the benefit of being rooted in classroom practice.

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Blended Learning Course Digital Badges Professional Learning 68

Shake Up Learning

APRIL 25, 2017

Our Commerce ISD Google Expeditions adventure began in the spring of 2016 when the Google Expeditions Explorer Program came to Commerce Elementary School. Decide which scenes to cover, where to pause, and how to connect it to your learning goals. I knew that the students of Commerce ISD needed to experience this!

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Children in fifth grade at South Fayette elementary school collaborate to make their Rube Goldberg machines do what they wish. For instance, one class of second-graders recently learned how to use simple circuits to make a game in which the correct answer to a double-digit math problem would light up a little bulb.

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Robotics Elementary STEM Technology 28

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I Oh, and then you have to figure out how to fit in eating lunch somewhere in there.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Tell us if you''ve found a great project, learned more about a topic, connected to others through GlobalEdCon, etc. We will be using your input to possibly create content for multimedia projects for our 2014 conference and for workshops and presentations that we give in various locations related to global education and this event.

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Libraries Conference Flipped Classroom Learning 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Laura Gilchrist 9:00pm KEYNOTE: John T. Naomi Ganin-Epstein I speak meme! . Naomi Ganin-Epstein I speak meme! Nina Jeron?i? Publish your ePortfolio using Weebly - Valerie R.

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