Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. They learn to set realistic yet challenging goals for themselves and devise strategies to reach those goals. To learn more about this shift, check out our new book, The Shift to Student-led.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2018

I’ve worked with so many school districts that are embracing technology and blended learning models, but they do not communicate why this shift is important to teachers. An Exercise: What’s Your Why? What strategies do you use to manifest your why? This exercise is harder than it sounds. What do you do?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

Students at the independent station are directed to log into Google Classroom, put on headphones, and play a breathing exercise/meditation video. She then worked as an Instructional Coach for seven years, training and coaching secondary teachers in student engagement, standard-based strategies, curriculum development, and blended learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In order to address these equity concerns, the district is increasingly turning to technology--in particular, blended learning--to allow all students to succeed. Embracing Blended Learning. The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 9, 2020

I’ve spent the last four months working with teachers all over the country (virtually, of course) as they navigate the uncharted waters of online and blended learning. The majority of teachers I have spoken with did not enjoy their initial experiences with distance learning. Sort It Out.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

As a blended learning coach, I often see students at the elementary level rotate through a station rotation lesson like the one pictured below. Although I appreciate the value of adaptive software, it is important to pair online practice with a metacognitive exercise. What strategies did they use to problem-solve?

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

Blended learning seamlessly weaves together online and in-person learning experiences to boost student engagement and meet the unique needs of a diverse class by providing flexible pathways through learning experiences. This positively impacts their motivation to engage with tasks.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. That way, they can use that data to design learning experiences that better meet the needs of their students. What strategies would they use? Learning Log/Blog.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2017

It is a blended program with a mix of face-to-face and online learning, which is obviously perfect for this blended learning enthusiast! Exercise energizes the mind and body. What strategies do you use to stay productive and positive? 3 Work for a focused 90-120 minutes then move your body.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The brain needs regular stimulation to properly function and this can come in the form of exercise or movement. Based on what is now known about the brain, this has been shown to be an effective cognitive strategy to improve memory and retrieval, strengthen learning, and enhance motivation among all learners. If not, no sweat.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In my last blog post titled “ Part I: Maximize the Impact of Explicit Teaching with Blended Learning ,” I explored the benefits of shifting from explicit teaching as a whole class experience to a differentiated small group experience. What types of review activities can help students learn this key vocabulary?

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Students who learn better by engaging with their lessons receive valuable interaction time with edtech, helping them to better understand and retain the information presented. Blended learning gives teachers the opportunity to incorporate edtech in their classrooms while still retaining some of the traditional classroom format.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 20, 2018

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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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2019

The post How to Choose a Digital Assessment Strategy – SULS010 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Choosing a digital assessment strategy is not easy, but it is critical to success! Every teacher can learn something from this very special on-air coaching episode. Join the Shake Up Learning Book Study!

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 17, 2021

Every Dynamic Learning Experience should include at least one of the four Cs. This is something I share more extensively in my books, Shake Up Learning: Practical Ideas to Move Learning from Static to Dynamic , and Blended Learning with Google: Your Guide to Dynamic Teaching and Learning.

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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. Blended learning or the Flipped Classroom model did not spread because they were used by one teacher only. Will blended learning really be the norm ?

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

are motivated to improve teaching and learning in new environments and adopt strategies that promote social justice,” said Matt Kennard, CEO of BetterLesson. Objectives include increasing the use of student data to inform instructional strategy best practices. Puerto Rico and 5 countries internationally.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Then, flipped classrooms and blended learning introduced compelling ways of leveraging digital tools to maximize instructional time and student-teacher interactions. As we wrote in the strategy guide, “Smart technologies are only as good as the code that powers them and as the practices that guide their use.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Today’s most hyped phrase, personalized learning, is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations among the chattering class of education thought leaders and philanthropists. What is personalized learning? Taking a step back though, we can imagine environments personalizing learning along a great variety of dimensions.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 31, 2021

Step 1: Introduction Of Video Materials Step 2: Students Watch The Videos Step 3: Teacher Assesses the Students Step 4: In-Class Learning Exercises. What Is Flipped Learning? They also offer students different learning methods and ways to demonstrate their acquired knowledge. Learning Culture. Intentional Content.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We’re providing flexible, learner-centered, blended learning environments, including access to inter­active curriculum for teachers, students, and parents. On a short written exercise students had no preference between the physical keyboard and the on-screen keyboard.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Plus for Personalized/Blended Learning: You could essentially set up a small lesson on Nearpod for students and let them work at their preferred pace. Plus for Personalized/Blended Learning: Gimit gives students the chance to multitask in a way that no learning tool does right now. I recently used them for both.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

With this simple exercise, you have identified an area of need—as well as a valuable SME who is already overcoming the challenge. This gives teachers options—a collection of proven strategies and approaches that they can try in their classrooms. You also note that one teacher’s classroom is outperforming the others by a large margin.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Plus for Personalized/Blended Learning: You could essentially set up a small lesson on Nearpod for students and let them work at their preferred pace. Plus for Personalized/Blended Learning: Gimit gives students the chance to multitask in a way that no learning tool does right now. I recently used them for both.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Conversations around personalized learning are nothing new for the staff at the M.S.D. Teachers in our virtual high school and blended learning programs, which I help direct, have been having them for a few years now via webinars and seminars. Michele Eaton is Director of Virtual and Blended Learning for the M.S.D.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Another reason for the concern is that as educators increasingly use digital tools to personalize learning for students, some have struggled to ensure that the environments they create are not isolating. The real magic of blended learning occurs when teachers use technology to boost human interaction, in both frequency and impact.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 12, 2017

The big aha for me was that school systems should be focused on helping learners develop the skills for how to learn not what to learn, a concept and goal that as an educator I’ve held onto ever since. We also discussed sequential learning, especially in math, mastering a skill before proceeding to the next level of learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

There are titles like “digital learning coordinators” whose responsibility is to identify and implement technology to support classroom instruction and monitor learning results. Then there are “classroom facilitators” and “coaches” who help guides students in virtual and blended learning spaces, encouraging self-directed learning.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Plus for Personalized/Blended Learning: You could essentially set up a small lesson on Nearpod for students and let them work at their preferred pace. Plus for Personalized/Blended Learning: Gimit gives students the chance to multitask in a way that no learning tool does right now. I recently used them for both.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2020

With many schools now practicing blended learning, it can be helpful for educators interested in blended-learning programs to know which edtech tools are being used. For over five years, we at the Christensen Institute have been collecting data on blended-learning schools from around the world. Khan Academy.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Plus for Personalized/Blended Learning: You could essentially set up a small lesson on Nearpod for students and let them work at their preferred pace. Plus for Personalized/Blended Learning: Gimit gives students the chance to multitask in a way that no learning tool does right now. I recently used them for both.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When I ask teachers, “How would you describe a successful online or blended learning course? These spaces provide an avenue for students to learn from and with each other. I’ll also share ideas and strategies for utilizing those shared spaces to create student-centered learning experiences.

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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. So the entire school, including the students, held a weeklong design thinking exercise on what they thought school should look like. EdSurge is on the road.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 11, 2018

Many people have never thought about this, beyond maybe having a playlist that motivates them to exercise or gets them relaxed. This podcast episode is brought to you by Screencast-O-Matic, an easy-to-use screen recorder and video editor tool that makes flipped and blended learning super simple for teachers.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2018

And with the tips and strategies from the fabulous Alice Keeler and Christine Pinto, you will find the task much more feasible. By believing that all of our Littles can, we can give our youngest learners powerful, student-centered, learning experiences. Exercises that build important skills, such as critical thinking and collaboration.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In fall 2014, Khan Academy quietly released a PDF document that told teachers which Khan Academy exercises are most relevant to students based on their MAP scores. Kamal Pannu, who was a 5th grade math teacher back then, began manually assigning Khan Academy exercises to students using this guidance. “I

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In part two, we are moving on to our next characteristic in the Dynamic Learning Framework , Beyond the Tool(s). We are going to talk about three classroom strategies to help you go Beyond the Tool, storytelling, research, and data. Then we will look at which Google tools can help support these strategies in the classroom.

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