The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2018

Learn about the current trends in hashtag learning and the popular techniques for harvesting learning from this social network. On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program. The Best PD for Math Teachers (and How to Use It). Listen Now.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

One enterprising principal she knows created a Google folder for schools to share their virtual learning plans. Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic.

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Saving Socrates

JANUARY 30, 2014

This past year our school implemented a pilot program for blended learning in several classrooms. While we have had certain obstacles, teachers are beginning to feel more secure in how to implement this approach and students are becoming more accustomed to the methods it entails. It could be adjusted accordingly.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2020

See what you think: Bold School: Old School Wisdom + New School Technologies = Blended Learning That Works. In Bold School, Kieschnick lays out an effective, workable education framework that blends common sense with technology while reminding teachers that tech is a useful tool for achieving pedagogic goals, not the opposite.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. I asked a group of superintendents and school principals from New Hampshire about this during a round table discussion.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 5, 2021

The post Student Portfolios with Google Sites – SULS091 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Student Portfolios are the epitome of Dynamic Blended Learning and going beyond the due date because they are never “done.”. Thank you to the Blended Learning with Google contributors for sharing your expertise!

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

History class: By the end of class, students will be able to explain how technological advancements during WWI affected soldiers, as evidenced by creating a main claim and supporting that claim with primary and secondary source documents. para also helps teachers differentiate their lesson plans by allowing teachers to create groups.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

But there’s another factor that’s impeding remote learning. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online. No one ever taught them how—or asked them to learn. “To They don’t have to start from scratch: Research about how to successfully teach kids in virtual classrooms has been underway for years.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

Think about how to use Twitter, surveys, and town-hall style meetings for your communications. Don’t forget the power of small groups and 1:1s when possible. There are likely examples from within your district you can use even at the beginning, and you can grow that list of resources as blended learning spreads.

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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. The educator regards him/herself as a flexible resource to be utilized by the group. Retrieved from [link].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

one superintendent asked a group. What’s the learning objective today?” What were kids learning?” My group told me they were ‘flipping shapes around and seeing what we get,’” one superintendent responded. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Episode 794 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Use the Triple E Framework for Edtech Evaluations Dr. Liz Kolb, clinical associate professor of education technologies at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Learning First, Technology Second, and Learning First, Technology Second: In Practice. Click Here.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 2, 2020

Synchronous is very difficult when students are at home, where we cannot control the home learning environment. Asynchronous : students are engaged in learning at different times, offering more flexibility for schedules and learning needs. This is usually online or in a blended learning environment.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The high-tech, one-on-one mentoring is part of a pilot program that aims to help students discover and prepare for a career that they can embark on right out of high school, or with minimal post-secondary training. Students are also being mentored via an online group – sort of like Facebook – where they interact and do activities.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As a result, performance has increased: standardized test scores, AP enrollment and achievement, graduation rates across all demographics, student attendance, and engagement, and post-secondary concurrent enrollment. EduJedi Achievers – Increasing screen/live teaching blended learning creating a magnet for student attendance.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 2, 2018

This post brings together a suggested list, a curated list if you will, of 16 curation tools for teachers and students from the Shake Up Learning community. Choosing how to curate and what tools to use can be a very personal decision depending on your own needs and preferences. Want to learn more about Diigo? That says a lot!

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

We talked to educator Alyssa Lyons about how to bring real-world skills to your classroom with some powerful curriculum. Listen to 6 Ways to Help Kids Learn Real-World Skills. So we have courses, everything from the elementary level where it really intertwines how financial wellness and social-emotional skills are intertwined.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: Dr. Catlin Tucker , a blended learning coach and teacher of 16 years, shares her expertise about tackling the different aspects of blended teaching including engagement, group work, and assessment in a virtual classroom or hybrid setting. CATLIN: It is so hard.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Find out how HERE! During a Summit, students work with world class educators learning to how to utilize technology in the classroom. Google Apps for Education , Chromebooks, and digital resources such as Schoology and online textbooks have given students ownership over the time and space of their learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

And then when they’re in class with the teacher, the teacher can work with one student or a group of students or even the whole class — depending upon what they’re trying to get at — to help them better internalize the direct instruction they’ve been watching. We need to teach students WHEN to divide, not how to divide.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

So many times I hear the idea of back channel and how it is a relatively new phenomenon. Back channel refers to the idea of a secondary discussion happening in the same environment as a primary presentation or demonstration. The live interactions also allow for feedback and learning through the back channel process.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The goal of the game is to create two groups of cards, each with the same sum. In math, students can explain their thinking and how they have solved a problem on video–even holding up their paper in front of the camera. This is assessment FOR learning. Whoever uses the most cards wins!” Click here to view.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 30, 2020

You’re going to have to choose some kind of learning management system before you move forward, and most of your decisions from there are going to depend on the choice you make regarding your LMS, anyhow. In this article, I’ve done my best to layout for you the two main choices for secondary LMS, since I myself am a secondary teacher.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Because every school’s ecosystem is different, schools ultimately made different decisions about how they wanted to leverage the new devices to support student learning. Model How Will Devices Be Distributed? After facilitating about a dozen meetings, the following models emerged. What Will Support Look Like? Why Will It Work?

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 20, 2016

A group of charter schools that have tried to pioneer “personalized learning” in schools face big questions about the sustainability of their approaches after private sources of funding run dry, a new analysis suggests. ” See also: Growing Pains for Rocketship’s Blended Learning Juggernaut.

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Edthena

APRIL 14, 2021

We knew it was coming, but that Friday, we sent everyone home and we lengthened our spring break by an extra week for the kids, but we did virtual training that entire week on our digital platform, on our learning management platform and just what does it mean to be a remote teacher? We did not have hybrid learning.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

in Secondary Education from Ball State University. Over the course of her career, she has appeared in multiple publications for groups such as the Shanghai Institute for International Curriculum Research. She led the design of ELA, social studies, and SEL curricula to support learners of all abilities. She received her M.Ed.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It’s beneficial for students because, The use of the flipped classroom model means pupils become more familiar with technology and how to use it in a professional environment, rather than to solely communicate with their friends or play games. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. I’ll be a bit more tidy going forward. I know you are going through a bit of a funk yourself. I’m sorry. Hope you get better soon. I’ll always fondly remember the good times we had.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. I’ll be a bit more tidy going forward. I know you are going through a bit of a funk yourself. I’m sorry. Hope you get better soon. I’ll always fondly remember the good times we had.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This creates a fantastic and Dynamic Learning Experience for Mike’s students. Mike is also the author of one of the most popular blog posts on Shake Up Learning, How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites. Related: How to Insert Audio in Google Slides. Group Images to Make a Picture.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 11, 2020

Hello Teacher Lady has some awesome recommendations for how to create this in an engaging way. You can even put a little Bitmoji TV in the scene and embed a video into the screen—how cool is that? This is one of the cutest back-to-school online ideas, and it came from Brandon Sigman in the Shake Up Learning Community Facebook group. .

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the early days of my transition to blended learning, I had one Chromebook, which I received after writing a Donor’s Choose project. While my students engaged in student-centered learning at the online and offline stations, I enjoyed the dedicated time to work with a small group of learners at my teacher-led station.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 19, 2018

We learned about, planned out, tried out, and reflected on blended learning station rotation that required a collaboration station. Of our group, 95% said that the collaboration station was the least successful. How Can We Improve Collaboration? All summer I thought about why we failed and how we could succeed.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The post 25+ Ways to Use Google Keep for Teachers and Students – SULS041 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Find out how to use this tool for notes, labeling, annotation, speech to text, feedback, and more! Add Collaborators: Share your notes and lists with other individuals or groups. © Shake Up Learning 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

But then their teacher, Will Colglazier, demonstrated how a couple more exploratory clicks—critically, beyond the site itself—revealed that the Employment Policies Institute is considered by the Center for Media and Democracy to be a front group created by lobbyists for the restaurant and hotel industries. “I

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