Bryan Alexander

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Starting this January forty (40) humanities seminars will kick into action, online. Some students will experience these entirely online, while those taking classes at the same institution where the professor works will have a blended learning combination. The advantages for faculty and their campuses are important.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

A few years ago, we wrote an article for EdSurge about our school, Taos Academy, and its personalized learning model, focused on flexible weekly scheduling. In that model, students come to campus a few days a week and learn online the rest of the time—not unlike what many schools are experimenting with these days.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Personalized learning is still in its infancy—as are the curricular tools and resources available to support teachers in implementing it. There are plenty of resources with step-by-step guides and blueprints designed to walk teachers through a process to personalize learning. The Syllabus Gets a Facelift.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The post Awesome Feedback Tools, AI, and a Little Inspiration from FETC – SULS0186 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, Kasey chats with Shake Up Learning Team member Susan Vincentz about her favorite takeaways from the FETC conference. Come learn with us and get FETC takeaways!

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 19, 2018

In that presentation, Kim shared some data with us from John Hattie’s Visible Learning. That means that, according to Hattie, peer collaboration and discussion results in students learning more than twice what they would learn in a traditional classroom with a traditional teacher. In it, Hattie shows that 0.40 That’s amazing!

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Graphite Blog

MAY 5, 2021

Our classroom environments continue to shift during the pandemic, often with both in-person and remote students learning together. Collaborate and build community Apps and other online learning tools can help all students contribute to class discussions during hybrid learning. Tip: Conduct a (revised) Socratic seminar.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: In an effort to encourage teachers to abandon traditional, lecture-style instruction in favor of next-generation learning models, we sit them down and ask them to listen for an hour or two. Conversations around personalized learning are nothing new for the staff at the M.S.D.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

As if fate wanted to re-affirm for me the value of KySTE, I learned of a new tool in the very first hour of the very first session of the conference that got me so excited, I knew I'd be doing a blog entry about it! In addition to growing in my technology use, I also worked to earn my National Board Certification. How could you use it?

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 3, 2019

So how do I manipulate time while also bridging the gap of ongoing learning and development for my teachers? One way to make sure your administration is happy while also making sure teachers find value in the time they spend learning online, is to make sure your learning modules coincide with your building/district goals and initiatives.

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Mark Smithers

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Dear Faculty Member or Academic (whichever you would prefer), I was delighted to see your response to Joshua Kim’s post on experiences working with Learning Designers which he reports here on the Inside Higher Education web site. You gave lectures, tutorials, maybe labs or seminars. What about the tools for learning? Education

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

The thought is so alluring that parents often ask early education teachers what the best apps are, said Lisa Guernsey, speaking at the national seminar of the Education Writer’s Association in Nashville this week. The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’.

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eSpark

JUNE 28, 2016

The average teacher spends anywhere from 68-89 hours in professional learning a year. I sat through many sit-and-get lectures and inapplicable seminars and, while I hate to admit it, I often brought papers to grade because I felt that was a more valuable use of my time. Tip #2: Encourage professional learning through technology.

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eSpark

JUNE 28, 2016

The average teacher spends anywhere from 68-89 hours in professional learning a year. I sat through many sit-and-get lectures and inapplicable seminars and, while I hate to admit it, I often brought papers to grade because I felt that was a more valuable use of my time. In other words, only $6 billion is truly spent effectively.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

TEN YEARS OF EDUCATION RESEARCH has shown we are failing to use technology effectively with underserved students, who are mostly subjected to “drill-and-practice or remediation” activities, writes Molly B. Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning. Blended learning.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2016

Here is a great article about why this was such a wonderful learning experience. After lead organizer Dierdre Shetler explained the basic principles of Edcamp (share what you know, vote with your feet, take responsibility for your learning), participants made their way to their first sessions. Socrative Seminars. Makerspaces.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the last 20 years. Well a lot of people have done many good things. What did we get wrong? I was wrong. I was wrong. They’ll produce stuff.

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Mark Smithers

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Dear Faculty Member or Academic (whichever you would prefer), I was delighted to see your response to Joshua Kim’s post on experiences working with Learning Designers which he reports here on the Inside Higher Education web site. You gave lectures, tutorials, maybe labs or seminars. What about the tools for learning? Education

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the last 20 years. Well a lot of people have done many good things. What did we get wrong? I was wrong. I was wrong. They’ll produce stuff.

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Saving Socrates

APRIL 16, 2013

When I was first learning about Forensics and Non-European History, I found it to be a god-saver as a crash course to helping me teach public school. I had a positive experience at the Rutger''s AP United State History Seminar for Teachers the summer before and thought that would be a good venue to do so. I also had childcare issues.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned along the way. An example of student-to-student collaboration that is only possible because of intentional teacher-to-teacher collaboration is our Socratic seminars. We decided to stop reinventing the wheel, and plan and execute similar core practices throughout the year. The Power of Virtual Collaboration.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

They’ve found more effective ways to monitor and assess student learning, and they’re going to share those strategies here with you today. Also, after learning more through the club, I grade WAY less than before in general. Nicole) Making feedback immediate whenever possible, and only recording summative assessments as grades.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Do you get excited and energized by talking with other educators about technology tools and resources? link] 21ST CENTURY LEARNING: BIODIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Learning Culture. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson. Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Number one is just as great a resource as number fifty. So take a browse through the list or jump direct to your area of interest. Inspiration. Leadership. Educational Psychology.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” From the press release : “ Learning Machine and MIT Media Lab Release Blockchain Technology for Educational Credentials.” The video learning company has previously raised $1.57

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO — Erin Mote is a technologist and hands-on middle school principal with a strong belief in the power of personalized learning. Related: Betsy DeVos likens education technology to letting a thousand flowers bloom. She also made it a point to note how enthusiastic many teachers seem to be about personalized learning.

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