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Unleashing Metacognition: The Power of See, Think, Wonder

Catlin Tucker

Metacognition, often referred to as “thinking about thinking,” is a cognitive skill that empowers learners to reflect on their thought processes, learning strategies, and understanding of a concept or subject. They can record what they see, what they think might be happening, and questions they wonder about the environment.

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5 Surprising Ways Homeschoolers Use Canva for Learning and Fun

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are some ideas for adding digital mural projects in your homeschool Visually present a character from a book Make a vision board of your student’s future goals Build a self-reflection or an “about me” visual Explain a new vocabulary work visually Try this free book character mural template! Try this free website homepage template!

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All Lessons Should Be Interdisciplinary

User Generated Education

They also tend to focus on a single content area concept like specific math problems or questions about a particular text. I used to teach face-to-face elementary education classes to pre-service teachers. They did lots of group discussion, case study analysis, and hands-on activities. How often when they become adults?

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Education Galaxy–Personalized Learning That’s Fun

Ask a Tech Teacher

I give new webtools about two minutes. Stipulating that I haven’t yet used this one, here’s what teachers say about Education Galaxy that kept me reading: “…95% of my students passed the state test and I feel I owe it to Education Galaxy.” By then, I’m ready to read on or move on. Is it Effective?

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1st Grade digital PBL: Does it work?

Neo LMS

Project-based learning , as we have often examined in this blog, is a powerful way to not only impart information, by exploration, but has the added advantage of stimulating and developing a range of other skills and habits such as communication, creativity, curiosity, confidence and collaboration. 1st Grade digital PBL: a case study.

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7 Ideas for Student Genius Hour and Passion Projects

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Genius hour and passion projects are transformational. Now, I strive to have personal interest projects for just about everything. However, the secret to preventing uniformity and spark creativity, I’ve found, is in the pitch process. It’s time.

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How to Use the Triple E Framework for Edtech Evaluations

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As I reviewed this product, I’ve seen special education teachers and organizations raving about how TARA has helped them organize IEP progress, meetings, and result tracking. Introducing Dr. Liz Kolb So, so excited about today. Thanks for having me.

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