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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. ET for a webinar “ How to Create Powerful STEM Learning Experiences with Technology, ” where I will share more about student collaboration, the engineering design process, and project-based learning.

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Rediscovering @CK12Foundation Flexbooks And More!

The Web20Classroom

Something that could adapt with the ever changing knowledge base educators and students could pull from along with being more personal. There are Flexbooks for middle school and even some for Elementary Math. And check out the Blog there to see how other districts and classrooms are reaping the rewards of CK12 materials.

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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. Here are twelve ideas: have a professional blog. Post to it regularly.

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

Edsurge

For example, imagine that you are an elementary school principal who is looking for opportunities to strengthen specific third grade math skills in the new school year. In doing so, you accentuate the strengths of individual teachers and expose other teachers to new styles and ideas in bite-sized chunks. Build a PD playbook.

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How Culturally Responsive Education Affects Student Engagement and Learning

MindSpark

That example requires students to synthesize their knowledge of Hamlet’s character through an act-out (which gets them out of their seats and boasts the benefit of a kinesthetic application of their knowledge). How does this blog inform our MSL values? Because good teaching is just good teaching.

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Applying Past Knowledge: Making the Invisible, Visible

techlearning

Giving students lifeworthy experiences helps them build or construct that knowledge base for later use. The Next Generation Science Standards expect the same sort of accumulation of knowledge during a learner’s years of formal education. I replied that I used the same activity with my junior students in Biology II!

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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

edWeb.net

Using a Level 4 (lowest level) program, for instance, is a chance for districts to innovate and contribute to the knowledge base. More important, there are other considerations, like cost, time, and implementation needs, that can influence which evidence-based program to pursue.