The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 13, 2020

August 18-20, 2020 -a Free PD Experience for Blended Learning From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This school year is dependent more than ever upon our ability to blend face to face (hopefully) and online learning. This conference and blog post is sponsored by Texthelp. Blended Learning.

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Neo LMS

JULY 14, 2020

This, after all, is the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework that aids curriculum designers and educators in ensuring that all learners receive the accommodations that are needed to help them excel in school. UDL was an offshoot of a movement that promoted universal design in architecture and product development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. In this blog post, you’ll discover ten topics that can help you improve your online or blended classroom. You’ll even want to start with a Wow.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Research-Based Strategies for Distance Learning with Dr. Matthew Rhoads Dr. Matthew Rhoads is teaching at a distance and coaching other teachers to improve their teaching as well. Finally, he reflects on attendance issues and how to help students who need it most.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

These will be explained in more detail through a series of blog posts. I honestly don’t know how I would be surviving our current situation without leveraging the power in the EduProtocols. They are learning how to learn…acquiring knowledge through routines, practice, and feedback. Looking for more lesson design support?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. Read blogs on other roundtables hosted by Digital Promise, SETDA, and CoSN: SETDA: Equity of Access.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

2) Video - Personalizing Learning at Oregon High School Learn how Oregon High School in Oregon, Wisconsin uses technology to personalize the learning experience. Hear from teachers, administrators, and students about how they are giving youth a voice in guiding their educational journey to ensure that they are learning at their own pace.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

How to get started. All accounts include a dashboard to track courses taken/being taken, certificates earned, modules completed in each class, which classes in your overall plan are completed, how long you’ve spent working on the class, and more. assess success at completion. Elementary Math. Writing Prompts. Blended Learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

UDL and Opportunity Youth. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). UDL’s guiding principles are: All people learn differently; The emotion behind learning is as important as the learning; and.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

One of the key elements of the curriculum-design approach known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is student engagement — creating opportunities for students to become engaged and stay motivated, to believe that what they’re learning is important, and to feel capable in their learning. Among the many action points in UDL Now!

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Working under the motto, “Until learning has no limits,” and co-founded by Lecturer David Rose , CAST developed the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which drives much of today’s theory around the different ways students learn. UDL Book Builder. UDL Curriculum Toolkit. UDL Guidelines. UDL Studio.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Advancement Courses Advancement Courses sponsored this blog post. I’ve also included courses from this blog post sponsor, Advancement Courses that meet the criteria for each topic. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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Tom Murray

MAY 14, 2017

BrandED shows school leaders how to move beyond mascots and clever taglines to showcase their school’s assets—and enhance communication with students, parents and all stakeholders. Book: How to Personalize Learning. – Lesson and project examples that show how teachers can change instructional practice.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 15, 2019

It is with great pleasure that I share “ Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset ” my co-authored book with Katie Novak , is now available. How has that made an impact on you today? We hope you enjoy the book! .

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

.” I remember questioning how effective those sessions would be at improving teaching and learning. Yes, attendees were exposed to a list of fun tools they might use, but they were not learning how to use those tools in service of strong pedagogical practices. Check out my other blog posts on AI, here.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 22, 2018

Despite the vast amount of resources out there that describe what personalized learning is and how to implement it, it is often difficult to find quality research that gets to the “why” of personalization. . Much of this overlaps with Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Defined Learning sponsored this blog post. Portfolios and reflections of learning show a student who reflects on growth and learns how to learn and is a great way to celebrate learning. All opinions are my own. Relate learning to the real world.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After reading Catlin Tucker’s blog post, 5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction , I was inspired to reflect on and revise a mini-unit I designed focusing on the short film Alike by Daniel Martinez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In my last blog “Why Sending Students Home with Writing Assignments Might Not Be The Best Idea , ” I emphasize that writing is complex and multifaceted. They may not have received explicit instruction on how to teach writing in their subject areas. Students need support breaking down the parts of the writing process.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

You’ll learn some of the common misconceptions about creating choice boards, but most importantly, you’ll learn how to get started with utilizing the choice board for your classroom. Consider the structure of a choice board and how it aligns with the Universal Design for Learning principles. Find ideas and examples in this episode.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). But do educators know how to support our requirements? He explains his specific learning needs and calls on all educators to see life from his and millions of other students’ perspective.

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N2Y

OCTOBER 5, 2020

When working collaboratively, they can learn from one another by sharing background knowledge and brainstorming how to clarify their thoughts via details. This could include reading about, writing about, or verbally discussing a topic and/or photo and then clarifying what students may or may not know. Two heads are always better than one!

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 14, 2018

Whether you are trying to reach a language learner or student with Special Ed needs, want to integrate ISTE standards, increase the level of critical thinking, or design a lesson based on the UDL framework, HyperDocs help educators accomplish this! WebQuests follow a structure by starting with a quest or task.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 8, 2009

On pages 92- 93 Christopher Johnston writes in a sidebar about using a blog in math to help students articulate their problem-solving strategies on a new problem posted each week. lamar pedagogy UDL' One of the issues faced in math education is the rote memorization of procedures without understanding of the "whys" behind the steps.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Dan developed Prep, which is all about how to prep the machine in prompt prompted to get the desired output. The math teacher who used student loans to show you how interest worked. Is it helpful?

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I''d encourage SLPs who blog to nominate others; visibility and awareness of the work that SLPs do in education is very valuable. So glad I can send SLPs to her blog to explore this area. Best new blog Hanna B. Best new blog Hanna B. I love me some Cher and flexible thinking.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

All my students were learning how to read, and the captions helped them connect the audio to the visual representation of text. A truly inclusive classroom goes beyond accessibility and adheres to Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Universal Design for Learning (UDL): What You Need to Know. Tool Finder on Understood.com.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 23, 2019

watches Ancient Aliens) This post was inspired by an anonymous blog comment. This is also when I switched to public schools and got identified as a TAG kid, one of the BEST things was that I didn't have to do as much boring stoopid stuff that I already knew how to do, by rote, and was able to "test out" and then craft my own learning plan.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

While I may have gained a little in the process, I think the skill most acquired was how to rewrite a teacher’s edit. Cast Science Writer – This amazing UDL tool from the people at CAST scaffolds the process of supporting students in writing lab and class reports. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

An enormous challenge we face in our education system is how to equitably recognize these differences and develop learning approaches that help all learners achieve. Educators know that all learners have different abilities and experiences and will respond in unique ways to learning opportunities. He is a Google Certified Innovator, Bammy!

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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. The focus is showing students exactly what to do and how to do it.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2015

My students create videos, interactive timelines, 3D models, animations, tutorials, websites, wikis, blogs, interactive images, digital stories, podcasts, screencasts, presentations, mindmaps, and collaborative essays, to name a few examples. Next: How to change assessment practices.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

This webinar will provide you with all of the basics to learn how to turn on Googler at your school. The goals is to have all of the steps to become a Google School and also to have the confidence and understanding of this simple procedure that can revolutionize how your teachers teach and your students learn.

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Hapara

MAY 13, 2022

Wondering how to reduce barriers your students with special needs may encounter as they work digitally? Do you understand how to prepare our learners’ digital learning environment so every individual has the elements they need to flexibly accomplish their learning objectives? Why I vet edtech tools. FREE GUIDE FOR DISTRICT LEADERS.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Currently, I am teaching a course with UPenn titled “Building a Strong Foundation for Universal Design for Learning and Innovation,” which is part of a UDL certificate program taught with my friend and colleague, Dr. Katie Novak. ( It is not only the content they share but how they share it.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 17, 2015

We taught the student how to turn on this accessibility feature, and we were further surprised to learn that we could change the speaker’s voice and speaking rate. Blog Featured Google #ettsummer #UDL Brenda Doucette Differentiating Free Technology for Teachers Google Earth text-to-speech'

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Back in December of 2022, I published a blog entry titled " How AI Will Save Education." The trick is a teacher needs to know how to write an appropriate Individual Education Program. If they don’t know how and need help, they may not know how to fix one either, if AI started one for them."

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