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Active Learning Strategies for Students

eSchool News

Problem-Based Learning (PBL): PBL tasks students with solving real-world problems or case studies, requiring them to apply knowledge and critical thinking skills to develop solutions. This approach maximizes classroom time for interactive, hands-on learning experiences.

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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

You learned how to Zoom, or Hangout, or Team up. Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom ,” by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt (book), provides case studies about building community in online environments. Lang (book), provides ideas on how to engage learners.

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

To see the conference schedule in your own time zone, and for instructions on how to click through and enter a session, please go to our schedule page. And special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the terrific conference platform. Sessions: Below is the full list of conference sessions in US-Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

Teacher Reboot Camp

“The “Flipped Classroom” starts with one question: what is the best use of my face-to-face class time?” We can flip the traditional model of instruction to help support all our students! We can get students to learn at home with engaging content and show them how to use web tools and apps to seek help.

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Flipping Instruction for Struggling Students

Teacher Reboot Camp

“The “Flipped Classroom” starts with one question: what is the best use of my face-to-face class time?” We can flip the traditional model of instruction to help support all our students! We can get students to learn at home with engaging content and show them how to use web tools and apps to seek help.

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The Top 50 Best Books for Teachers – Professional Development

Fractus Learning

Learn how to focus on your good employees first, and help them shift these monkeys back to the underperformers. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principles of Visible Learning to any classroom anywhere in the world. Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

The other part of learning to be an 18-year-old — learning how to do your dishes, do the laundry, get groceries — is really hard, and that’s what we do. We do hybrid classrooms. We do flipped classrooms. So why not think of a better way to do it where if I’m doing case studies, I meet once a week for two hours?

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