The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Throw out Learning Styles and Replace it with UDL. Vicki: So when we personalize learning, does that mean that everybody’s doing something different in the classroom, or what does that mean to you? They may also be doing something a little bit different in how they express what they know and understand. Enhanced Transcript.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When Dr. Novak and I started writing our new book, Shift Writing into the Classroom, we anticipated that teachers outside of English Language Arts would take one look at the title and assume that the book was not intended for them. Writing helps students to develop their content knowledge as they attempt to persuade, inform, or narrate.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 5, 2021

Evidence of the need for these 4 C’s is embedded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL). I like Cyber Sandwich because it helps you get information in a fun way while being social with your partner. Students need opportunities to flex these muscles as they learn how to work with others. Collaboration. Lesson Idea: Iron Chef.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

She plans instruction for four separate grade levels—second through fifth—and two different subject areas—math and ELA—while also deciding which classroom technology is best suited to each day’s lesson. How does she do it? EdSurge: How do you bring the principles of UDL into your classroom—with or without the help of technology?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

The person doing the work in a classroom is the person doing the learning. That belief has informed the way I define blended learning. As Katie Novak and I write in UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes (coming out May 29!), Students will develop their metacognitive and self-regulation skills.

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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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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. Topics include but not limited to: Flipped Classrooms. Elementary Math.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Oftentimes, the professional development provided leaves us full of binders and information that will basically patch up a perceived problem. The most useful information and guidance in my instructional practices has come from EduProtocols. Students are given about 5-10 seconds to share and “whip around” the classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Simultaneously, educators needed to identify what content students needed, how to organize it and how to help students access it. Was it best for students to access material on a dashboard and, if so, should it be housed on one platform, such as Google Classroom, or spread across a few?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Despite a growing body of research on the power of feedback, it is easy to neglect in classrooms because teachers feel pressure to cover content. This pressure results in teachers spending large chunks of time at the front of a classroom talking instead of working alongside students. A video can also make instruction more accessible.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

In my first-grade classroom, a third of my students were learning English as a second language. As a public school teacher, I had to constantly evaluate how my teaching practices and materials could better include and empower the vast diversity in my classroom. I used closed-captioning with BrainPop Jr.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This, combined with the reality that designing lessons with a new instructional model may feel scary or daunting, can make it challenging for math teachers to understand how to use the station rotation model. In the video below, I respond to a math teacher’s question about how to design math lessons for her 80-minute block period.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

Katie Novak to explore the complementary nature of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. UDL is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.” ” UDL celebrates learner variability as an asset in the classroom.

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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? If we look at a standard day in any classroom, the activities and assessments are all channelled through writing.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

In this episode, Kasey shares her best tips and ideas for creating and using digital choice boards in the K-12 classroom. 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. Click To Tweet.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 14, 2022

We also spend time learning how to use some technologies, and that’s a mix of my showing them things, them trying them out, and me helping individuals. These last parts stem from my classroom democracy belief, as does our opening class assignment of collaboratively determining class norms. redesign the virtual classroom.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 14, 2018

Words matter, and in a day and age where information is streaming through our timelines faster than we can keep up. Whether it be ‘on tech’ or ‘off-tech’ these blended learning lessons can be designed to meet the needs of each classroom. They are one way, among many proven methods, to shift learning in the classroom.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Also, find professional development resources such as a video on differentiated instruction or a tutorial on what engineering might look like in your classroom. CAST Science Writer – Discover this amazing UDL tool from the people at CAST. This is an area that may just help you flip your STEM classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Updates "Reinventing the Classroom" Starts Wednesday Evening! Reinventing the Classroom" Call for Volunteers. Visit www.edtechmonth.com for more information. More information at [link]. No problem!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Welcome to the third post in a series designed to support the use of technology for differentiated learning… in and beyond the PBL classroom. Look for contact information at the Booking Site. I believe that the DI classroom must provide students some self autonomy when participating in the writing process.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2014

You can join the network to stay informed as we add more details to the event. More information at [link]. You’ll leave this webinar armed with tools to optimize your BrainPOP subscription in the classroom. For more information, click here. More information here. Please fill out a Partner Application today.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

First of all, their syncing within the Conference 411 app allowed us to import information saved from the Program Planner website, browse the program, add sessions to an agenda and view exhibitor locations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. They also addressed audience questions about how to get faculty motivated to adjust their courses to improve accessibility.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Often distracted and easily bored, these students are also critical thinkers capable of thriving in the online classroom while learning 21st-century skills. How do we hold their attention, develop their abilities, and engage them in the online forum?

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

Some educators who want to make online learning more engaging and accessible are exploring the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. The beauty of UDL is that it addresses ‘learner variability’, which is the norm in our classrooms.”. A key premise of UDL is that there is no “average learner.”

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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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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

These choices can help us universally design learning experiences that strive to remove barriers and invite students to decide how to engage with information, make meaning, and demonstrate their learning. Student agency requires that we design our lessons to offer students meaningful choices.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The ultimate goal was to explore how teachers can amplify the benefits of explicit teaching, making the learning experience more impactful and personalized for every student. A Quick Review of Explicit Teaching Explicit teaching is a high-impact teaching strategy in which the teacher shows students precisely what to do and how to do it.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 17, 2024

In fact, we may need to think more closely on how AI is being permitted on school devices and networks, if enough awareness and ethics of AI are being taught, and at the most basic level, reflect on how our concern of "cheating" may be unfairly manifesting itself into inequitable practices in our classrooms. Beautiful.ai.

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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? Develop positive relationships with learners .

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) draws its inspiration from the broader concept of Universal Design (UD), initially pioneered in architecture. Our focus in this post is on Universal Design for Learning, popularly known by the acronym UDL. UD aims for inclusive access to architectural spaces for all users.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2024

For me, this means embedding Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into my learning experiences and asking questions while I am designing: Is this accessible? If we want to utilize generative AI as a tool to help our students, we need to ensure that we provide ALL of them with the tools and time to learn how to harness its abilities.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 24, 2021

So…let’s try something that may be more effective and inFORMative. Using the EduProtocols , informed instruction will allow for more agility, flexibility, and versatility, while maintaining a student centered focus. effective, informed lessons will help students’ skills grow in these areas. Templates can be found here.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It was one of the first models, along with the flipped classroom, that I could employ in my low-tech classroom. Just because many of us at the secondary level were not taught how to design lessons this way does not mean it is only beneficial for younger learners. I have a soft spot for the station rotation model.

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