A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It appears that much of the focus for improvement has been on creating rigorous classroom instruction to increase student achievement measured by the highly contested standardized tests. Students who are not performing at grade level in the core subject matters (Dove & Honigsfeld, 2013, pp. References Dove, M.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Anonymous In my experience, it’s true that small classes provide greater opportunities for student engagement and for professor/mentor relationships to occur. It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

It includes certificates of achievement, badges at the completion of units, and a classroom tracking poster to show how students are progressing. Students login – no email required. The website is easy to navigate and the variety of material keeps students engaged for hours (really — I’m serious).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

At many institutions, it’s those interactions that happen outside the classroom and those friendships built in residence halls, clubs and dining halls that support these developmental trajectories for all students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

Web 3D: Students Using OpenSim Reflect on the Pressing Issues that We All Ask About Using Virtual Worlds. Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard. We hear a lot of talk now in Ed Tech circles about how we can get these students engaged and speak a language that they’re speaking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2018

The concept of lifelong learning recognizes that knowledge is not confined to a classroom but takes place throughout life and in a range of situations. For them, traditional school is the Petrie dish and what grows from it is a zest for knowledge. Let them get distracted while holding them accountable for all classroom material.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Neuroscience, and the measurement of emotional immersion, will become a key innovation and a new precision metric of student engagement. While technology can play an important role in targeting student needs, students and teachers are welcoming the re-emergence of meaningful interactions in the classroom.

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Benchmark Education

MAY 4, 2016

A New World of Technology—in Classrooms, Around the Globe. In this era of markedly different standards, shifts in core content, and high stakes tests, the bar for our students and for us as educators is significantly higher. The goal: ensuring students are college ready, career ready, AND new world ready. The clock is ticking.

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ProfHacker

JULY 13, 2015

I’ve written a lot about using and making games for the classroom here at ProfHacker, as while games and learning have been around for a long time our ability (and interest) in realizing their potential is on the rise. One of the continuing challenges for bringing games into education is assessing the impact of games on learning.

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 2, 2012

Meeting their needs through professional development While I had a rather large group (over 40 and had to turn people away to go to another class since all of the computers and chairs were taken), over half of them had taken a PBL class with me before and were implementing it in their classrooms, yet only one had ever tried service learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2016

After all, many of us would agree that the students are the ones who are usually the most knowledgeable, up-to-date resources for what is the latest and greatest with technology, so why not tap into their large knowledge base and cultivate their leadership potential? The Various Student Tech Team Sub-Committees.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

OVER TWO MILLION WORDS IN FOUR WEEKS First-grade students at Milton Public Schools use SeeSaw to narrate a story and record. At Milton (MA) Public Schools last February, 758 fourth- and fifth-grade students engaged in a four-week collaborative story writing experience. Coeur d’Alene students engage in learning.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The problem is, these values won’t cut it in the knowledge-based economy we’re now living. The same educational system that was perfect for the Industrial Revolution falls short when it comes to preparing today’s students for the future. They flipped their classrooms. Flipped learning and Higher Education students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Their stances on education policy differ, but they all have at least one thing in common: classroom experience, which Biden has promised would be a prerequisite. This project was one of the biggest investments in remote learning per student in the country this year and closed the digital divide in Connecticut.” history by fall 2022.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Students don’t pay attention to lectures, they would argue. WTF is Unizin ?!

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