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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I’m pleased to say that more and more education leaders and technology products providers are regularly talking and doing something about this. Educators will prioritize SEL over technology controls as cyberbullying deterrents. Principles of learning that are emerging from cognitive science will begin to infiltrate the education space.

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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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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.

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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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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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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2016

You’ve probably heard of the student-led “Genius Bar”, which is generally a team of student leaders that provide technical support for the technology devices and programs in their schools. What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? 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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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

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. He would definitely make sure students are in a safe environment, but he will also make sure schools open.” history by fall 2022.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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