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A Guide to Choosing an Interactive Learning Platform

ViewSonic Education

Interactivity in the Classroom Gone are the days of passive learning, where students simply absorbed information without playing an active role in their learning. Today, the aim is to foster peer collaboration, engagement with digital tools, and teacher-student communication within the classroom.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. ET for a webinar “ How to Create Powerful STEM Learning Experiences with Technology, ” where I will share more about student collaboration, the engineering design process, and project-based learning.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

The state education agency also established a committee to advise the state on how to bring the TEAACH Act to life in schools and produced a webinar series to support the mandate’s implementation. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Week of January 24, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Globalization requires students to be academically prepared for a vastly different workplace to achieve success in a knowledge-based economy.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

When given agency, teachers understand the what, why, and how so they can genuinely embrace what they are learning and put those skills to use in their classroom instruction. Being able to connect to individuals in and outside of the district through webinars, voice chats, or phone calls lends itself to teacher agency.

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Live Interview Thursday, February 3rd - Karen Hume on "Engaging the 21st Century Learner"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Thursday, February 3rd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Karen Hume on her book Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner. Date : Thursday, February 3, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. Log in at [link].

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Live Interview Tuesday, January 24th - Lee Crockett on 21st Century Fluencies

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Tuesday, January 24th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Lee Crockett, co-author of Literacy Is NOT Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age. The authors write : "In our present society we are seeing powerful technologies and information systems causing a parallel change in the knowledge base.