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Blended Learning – How to Make it Work in the Classroom.

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To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach.

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What is Active Learning? And Why it Matters

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Active learning is a teaching method that works wonders. Think about some things you’ve learned. Or watched a how-to video. But it was through the process of actually changing that tire that you truly learned the skills. When you did that, you were engaged in active learning. Create videos.

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5 Tips for Student Engagement and Concept Retention

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Utilize Video Tutorials and Online Resources. Videos are a quick-paced and engrossing way to explain concepts. Educational videos online usually span about 3-5 minutes and include graphics which illustrate the concept explained by an accompanying voiceover. To get started, here are five ways to keep students engaged: 1.

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Why Digital Textbooks are More Affordable than Paper Textbooks?

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Content can be represented in the form of videos, quizzes, self-assessments, Audio, and slideshows. Interactive learning is a major value-add. . A look at the production process of paper textbooks in comparison to digital textbooks gives us insights. Collaborative Learning . Increased Engagement .

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Behave yourself

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Often simple solutions such as the configuration of tables and chairs in the classroom can optimise good behaviour, promote useful collaborative learning relationships and largely eliminate the marginalisation of individuals. Argyris Double Loop Learning 3. Bandura Social Learning Theory 4. Dewey Experiential Learning 8.

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Tips & Tools to Enhance Collaboration Between Tech & Curriculum

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Our educators are using Newsela’s categories of readings to find articles that lend themselves to comparisons or even the pro/con option in text set. After the lesson students record what they Learned and that is recorded in the L column of the K-W-L chart. Curriculum is the foundation for planning and learning for students.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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The Social Web challenges current provision There is a sense from many younger students that the institutional managed learning environments are not popular tools, because they fail in comparison to the more colourful, flexible and accessible social networking tools that are available for free on the internet. Continues tomorrow.

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