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How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

Neosho’s new junior high school splits seventh- and eighth-graders into six distinct neighborhoods , each featuring five classrooms that flow into each other and open into a central collaborative learning space. The district recently remodeled two elementary schools with newly designed classroom spaces and flexible furniture.

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How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

“When students are given a choice of where to sit, it increases their engagement and overall attentiveness and just creates a more positive environment,” Kara Adams, a teacher at at Belden Elementary School , tells WKYC.com “It goes from 'my classroom,' to 'our classroom,' and then 'total community.'". Photo: Nick Hagen. by Eli Zimmerman.

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The Philosophy Behind Maker Success

A Principal's Reflections

In many cases elementary schools have even taken fun out of school for kids by cutting recess. Her vision and subsequent plan resulted in a collaborative learning space open to all students where they could come to tinker, invent, create, and make to learn.

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Cricket Media Highlights eMentoring Programs, TryEngineering Together and CricketTogether, at 2018 National Title I Conference

techlearning

CricketTogether creates an environment where students get guidance from and build friendships with their eMentors, learn from content that interests them, and receive coaching from their teachers along their learning paths. CricketTogether won Best of Show from Tech & Learning magazine at ISTE 2017.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

How do we begin to structure PD that brings the real learning experiences to the online and blended world? This might include deeper learning, PBL, STEM, 4C’s, collaborative learning, visual thinking, meta-cognition, student ownership, Bloom’s upper levels, Makers, and student production as part of the learning experience.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

An Apple Distinguished Educator, her work focuses on helping core subject teachers authentically embed current and emerging technologies in the classroom to create a global and collaborative learning environment. Our future is important, let''s articulate and plan now to go global now.

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Understanding The Deep Fake: A Troubling Trend

The CoolCatTeacher

With respect to school change, he describes himself as a “catalyst for creative engagement and collaborative learning.” In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. Wesley completed his Ph.D.

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