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Active Learning Strategies for Students

eSchool News

This approach maximizes classroom time for interactive, hands-on learning experiences. Interactive Lectures: Instead of passive listening, interactive lectures involve activities such as quizzes, polls, or small group discussions interspersed throughout the lecture to keep students engaged and reinforce key concepts.

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We Run a Hybrid School. Here’s How We’re Adapting Our Schedule for the Times.

Edsurge

The past few months have shown us the true extent of the flexibility and resilience of our model as we plan for students to return after summer break, both virtually and eventually in small groups on campus, as well as design wraparound supports across a variety of formats. Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Are we providing students the opportunity to own their learning?

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20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking

TeachThought - Learn better.

Learning is an ecology. Classroom design impacts classroom management impacts curriculum needs impacts lesson and unit design impacts teacher personality impacts technology needs impacts literacy strategies and teaching strategies, and so on. This approach takes a mix of forms–rows, groups, semi-circled tables.

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Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

Edsurge

Once my course materials were online, I built out the learning experiences within those groupings and began to flesh them out—first on paper, and then using the program Piktochart , an infographic builder tool to design the visual. Learning journey for 8th grade geography built on Piktochart in 2011.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

Edsurge

They entered the program with a real desire to focus deeply on what it meant to have a more effective personalized learning experience in math—including everything from curriculum design and the use of technology to the roles of teachers and students in the classroom and the adoption of “passion projects.” So that’s a success.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Michael Stephens Live Keynote - Follett Challenge - Digital Citizenship Week - K12 Online Starts

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We must always keep working to be there, to be present, to be at the edge of what’s happening, and to be very visible while focusing on people, not technology, not the collection. If you''re interested in volunteering, please join the Volunteer Group and follow the instructions there for booking your times. Those are merely tools.