eSchool News

JULY 17, 2023

Conservation Station : Explore the unexpected connections at the heart of the energy-water nexus and discover how to conserve water and energy with engaging at home activities from Conservation Station: Creating a More Resourceful World—an educational initiative with Itron.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2018

Google provides quick and easy access to information while YouTube provides on-demand how-to videos on just about any topic. The district is constantly developing and improving our systems and structures for all students with the renewed focus on personalized learning for all students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

So you get that, you know, big picture thinking and then you get to dive deeper and make some new connections and create your own professional learning network. Can you talk a little bit about how you’ve seen your role change now? Have a listen.

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E-rate Industry Accessibility EdTech 104

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The conversation about how to achieve those outcomes for all students is much more complex. A clear understanding of how the Science of Reading leads to structured literacy and how to apply these teaching principles has shown that the 95% of students who are capable of learning to read can build this skill set.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Educators aren’t that different from their students when it comes to their learning, so why should they be expected to learn everything at once instead of gradually, as they hope their students can? They must be taught how to apply it effectively. Collaborative Learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. A safe and cooperative climate for learning. Support and training to promote continual professional learning. Data to track and promote collaborative inquiry and practices that improve student learning.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2019

While not calling for a return to those rigid structures, in the edWebinar “ Flexible Grouping and Collaborative Learning: Making It Work,” Dina Brulles, Ph.D., both education consultants, advocated for using groups to assist student learning. and Karen L. Brown, M.Ed., She holds a Ph.D. in gifted education and an M.S.

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Groups Handbook Collaborative Learning Differentiated Instruction 41

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

To provide the best possible teaching and learning environment, school leaders need to provide their teachers with professional learning opportunities that are personalized and engaging. edWeb.net is a free professional learning network that hosts special interest communities on innovative topics in education.

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edWeb.net

JULY 19, 2022

Students naturally understand the display and how to connect their devices. This invites them to share their work and collaborate. Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, “ Enhance and Simplify Any Classroom Routine with Interactive Smart Boards ,” sponsored by Samsung. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.

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techlearning

MAY 9, 2018

-Discovery Education’s Math Techbook and Professional Learning Services to Strengthen Efforts to Create Dynamic Digital Classrooms – Silver Spring, Md. Through this effort, students are building collaborative learning skills that prepare them for college and careers.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Fighting Exclusion: Shake Up Inclusive Learning. Lumio is a digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences. Many teachers discovered tools they didn’t know about and learned how to incorporate more technology into their teaching practice.

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Assistive Technology Learning Strategy Resources 96

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Their collaborative learning is powered by the video evidence of their own classrooms. The book includes a framework for analyzing video evidence along with 12 video learning strategies such as Video Learning Communities (VLCs), Virtual Walk-throughs and Online Lesson Study. Who and what should teachers capture on video?

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Video Analysis Strategy Professional Learning 65

Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts. Be sure you check out these blog posts to learn more about how some districts are using badges for professional learning. Offering choice in learning is important for the K-12 classroom as well as adult and professional learning. After School Programs.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It was more like a media center and had spaces that were created for collaborative learning as well as spaces to work your own. Flexible seating accommodated the learning needs of many different learners, and it was a space, unlike anything I had seen in education before. It was incredible to watch.

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Libraries Collaborative Learning Professional Learning Technology 40

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Then they can also take a structure apart and explain to a partner how to rebuild it, so the students develop the expressive and receptive language needed to succeed when working on this type of project. Guiding students’ learning in this way also requires a focus on the application of knowledge, rather than just achieving an outcome.

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Learning Elementary Software Outcomes 57

Learning Confluence

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

February 18, 2008 – How to start shifting teachers: A successful model. The PD model we started at this time has grown and developed since… and is still a large part of how I approach workshops and professional learning with teachers – and how Kim does as well. Do you remember Karl Fisch ?

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Wiki Professional Learning Analysis Study 40

Educator Innovator

APRIL 6, 2017

By partnering with Marginal Syllabus, Educator Innovator seeks to facilitate open learning for educators in all kinds of spaces (in schools, libraries, and afterschool programs to name a few). When prompted, select “Add Extension”. Also, at hypothes.is/welcome

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Education Learning Professional Learning Libraries 67

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

For many districts, the days of after-school PowerPoint-driven lectures not differentiated by content, expertise, grade-level or delivery, not to mention daylong workshops on an obsolete topic, have recently given way to face-to-face coaching programs and professional learning communities. A picture IS worth 1,000 words. It’s powerful.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

TeachDoNow is a free, collaborative learning experience offered by KQED this summer in partnership with Educator Innovator and the National Writing Project. Schedule: Week 1: July 7 — What are the best strategies for accessing professional learning online? By Matt Williams, Educational Technologist, KQED.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Without a doubt, teachers are engaged in a “learn as you go” method when asked to navigate video and virtual classroom platforms to discover how to teach, collaborate, and support learners without adequate training due to the pandemic. To their credit, teachers are tackling this dramatic shift to distance learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

If you didn''t participate last year, this US Department of Education-sponsored month-long series of events focuses on the significant ways that online collaborative learning is playing in professional development. From Twitter to Facebook and Pinterest to Vine (hey--what about Classroom 2.0 ?!),

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Reading By Example

MAY 2, 2016

What Everson leaves for the reader to figure out is how to develop and implement an action plan that honors all learners’ need for autonomy to follow their passions and become more engaged in school. Our school has implemented what I call a collaborative learning cycle. Each part in the cycle represents a weekly meeting.

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Student Engagement Collaborative Learning Meeting Assessment 28

Reading By Example

MAY 2, 2016

What Everson leaves for the reader to figure out is how to develop and implement an action plan that honors all learners’ need for autonomy to follow their passions and become more engaged in school. Our school has implemented what I call a collaborative learning cycle. Each part in the cycle represents a weekly meeting.

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Student Engagement Collaborative Learning Meeting Assessment 28

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

The professionals we spoke with described a process in which they began by collecting or gathering; moved to connecting content and resources for specific purposes and audiences; curated by adding value with context and commentary; and contributed by offering the community opportunities for collaboration, learning and growth.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

RafranzDavis.com

JULY 10, 2016

Prior to getting there though, I may or may not have kissed a ton of “edu-frogs” in terms of buying into books and models that helped me “structure learning” in the garden that I came to believe that learning needed to be. It doesn’t. Kudos to her and her team for creating this and putting it out there.

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Advocacy Training System Robotics 40

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

If one characteristic was low, such as questioning , we would make a point of encouraging this practice to become more evident within instruction through the sharing of articles and content, and through professional learning activities. This is an application of the collaborative learning cycle from the last post.

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Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

If one characteristic was low, such as questioning , we would make a point of encouraging this practice to become more evident within instruction through the sharing of articles and content, and through professional learning activities. This is an application of the collaborative learning cycle from the last post.

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Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

wwwatanabe

JUNE 26, 2012

As we wrap up our second year of Collaboration Coaching , we celebrate the success we''ve had with collaboration, learning with colleagues, and creating 21st century, student-centered classrooms. What is a Collaboration Coach? We''ve adapted it to fit our district''s needs.

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Common Core Training Microsoft Differentiated Instruction 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

And special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the terrific conference platform. To see the conference schedule in your own time zone, and for instructions on how to click through and enter a session, please go to our schedule page. Sessions: Below is the full list of conference sessions in US-Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).

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Common Core Conference Blackboard Digital Citizenship 71

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Ioana Literat Making International Education for Everyone - David Potter, Chief Development Officer TIC para enseñar y aprender - L.I. Martinez H.

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Conference Education ePortfolio MOOC 59

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Get to know families to determine how to work with them. Technology can be a facilitator of such collaboration. Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, “ Empowering Families in the Digital Age: Building Inclusive Tech Partnerships ,” sponsored by Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems.

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Strategy Assistive Technology Data Accessibility 88

Shake Up Learning

JUNE 7, 2022

Kasey also shares how to manipulate the drop-down menu so it’s possible to reuse it. . Lumio is a digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences. Watch the two-minute video below to learn about drop-down menus and how to insert in Google Docs.

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Google Assessment Groups Personalized Learning 92

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

If you’re new to tech education and wonder how to teach kindergartners to use the mouse, first graders to keyboard, third graders to sagely search the internet, pick the brains of our seasoned team of technology teachers. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. digital citizenship.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media 173

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Beginning to learn an LMS – If teachers just learned that this stood for Learning Management System the district might be at step one. If an LMS is in use, perhaps many educators had just started learning how to create class content area for students and parents online. PLN, PLC and Learning Society.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The technology provides a safe learning environment for students where they can express themselves and share outcomes. Teacher Support and Professional Development. For example, Nidy produced how-to videos to help educators use Schoology for setting up quizzes, assignments, etc. Communication and Parent Engagement.

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