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Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

The engaging video summaries of textbook material provide access to more than a thousand full-length college courses. Each course has about a hundred videos, each 5-10 minutes in length. Complete the course by going through all of the lessons (and videos) and taking all required exams. Things to know.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

I was extremely eager to see their respective learning portfolios and discover what they had been working on over the course of the year. Throughout the year they met to develop extensive binders to compile resources related to text complexity as outlined by the Common Core Standards.

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Top 10 Reasons to Sign Up for Summer Learning with Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher

Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach? This 18-hour course provides participants with first-hand experience leveraging technology as a strategic tool when teaching academic topics. Flipped Classroom—attendees learn in a ‘flipped classroom’ environment. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

If results were not what our stakeholders wanted this would then trigger meetings leading to the development of action plans to get us back on course. Online courses through the Virtual High School implemented in 2010. Students now have access to over 250 unique courses that cater to their interests.

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Why Santa Fe Broke the K-12 Model and Chose a Different Curriculum for the Middle Grades

Edsurge

Of course, you have to have direct instruction, but we want to have it sprinkled throughout a lesson that has activated student interest and sparked questions. One of the things that we looked at when we moved to fully remote learning was a flipped classroom. It aligns with our goal of having less [top-down] direct instruction.