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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

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Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games. Flipped classroom is a teaching model in which the traditional classroom and at-home components of a class are switched.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games. Flipped classroom is a teaching model in which the traditional classroom and at-home components of a class are switched.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

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It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Failed and tried again. They wanted to get it right, see how it worked.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They wanted to get it right, see how it worked. They are inquirers.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - Libraries Change Lives - Global Citizens - Great Keynote Recordings - NMC Weekly Top Ten Stories

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, March 26th at 6pm Common Core Tech Conference - Virtual Edition , By popular demand we at OpenEd are offering our free Common Core Tech conference virtually. Again the focus is on how ed tech can help with addressing the challenges of the Common Core. Conversations Classroom 2.0

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

The Christensen Institute clarifies that “the Rotation model includes four sub-models: Station Rotation, Lab Rotation, Flipped Classroom, and Individual Rotation.” Flipped Classroom. Gamification. Common Core) for individual students. ” (3). ” Game-Based Learning. Genius Hour.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.