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Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

My interest in blended learning and weaving together learning mediums to include both in-class and online learning was in part driven by my desire to create smaller student-centered learning communities in my classroom. How many devices are needed for the online learning stations?

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8 Essential Books Every Tech-Minded Teacher Should Read

Ask a Tech Teacher

The authors focus on Google Classroom in particular, not just as a piece of software, but as a means of enhancing the traditional teaching methods. What sets this work apart from most is that it doesn’t just focus on the theoretical, but provides the framework around which educators can blend online learning with traditional teaching methods.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

The Hechinger Report

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Angela Maiers Tonight - LOTS of 2014 Global Education Conference Updates - Proposal Deadline, Keynotes, and Volunteering

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digital divide is at its greatest.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - Reinventing the Classroom - Library 2.014 - The Real 1:1 - Reclaim Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, April 2nd at 7pm Student-Centered Learning: Make the Shift! , The Common Core State Standards require students to think critically and be effective consumers and producers of information and media. In other words, they can’t just passively receive learning. Common Core Writing Prompts.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Four

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SMILE Together: Collaborative, Inquiry-based Learning using Innovative Hardware and Software. y No Morir en el Intento - William Colmenares Measurement of Global Thinking Levels via Analyses of Solutions to Problems - Marina P. Bonser, Ph.D. para generar aprendizajes colaborativos en el aula - William H.