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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The time for financial literacy and real-world learning is now. The result is a learning experience that builds healthy financial habits and encourages students to apply a variety of financial skills to many connected decisions.”.

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Empatico: A Breakthrough Way to Promote Empathy (And It’s Free)

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Empatico is a free platform, targeted to students aged 7-11, that helps classrooms connect in powerful ways. A comparison of majority-race children with and without a minority-race friend. See Lease, A. M., & Blake, J. Social Development,14 (1), 20-41.

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Blended Teaching: How Plagiarism Detection Software can Help Educators

Educational Technology Guy

The reason is, you need to have access to various online resources, such as articles, blog posts, publications in journals, etc. Modern tools allow running student papers for comparison with many different sources. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Luckily, plagiarism detection software has it. Take Unicheck , for instance.

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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Take an online course. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. ScratchEd (online community and resource sharing for educators who use the Scratch programming language). See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula.

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Blended Learning – How to Make it Work in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach.

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. m-Learning, or mobile learning focused on the use of personal technologies. We have come a long way.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 My Chapter: Moving From Education 1.0

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