Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We’re about a third of the way into the school year and we know what that means: The dread of parent teacher conferences! But conferences would not make it on my Top Ten Reasons I Like to Teach list. the traditional parent teacher conference as it once was is both redundant and outdated. Skype your conference.

Conference 60

Conference Technology ePortfolio LMS 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition.

Flipped Classroom 107

Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 107

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I came away from the institute eager to try inquiry-based instruction in my class during the 2015-16 school year. The switch to inquiry-based learning required a dramatic shift from teacher- to learner-driven instruction. If it’s unreasonable, we have a quick conference to sort it out.

Data 137

Data Classroom Strategy Student Engagement 137

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145