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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

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Mandy Froehlich on episode 192 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format.

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Project-Based Learning Is Just the Beginning

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In addition, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that has started to move to competency-based learning. We started by marrying the traditional, content-driven course work with performance-based assessment. Follow her on Twitter @Find8Fences.

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Amazing Grace Adkins – my 89 year old learning lab director and the most amazing woman I know

The CoolCatTeacher

Grace Adkins on episode 191 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. That’s what we’ve done since 1976.

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5 Ideas for Fantastic Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Dyane Smokorowski on episode 195 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. We do it on Twitter. Dyane: Right!

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Brent Johnson: My student’s views on learning and teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Brent Johnson on episode 193 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. Brent Johnson is a senior at Westwood Schools.

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How AR and VR Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future (and Save Districts Money)

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Lucie Public Schools • Twitter @Coachcarbenia • LinkedIn With AR/VR in our classes I see students—especially the millennials, generation Zs—finding that the education system is keeping up with technology, and that I think keeps them coming. I can cover that with one student or multiple students in 30 minutes.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised. Ed-Tech Startup Accelerators.

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