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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. EBooks and audiobooks are key in this regard.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

Edsurge

It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material. In online courses, the size of the class matters less than the reasons that students cite for enrolling. The course is designed around ten different challenges that students wrestle with during the semester.

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

Mary Howard on episode 293 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program. There’s Open Sim, of course there’s Minecraft. Twitter: @mrshoward118.

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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

Or maybe you think, ‘Of course [Amanda] has a PLN. Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. Participate.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. We’ve been doing this project eight years now.

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The Missing Literacies – Networking to Learn #iste2015

There is no box

But I went to school BT (Before Twitter) and BGHO (Before Google Hangouts). We also used study groups to self organize around a specific course, topic or test. Enter Twitter and the rise of social media. Silent classrooms. Individual worksheets. This is not how we learn in the real world. The world has changed.

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Why Do High School Teachers Lecture So Much?

TeachThought - Learn better.

Almost every high school I go to I see teachers talking and kids listening (or not) more in History than any other course. The best teacher I have ever seen at the HS level, Leon Berkowitz at Portland HS years ago, organized his entire history course using the Steve Allen Meeting of Minds format. I am NOT saying “Don’t Lecture.”