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Laying the Foundation for Distance Learning Success

Digital Promise

We’ve been using distance learning tools for years. James Tiggeman Digital Learning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Our students already had the devices and data to continue their education, but more importantly, [they had] the experience of being in a flipped classroom and using online tools.

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What Separates a Good Blended Learning Program From a Bad One?

Edsurge

There are many so-called blended programs that do not meet the definition, but schools use them anyway. One of the worst offenses of bad blended learning programs is simply not creating a strong blend between digital and non-digital learning.

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Blended Learning in AJUSD

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Some rights reserved by tgbarrett Blended learning Students learn in different ways, and at different paces. To address these needs, we''ve been piloting blended learning in two high school classrooms. Online delivery allows student control over the time, place, path, and/or pace of their learning.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014

Technology Tidbits

Voice Dream - The best text to speech app I have ever seen w/ an abundance of features such as: highlighting, definitions, bookmarking, and more. * This is ideal for creating a flipped classroom. GuidedVideo - A wonderful iPad app for Guided Learning where educators create questions w/ images as the answers that students tap on.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection. These important attributes of a PBL classroom need to be intentionally thought out as part of the online experience. Thanks for joining me on this wonderful journey of 21st century (and even before that) learning. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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How to Enhance Any Curriculum With Short, Engaging, Accurate Videos

Edsurge

Educational videos can be worked into any teaching style, pedagogy, area of study, and type of class—distance, classroom or hybrid. One professor might love the idea of “chunking up” the class with a video break, while another might prefer to assign videos as homework in a flipped classroom approach.

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Preparing for Back-to-School - Advice Educatos, Administrators, and Ed-Tech Coaches

The Innovative Educator

We can really dig into online pedagogy, on building community online, on creating highly interactive, highly personalized, accessible, digital learning activities for our students, because we’re all talking the same language, we’re all using the same platform. So that is a definite silver lining for us. That’s pretty exciting.