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Subscribers: Your February Special is Available

Ask a Tech Teacher

Digital citizenship I. Digital citizenship II. Digital note-taking. Gamification of education. Inquiry in the Classroom. The Flipped classroom. Twitter in the classroom. Differentiation—general. Differentiation—How to teach the hard-to-teach class. Google Search and research.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

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We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. They wanted to get it right, see how it worked. They are inquirers.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Failed and tried again. Asked questions. They are life long learners.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Flipped Classroom The flipped classroom allows students to learn from pre-recorded videos and then to complete homework and other activities during class. With video instruction on the rise, flipped classroom techniques can help any teacher. There are even game badges you can add to Google Classroom.

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SEL and Classroom Culture In an Age of Distance Learning

Edsurge

Classroom learning and management all begin with relationships, and SEL can guide the relationship and community building process. Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning (SEL), differentiation, and personalized learning. That was my FIRST A.

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