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What’s Changed in Lesson Planning

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Self-help is expected, such as using online references and how-to videos. Digital citizenship is taught, modeled and enforced in every lesson, every day, and every class. Just as students learned to survive a physical community of strangers, they must do so in a digital neighborhood. Here, I’m thinking of parents.

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How can Teachers Increase Social Learning While Teaching Online?

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These help individuals to create a frame of reference of behaviors within themselves and prompt them to act. Gamification in a virtual classroom. Gamification in a virtual classroom. Gamification is one of the best methods to increase online peer connectivity and social learning. Discussion Boards. Panel Discussion.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

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Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. It is also often referred to as “hybrid learning” and can incorporate many different types of education technology. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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10 Ways to Rejuvenate and Learn This Summer

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Student Achievement Through Gamification and Game-Based Learning Sports and Games: Using Instructional Models in PE. Teaching Media Literacy in a Post-Truth World Respect, Educate, and Protect: Cultivating Digital Citizenship in 21st Century Learners Developing 21st Century Skills in a Digital World ( K-5 or 6-12 ).

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

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Gamification and Virtual Reality. Gamification is a pedagogical approach embedding the elements of gaming within eLearning modules to impart learning through competitive game-like activities. References. This is a beneficial feature in most LMSs. About the author. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

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Blended learning combines traditional, in-person learning with digital learning, so that students can experience both forms. It is also often referred to as “hybrid learning” and can incorporate many different types of education technology. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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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.