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5 questions you need to ask about personalized learning

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? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Why is personalized learning becoming increasingly desirable in K-12? If you are curious about what personalized learning can offer your students, here are the answers to important questions you may be asking. What exactly is personalized learning?

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Multimedia content personalizes learning

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.” Here’s his take on the use of videos in education: Multimedia content as a way to learning process personalization. People can learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone. It can be called the multimedia learning hypothesis (Mayer, 2005). The schematization of content in videos.

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Education Galaxy–Personalized Learning That’s Fun

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If a student gets an answer incorrect, he or she is shown an “Alien Explanation” video, giving specific and step-by-step instruction for solving that question. Students then return to the session and apply that learning to correctly answer the question and on subsequent questions as they progress through a session.

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5 YouTube Features for Teachers

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YouTube offers a bunch of features that are sometimes overlooked or under-utilized despite being quite helpful when sharing videos in your classroom. In this new video I demonstrate five of those features. . Read on… Videos have become extremely popular in the classroom. Multimedia content personalizes learning.

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To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media

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How can we have an impact on developing digital citizenship skills?”. Learning how to behave online responsibly and safely—a concept known as digital citizenship—requires access to social media tools in schools, they note. We must keep learning first. Several educators echo Yates’ comments. Dereck McCoy. “We

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Videos: Why, How, Options

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When I started teaching, videos were used only for a few reasons: to teach historical events, as a prize for something students did well, or for the sub to fill the time while I was out. A lot has changed since then, most importantly, teachers now recognize that students learn in a variety of ways, only one of which is via text.

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Last Chance: The Tech-infused Teacher (MTI 562)

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In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.