Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Teaching students how to be kind human beings is a lesson that can be taught all year long. This is one of the student digital missions in my book, Hacking Digital Learning with Missions. I love the ideas in this blog, 10 Kindness Activities for Elementary Students ! See the announcement here.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Teaching students how to be kind human beings is a lesson that can be taught all year long. This is one of the student digital missions in my book, Hacking Digital Learning with Missions. I love the ideas in this blog, 10 Kindness Activities for Elementary Students ! See the announcement here.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

As Jon Corippo, chief learning officer for the nonprofit group Computer-Using Educators ( CUE ), put it: “When do you see that ever?”. A big concern for teachers in shifting to remote instruction has been how to manage students and make sure they complete assignments without watching over them all day.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Neeb, the principal of Williams Elementary School, and Tickle, a digital learning specialist and Google Certified Trainer, presented “The Whole Ball of Wax: A Place for Everything,” on Monday. JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Follow @EdTech_K12 on Twitter for continued TCEA 2019 coverage! That could work on my campus,” she thought. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 14, 2019

Create a Digital Textbook – Get students work in pairs or small groups to design a digital version of the curriculum. This is one of the ideas suggested in my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch Edtech Missions in Your Classroom. Discover more resources and ideas here !

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

One enterprising principal she knows created a Google folder for schools to share their virtual learning plans. Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 23, 2018

Last summer, we highlighted Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) , a large suburban school district in Virginia that boosted their bandwidth speed from 2 to 20 Gbps to keep up with growing demands for digital learning. Cathleen: One of the things we have to make sure we talk about is their digital footprint.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

They also don’t automatically know how to cope with emotions and stress, view different perspectives with empathy and solve problems socially. How can you help them manage day-to-day life in healthy ways? How can their time in school help them become adults who are ready for jobs in a 21st-century world?

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. The tech team at Fayette County Public Schools in Kentucky offer what they call “tech snacks,” or bite-sized pieces of advice to help transform learning and teaching. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Monica loves getting students connected on a global scale and loves to use digital tools like Lumio to create interactive lessons to engage her students. Tune in to learn more about Global Connections Week and other great ideas from Monica! Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Click To Tweet.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

I can’t imagine having to do both,” said Abby Bjornson, a fourth-grade teacher at Munford Elementary School in Talladega County. Bjornson didn’t know what to expect when she volunteered to teach students remotely last August; she was motivated, she said, by an interest in learning new technology. Leaning on existing expertise. “I

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Hundreds of administrators tell the Learning Counsel the great effect of this research survey telling them what it really means to transition digitally, what the definitions of things really are, and how to look at new software capacities and digital curriculum for their utility and efficiency. About the Learning Counsel.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? The crisis has shone a harsh light on the digital divide in the United States, surfacing thoughtful debate and long-overdue discussion around the equity gap.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Education and industry collaboration is incredibly important because educators need to know what they’re preparing their students for, and how to do that. User Experience (UX) – User Experience is how an individual (user) interacts with and experiences a product, system or service.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math mystery puzzles An elementary educator in Texas created interactive math activities for learners. Group members can create images of historical architecture, a diagram of the parts of a plant, a fictional character, a map, the Earth’s layers and more. How do you learn how to use Google Sheets?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

This story is a part of Learning from Lockdown , a series about education solutions in the pandemic, produced in partnership with the Education Labs at AL.com , the Dallas Morning News , Fresno Bee and Seattle Times partnered with The Christian Science Monitor , Hechinger Report and Solutions Journalism Network.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Adoption of digital learning resources is taking hold in schools and districts across the United States. Public schools now provide at least one computer for every five students and spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content, according to Education Week.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 5, 2019

My colleague was working with a group of middle school students to design a payload to bring a bear, our school’s mascot, to near space (~100,000 feet) on a weather balloon flight through a partnership with NASA’s MN Space Grant Consortium. Students documented their learning, processes, successes, and failures in a digital journal.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. They learned how to manipulate various Photoshop Elements tools to crop, select, paint and fill select areas of their work with contrast colors.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

School leaders hope that the support and understandings shared by people they view as experts will help teachers learn how to perfect personalized-learning instruction. EdSurge analyzed data from the state report card on every elementary school in the first personalized learning implementation cohort.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2018

As I sat at a giant table with 15 colleagues pondering how to make professional learning more personal for our teachers, my eyes drifted to my screen. What if we could apply the subscription box model to professional learning? What if we could apply the subscription box model to professional learning?” I asked the team.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. You can personalize learning just fine without technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

But he hardly sees students anymore—only the ones who log in to his daily office hours, and those remain few since his class is not a core one and the district is still figuring out how to disperse laptops to everyone. She and her students—second graders at Stella Brockman Elementary in Manteca, Calif.—use

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2018

This year’s theme— Personalized Learning for the Whole Learner —aims to help school leaders from around the U.S. see how their peers are shaping learning environments for students and educators. How do school leaders make personalized learning work? Listen to three leading practitioners share their approaches here.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

While a striking amount of uncertainty remains, experts largely agree on one thing: Pandemic education has exacted the greatest tolls from the children of historically marginalized groups. If schools aren’t sure how to begin, they should work harder to connect with English learners’ families — in linguistically and culturally competent ways.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Alex’s excitement was palpable as this was the first computer to ever enter his home: He was now participating in digital learning and exploration, and he appeared as enthusiastic as anyone. The project got off to a good start, and the students seemed to embrace their learning and the collaborative process.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 29, 2017

A digital learning environment also means that students have access to resources digitally as well. It means well planned units that intentionally use helpful technology to engage students in curation, creation, connection, and consumption in this digital age.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Fortunately, educators are shifting to problem/solution and experiential learning approaches that value a learning process that includes failure to directly help children understand how to deal with adversity. Overcoming Anxiety and Developing Confidence. Empathy and Compassion Through Cultural Exposure. About the Author.

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 9, 2017

Before I became an instructional technology facilitator, I was an early elementary school teacher. One critical skill that I taught students, as well as their parents, was how to choose a “just right” book—one that wasn’t too easy or too hard but was perfectly matched to an individual’s reading interests and abilities.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2018

How to Orchestrate a Digital Transformation. Today, we have a gigabit wireless network deployed at our elementary, middle and high schools , and starting this fall, we expect to have deployed more than 3,000 Chromebooks to our students, teachers and administrators. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 03/21/2018 - 09:32. Original or Curated.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

He is going to help us analyze the digital equity and inclusion problem to find better ways to provide a diverse and equitable educational experience. Shout out to all of my friends with Northside ISD in San Antonio, specifically at Thornton Elementary and Rudder Middle Schools. Join our FREE Shake Up Learning Facebook group.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

Some teachers get hung up on the fact that they only have a small number of devices and can’t visualize how to use them for true learning. The reason that it’s generally easier for them to see how this model could work for their students is because they are already accustomed to using learning stations in their daily instruction.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Here are my nominations: Best Teacher Blog- Philly Teacher - Mary Beth Hertz is a Computer Science Teacher in an elementary school in West Philadelphia. Best Group Blog-I actually have two. The other is the Digital Learning Environments Blog. Her posts are resourceful and inspirational to all that read. edublog awards'

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Children are learning how to be even more resilient, and technology is helping that happen.”. Families are also aided by community groups like the Boston Public Library, which is lending Chromebooks and hot spot home kits to those who need them. The American Rescue Plan in March 2021 created the $7.2

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