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How Edtech for Teachers Helps Collaboration and Professional Learning

Edthena

The author of Ed Tech Essentials and founder of Class Tech Tips encourages educators to use tech tools for their own professional learning. In this PLtogether Lounge Talk, Monica Burns talked with Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about the advantages of integrating educational technology into adult learning.

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Offline Choice Boards: How Are You Integrating Offline Learning into Your Online Class?

Catlin Tucker

As an advocate of blended learning, I want teachers to strive for a healthy balance of online and offline tasks as students engage in distance learning. I would recommend that teachers or parents ask students to: Choose one offline task to pursue each week as some of these activities will require a bit of time.

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The Balance with Catlin Tucker: Featuring Adam Welcome

Catlin Tucker

We explore the difference between entertaining students and engaging them. If you are part of a professional learning community, the questions below are designed to facilitate a conversation–in person or online–about the issues discussed in this episode of The Balance. How would you describe student engagement?

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How Online Learning Can Improve Your Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

State requirements are starting to address this by requiring online virtual meetings between teacher and student. After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). ” Ignore Innocent Mistakes. Simplify Tech Skills.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

Edsurge

According to video documentation in the study, U.S. math teaching predominantly focused on procedural skills, where students spent most of their time acquiring isolated skills through repetition. Implementing PBL effectively requires a shift in the role of the teacher from a knowledge provider to a facilitator of learning.

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The Importance of the Right Technology in Schools

edWeb.net

The program was based on a framework that emphasized providing a systematic support system for students, engaging them in the learning process, and developing STEM career paths. The program had three foundational components: access to technology, professional learning for teachers, and technical support.

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Prioritizing Human Connection When Social Distancing Is the New Norm

Edsurge

We’ve done a lot of work to explore what effective teacher learning looks like online. But efforts to connect don’t need to tackle all of professional learning at once. More than ever, each student needs a plan that clearly articulates what they need to work on and why, and links to resources for learning.

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