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Why Learning and People Should Come First

A Principal's Reflections

I was recently working on my slide deck for a three-day workshop that will take participants on an immersive experience into digital leadership and learning. My primary objective for all multiday workshops is to illustrate the vital role that technology can play in improving teaching, learning, and leadership. Most of the first day is spent on emphasizing the importance of a pedagogy first, technology second mindset.

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5 Things That Happen When We Empower Students

The CoolCatTeacher

A.J. Juliani on episode 165 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. AJ Juliani, author of Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning talks about the empowerment of students. How teachers can be the “guide on the ride” and help students find their passions. We can do this!

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How To Work Smarter–Not Harder–As A Teacher

TeachThought - Learn better.

How To Work Smarter–Not Harder–As A Teacher by Terry Heick Teaching is hard. And because it’s so important, we push ourselves–and are pushed by others–to be as close as we can be to perfect. In public education, defined in terms and standards that it defines and measures itself by, perfect teaching means bringing every child […].

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Some Good Academic Search Engines for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

October 8, 2017 Below is a collection of some handy academic search engines teachers and educators can use to search for and find a wide variety of academic articles, journals, documents and theses.read more.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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24 Things A Teacher Should Never Ask A Student To Do

TeachThought - Learn better.

24 Things A Teacher Should Never Ask A Student To Do by TeachThought Staff 1. Meaningless work It’s fine to start with an academic standard, but standards aren’t meaningful to students. Either make the work meaningful, or shelve it until you can. If you can’t, ask someone in our department, building, or PLN. If they […]. The post 24 Things A Teacher Should Never Ask A Student To Do appeared first on TeachThought.

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How to reduce work hours & streamline parent communication without looking like a slacker

The Cornerstone for Teachers

The episode of the Truth for Teachers podcast featured here is a free coaching call I conducted with a graduate of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club. Her name is Kristen, and she’s a year 4 teacher in Australia, which is equivalent to 4th grade in the U.S. You will adore her lovely accent! Kristen is in her sixth year of teaching and feeling like she’s spending way too much time communicating with parents and answering emails, and also feeling nervous about what cutting back on the amount of tim

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ELLs: Try These 5 Scaffolds in Any Subject

MiddleWeb

If we provide scaffolds for the students who need it – especially ELLs who represent so many different backgrounds – we can promote independent learning. Valentina Gonzalez offers five easy-to-implement strategies to help make lessons ELL-friendly in any content area.

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October Reads: @CallingIshmael Project with @BullisSchool Students & Staff #edchat #edtech @flipgrid

techieMusings

It’s October, so time to switch up the stories in our Call Me Ishmael payphone! This month, we again featured stories shared by students in Lower School, Middle School, and Upper School as well as an administrator, a teacher, and a staff member. To add something fun to the mix, we tapped into a project that our public speaking class was doing (this class is offered to Upper School students as an elective).

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New Teachers: 3 Tools Help Manage Learning

MiddleWeb

As new teachers develop routines for their classrooms, Class Tech Tips founder Monica Burns says it’s important to plan how they will check for understanding each day to gather information and inform future instruction. She shares three simple class assessment tools.

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Technology and Teaching Tweet Wrap, w/e 10-07-17

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap we are reminded that a college. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Powerful History App Teaches Through Gameplay, Critical Thinking

techlearning

It's an expansive, gorgeous sandbox with time-tested and wildly popular gameplay.

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How Making an Impact on the World Motivates Students

MindShift

Many schools are moving to project-based learning as a way to help students make meaning about content in deeper and more lasting ways than a lecture can provide. While those goals are clear to educators, and inspiring examples of schools successfully implementing the pedagogy exist, it can still be a challenging shift for many teachers. It is difficult to design projects that both help students learn required content and that genuinely interest them.

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A Woman's Place is in Science

techlearning

Celebrate the achievements of women in STEM on Ada Lovelace Day!

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