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Reflective Learning as the New Normal

A Principal's Reflections

The quest to improve pedagogy, and in turn learner outcomes, is a focus of many schools. We toil away at chasing the next big innovative idea, trend, or tool as a path to improvement yet little changes. Maybe success lies in taking a more detailed look at daily practice. The key to future-proofing education is to empower students to not only think, but to apply their thinking in relevant ways to demonstrate what has been learned.

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What Great Teachers Know About Their Students

TeachThought - Learn better.

Creating Student-Centered Learning Profiles: What Great Teachers Know About Their Students by TeachThought Staff For Professional Development or consulting around this or other ideas you read about on TeachThought, contact us. This is part 2 of our #iteachthought series (because we refuse to say “back to school”–well, except for just then).

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A Good Visual to Help you Teach Students How to Detect Fake News

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A few days ago we shared with you a new Google feature that allows you to easily fact check online content. Today, we are sharing with you 10 good tips that will enable you to critically assess the.

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Why creative thinking might be our strongest asset

eSchool News

Developing a creative mindset is more important than ever before, not just for our students, but for educators as well. The advancement of technology, the connectedness of society, and the innovations that are taking place on a regular basis all point to creative thinking as a key asset in the digital age. So how do we develop a more creative approach to problem-solving?

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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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Why Does A STEM Curriculum Need Empathy?

TeacherCast

In order to make a STEM education a force for good in our world, and help students to solve social and economic problems, we need to understand the role of empathy in STEM curriculums. The post Why Does A STEM Curriculum Need Empathy? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Refreshing Advice for New History Teachers

MiddleWeb

When Lauren Brown left her history classroom and became a teacher educator, she always shared a page of advice when pre-service teachers finished her course. Three years after returning to middle school, Brown updates her tips with fresh insights from the front lines.

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One Question We Should Always Ask When Implementing Technology into Classrooms

The Principal of Change

In 2014 , and in my book, “ The Innovator’s Mindset ,” I wrote about the notion of “school vs. learning,” and it was summarized in the image below by Sylvia Duckworth: This post and visual were meant to spark discussion and not insinuate that real learning doesn’t happen in schools. The hope though was that as educators, we always focus on giving students real learning opportunities, not just do things that are solely for the purpose of “school.R

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Keep Students On the Cutting Edge of Learning

The Innovative Educator

While Internet Explorer has joined the " product graveyard, " Microsoft Edge has entered the scene as more than the standard web browser. Innovative Educators will appreciate the learning tools and extensions proven to improve reading comprehension, strengthen writing, level the playing field for struggling learners and help teachers personalize learning in less time.

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What Does it Mean to Create Readers?

Reading By Example

“When I think of reading I think of pleasure, favorite authors, beloved books, libraries, bookstores, stories and relaxation. I think of finding solace, of being suspended within the unique world a talented author has created. I think of language beautifully crafted and books so mesmerizing that afterward I want to tell other readers, “You’ve got to read this book.” I do not think of levels, programs, groupings, or tests.

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Be Kinder Than Necessary; It Starts With Us

Reflections

We were making small talk at the end of a meeting. Each of us lamenting on the loss of two celebrities this week to suicide. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US. The talk turned to how much pain people carry with them. As educators, we try to do a lot for students and providing supports around mental health.

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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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Highlights Hangout launches: a sonic spin on a classic kids favorite

NeverEndingSearch

Just in time for road-trip season comes the new free monthly podcast series, Highlights Hangout . Launched this week , the series is a collaboration between the makers of the popular and iconic Highlights For Children magazine (now 72-years old!) and the creators of NPR’s also popular science podcast Wow in the World, both produced in partnership with Tinkercast.com , a leading producer of educational audio.

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Teaching, Learning, and Technology Tweet Digest, w/e 06-09-18

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 … partnerships between. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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13 of The Best Water Table Toys for Wet ‘n Wild Kids

Fractus Learning

When the sun comes out and that thermometer starts to rise, there is no better fun for kids than getting wet. Whether it’s a quick trip down to the beach, a cooling dip in the pool, or […].

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Paragon Furniture Announces New Website

techlearning

Paragon Furniture, Inc. has recently launched a new website designed to help customers and partners navigate Paragon’s product portfolio and new learning space resources. The site includes environment and product imagery that can be downloaded, product information including specifications, videos and symbology, as well resources aimed to address the questions and strategies around implementing active learning spaces in K12 schools. [ Spectrum Introduces Pivot Jr.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Disruptions in Ecosystems: If/Then Applied Digital Skills Project

EdTechTeam

Aliso Viejo Middle School students in Valarie Broadhead’s seventh grade Science class explored the environmental impact of introducing the grey wolf into Yellowstone National Park as part of a Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) unit. To support their understanding of the potential impact of introducing a new species, Valarie worked with the site’s Instructional coach (also a Google Certified Innovator and Trainer), Judy Blakeney, to use the new If/Then Applied Digital Skills curriculum.

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Sonic Foundry Announces Speech-to-Text Integration in Mediasite

techlearning

Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO) today announces new search and translation features in Mediasite Video Platform. New integrations with technologies like IBM Watson combine speech-to-text cloud services with Mediasite’s video analytics and search capabilities. Creating More Searchable and Accessible Videos Mediasite extracts keywords from anything said or shown in PowerPoint slides, screencasts, handwriting, annotations and tags, and that metadata is used for returning search results. [ A FAMI