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TTWWADI - A Culture Killer

A Principal's Reflections

In some cases, change has been hard to implement at scale or at all for that matter. Sometimes we are blinded by perceived success as is the case for many high performing school districts that have high test scores. A question that typically will materialize is why to change if we are already doing so well. Success is often in the eye of the beholder based on established criteria.

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22 Questions

TeachThought - Learn better.

by Terry Heick Who knows where education is going, but it’s not impossible to come up with some questions that might guide that evolution. The following, then, are a collection of entirely subjective observations–well, not entirely subjective I guess. Or not any more than anyone else. We all see what we choose to see, and […]. The post 22 Questions appeared first on TeachThought.

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Trading Card Creator Tool to Use with Students in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Trading Card Creator is a web tool from ReadWriteThink that you can use with your students for various educational purposes most important of them all is to help them enhance their writing skills.

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Are Children Learning Or Memorizing?

Veative

Understanding how a student learns is perhaps one of the most important tasks a teacher will perform. Some students might learn by audio or visual means, and others by using pictures, speech, writing and spatial understanding. As students work their way though school, they may be memorizing information in each grade level, but are they really learning?

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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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Three Ways to Use Google Classroom with Students with Low or No Vision

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In yesterday’s post we featured a number of interesting Android educational apps for students with special needs and today we want to draw your attention to this helpful accessibility feature.

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3 Challenges for the Future of Education

The Principal of Change

I was recently sent an email and asked to identify some of the challenges I see for the future of learning in education. These are things that I have noticed through my travels and after countless conversations with educators, and things that I have seen in my work. Although I am providing challenges, I am not necessarily giving solutions but am using this space to work out some of my ideas. 1.

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OPINION: Teachers with guns — it might be even worse than you think

The Hechinger Report

A protest against gun violence on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine massacre, in which 12 students and a teacher were gunned down in a Colorado school in 1999. Photo: @ Christopher Brown/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com. Even police officers can’t always shoot accurately. More guns mean more gun deaths. The majority of the U.S. population doesn’t want to see teachers armed.