Sun.Oct 21, 2018

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Meaningful Learning Begins and Ends with the Opportunities We Create

A Principal's Reflections

Learning hasn’t really changed, but the conditions that impact and influence it has. In Learning Transformed my co-author Tom Murray and I detailed eight keys backed by research and evidence that can facilitate a transformation of practice that will result in improved outcomes and better experiences for kids. For change to occur, it is essential to continually evaluate where we are at in the process to eventually get to where we want to be, and our learners need us to be.

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To Jeff Bezos: 7 Suggestions for Enhancing Preschool Education, From a Former Montessori Teacher

Edsurge

Dear Jeff Bezos, Some people might find your commitment to open low-income, Montessori-inspired preschools strange. Why would arguably one of the most innovative (and definitely the richest) technology tycoon of the 21st century support a low-tech pedagogy that has barely changed in more than a hundred years? I think I get it. Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords.

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10 Tips to Maintain Positive Student Behavior

MiddleWeb

With the "let's be nice" novelty of the first weeks of school fading, you're tired and the kids are restless. It may be time to refresh your systems for maintaining positive behavior. Discover ways to overcome the challenges of DEVOLSON in Rita Platt's resource-rich post.

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Learn Anything: 50 Of The Most Popular Online Courses Of All-Time

TeachThought - Learn better.

Learn Anything: 50 Of The Most Popular Online Courses Of All-Time contributed by Class Central Class Central has thousands of reviews written by our users, and we were able to sort these courses by the Bayesian average of their ratings. Then we removed all the courses with less than 20 reviews (the low threshold helps […]. The post Learn Anything: 50 Of The Most Popular Online Courses Of All-Time appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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5 Important Google Scholar Features Teachers Should Know About

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Scholar is absolutely one of the best academic search engines out there. It allows you to easily search for and access academic papers and journal articles related to your topic of interest.

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Podcast Playlist for Innovative Educators

The Innovative Educator

The learning never stops for Innovative educators. When you’re jogging, cleaning, driving, or out walking your dog, a podcast provides a great way to keep the learning going while you’re doing something else. Here is my current podcast list. 10 Minute Teacher The 10-minute teacher is a 5-day a week show for remarkable teachers from around the world who are very busy.

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Open Middle: Equivalent Fractions Activity

Teacher Tech

Kids Do Love Fractions I’m a troublemaker and have started giving busting out math problems at dinner when I’m over at someone’s house or if my kids bring friends over for dinner. Whoa to you if you say to me “I’m not good at math” or “I don’t like fractions.” OF COURSE YOU ARE GOOD […]. The post Open Middle: Equivalent Fractions Activity appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Teaching and Tech From Across the Web, w/e 10-20-18

EmergingEdTech

Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content from across the web, posted on Twitter over the past week and collected here to share with our blog readers. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Value of “Not Having a Choice”

The Principal of Change

“Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.” Barry Schwartz. The concept of “choice” is something that is brought up in education as a good thing for students to help develop their passions and build on their gifts. I have advocated it for myself, but there is also a time where too much choice can be a bad thing.

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Navigating teacher anxiety when you’re drowning in work

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This episode of the Truth for Teachers podcast is for educators who struggle with anxiety and feel like you’re just drowning in work. You’ll find an encouraging audio message you can replay anytime you are feeling anxious. I use the term “anxiety” loosely here to include those of you who have been clinically diagnosed, as well as those who just can’t seem to shake that anxious feeling when you think about work.

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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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Biteable

Technology Tidbits

Biteable is an excellent site for creating stunning presentations/slideshows. All a user has to do is select a template (or create one from scratch), select a color scheme, and add audio to create a beautiful product. Best of all, a educator can publish/share a presentation via unique URL or embed it into a site or blog. Also, a user can set their presentation to public or private to help abide by CIPA/COPPA compliance.

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TEACHER VOICE: When the nation closes its doors to refugees, schools can open them

The Hechinger Report

Oct. 14, 2018 — Rohingya children play inside a refugee camp in the city of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: © Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press. It’s easy during the current heated U.S. election season to miss reports on devastating national events, like the news that the Trump administration has cut the number of refugees the nation will admit to 30,000 or fewer in the current fiscal year, its lowest level in 38 years.

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