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3 Arguments in Favor of the In-class Flip

Catlin Tucker

Whenever I train teachers on the Flipped Classroom Model, I’m always asked the same questions. “What do you do if your students do not complete the homework?” or “What do you do if students do not have access to the internet and/or devices at home?” These are valid questions and concerns. Homework completion and online access must be a consideration when teachers decide whether or not the flipped classroom is a viable model.

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Goal: Interview a Colleague

Teacher Reboot Camp

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! Goal: Interview a teacher or learner from another country. Accomplish this goal: Conduct a video, audio, or written interview with a colleague from another country to gain perspective on an issue. Take this further by publishing your interview. Get your copy of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers or Learning to Go !​.

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Districts Work to Close the Homework Gap

EdTech Magazine

By Heather B. Hayes School districts are sending home mobile hotspots and outfitting buses with Wi-Fi.

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Happy July 4th!

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s America’s birthday and I’m celebrating. I have an Army son heading off overseas and a Navy daughter doing her thing stateside. I’m toasting both of them today!What I write today will be… anything I want–gibberish, a short story, guest articles on crazy topics. I have no idea. My son’s in Kuwait protecting America’s distant shores.

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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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Our Global Stage: All The World In A Classroom

Battelle for Kids

Volume 3, Issue 6, Number 1. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. As You Like It , Act I I, Scene VII William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Driving Question: How do we help our children understand their place on the global stage? When I first read Shakespeare's play as a high school senior, I was captured by his poetry.

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9 Excellent Dropbox Features for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 3, 2016 Dropbox is an excellent file hosting service that allows you to ‘keep your files safe, synced and easy to share.’ You can use it to upload your files, videos, pictures and documents and.read more.

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Here Is A Great Platform to Help You Personalize Students Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 3, 2016 Gooru is an excellent educational platform that allows teachers to create personalized learning experiences for their students through remixing and sharing collections of digitally.read more.

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Stop punishing black children just because they’re black

The Hechinger Report

The National Interest: Once a month, this column is tackling broader questions about what the country should do about gaps in achievement and opportunity, especially for boys of color, in a partnership with The Root. Schools should be held to higher standards than students. If schools irresponsibly impose discipline practices, then those rules (or leaders) should be expelled.

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App of the Week: Fun STEAM animation

eSchool News

Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. Choreo Graph. What’s It Like?

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Yes, You Can Embrace STEAM in Pre-K Classrooms!

Graphite Blog

Can pre-K students fully participate in STEAM activities? It's a question that is sometimes answered with a sigh or an outright no. However, my answer to this question is an emphatic yes! Last year, our pre-K students engaged in a meaningful STEAM project. Our STEAM activities, focused on the Putumayo Kids curriculum, built on existing curricula in ways that deepened students' learning and allowed them to apply concepts through hands-on practice for the purpose of creating further unders

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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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9 Fantastic Outdoor Playhouse Options For Active Summer Fun

Fractus Learning

Summer time is here, and that means lots of outdoor activities and fun. A unique outdoor playhouse is a wonderful way to encourage children to use their imaginations while engaging in active, creative play. There are plenty of outdoor playhouse options on the market, but not all are created equal. There are a few things to consider when choosing a playhouse.

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Yes, You Can Embrace STEAM in Pre-K Classrooms!

Graphite Blog

Can pre-K students fully participate in STEAM activities? It's a question that is sometimes answered with a sigh or an outright no. However, my answer to this question is an emphatic yes! Last year, our pre-K students engaged in a meaningful STEAM project. Our STEAM activities, focused on the Putumayo Kids curriculum, built on existing curricula in ways that deepened students' learning and allowed them to apply concepts through hands-on practice for the purpose of creating further unders

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Why I Write

Reading By Example

Right now I am reading A Writer’s Guide to Persistence: How to Create a Lasting and Productive Writing Practice by Jordan Rosenfeld. It was given to me by Brenda Power, editor of Choice Literacy and Lead Literacy , of which I am a contributor. On page 14, Rosenfeld encourages the reader to journal about their top five reasons to write. Here is what I came up with: 1.

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7 Ways to Make Your School’s Website Parent-Friendly

Hubbli

How frustrating are unresponsive websites that seem to be stuck in the golden age of dial-up? Navigation can feel like you’re sinking in quicksand and when you finally do get yourself out, the information you were seeking is nowhere to be found. Argh! I hope I’m not describing your school’s website. See, if your website isn’t parent-friendly, your administrative team probably fields most of their questions via phone calls and emails, even though the answers are somewhere in the text of your scho

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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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Why I Write

Reading By Example

Right now I am reading A Writer’s Guide to Persistence: How to Create a Lasting and Productive Writing Practice by Jordan Rosenfeld. It was given to me by Brenda Power, editor of Choice Literacy and Lead Literacy , of which I am a contributor. On page 14, Rosenfeld encourages the reader to journal about their top five reasons to write. Here is what I came up with: 1.

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10 Interesting Ways to Integrate QR Codes in Your Teaching (Infographic)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

July 3, 2016 With the advance of mobile technologies, QR Code technologies open up a vast terrain for educational uses. There are several ways teachers can leverage the educational potential of QR.read more.

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